Snow Leopard bites Office 2008
Feeding Snow Leopard with juicy Office 2008 discs caused a few problems for our New Zealand correspondent.
Techie Isles
Darren Greenwood keeps his feet on New Zealand's shaky ground and his head up in the long white cloud.
Darren Greenwood
Darren Greenwood has been in journalism, not all of it IT, since the days of typewriters and long before the web spun its way around the world. Coming from Yorkshire, he can be blunt, and though having resided in New Zealand, as well as Australia, for quite some time, he insists he is not one of the 'sheeple!'
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Commercial sensitivities ride roughshod over the NZ public's right to be informed.
2degrees comes out limply swinging
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Telecom NZ pushes its luck too far
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Femtocells on NZ broadband? No thanks
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Defend copyright: Take NZ off the internet
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The poor cousin
Microsoft is one of those companies that doles out the goodwill with one hand and takes it back with the other.
S92 redux: It's back
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