Fruitbowl - Fresh Ideas from Hawke's Bay

Most people will be familiar with HD TV formats and the current heavy weight 1080P (1920 x 1080 pixels) , some may have even heard of the new 3D HDTV format. Well, YouTube have begun streaming a new format called 4K as in (4096 x 3072 pixels) or 3 times the resolution of 1080P! One downside is they recommend a 25 foot screen as in a full sized cinema screen (And I thought my Tv was big!) ...Read more

Hi ,, I have been asked to speak at a breakfast meeting Wednesday morning(today) and thought I would share my topic with you so you may all get a better understanding of the solutions I provide for my clients from my suppliers. Here is the case study written by me (Ben Keehan) Wonders Of Wireless Breakfast Meeting Wedenesday 14th July 2010  Ben Keehan B2BNZ , sales agent and reseller of ...Read more

My daughter has taken to using social media in a big way this year. It started with Moshi Monsters last year, and this year she is blogging big time. In case you are wondering, Moshi Monsters is a networking web site for children. With three blogs on the go, she has taught herself to use a range of cloud computing services, and recently added a podcast. She is constantly digging around the ...Read more

I got an iPad about a month ago. I’m definitely not an Apple fan – I’ve never had a Mac or an iPhone. The only Apple products I’ve had are an iPod shuffle and and iPod nano. Although it’s sold about a zillion units since its launch, the talk about the iPad has been mixed. Some says it’s a bona fide game-changer and others that it’s half-baked and has no ...Read more

DropBox is a free online storage solution that keeps your files in sync across multiple computers and allows you to get access to them from anywhere. It’s a great first application for experiencing the power of storing things in the cloud. Here’s a video … They have a nice referral model where you can invite new people to DropBox and earn extra storage. Very clever (and why ...Read more

Not to poke too much fan at those guys in the flash cars, just a little bit! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arjiHvkVXfA& ...Read more

With the rise of the social web, it’s becoming more important to make it easy for your target audience to find you through social networking websites. In the past, it was enough to have a brochure website, ensure it was visible in Google, and send out the occasional email newsletter to your customers to tell them about a special promotion you were running. But this approach isn’t ...Read more

Airnet are embarking on a quest to bring some genuine competition to Hawke’s Bay consumers and businesses. Embracing the government’s Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) regulation is cornerstone to the scaled capability that will bring faster broadband and lower calling rates. Founded in 2002 by Sam Deller, we set out with wireless based technology targeted at customers that had a need for high ...Read more

The Interactive Advertising Bureau of New Zealand (IABNZ) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has just released online advertising expenditure figures for Q1, 2010. The report supports the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) findings earlier this year: online advertising is now over 10% of all domestic media spend all other media reported declines in 2009 So there’s a definite structural ...Read more