This week I decided to stop being anti-social with my phone and started communicating with my friends and family again. Text messaging sufficed for most. However, I also wanted to contact a few family members and friends overseas in more depth than texting allows, but I was too cheap to call. For...
With internet traffic growing year on year and users continually expecting faster data speeds, one area that still causes issues is how to carry those bits and bytes around a building or home. If a premises doesn't have cat5e or cat6 cable for Ethernet, retrofitting it can be an expensive and very t...
This week we discuss what happened to the Fyx Internet service, Telecom NZ's 4G trial, our first experiences with the HTC One X and Galaxy SIII Android phones, accessing Netflix in NZ, hands on with the new 2degrees and Snapper mobile payment system and more. Would you like to join the NZ Tech Podc...
As I entered the second week of owning the HTC One X, I felt it was time to explore the communication side. After all, what good is a phone if it's difficult to work out how to make a call?Dialling a number is as simple as hitting the phone icon, which brings up a nice large dial-pad and recent cal...
I just got an email from Riverbed announcing their Riverbed Performance Summit in Sydney. This half day event is happening 5th June (Tuesday) from 12:30pm to 5:30pm. Click here for the agenda (pdf). [quote] Learn how the Riverbed performance platform can help you up your IT game With the growth of ...
I communicate with my family a lot via SMS, so having an easy way to send TXT messages is key for me when choosing a phone. I've really come to love the conversation view that iOS uses to present TXT messages, as it makes it so much easier to retain context. So it was a relief to see that this same ...
I am attending HP Discover 2012 Las Vegas (4th - 7th June). This is the second time I am invited to this event, with other bloggers from around the world - this time Ben Kepes will be another Kiwi blogger joining me to hear from HP's management (he blogs about cloud, infrastructure and more at diver...
I was born blind, so as a kid when my mother would drag me around the supermarket, it bored me out of my brain. Imagine just walking, walking, walking, not being able to see all the delicious treats you were passing. It was monotonous, although I did, of course, lobby pretty hard for some treat or o...
The setup of my HTC One X was one of the most annoying things. Nothing to do with the HTC One X itself, but just the amount of stuff that I have on my existing phone! I had probably about 200 applications installed on the SGS2, and deciding what I did and didn't want to put on the HTC ONE X was the ...
Being selected for the Geekzone HTC One X blog reviews was an amazing honour. I'm going to be doing at least 2 posts a week on various aspects of the phone, the first week will be my first impressions (this) and my experiences setting the phone up (next) It's been a week or so since receiving the H...
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