A young Kiwi Entrepreneur has developed a Twitter service for restaurant service. The “twitter” service allows  restaurateur to read the feedback in real time.

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Yesterday Microsoft took the usual action of filing a suit against the popular GPS provider TomTom. The case revolves around patents involving file management as well as in-car navigation features. The trick is that TomTom runs Linux as does most of the navigational vendors.
Linux is where the twist is in this case and where Microsoft [...]

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This weeks embrulio about the change in terms of service for the Facebook terms of service has unlined an immutable truth about social networking. Facebook has done an about face on the terms but this has not stopped speculation that Facebook is doing an end run around it’s users.
However of more concern is the longer [...]

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While in Auckland New Zealand, Top Gear’s Richard Hammond speaks his mind this week about Top Gear and it’s cultural phenomenon in a 1965 Lincoln Town Car Continental.

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Aside from my MacBookpro, I have a Dell D600 which served a purpose about 3 years ago. Luckily it is now repurposed as a Linux Netbook running gOS 3.1, a version of Ubuntu Linux specifically tailored to maximise the Google Experience on a laptop. It also however attempts to follow design elements from the Mac [...]

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Although I think Facebook has a real future if it concentrates on building out it’s me centric hub, the future is less clear despite buying $35M worth of time to figure it out according to Todd Chaffee from IVP:
From a business perspective, it is a media property that is growing very quickly. These newer [...]

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On OLN in Canada is a program called Mantracker that I watch quite regularly. This is where experienced Search and Rescue tracker, Terry Grant from the Foothills Search and Rescue Team in Alberta tracks down contestants in the mountains of remote Canada. Each week he and a buddy track down two individuals who team to [...]

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With release of Google Latitude and the birth of wide spread people tracking technology, we are onto the next stage of improved social tools at the expense of privacy. From the Google Blog:
Latitude is a new feature of Google Maps for mobile, as well as an iGoogle gadget, that allows you to share your location [...]

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Reuters reported today:
The London Stock Exchange suffered its worst systems failure in eight years on Monday, forcing the world’s third largest share market to suspend trading for about seven hours and infuriating its users.
“This halt today clearly has once again damaged (the LSE’s) reputation as a leading exchange, especially on a day like today, highlighting [...]

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