At last!

Well folks, we have done it! You can now Tether on 3.1.3 with our carrier bundles for XT and 2degrees again! Happy times!!

Finally all the users waiting to update to the latest firmware but couldn’t because they needed Tethering can now do so. And the best bit. All you need to do is download and install the new bundle. No restoring, no separate configuration files. One all-in-one solution.

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BOOM!

Here’s a quick look at a simple but fun new game from kiwi developer Ivan Mackintosh. We’ve also got four copies of it up for grabs so read on for your chance to win.

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Hello, stranger!

It’s been a while, but Apple have just released iPhone OS 3.1.3 which purports to fix inaccurate battery level reporting for the 3GS (let’s hope this means our batteries are actually doing better than we think and not worse) and some other minor bug fixes. We’ll let you know in an update to this post if there is any impact to the carrier bundles, so if you’re with anyone but Vodafone you might want to hold off running the update just for now. We’re updating our iPhones now and checking all facets of the bundle. We’ve heard that tethering should work again but we’ll let you know! Stay tuned!

[UPDATED @06/02 14:30 ] – Tethering now available with our new bundles. Click here to read more

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'Goodwill gesture' announced in Dunedin

After the major outage suffered by XT users last week (27th Jan-30th Jan), Telecom CEO Paul Reynolds has this morning announced the compensation ‘Goodwill gesture’ they will be offering customers that were affected south of Taupo. Read More

In the thick of it

Dr Paul Reynolds, CEO of Telecom New Zealand, will front media and staff today with a finalised announcement for XT compensation.

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Don't go burning those old-fashioned paper books yet

Sadly, it has transpired that one of the most compelling new features of the iPad (and no doubt a future feature of the iPhone) announced at yesterday’s Apple event won’t be available in New Zealand. The fineprint at apple.com states “iBooks available in the U.S. only” but for how long? A month? A year? Forever?  Given how long it took us to get the iTunes Store, could we be in for another mammoth wait? It seems that nobody really wants a slice of the Kiwi book pie and that surprises me given how much we (as a country) love to read and how expensive actual books are here. Here’s hoping the wait won’t be long.

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FONTS!

Apple. They know style, but they do like to push their vision of it in our face a little. Case in point: the Mail app. Possibly the only HTML mail client I know of that has no option to choose a font. But there is a sneaky way around it that doesn’t require jailbreaking or any third-party apps. Read on for our simple but clever tip!
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WINNERS!

Well here you go guys and gals, the answers and winners of our iGO My Way 2009 competition are below. Congratulations to the three of you and thanks to everyone who entered. Read More

Not so orsome news

British online tech publication The Register have posted an interesting piece involving New Zealand iPhone developer Orsome and AdMob advertising. An advert embedded into the free version of Orsome’s Bubblewrap game featured an AdMob advert which, when clicked, dialled a premium-rate phone number without warning which has racked up large bills for some unsuspecting British users of the app. It’s an interesting read and the first we’ve heard of the bogus practice that was once commonplace on dial-up internet connections. Read on for the link. [Thanks for the heads-up, Ivan]

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Their latest creation

Apple has announced the much rumored iPad (tablet) at their media event this morning. The device which resembles a giant iPod touch has been over twenty years in the making… but will it meet the sky-high expectations?

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