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		<title>What is the Registry Lock status on a Domain Name?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 23:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden Tennent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After recently moving my Domain name to a new provider I completed a quick evaluation of some of the “value-added” services that you can use with a registered domain name.  Typical services such as Secret Registration, Domain-Locking, contact managers, and priority support options all surfaced. Perhaps one less popular option I came across was the Registry-Lock status [...]


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		<title>Target TV show shames Vodafone for inaction on lost handset and SIM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden Tennent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A New Zealand consumer affairs TV show called Target ran an episode on 19th April 2011 about a young Vodafone customer that appeared to have left a Nokia mobile phone and SIM card unattended for a few moments, only to find that it had disappeared on her return to collect it. The gist of this [...]


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		<title>Survive-it Limited: Are you leaking information?</title>
		<link>http://www.nztechie.com/survive-it-limited-are-you-leaking-information/884/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 05:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden Tennent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the recent earthquake tragedy in Christchurch I thought it best to add a few missing items to the family survival/disaster kit and I ordered some key components from the company Survive-it through their online store.  Survive-it operate from Porirua. Despite the large number of orders they were receiving at the time they managed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aerial Impressions: A new round of Spamming Offences</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden Tennent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been spammed again by Aerial Impressions Aerial Photography.  The last round of spam I had to deal with from them was in February 2010. Gmail&#8217;s spam filtering is normally pretty good but it seems that our old spamming nemesis Aerial Impressions seems to still somehow come through. When Aerial Impressions sent me an unsolicited [...]


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		<title>Consumer Magazine Internet Providers Report December 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.nztechie.com/consumer-magazine-internet-providers-report-december-2010/854/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden Tennent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumer Magazine is published both in electronic and magazine form by Consumer NZ, an independent, non-profit organisation established in 1959. One of the many areas that the Consumer Magazine covers is Internet Service Providers. Each year they conduct a survey to get an insight into their readers perceptions of the best and worst Internet providers [...]


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		<title>Switching from Vodafone to ZC Mobile</title>
		<link>http://www.nztechie.com/switching-from-vodafone-to-zc-mobile/831/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden Tennent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since owning my first mobile phone i’ve been a Vodafone customer.  They had competitive calling rates and my friends and family were (and still are) on the Vodafone network. I first signed-up at a time whereby you’d get a certain rate when calling another Vodafone mobile, but were penalised with higher charges when you [...]


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		<title>Is Printa NZ sending unsolicited spam email?</title>
		<link>http://www.nztechie.com/is-printa-nz-sending-unsolicited-spam-email/782/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nztechie.com/is-printa-nz-sending-unsolicited-spam-email/782/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden Tennent</dc:creator>
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		<title>Microsoft to cull up to 5000 jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.nztechie.com/microsoft-to-cull-up-to-5000-jobs/766/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden Tennent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the next 18 months Microsoft is expected to cut anywhere between 2000 and 5000 positions in Research and Development, Legal, Human Resources, and Information Technology.  A total of 1,400 positions are due to be cut immediately. Microsoft posted a lower than expected profit of $US4.17 billion ($NZ8 billion) in its second quarter ended December [...]


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		<title>Auckland City launches municipal Wi-Fi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden Tennent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Auckland City Council has today launched a wireless broadband service, beginning with seven coverage areas where users can prepay for access by the hour, day, or week.  The service was launched mid day today. Areas covered by today&#8217;s launch include: Aotea Square Karangahape Road Ponsonby Remuera Parnell Viaduct Basin Westhaven Broadband speeds of up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube enables video downloads</title>
		<link>http://www.nztechie.com/youtube-enables-video-downloads/737/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden Tennent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[YouTube appears to be experimenting with a new video download facility, for the first time letting viewers download and take a piece of YouTube with them.  This new capability is their latest move in the highly competitive world of online video. It&#8217;s a limited release at this stage, with the first YouTube channel to receive [...]


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