The second survey by the World Internet Project from the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) has been published. Highlights were: The number of internet users rose form 79% in 2007 to 83% in 2009 Broadband usage jumped to 82% compared with 67% in 2007 The proportion of users that use their mobile phones to access [...]
Computerworld reported this morning (their London correspondent Carrie-Ann Skinner) that cybercriminals are expanding the types of organisations they exploit in phishing attacks. This got my attention. Well done Carrie-Ann It appears that a record number of brands (356) were hijacked in phishing attacks during October last year – a whopping 4.4 % increase (0ver the [...]
Love this one. Google has launched a free website, Flu Trends, that shows how widespread the flu is in the North and South islands each day.
Although we could not find a posting on Google official blog, several sources today have advised that Google street view is now available for Google maps in New Zealand.
We all hear grumbles from time to time about delays in receiving emails, or them not being received at all. When it happens we can get angry cause we are waiting for "that" particular email before taking action – and often the cost is very high.
We received a newsletter from Domainz (the name you can trust for .nz domain names- yeah right) today 3 June. Most of us know that Domainz is owned by the Aussies – A company called MelbourneIT
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Ok, after years of warning clients to be careful what links and attachments they open from emails I got caught out. Received an email from Google-AdWords-noreply <adwords-noreply@google.com> – subject line read: Your Account with Google AdWords – a few mins ago, saying they could not process my payment and my ads would be suspended. Like [...]
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The Southern Cross Cable provides most of the bandwidth from Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii to the US internet via 2 submarine communications cables. It was announced today that that capacity has now been extended by another 260Gbit/s and by the end of the year capacity would be 860Gbit/s.
The New Zealand Institute is suggesting that a single company owned by existing tele communications companies, utilities, local government and other private investors be given monolopy ownership of last mile connections – that is connections between exchanges or street cabinets and user premises.
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AOL is to be purchased by Bebo, a leading networking website in a $US850 million cash deal. Founded by British born Michael Birch and his partner Xochi in 2005, Bebo claims to have 40 million montly users worldwide. In New Zealand Bebo is the favourite social networking website for teenagers.
Tags: aol, bebo, socal networking