2012-01-19 11:56:02 // Siobhan Leathley
// The Idealog Blog
The recession won’t stop consumers demanding record numbers of smartphones, tablets and wireless technology, according to Deloitte’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions 2012.
2011-12-21 11:41:21 // Siobhan Leathley
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Mind-reading a possibility, junk mail a priority and the use of facial and retina scans to access information – according to IBM, in five years not only will all of this be possible but it will also be the social norm.
2011-12-12 09:48:14 // Siobhan Leathley
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TelstraClear head Allan Freeth says telcos must move toward providing tailored services as the data explosion gains momentum.
2011-12-09 16:00:28 // Idealog
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Facebook has captured the hearts (and time) of Kiwis – but MySpace has disappeared off our radars completely.
2011-11-29 10:12:06 // Esther Goh
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It doesn’t matter how fast technology advances – there’s always someone at the end with a hand on the cable, according to Mike Walsh.
2011-09-12 10:46:57
Is the Arab Spring is making way for a corporate spring? According to Forbes' David Kirkpatrick, this points to a bright future for business and society globally.
2010-10-07 06:00:00 // Jehan Casinader
// Idealog #29: features
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Companies used to merely yell at us: buy this! Now they want to know what’s inside our heads (and a hand with their marketing, please). But Jehan Casinader sounds a warning—most brands just aren’t worth the conversation.
2010-04-01 07:43:05 // Ben Corban & Dean Poole
// Idealog #26: features
As Yogi Berra once said, “You can observe a lot by watching.” Dean Poole and Ben Corban, co-founders of Alt Group, would agree. On a European jaunt to pick up a coveted grand prix prize at the red dot design awards, they kept a detailed travelogue. Here are their top five observations and predictions for the year ahead.
2009-12-11 09:58:45 // Mike Brown & Natasha Lampard
// Idealog #25: interact
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Webstock 2010 is nearly upon us. Webstock’s senior VPs reflect on past glories—and those yet to come.
2009-11-13 09:57:54 // Matt Cooney
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Well, this was only a matter of time: Guardian columnist takes a quick look at our green credentials and doesn’t like what he sees. “My prize for the most shameless two fingers to the global community goes to New Zealand, a country that sells itself round the world as ‘clean and green’.”
2009-10-06 16:31:11 // Chris Tobias
// Idealog #23: celsias
John Key is doing his best to scythe sustainability from the government dictionary—and maybe he’s right. The S-word has baggage. It's about disagreement, good and bad science, frugality and fear. Chris Tobias suggests how to move beyond the arguments.
2009-10-02 11:23:14 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #23: features
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We pay for the Herald, but not for its website; we’ll give money to Sky while we let the state-owned TVNZ struggle. As business thinkers proclaim the age of the free and Rupert Murdoch heads a fightback, Matt Cooney asks if we really know the value of a dollar. Plus keep on giving.
2009-09-25 08:57:33 // Mike Booker
// Idealog #23: celsias
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Johnny Rotten once mocked the Queen; today he saves his sneer for New Zealand butter. Our key export markets are increasingly in the grip of environmental and social activism, led by a virtuous circle of consumers and supermarkets. Some Kiwi exporters are on to this rapidly growing and mutating phenomenon. Others, Mike Booker discovers, haven’t a clue.
2009-09-11 10:02:11 // Matt Suddain
// Idealog #23: features
It’s 30 years since the release of the Sony Walkman. Matt Suddain tracks the evolution of portable music—and the complaints of those who wish it would go away.
2009-08-07 12:59:25 // James Hurman
// Idealog #22: features
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Nobody believes business anymore. So who’s in control of your brand? It’s all of us. Here’s how the truth has been democratised, distributed and Google-optimised. It’s goodbye to the mass message and welcome to The Conversation.
2009-07-28 10:26:21 // Matt Cooney
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Barry Colman invited a firestorm when he announced that the NBR would stop publishing all its content online for free, and instead would save some of its material for paid subscribers. A week later, how’s he doing?
2009-03-27 11:29:58 // Jamie Cullinane
// Idealog #21: features
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Of all the differences between people, one factor has a greater bearing on income than any other: intelligence. And IQ scores show that each generation is getting smarter. Jamie Cullinane examines the rise of the smartocracy
2009-03-16 10:36:40 // Dianne Gardiner, Keith Macky & Stewart Forsyth
// Idealog #20: workshop
Surely there’s never been a generation quite so headstrong, self-centred, clever and so demanding?
2008-05-16 10:35:57 // Jehan Casinader
// Idealog #15: features
New Zealand has the fastest-growing fair trade market in the world, but as corporates like Starbucks catch the Fair Trade bandwagon, savvy advocates of ethical consumerism can see a day when the goodwill is gone. By Jehan Casinader
2007-07-18 23:00:00 // Gena Tuffery
// Idealog #10: features
Two Wellingtonians have written a guide to the dreams, desires and dislikes of our fellow Kiwis, using well-known cities, towns and suburbs to identify our ‘tribes’. Gena Tuffery reckons she learned a lot reading 8 Tribes (but then she would say that—she’s apparently a Grey Lynn gal)
