When you visit many websites, particularly large overseas websites (and to some extent even NZ websites) information about your visits are being recorded for advertising purposes. Dont worry too much, it is not personal information they are gathering (unlike using your one card at woolworths for example), it is more about identifying the surfing habits [...]
On Saturday, Telecom announced that they are going to further invest in New Zealand’s internet resources by spending $1.4 billion getting ADSL2+ technology to every city and town with at least 500 lines.
YouTube now has its own New Zealand site. If you use your favourites to go to www.youtube.com, you will now find that you are being directed to nz.youtube.com – even if you go to www.youtube.co.nz you will be redirected to nz.youtube.com Dont expect however, that your download will be any faster. The site is still [...]
Another malicious software program pretending to be an Skype installer file is doing the rounds, say security analysts. The trojan sends Skype login details, as well as other logins and passwords stored in Internet Explorer to another server. Details here
In a website, the more bells and whistles that are added that require plugins so your website visitors can view content, the more likely that your visitors are going to shy away and not come back. What really is the minimum requirement to view your site? Obviously an internet connection and a web browser is [...]
A little over 25 years ago – well exactly at 11:44am on September 19th 1982 actually, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University – Scott E. Fahlman, says he was the first to use a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis as a smiley face in a computer message posted on an online e-bulletin [...]
Books are the most common product bought over the net and account for over 50% of one purchases. Visa International are saying that 25% of Kiwis are purchasing more on-line as a result of the strength of the Kiwi dollar. More details here and here