Quoted: After mentioning Scrum yesterday I thought you'd like to know what constitutes a useful and effective Scrum team - it's pigs. This version of the explanatory story comes from The Agile Jedi: A Chicken and a Pig lived on a farm. The farmer was very good to them and they both wanted to do something good for him. One day the chicken approached the pig

Quoted: David Risley posts about his feelings upon discovering that some of his readers are using ad blockers. David's blog, PCMech, is a professional deal that costs significant amount of money to run, ads are the way he does this. David contends that by blocking those ads the user is in fact stealing. I'm not so sure.... I read the local broadsheet most mornings,

Quoted: I can't help but comment on the news today that FitchRatings has downgraded the rating of corporate financier Hanover Finance Limited to a "D" rating. So what's wrong with that you ask? Bear in mind that it's a full five days since Hanover suspended repayments of existing deposits. Am I misinformed or are credit rating services actually meant

Quoted: I've posted often abut the difficulties traditional ISV's face when moving to an on-demand delivery. The recent announcement by Microsoft of it's latest tranche of software+services offerings has further caused fear and consternation among a number of traditional vendors. It was interesting then to real Phil's post about Synergation, a business that

Quoted: If you run a sports club, this post is for you. If you are on a community committee, this post is also for you If you host events, this is for you. If you put on shows, this is for you. In fact, if you do anything that has a date/time component that you'd like to share with people, this is for you. Yep, probably for all of us. Sharing calendars can

Quoted: So new search upstart Cuil launched this week - with a search index currently at 120 billion pages (and growing). They've got high-profile founders (a bunch of ex Googlers) and a heap of VC cash ($33 million). So - only two questions Quality of offeringChance of successHow good is Cuil's search?Doing a side by side comparison with Google is unfair -

Quoted: Vodafone New Zealand has started today to charge casual mobile data usage in a different way. If you don't have a data plan but use your mobile to browse the Internet then you will pay no more than $1 per day for up to 10 MB (ten megabytes) of traffic. Traffic over this will be charged on a $1 per MB rate. Check all Vodafone mobile broadband plans

Quoted: Days after Google announced the web to have more than 1 trillion web pages, a new search engine launches, claiming to have the largest index of them all.

Quoted: Service is one of new offerings based on TelstraClear's new IP Network solutions portfolio.