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83 percent of New Zealanders internet users

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 [...]

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Phishers – what are they and what do they do

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 [...]

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Flu trends for New Zealand – from Google

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.

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Google Street view for New Zealand

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.

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xtra email – problems again – delays in sending emails – for some !!

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.

Register your .com.au – yeah right !!

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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Phishing email claiming to be from Google adwords

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 <[email protected]> – 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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