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Do you sit still on the web? Or are you moving?

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More and more people use handheld devices such as smartphones, accessing the Internet while they’re away from their desks. What could this mean for the information you provide, and how you provide it?

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TradeMe safer now; TradeMe goes mobile

In the last couple of days I bought goods from two separate TradeMe auctions. In both cases the goods arrived promptly and in excellent condition. It’s been the same for everything I’ve bought on TradeMe and for that matter the few items I’ve bought on eBay. There are cheats and frauds about though, and many [...]

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Vodafone, iPhone, New Zealand

At last: Vodafone to offer apple iphone in ten markets – Vodafone NZ: Vodafone today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe. Later this year, Vodafone customers in … New Zealand … will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on [...]

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K800i cameraphone is a hit with me

A couple of months ago I bought a new cellphone: the Sony Ericsson K800i. I’m thrilled. As with my previous K700i, the battery life isn’t really as good as it could be, but it’s fine. I charge it up every couple of days. The screen’s a decent size, with good colour. Texting is easy, calls [...]

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Cellphones: less than 30 years to world domination

The Washington Post of Sunday, February 24, 2008 has a really interesting article by Joel Garreau called Our Cells, Ourselves. It discusses the startling speed with which the number of cellphones has grown, and their impact on what we do and who we are. The human race is crossing a line. There is now one [...]

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T9 – a new take on rhyming slang

I love this stuff. When I was at university I studied both English and German, both of which included Linguistics. Language always fascinates me. I get quite caught up in how people sound and what they say — it can be very distracting at times. So here’s the latest — changes thanks to predictive text [...]

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