FryUp: Search engines soiled by oil
- Second MYOB founder boosts Xero holding
- Vodafone NZ loses customers || 7
- Video will drive UFB uptake, but NZ lacks content choices: ComCom || 4
- TelstraClear's half-year revenue drops by 4 percent, but telco posts $1m profit || 1
- Peter Finch leaves CIO post at Gen-i || 1
- 2degrees announces 875,656 customers || 1
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Not buying yourself out of this one
This internet is of course much more than a modern day samizdat set up, one that can be used for bad as well as good.
How very refreshing then to see BP fail miserably at subverting public opinion through the use of search engine term buying.
- Reporter scuba dives in oil-polluted waters
- BP buys 'oil' search terms to redirect user to official company website
- BP spills coffee
- Environmental issues in the Niger Delta
Redmond sheds tiers for us
Were you wondering why the Aussies for instance get to party like it's Office 2010 over a month ago, but Kiwis get like… well, not a lot in comparison? Or why early adopters and tech evangelists in NZ have become frequent flyers and importers as well?
Wonder no more: that's because according to certain large IT and telco vendors, we are not Tier One. Now, not being Tier One means people and companies in other markets such as North America, Europe and chunks of Asia get to wallow like pigs in mud when new stuff comes out whereas we have to wait, sometime in vain.
Market maturity in New Zealand appears to be a problem of sorts, and size.
Rejoice, my fellow New Zealanders… this is about to change. And who leads the charge if not Microsoft?
Goodonya. Can we get some Tier One t-shirts now?
- NZ now tier one with Microsoft
Insert ob. iPhone 4 here
A good example of the corporate tier-aways is Apple. New Zealanders flock in large numbers to the US to worship with their dollars at Apple Stores when new products come out. That's because some people justifiably believe Apple stuff is good, and they don't want to wait and wait and wait until months after the initial release in Tier One countries.
Very tier-dious and very expensive, but can work some times, as certain senior Vodafone staffer discovered when he sold his imported Apple iPads for twice the expected retail price on Trade Me.
Oh, and the iPhone 4 looks very cool.
- Apple announces iPhone 4
The Lone Engineer
It's official: nobody believes Google anymore, when it says it accidentally siphoned off data over people's w-fi networks while it was doing the StreetView thing around the world, not even officialdom.
In fact, nobody believes Google accidentally used a lone engineer's code for the Streetview stuff either.
Accidental privacy poo storm ahead then for the Do No Evil crowd.
- NZ authorities consider investigation of Google
- Google accused of criminal intent over StreetView data
This edition of the Friday FryUp is Juha Saarinen's last. Computerworld thanks Juha for his contributions
Posted by Craig at 22:55:26 on June 11, 2010
C'mon fairfax, it's a leavin party for us to send Juha off and welcome in "Whose-new-ha?"
Posted by Soap byte at 22:51:27 on June 12, 2010
As opinated as you and I.
Some win some loose, but it is comment/opinion, not fact so take it for what it is, not what you think it is.
Posted by soap byte at 19:26:17 on June 11, 2010
But what about wikipedia? How about daring to expose the outrageous bias and liberties the so-called American liberals have taken with their wunderkind? And the Google association with Wikipedia? Why not go there, or are Google's 300 Billions too much to criticize?
Posted by GJ Philip at 15:26:07 on June 11, 2010
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