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MOL and Facebook bring Facebook credits to retail stores

Facebook Credits to be available through MOL’s 500,000 outlets across Asia and Pacific regions.

Renaissance MagnumMac business reports strong growth Turnaround is six months ahead of schedule

Retail business, comprised of seven MagnumMac stores across New Zealand, began 2010 with an improved product mix, stronger sales focus and improved cost controls. Plans for new stores, new...

2degrees rejoins the TCF

New Zealand’s third mobile operator 2degrees was previously a member of the TCF, but left in early 2009.

Telecom New Zealand confirms service closure timings for CDMA network

Telecom today confirmed the closure dates for two services on its CDMA mobile network, which is set for final closure mid-2012.

Vodafone and Digital Europe

A new video clip released by Vodafone Group PLC, about the mobile trend in the EU, access to Internet through mobile devices and policy making/lobbying. There are some interesting statistics in...

Kobo powers new Borders’ eBook Store and eReading Apps

The partnership with Borders marks the first integration of Kobo’s “Powered By” program with a major retail partner in the US....

EMC to acquire Greenplum

Data warehousing technology enables new era of “Big Data” clouds and self-service analytics. Regarded by industry experts as a visionary leader, Greenplum utilizes a “shared-nothing” massively...

“Right to broadband” in Finland

There’s some interesting discussion in Dot En Zed around the Finnish initiative that appears to guarantee broadband with at least 1Mbit/s downstream speed to everyone. Colin Jackson’s blog for...

Answer SMB Survey, be in to win…

A friend of mine sent an email asking to point my readers to a survey on SMB purchasing habits. If you could answer that, it should take only a couple of minutes… “... We have reason to...

Got the snip

I’ve been waiting for the diggers outside to cut through the phone cable in the road for two days now. Today afternoon it happened and here is the evidence.The Chorus techies are working on it...

What is Widows Live: New branding from Microsoft? Software for those who have lost a husband?

I received the following message from Microsoft this evening. I wonder if it indicates a typo by the author, an upcoming branding change for the Windows Live brand, or a new product for those...

FryUp under phishing attack… or not quite

Got a somewhat baffling email this morning, in HTML, asking me to reset the password for fryup@computerworld.co.nz. It was flagged as spam (obviously) and seemed at first like a “phish” to...