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My Waterproof Mobile Phone Lets Prove It !!!

By |2020-03-27T04:10:28+13:00November 2nd, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

Recently I saw an article on the BBC Tech website reporting on a new technology that can waterproof your phone.  There was a video demonstration as well which all worked and it looked amazing.  Too good to be true you may think…  Well obviously no one deliberately drops their phone in water do they?  Or do

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UPDATE to “The Holy Grail Has Arrived – Eliminate International Data Roaming Charges”

By |2020-03-27T04:10:56+13:00November 2nd, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

Ok so here goes with an update to my blog entitled “The Holy Grail Has Arrived – Eliminate International Data Roaming Charges” from the 5th May 2013. I have to say the response from that blog was quite incredible and unexpected.  We got inundated with requests for one of the devices which to be honest was

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How to tell whether an IT vendor sells ‘solutions’ or just products

By |2020-03-27T04:10:56+13:00November 2nd, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

“Foreword By Chris Young, Sales Director of FunctionEight Limited :-  I am often asked by new staff why FunctionEight do not sign exclusive agency agreements with hardware providers and this article clearly shows the reasons.  At FunctionEight we want to be free to make sure we have the flexibility to review a problem and then select

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7 Ways to Manage Email So It Doesn’t Manage You

By |2020-03-27T04:10:56+13:00August 23rd, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

“Foreword by Phil Aldridge, Technical Director of FunctionEight Limited.  So I follow a few Thought Leaders on LinkedIn… Sounds impressive doesn’t it… Anyway on of them is Jeff Weiner who is the CEO at LinkedIn itself and he writes some excellent articles.  This one struck a particular note with me, mainly because my inbox is out

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How to save Energy

By |2020-03-27T04:10:56+13:00July 1st, 2013|Categories: News|

I thought I would share the following links with you all. Seeing its so cold and we can’t understand why we need so much heating so frequently, this article would explain. http://www.rightlight.govt.nz/residential/consumer-testing/downlight-test Also for the people that dont know what they dont know, I thought I would add this pink batts link explaining insulation and light

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Taxation of Foreign Superannuation Schemes

By |2020-03-27T04:10:56+13:00June 12th, 2013|Categories: News|

The New Zealand Inland Revenue (IR) is re-writing the taxation rules for foreign superannuation schemes (foreign schemes) and intends to introduce new, 'simplified' rules from 1 April 2014. IR is aware that the existing rules relating to foreign schemes are complex and this complexity has resulted in a high level of non compliance. The new

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Ben there, done that! Cowperthwaite Roofing welcomes new Contracts Manager

By |2020-03-27T04:10:56+13:00June 10th, 2013|Categories: News|

Cowperthwaite Roofing are delighted to announce the appointment of Ben Cleal to the role of contracts manager. Based at the company's head office in Penrose, Ben's main priorities are to look after the company's team of salaried roofers and to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of jobs all around the greater Auckland area. Ben

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The Holy Grail Has Arrived – Eliminate International Data Roaming Charges

By |2020-03-27T04:10:56+13:00May 5th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

As the Technical Director of F8 I would like to think I have a pretty good grasp on technology and how it works.  When I had my Blackberry I never had issues with International Roaming Charges.  The Blackberry was ultra efficient in its usage and I was very conscious not to open attachments.  That coupled with the awful internet browsing

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The End of the Microsoft XP World is Nigh

By |2020-03-27T04:10:56+13:00April 30th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

So it is official.  The world according to Microsoft XP will end on April 8, 2014.  Ok so maybe that is a bit extreme… but Microsoft have officially announced that they will cease all support for Windows XP on that date.  Whilst this is not really a massive thing what is of concern is that they

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