Warning made on ‘flawed’ product

January 30th, 2008

Steve Riordan paid $5000 for five website packages offered by United States-based company StoresOnline in 2005 after attending one of its seminars.
He says the products he received did not work and wants to warn others against buying them.
I feel quite embarrassed to have been taken in by them but if I can stop anyone else [...]

5000 children ’slip through the cracks’

January 30th, 2008

Officials concede the non-enrolment figures - detected by the Governments new computerised enrolment tracking system - are much worse than anyone had thought.
The situation is likely to be shown to be worse once data from primary schools is added to the mix of intermediate and secondary pupils.
The Government is vowing to crack down on truancy [...]

Lost tribe

January 30th, 2008

Officials concede the non-enrolment figures - detected by the Governments new computerised enrolment tracking system - are much worse than anyone had thought.
The situation is likely to be shown to be worse once data from primary schools is added to the mix of intermediate and secondary pupils.
The Government is vowing to crack down on truancy [...]

Google unveils application for iPhone

January 30th, 2008

Google, which aims to replicate its success in desktop computer Web use on mobile phones, said the new application would make it easier to find, use and switch between its services on the iPhone.
The company is also working to develop new mobile technologies that are faster, easier to use, and available on more devices but [...]

New website encourages fan remixes and interaction

January 30th, 2008

The site is the braintrust of former Throwing Muses frontwoman Kristin Hersh and L7s Donita Sparks, along with Hershs manager/husband Billy OConnell, Sparks manager Bob Fagen and other partners. An acronym for Coalition for Artists and Stake Holders, CASH was designed as a means for artists to release new music, videos or other content and [...]

SAP unveils its first software for iPhone

January 30th, 2008

SAP, the worlds biggest maker of business management software, will include the program as part of new sales-force automation software that it is launching this month.
The iPhone has become such a popular thing, said Bob Stutz, a SAP senior vice president who is responsible for developing the companys customer relationship management software. Everybody wants the [...]

Bags packed for doomsday

January 30th, 2008

The “twin tsunamis of global warming and peak oil could spell TEOTWAWKI _ the endof the world as we know it.
And already, quietly, some people are getting prepared because they believe we are talking years rather than decades.
Helen, a petite 42-year-old Nelson housewife, is racing to build her own personal TEOTWAWKI lifeboat.
Earlier this year, she [...]

Visions of inspiration

January 30th, 2008

It is the Museum of New Zealand and outlines its key tasks as preserving and presenting the taonga (treasures) of New Zealands people and to interpret the countrys heritage for national and international audiences.
However, one look at the sub-headings on Te Papas website reminds us that museums are no longer about dusty vaults and cob-webbed [...]

Review: Bitdefender AntiVirus 2008 software

January 30th, 2008

Inevitably, with the explosion of malicious code that can damage our data and ruin our day, the software grew along with it and most titles now are bloated behemoths that sap the very life force from our machines.
Like many advanced users, I make do without AV software, though I take various other precautions to avoid [...]

Facebook alters notifications after privacy furor

January 30th, 2008

In a statement, the Palo Alto, California-based company said it was making a several changes to a recently introduced feature called Facebook Beacon in the wake of a petition signed by 50,000 Facebook users to scale back the feature.
The changes announced by Facebook promise to give users some improved controls over what information about a [...]

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