Subscription newsletters = new battleground for Big Tech

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Newsletters, like oat milk in your coffee, are very 2021 - but their rise dates back to 2017 when Substack - a platform that enabled writers to easily monetise their content...

Everything MOH is willing to tell us right now about the upcoming My Vaccine...

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The most anticipated app in recent memory is the upcoming Covid Vaccination passport app which it seems will be called My Vaccine Pass. That’s the app we’ll need to download on...
Kaseya ransomware attack: 8 things you need to know

Kaseya ransomware attack: 8 things you need to know

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This Kaseya ransomware attack is different. Instead of a single company or organisation being the victim of a ransomware attack (think Waikato DHB ransomware attack) any/all organisations using the Kaseya VSA...

What is Matter? And why it makes your smart home smarter

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There’s a perception that the Big Tech companies are in constant competition with one another - and most of the time that’s true - Apple taking a shot at Facebook in...

National’s all ears in fixit tech strategy

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A day before she was rolled as National’s leader, Judith Collins released - via YouTube - National’s “big fix” for the technology sector. In it she identified technology as one of the...

Pegasus/NSO: iPhone to Spy Phone

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Why do we dig deep and shell out for those - undoubtedly overpriced - MacBooks or the latest iPhone or iPad? Two reasons - they work seamlessly and they’re secure. Apple has...

Creators in the driver’s seat (as YouTube pays out >$43 billion)

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YouTube has announced that it has more than two million creators in its YouTube Partner Program and has paid more than $30 billion USD to creators, artists and media companies. "YPP continues...

Is Kanye’s Donda Stem Player more than just a money-grab?

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Music writer Charles Holmes nailed it - “being a Kanye fan is akin to being a frog carrying a scorpion across the deepest body of water. If the venom doesn’t get...

Is Facebook even worse than we imagined?

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Even those of us who follow the travails of Facebook closely were rocked earlier this month by the revelations uncovered by ex-Facebook employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen. Her testimony, and the internal...

Waiting with 25,000 others in MIQ’s hotel lobby

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As an ex travel writer I’ve spent more time waiting in hotel lobbies than I care to admit. To be honest I rather enjoyed the experience; the time provided good people watching...