Tag Archives: mobile

Rate your agency

April 13, 2008 – 8:10 pm

As we approach the end of the financial year, public servants (with varying degrees of apprehension) start to turn their minds to their performance reviews. And while typically this is when you demonstrate your unswerving devotion to the cause and highlight the prodigious efforts you have been making throughout the year, it is also an [...]

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Mobility and agility

April 6, 2008 – 8:30 pm

This post began as a review of how well government websites are doing making their content available to mobile devices. I had looked at this in February last year, and had hoped that over those 12 months we might have seen an improvement. These hopes proved, as you might guess, somewhat optimistic. This exercise did, [...]

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Dominion Post goes digital

September 9, 2007 – 4:46 pm

The Dominion Post, the Wellington morning newspaper, has launched a digital edition, currently available to paper subscribers for a 3 month trial or to the merely curious for a 7 day preview. This offering comes less than a year after Fairfax (the parent company) redeveloped the Stuff website, a redevelopment I was less than enthused [...]

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Launch of the portals

March 4, 2007 – 11:31 am

So, after much pre-publicity, speculation and hype, we now have two new Internet portals in the New Zealand market. Last week both Xtra and Microsoft revealed their offerings. And, while I really doubt if anyone outside the relevant organisations cares that much, I thought I would have a quick look at both and pass on [...]

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mobile.govt.nz?

February 23, 2007 – 9:23 am

The excellent Read/WriteWeb (a blog that anyone interested in communications and technology should be reading daily) is running coverage of the Future of Web Apps 2007 Conference in London, and yesterday in their post one line really made me stop. Under the section entitled ‘The Mobile Web’ they note that:

A very interesting fact that is [...]

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