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Stop section 92

January 6th

The Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 is not a bad bit of legislation EXCEPT for section 92 which allows a copyright holder to ask your ISP to terminate your Internet access if you infringe on their copyright. The problem with this is they do not have to provide any evidence to the ISP, nor [...]

Broken daylight savings on Nokia phones

September 28th

Urrggh, its that time of the year again when daylight savings kicks in. Unfortunately my very clever N73 has the wrong change over dates so for the next few weeks it will think that New Zealand is at GMT+12 instead of GMT+13 !
For most people this will not be a problem, you just set clock [...]

Does Virgin get the iPhone? Maybe…

August 4th

I was just sent a link to an article about Virgin Australia’s new iPhone plans. To quote:
“What we hear from our customers is that they really want the iPhone not just because it’s a cool device but they want to do stuff with it, and I don’t think that’s been catered for in the market [...]

Get your iPhone now ! Only $6000

July 10th

Yep so Vodafone announced their plans for the iPhone release this week in New Zealand; what a disaster…
After getting everyone all frenzied last week with statements like “an iPhone from $199” the ugly truth emerged: Sure you can get an iPhone for only $199 but you need to sign up for a two year [...]

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