February 16, 2012
Small to medium businesses have welcomed moves towards high speed broadband, according to a Commerce Commission paper.
October 20, 2011
Google has announced that from now on, the SSL (secure lock) search on Google will become the default setting for the users that are logged into a Google account. The claim is that Google has done this for privacy reasons to protect a user’s...
November 3, 2009
A Wikipedia definition of social media: “... media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques.”
October 6, 2009
According to Time.com, “Brüno could be the first movie defeated by the Twitter effect.” The outrageous Sacha Baron Cohen film dropped 40% in sales, from its US Friday night opening to Saturday, as an apparent Twitter and text...
September 8, 2009
The term cloud computing is one that appears regularly in business news these days, yet it is a concept that has been around for a while.
July 16, 2009
QR (Quick Response) Codes were invented in Japan in 1994 and are used extensively in that country and throughout parts of Asia.
June 19, 2009
Facebook is the dominant social networking application of our time. According to marketing research company comScore, Facebook was used by 307 million unique visitors worldwide in April, comfortably ahead of MySpace with 127 million.
May 11, 2009
Accessing the Web on a mobile device is a daily activity for over 22 million Americans according to comScore, American consumer behaviour analysts, with slightly less than one in three of those with Web-enabled phones using them in this way...
April 7, 2009
Twitter (www.twitter.com) is the current darling of Web social media and according to the latest figures has over five million registered users and something like 10,000 new users signing up per day. According to Forrester Research, Twitter...
March 16, 2009
In 2007 when online bookseller Amazon first released Kindle, the e-reader sold out in 5½ hours. With the recent release of Kindle 2, Amazon is hoping to extend its hold on the e-reader market in the US. So what does Kindle do?
January 28, 2009
The growth of the Internet and the huge number of people online (3.2 million in New Zealand alone) has led to a huge explosion in open source and low cost software. The sheer number of potential users has made it viable for Web application...
December 8, 2008
New Zealand is officially in a recession, which means that the business climate is probably a lot tougher for you than it was a year ago.
November 11, 2008
Over the years we have written about various web technologies including wikis, blogs, podcasts and others. The current buzz is about social media – how can businesses use the growth of social media sites like Facebook, Second Life, YouTube and...
October 7, 2008
Increasingly people are looking online for information and to get things done and this is reflected in the amount of money now being spent in online advertising.
September 8, 2008
As Marshall McLuhan noted in the 1960s, “The medium is the message”. Media are not just passive channels of information, they supply the content but they also shape the process of thought. The Internet is becoming, and already is for...
