Dene Mackenzie's blog

With issues still floating about regarding privacy on the net, a Reuters report about a new iPhone app caught my eye.

If the FBI thought it had scored a coup last week arresting five Anonymous and Lulz Security hackers, they will have been rethinking their strategy two days later.

All big internet players were news in recent days, probably the most interesting being Microsoft releasing an incomplete Windows 8 for people to download and try.

Already, this year is shaping up to be the Year of Google as the search and advertising giant starts to advertise itself.

Some visitors from Holland remarked to Mackline one night last week in the Octagon that they were very impressed that our group of friends and colleagues were actually talking to each other.

Vodafone and TelstraClear have hit back at figures released last week that their customers suffered broadband congestion at 7pm each day.

When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States in 2008, his use of social media was among one of the many contributing factors to his win.

A disturbing report from Reuters has Mackline suffering more worry lines than normal. There seems to be only one cure to ease the suffering - finding new friends.

Mackline had the time of his life last week. He recognised early that a familiar scam was under way again and decided to play along through an email account that is protected in a way that only a skilled hacker could contemplate entering.

One of the wishes of Mackline is that New Zealand politicians will flock to social networks during the forthcoming election campaign.