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Breaking news just in… Telecom have just announced that they will be voluntarily separating their retail and wholesale businesses. Telecom will be following the lead of BT in the UK and Telstra in Australia although they will still operate both businesses under the same Telecom brand. Source: Computerworld

More thrilling football!! England beat Ecuador in not one of their best performances, but it still counts. David Beckham was the key – he scored another brilliant goal from a free-kick. Check out this link from the BBC site that displays a shockwave animation of the goal – you can change the camera angles and […]

The time difference between NZ and Germany means that I’ve got a few early starts ahead of me for the week ahead. The first games in the knockout round were played this morning so that meant that I was up at 3am to watch Germany beat Sweden 2 – 0, and then watched the cracker […]

Part of my feed reading this morning lead me to sign up with Yahoo! Mail so that I could test out their new beta mail product. So I signed up with a Yahoo! NZ address of stuart.maxwell@yahoo.co.nz but this didn't allow me to switch over to the new beta. I changed my location to UK, […]

I've been studying for my next exam (Microsoft's 70-296) so I haven't spent much time reading through FeedDemon recently, so I decided to catch up this morning. I subscribe to 122 different feeds which you can look through here: OPML. There is a lot of good content out there, as well as a lot of […]

I’ve just posted an in-depth review on the beta @ amanzi site on the new WLMDB (awful name) with lots of screenshots. Read on for more details… read more | digg story

I’ve put in a couple of big updates to the Blogtown NZ site. I implemented the memcached cacheing daemon and enabled caching using the WordPress memcached plugin. I also updated to the latest nightly which fixes a lot of the bugs that have been lurking around. If you’re keen on setting up your Blogtown NZ […]

Several sites are reporting that a Microsoft France site was hacked and defaced. The site is currently down so it appears as though Microsoft have taken it offline to firefight. A mirror of the defaced site can be found here: zone-h.org.

Big news around the internet at the moment is that Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft to work for a startup company called PodTech.net. As you can probably tell from the name, PodTech.net are a podcasting or vlogging company. This is a big loss to Microsoft as Scoble put a human face to the massive corporation. […]

The Fifa World Cup 2006 has just started and it meant an early morning for us down in New Zealand. I was up at 3am to watch the opening ceremony, the highlight of which was seeing the all-time greats all together in one place. Germany and Costa Rica have just started playing the opening game […]