Andrew Nimick - Technology consultant Andrew is an independent technology consultant whose focus is what technology can do for business and finding the best tools for the job. With Apple selling its two millionth iPad recently, it was noted that the company now sells more devices in the IP range (iPod, iPhone, iPad) than its Macintosh computer range. Steve Jobs has been heard to comment that Apple is a mobile company More...

Andrew Nimick - Technology consultant Andrew is an independent technology consultant whose focus is what technology can do for business and finding the best tools for the job. Some of you may have been following my comments about Facebook and privacy (there was a seperate piece in the Weekend Sun as well). Last Wednesday Facebook changed the privacy settings again, in answer to the concerns. However, the new simple menu More...

Andrew Nimick - Technology consultant Andrew is an independent technology consultant whose focus is what technology can do for business and finding the best tools for the job. I have decided to do a bit of a weekly roundup for two reasons. First, there is so much going on at the moment in the world of tech and second, because no 3D TVs or iPads turned up for me to trial and report on. Privacy has stayed a big issue More...

Andrew Nimick - Technology consultant Andrew is an independent technology consultant whose focus is what technology can do for business and finding the best tools for the job. I just want to say a big well done and congratulations to the team at sunlive.co.nz. It has been a great pleasure working with you guys to get it running and to write for you. This award will be particularly fantastic for Claire and Brian, who More...

Andrew Nimick - Technology consultant Andrew is an independent technology consultant whose focus is what technology can do for business and finding the best tools for the job. Last week was one of those weeks for announcements, one distant and one very local. Apple say they have sold one million iPads in the first month of sales, which is fantastic going for a device which most people still have not figured out how to More...

Andrew Nimick - Technology consultant Andrew is an independent technology consultant whose focus is what technology can do for business and finding the best tools for the job. Today I downloaded the new Opera browser for the Mac. The windows version has been out for a while. It has a new java engine (the bit which renders the java content of a website) which should makes it very fast. You may not have heard of Opera More...

Andrew Nimick - Technology consultant Andrew is an independent technology consultant whose focus is what technology can do for business and finding the best tools for the job. How private are you? is a question every user of Facebook should be asking since last week's announcements at Facebook's conference, F8. A whole lot of changes got announced there and I won't go into the details here, but most of what is happening More...

Andrew Nimick - Technology consultant Andrew is an independent technology consultant whose focus is what technology can do for business and finding the best tools for the job. First let me apologize for being quiet for the last couple of weeks, I have been rather busy with a secret project. A few weeks ago when I went to the Auckland Cloud camp I had a good chat with Vaughn Rowsell, founder of VendHQ. VendHQ is a true More...

Andrew Nimick - Technology consultant Andrew is an independent technology consultant whose focus is what technology can do for business and finding the best tools for the job. Well it’s been a busy time. I have made my first appearance (that I know of) on national TV and this was really exciting as it was to represent a great programme that helps teach our youth about making good choices, staying safe and sex. Not More...

Andrew Nimick - Technology consultant Andrew is an independent technology consultant whose focus is what technology can do for business and finding the best tools for the job. As well as appearing on TV last week I attended an event called Cloud Camp in Auckland. This was an unconference. I have written about these before. It’s a very relaxed adult version of the school show and tell. This one was about the cloud. More...