Monthly Archives: November 2007

November 30, 2007 Posted in Business, Economic Development, IT, New business, New Zealand, Society 1 Comment

Now that’s a level playing field….

By Ben Kepes

I couldn’t help but comment on the news that Telecom and WorldXChange are partnering to supply a FTTH/VoIP service to some new subdivisions currently being created. As Matt Crockett (no relation of Davy as far as I know!), CEO of Telecom wholesale said; “In the old world it would have

November 30, 2007 Posted in Business, Design, IT Leave a comment

Nigeria? Oh the irony….

By Ben Kepes

I must have received the Nigerian scam email a million times (or variations thereof) that’s why I had a quiet chueckle this morning when I read that the tabled have turned (sort of). It seems the Nicholas Negroponte of OLPC fame is being sued by company from….. yes Nigeria, for

November 30, 2007 Posted in Business, IT, Society, Strategy, Web x.0 1 Comment

Facebook in business…

By Ben Kepes

To very different posts today. Marc says Facebook is a timewaster and should be banned inside a workplace. He reasons that the time that could be spent Faceboking should be used on high value networking, Salesforce mining etc. Nick says that Facebook, Myspace et al are valuable disseminators of information

November 29, 2007 Posted in Business, Economic Development, IT, My businesses, New business, New Zealand, Society, Strategy 2 Comments

Our individual parts in the digital future…

By Ben Kepes

I’m sitting here watching the live webcast of the Digital Future Summit. A friend IMd me an said; this needs blogginghow are we going to bat above our weight in a digital economyI replied; i know – but it’s such a big problem – starts with education but touches all

November 29, 2007 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, Society, Strategy Leave a comment

From the ridiculous to the sublime….

By Ben Kepes

A few years ago there were dissenting voices about the Microsoft anti-trust case, a good number of the voices will be incredulous with the news today that antitrust regulators, seeking further controls on Microsoft’s activities, dismissed Google, Firefox, Ajax and SaaS as “piddling players” that provide no real competition to

November 29, 2007 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Google search results getting spammed…

By Ben Kepes

I what is a very worrying development, it was reported recently that Google search results have been seeded with links to malware sites. We’ve all become more and more reliant on Google search (and its associated services for that matter) and Google compelling proposition is the quality of its search

November 29, 2007 Posted in Blogging 1 Comment

So blogging’s not just for the younger generation…

By Ben Kepes

Damn that’s cool. Rod posted a semi-tongue in cheek look at management. What is really cool though is that his mother posted a comment in reply. So the questions is, have they yet mapped the gene responsible for an affinity for tech?

November 29, 2007 Posted in Business, Economic Development, New Zealand, Society 2 Comments

Are we heading for a recession and housing bubble burst….

By Ben Kepes

Yesterday we received our rating revaluations (for those outside of New Zealand, every three years all properties are valued by local councils in order to levy rates for local body costs). Living as we do in a burgeoning wine producing area, our land value has tripled in 6 years. It

November 28, 2007 Posted in Business, IT 1 Comment

Google and the number of the beast…

By Ben Kepes

One to please my friend who enjoys conspiracy theories linking MS, Facebook, Google and the CIA with George Orwell’s visions of big brother. Check out Google share price (and oh how much do you wish you’d bought at IPO time?)

November 28, 2007 Posted in Business, IT, Strategy Leave a comment

Verizon comes to the party…

By Ben Kepes

In a fairly revolutionary move (revolutionary for US mobile players anyway), Verizon have introduced an “any app, any device” policy effective next year. In practice what this means is that one will be able to chose what device and application set they use on the Verizon platform. Sure there will

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.