... that The White House in the USA had been bombed, leaving President Obama suffering unspecified injuries. The immediate result of this news was that financial markets plunged and stock prices rapidly...

... as the poor cousin of that delivered by way of print and broadcast -- however that may be about to change. With the proliferation of TVs and video on demand (VOD), a fantastic new opportunity...

...? 31 April 2014 It seems as if Twitter's growth is plateauing which is not good news for a company which, after eight years of successive losses, is still bleeding red ink at the rate of $645m...

... so I find it perplexing that it has taken Sky so long to finally come up with an offering that addresses this very strong and valuable niche. pay TV viewers have had the scifi channel for a very...

..., the EU and even little old NZ feeling the icy fingers of yet another recession about to embrace in its uncomfortable grip. What a shame we're all such a bunch of cowards and would rather relive...

... to far-away places always put at a disadvantage. Indeed, if it weren't for the breakthrough of refrigerated shipping, we'd still be a very poor nation without any real ability to get many of our...

... between some of the brightest hacker-minds in the world and an army of civil servants and bureaucrats, I know where the money would go. Who's seen Die Hard 4? The problem is that although hackers...

... snooping on you. Given the lengths that the world's various security agencies (such as the NSA) are presently going to in order to intrude on our lives, how can we be sure that many of our devices...

... phones in next to no time. Given the amount of energy that various governments around the world are devoting to the matter of cyberwarfare, one can't help but wonder how many very effective...

...? Get it wrong, either way, and chances are you'll be out of business in double-quick time. Perhaps this creates a wonderful business opportunity however. Which NZ company will be enough to offer...

... devices. Store everything in the cloud and simply access it via DSL or wireless as/when required from whatever device is at hand when the need arises. Utopia? The naysayers will quickly pipe up...

... to ask "who's sleeping with who?" in respect to the relationship between NZ's biggest ISP and possibly the most insecure "big name" webmail service in the world. There are plenty of very people...

... to Android pose a threat to that purchase? Of course if Microsoft wasn't in the picture, it would be a strategically move for Nokia to roll out Android-based handsets -- since this and iOS...

... of the time" have added leap-seconds that total almost a whole extra half-minute during the past 40 years or so. Interestingly enough, Google has been enough to factor in leap seconds by using...

... it be that the manufacturers will increasingly lean towards allowing and encouraging skilled amateurs to help out with the development and debugging of their products? Sounds like fun to me. Please visit...

..., called Silenced is well worth a watch, albeit you shouldn't take any of its content as gospel and people will approach with a healthy degree of cynicsm. Uh-oh... I just checked...

... that speed and power at their fingertips, hook up their TV sets or buy online video boxes that give them access to zetabytes or yottabytes of really good video-on-demand content. By the time...

... they know better than the people they expect to use their products. If that's the case then they're cruising for a bruising. There are plenty of other , innovative startups that will gladly listen...

... it once done to light your fire in winter. However, I suspect that with the arrival of -phones, the Kindle (and other e-ink readers) plus a growing acceptance of the benefits associated with e...

... that were all the rage in the 1980s. Powered by a hefty nicad battery it, like today's phones, also needed a daily recharge and wouldn't fit in a shirt pocket. The Motorola however, cost a hefty 800...