Dene Mackenzie's blog

In past years, tertiary institutions in New Zealand had talked about ways of ensuring students got the best experience they could from a crowded teaching experience.

It has been a while since cloud computing drifted through this column but a recent release from research and advisory firm Ovum necessitates another look at the issue.

Just quietly, I have lost weight.

My son celebrated his birthday last Sunday, October 10, 2010.

As the use of social media continues to grow, so do the concerns about silly things you have done in the past coming back to haunt you.

Be honest. How many of you do not bother reading reference books, reaching for a dictionary or a thesaurus any more when you are working or playing on your computer?

Just as I was about to finally download IE8, feeling that it was probably safe enough to do that more than a year after it was released, late last week Microsoft announced it was launching IE9.

As we all tweet, blog, update Facebook and generally live in a social space that encourages informality and quick responses, sort of like a conversation over coffee, there are some lessons to be learned.

Most internet security firms release in January their predictions of what nasties will invade our computers during the year.

It may soon be easier to block internet porn: The agency that controls domain names has said it will consider adding .xxx to the list of suffixes people and companies can pick when establishing their identities online.