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Previous Columns

The future is approaching, fast!

The announcement that the owner of TV3 had been placed in receivership yesterday came as a surprise to many...

Is it a bird, is it a plane..??

News broke on the weekend that Google had launched a bunch of weather-type balloons from a place in the South Island as part of its Project Loon...

Ploughshares into swords

Last night, as I was toiling away on my SAA project, a penny dropped...

Cut the hype and stop dreaming

When I read a story on this morning's NZH website I breathed a heavy sigh of disbelief...

The game of one-upmanship

And in the beginning was Pong... a very simple computer game built from TTL logic that was simply a rather limited simulation of a game of tennis...

A crowdfunding idea

Crowdfunding is one of the biggest growth areas in the hi-tech world...

Through a PRISM darkly

Tech wires and rights groups forums all over the world started buzzing last week with some very disturbing news...

Can we really do hi-tech here?

For decades, Tait Communications has been held up as a great example of how small Kiwi companies can compete in the hi-tech sector on a global stage...

Hi-tech security a myth?

Keys and locks have been with us for a very long time...

Another dying gasp

Who remembers a world before the internet? ...