I see that PC Magazine is following other tech publications like InfoWorld and PC World Australia in ditching the print editions. The reason is cost apparently: it’s too expensive to produce paper magazines and get them to customers, according to PC Mag’s Editor in Chief, Lance Ulanoff.
Production and delivery costs are probably not the only [...]
This story appeared in the New Zealand edition of Computerworld, on July 10 this year.
Search engine giant Google has snagged another academic customer for its Google Apps Education Edition (GAEE). The University of Auckland announced today [July 9, 2008] that it has rolled out GAEE to some 50,000 students, staff and alumni.
From today, student and [...]
Got an interesting release from Ovum’s Boston office about the energy-saving benefits of using GPON or gigabit passive optical networking to deliver broadband to customers, instead of DSL or Ethernet.
Why should we think about this? Because increased broadband speeds with DSL means more power has to be used. VDSL2 as rolled out by Vodafone and [...]
Please note: I wrote this story last week for Computerworld New Zealand’s print edition and things have changed after publication. The original is on Computerworld’s website.
New Zealand ISPs are hurriedly patching their servers to avoid attacks from phishers and domain spoofers as the global DNS emergency rolls on.
The process has been far from smooth for [...]
