This is big news. I just finished watching the 6pm news via my DVD recorder (I hate the ads). Mike McRoberts, with little fanfare, announces that Vodafone have secured the rights to sell the iPhone later this year. There are iPhones in New Zealand now, running on both carriers (I think) but only via cracked […]
National sold the rail network in 1993. Labour has returned it to public ownership, but at what cost? As well as the government buying back the trains and ferries for more than they were valued by Toll, they have granted a six year rent free period on existing buildings. I fail to see how this […]
BP and Shell in the week just gone announced record profits at the same time as prices at the pump increased. “Shell and BP made a combined £7.2billion profit in just three months…” reported the Telegraph in the UK. This is “…the equivalent of £3.3million per hour.” We think we have it bad in New […]
Air New Zealand sends Paul Holmes to China so he’ll talk about it on his radio show – for the few remaining months he has left on air. Surely people (his listeners) will see through his probable ramblings about China for what it will be…blatant advertising. He wasn’t a formal guest of the government party, […]
Another finance company bites the dust, or at least puts a hold on the repayment of funds. Lombard Finance, with it’s ‘strong’ image of roman columns is the latest in a long string of finance companies that have hit the wall. When will it end? Who will be next? Lombard’s chief executive, Michael Reeves, blamed […]
Self taught eighteen year old superhacker, Owen Walker, needs to be given a job, not a jail sentence. If he receives a community based sentence hopefully they’ll put his immense computer knowledge to work rather than have him removing graffiti or sweeping leaves. Walker created his own bot code, which police say is “considered by […]