e-reading – right on

Posted on 6th Jan 2012 14:37 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim Well Christmas has come and gone. As ever it was a great time and as ever I think I ate too much. So this summer it should be diet and exercise. I say should be, if like me you got an e-reader and have a heap of books – then the temptation will be to lounge about and do some reading. Judging...

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The age of paper in place

Posted on 12th Sep 2011 09:37 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim So the city councillors turned down iPads and laptops in favour of paper? Judging from the comments, it’s all about age – well there may be something in that. But consider, while castigating the councillors for not leaping into the ‘21st century’, it is very easy to forget...

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Toshiba Tablet Review

Posted on 22nd Aug 2011 15:44 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim My thanks this week to Noel Leeming in Tauranga for the loan of the new Toshiba At100 Tablet . First I will make a comparison to the Acer Tablet I used a few weeks ago. What I noticed was one of those strange anomalies of the PC world. The Toshiba had the same internal set up as the Acer with...

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Tabled: Tablet vs iPad

Posted on 1st Aug 2011 10:08 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim You may or may not have noticed that there has been a recent appearance on the market of Android tablets. Many PC manufacturers have released one or more tablets running Android Honeycombe, though only a few have released tablets with Windows. I wanted to have a look at one of these and thanks...

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Fond farewell on US dream

Posted on 19th Jul 2011 10:35 | By Andrew Nimick

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim I mentioned a New Zealand made learning management system in my last post called Litmos. www.litmos.com/ is a great system which was built for business use. The whole thing came about when Rich’s dad asked him if he could build a rapid training system for him. There was a need as nothing...

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No place for ‘Victorian’ measures

Posted on 30th Jun 2011 10:58 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim I am sure most people have heard the noise regarding last week’s comments by the head of the Northern EMA. He has since apologised for causing upset, but in case you did not hear the comments: he suggested that women should be paid less as they took a regular day off each month due to...

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The big boys get talking

Posted on 15th Jun 2011 14:05 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim Well June has been an interesting month so far. Pingar was the first ever New Zealand company to present at the ‘Launch Silicon Valley’ event (shameless plug as I work for Pingar) and announced a partnership which allows people using Fuji Xerox scanners to scan a paper document and...

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Mashup marvels

Posted on 29th Mar 2011 09:29 | By Andrew Nimick

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim What a weekend it has been. Seems there were great activities going on everywhere. Luckily I chose to be part of an indoor one. As a judge at the first ever Bay of Plenty Mashup (possibly a world first), I spent the weekend walking around and talking to teams of great young people who had entered...

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It is a mobile world

Posted on 18th Mar 2011 10:33 | By Andrew Nimick

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim From http://ostatic.com Stallman, known for years of opposition to proprietary software, and creator of the GNU operating system, tells Network World: “I don’t have a cell phone. I won’t carry a cell phone. It’s Stalin’s dream. Cell phones are tools of Big Brother....

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Google runs in Circles

Posted on 14th Mar 2011 08:38 | By Andrew Nimick

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim Intriguing news this morning. It seems (according to Readwriteweb and some others) that Google is set to announce another attempt to enter the social network space. It previous attempts have failed to gain traction and draw any users away from the likes of Facebook. Buzz, which could have been...

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