FROM THE EDITOR

ood grief, it works were the first words to be uttered over a mobile phone in New Zealand by Telecom employee Simon Cook-Willis. His surprise at the technology is something at which we continue to marvel nearly 20 years later. The journey has been alternately frustrating (think going in and out of coverage areas mid conversation), funny (conjure an image of a power-suited early eighties yuppie talking loudly into a brick phone when it rings) and, ultimately, extremely useful as we have come to rely on our phones more and more. Indeed, mobile technology has made the need for careful prior planning almost a thing of the past something that works against us now and again: I thought my friend and I were destined to sleep a cold winters night in the car when travelling to a rented bach in Snowdonia in Wales. We couldnt reach any of our friends, who had already arrived at the bach, because they were blissfully out of coverage and Id left the instructions on the kitchen bench thinking Id ring to find the way when we got close. Many who resisted for a long time the urge to go mobile particularly those of the baby boomer generation now would not go anywhere without it, and can often be seen texting with the lightening thumb speed of a teenager. Thats the reach that the mobile phone has had at 3.6 million subscribers New Zealand is pretty much at saturation point and it will, I suspect, always be. Enjoy the trip down memory lane as we notch up decade number two of living with the mobile phone. James Russell Editor

Contents

opinions and ideas to express but no one to tell them to? It might be time for you to start writing your own blog.

Writer: Vicki Bland

14. Internet trends: Do you have important
military, the latest rugged laptops offer a more reliable mobile computing option for people working in tough environments.

Writer: Paul Stowers

15. Tough laptops: Initially designed for the
16. Mobile phones: If you think your mobile is a bit clunky now, think back to the late 1980s, when phones cost thousands and came with separate battery packs.

Writer: John Ellis

are now a part of everyday society, but not all of them have been created equally. We review ve models.

Writer: Peter Grifn

18. Digital imaging: Cellphones with cameras

CREDITS

Technology & Innovation
EDITOR: James Russell (james.russell@apn.co.nz) WRITERS: Peter Griffin, Vicki Bland, Jon Ellis, Nigel Clark, Adrian Hatwell and Paul Stowers COVER DESIGN: Gavin Cammell COVER PHOTOGRAPHY: Graeme Sedal DESIGNER: Paul Stowers FEATURES ACCOUNT MANAGER: Bianca Lawton BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER: Tracey Hayes PROJECT MANAGER: Emily Hancox PUBLISHER: APN NZ (www.soldonapn.co.nz) Technology & Innovation is free with The New Zealand Herald. The next edition will be published on Monday, June 25, 2007. To advertise contact Bianca Lawton on (09) 3736400 ext 8671 or email bianca.lawton@apn.co.nz
generation game consoles now available, the race is on to put together the most popular and attractive games collection.
Writers: Nigel Clark and Adrian Hatwell
19. Console Gaming: With all three next
gadgets for 2007, the Xbox 360 Elite, Apple TV system, the Slingbox internet/TV connector, and the Flipstart laptop.
20. New technology: A look at four must-have
prerecorded programmes to listen to on your computer or MP3 player. We locate and review three local podcasts.

Writer: Nigel Clark

21. Podcasting: Podcasting involves downloading
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Be a blogger
Do you have important opinions to express but no one to tell them to? You may want to start a blog, writes Vicki Bland
o you rant charismatically at the dinner table, hold an audience captive at the water cooler, or write letters to the editor that actually get published? If so, you might enjoy creating your own web log commonly called a blog and join the humungous online community of friends, foes, help-mates, marketers, promoters and discussion partners that belong to the blogosphere the name for the online world of bloggers and the content they publish. A blog is just a space on a website (your site or a hosts) that provides a channel for you to express yourself and your views online. You can use a blog to discuss a particular topic or range of topics and seek feedback or extended discussion and learning on those topics by receiving posts from other bloggers and blog readers. Depending on who owns it, the content of a blog can be stimulating, fun and educational or banal, boring, and abandoned. Blogs can be classroom projects, ve-minute wonders, treasured personal journals shared with close friends and family, or be widely respected, regularly quoted, and even relied
upon by mainstream media as an information source. The benets of blogging are shared experience, information and opinion. You have a potential audience of millions who may read your blog, agree with it, disagree with it, debate it with you, and link your blog to their blog or to another website or forum. Corporate executives, politicians and celebrities have all cottoned onto the benets of blogging as it creates a personal presence on the internet and supports dynamic communication between them and those that matter most to them; customers, voters and fans. Such bloggers often use a blog to inform, inuence, and debate. Auckland helpdesk analyst and Linux software enthusiast Zeb Carnell (19), says he created his blog via host site www.blogspot. com in the hope of reaching fellow software enthusiasts. I wanted to see if I could use a blog to get a message out there about what I really think, says Carnell. He says his rst step was to search online for sites that offered a free blog service. From there, new bloggers can customise a blog by uploading photos, graphics or screen shots

and publishing thoughts. Then its simply a matter of maintaining the blog and engaging in discussion and feedback, says Carnell. Many software tools are specically designed for blogs. For example, you can create an RSS feed so that visitors who like your blog can receive information and updates directly via RSS reader software without having to re-vist your blog. These RSS feeds can also be delivered to a desktop or mobile device. (Theres one on The New Zealand Herald website.) Visitors can also bookmark parts of your blog using a permalink (see Jargon Busters below) so they can easily return to a single post of yours at a later date. New bloggers are often surprised to get little or no feedback on their blog postings. This is because there are millions of blogs online and it takes time, luck and continuous online chatting for a blog to be noticed and to appear on search engines or be catalogued on a bloggers site and thats only the interesting ones. Carnell says one of the best ways to attract people to a blog is to provide a link to it when making posts to other blogs or web forums. The quality of writing and grammar on a blog is also important. Entries headed up August 3, 2006 or those with a long page of holiday snaps or pet pictures are a dead giveaway for children and amateurs. If you want your blog to be taken seriously, write, edit and showcase it well.

HOW TO BLOG

1. Decide what type of blog you want to create and put some planning into it. Decide what you will be able to write about informatively and regularly. Name your blog as thoughtfully as you would for a business venture. 2. Conduct an online search for free blog hosting sites. With free blogs, advertisements are commonly put on your blog to help your blog host. For a small payment you can also buy a premium blog space. 3. Make your blog unique using the software tools available to you on the blog host site. You can also search online for free and purchasable software designed specically for blog tweaking and added value. 4. Update your blog reasonably regularly and follow basic grammar and spelling conventions. If you use jargon you will tend to only attract readers and responders who know what you are talking about. 5. Tell people you have a blog and what the address is, but dont push the blog at others either ofine or online. When online, make friends and talk to other bloggers, enjoy yourself and learn. Read other blogs and post responses to them. Its okay to include your own blog address in a response, and blog software often does this for you automatically. 6. Dont forget friends and family can access your blog. Avoid naming people if it is a personal blog or ask for permission if you want to name anyone. Never forget the internet is a public, international entity. 7. You can be anonymous by not including a photo or your real name, but realise you may be easily identied, or found, depending on what you write on your blog.

Photo: Paul Stowers

ON CALL: AA service operator Bernie Cooper and his Panasonic CF-19 Toughbook.
VERSATILE UNIT: The CF-19 Toughbooks lid can ip over to become a tablet PC.

Graphic: Paul Stowers

Mobile phones

semi-mobile phones

If you think your mobile is a bit heavy or clunky now, pay a thought to 1987s early adopters, when phones cost thousands and came with a separate battery pack

Celebrating 20 years of

n case you missed it, we are approaching the twentieth anniversary of the humble mobile phone and boy, how things have changed. Not just the technology, but its impact on society as well. Due to their size and power needs, the rst mobile phones had to be installed in a car and cost upwards of $3000 each. The must-have
item for mid-1987 was a luxury black leather briefcase containing a mobile phone and a two-kilo battery to power it. When people made calls from a restaurant
it probably entailed clearing away the plates and cutlery before opening the lid of the case on the table. Who knows what people would chat about in the days before pre-pay plans, text messaging and MP3 players, but it must have been fun to see the gob-smacked onlookers looking on. The $15,000 briefcase phone must have been a joy to carry around. Call time was limited to the short life of the lead battery and one can only imagine the pandemonium that must have broken out when the briefcase rung while it was being carried along a city street. You couldnt simply press a button and bring the phone to your ear. It all sounds quite ridiculous now, but truth is, the mobile revolution had only just begun. David Charlesworth of Comworth Systems in Auckland says he was among the rst people to bring mobile phones to New Zealand. Then, as now, Charlesworth was running an ofce supplies company with Oki as one of his key suppliers. In 1986, a year before Telecom was born, Oki and Motorola were installing car phones to people in the United States. It was then that Charlesworth had the bright idea to invite his Oki friends to meet his contacts at the then New Zealand Post Ofce. At the time it was deciding whether to adopt the British mobile phone system or Americas. On August 10, 1987 the countrys rst mobile phone network, based on the American system, crackled into life. We had been installing mobile phones in peoples cars since May of 1987, says

UNIDEN CP1000: Normally a car phone but shown in portable mode. It entered market in 1988, costing $1500
Charlesworth. We had sold around 200 units by the time the mobile network was switched on. People buying the phones were mainly CEOs at some of the countrys top companies such as Fletcher Challenge who wanted to call colleagues from their luxury cars. It was an easy sale in the early days as there

THE LEGACY OF CELLPHONES

I am often portrayed as a Luddite in respect to new technology. These charges are not only inaccurate but offensive for the truth is that I am awestruck by the technological changes I have witnessed over my lifetime. The most notable are cheap air travel, wonderful satellite television, mind-boggling computer technology and of course, the ubiquitous cellphone. I have not railed against these marvels but instead about the appalling decline in civility that has often accompanied their introduction. Barefooted, swimming-togs-clad males are commonplace on transtasman ights, illiterate and ill-mannered, abrupt email correspondence from strangers usually requesting something, ows into our ofce daily (and is deservedly ignored). But by far the worst is the abominable bad manners accompanying the all-too-common inconsiderate use of cellphones in public places. Technology has lifted the human condition to a level of prosperity and pleasure, unimaginable half a century ago but it cannot be denied that accompanying it, albeit at no fault of the technology, has been a signicant reduction in social standards. Hopefully, time will see an improvement. Bob Jones
was no competition. But by the time Telecom switched the network on there were other companies selling these phones and more than 1000 people ready to make a mobile call on day one. Twelve months after the August 1987 launch there were more than 3000 people on the network. Today there are around 3.8m mobile handsets in the country, most of them smaller than a briefcase handle. Because Charlsworths company was among the rst to offer mobile phones, Telecom allocated him the rst 200 mobile numbers in the country for his customers. Back then, mobile numbers started with 92 and Charlesworth still has the rst mobile phone number to be issued here 920000 which has since morphed into 0274-920000. The cost of a call in 1987 was 60 cents a minute (about $1 today), but the network was restricted to the main areas of Auckland and Wellington. Christchurch came on stream later, but even so, once outside the city coverage was non-existent. It was a time when you really could get away with telling your boss or partner that you were out of mobile phone range and couldnt receive or make a call. But such days of being out of reach were slipping away quickly. In the early 1990s we had something approaching a 90 per cent coverage, says Charlesworth. Although he has the rst
mobile number in the country, he was not the rst person to make a mobile call here. That honour belongs to Simon Cook-Willis, a Telecom employee. He used a mobile phone to telephone an engineer at Ericsson to test the system and said: Good grief, it works. It worked rst time we were thrilled. We spoke for just a few minutes but were too busy to chat, says Cook-Willis, who works for Telecom as a compliance manager in the networks team. He has been with the company for 38 years and when he made the rst mobile call he was employed by Telecom Cellular Mobile, a Telecom subsidiary later brought under the Telecom umbrella. Cook-Willis didnt give that rst call too much thought and says it wasnt until afterwards that he realised what he had done. Did he see it as an historic moment? Not at the time. I dont think we appreciated that mobile phones would become such a prominent part of everyday life like they are today and so it was business as usual, he says. When we designed the system it was for a maximum of 10,000 mobiles, and we reached that after about a year and I remember we were amazed. At that time we began the redesign for 100,000 users. And of course today New Zealand is just about at mobile saturation [across both networks] with one mobile for every person. He says the launch of mobile phones here was only a year behind Australia. Handhelds as we know them today didnt appear until 1989 in the form of the Motorola brick. It was big, heavy and had a talk time of just 30 minutes before the battery needed recharging. In those days if you had a mobile phone you had no choice but to carry it around in your hand or put it in a briefcase with a reinforced bottom. They were too big for pockets and ladies handbags. Once phones started to get smaller there was a spiral downward and mobile phones got to be quite tiny quite quickly, says Charlesworth. But while they got smaller, battery life and call time was still an issue. Phones were being advertised with a 16-hour battery life, but crucially, only a four-hour talk time. Charlesworth says what he is seeing today is a return to what he calls basic phones with fewer features. People now are looking for phones that do the basics well. They are getting tired of all the special functions that many dont use. People just want to be able to make calls and text. Charlesworth also says hands-free mobiles in

PAST RELICS: The Motorola DynaTac 8000 (left) entered the New Zealand market in 1987, priced around $3000. The Dynatac lays claim to being the worlds rst mobile phone, as we know them today, and was the rst to sport the brick look. While other mobile devices had come before the DynaTac, they involved not only carrying a handset but also lugging a briefcase-sized battery along with it. These units rst came onto the market in 1984, cost nearly $4000, and promised a massive half hour of talk time. The DynaTac prospered and inspired Nokia to design the Cityman, an equally heavyweight brick phone aimed at the business market. Picture top right is the Mitsubishi Diamondtel MESA55 from 1987, normally a car phone but shown in portable mode. It was priced around $2100.
vehicles should be compulsory. Mobile phones are a dangerous distraction to drivers. I think we as a country are behind the times in not compelling people to install hands-free kits. As for the future of the mobile phone, it seems they will get even smaller. Right now Tag Heuer, better known as makers of deluxe timepieces, has announced its entry into the mobile phone market, in partnership with custom phone maker ModeLabs. The result is expected to be in the high price range, but one things for sure; the watches will be correct down to the millisecond. The nal product is to be released sometime this year. And if you can get one you really will be like James Bond, or your favourite character from Thunderbirds, with the ability to hold a conversation with your wrist. But chances are, the watch will wirelessly connect with an earpiece. Whatever way it goes, three things are bound to happen. Mobile phones will get smaller, cheaper and have more features. All phones, including those on the cover, generously supplied by Telecom NZ.

CHANGING TIMES

Doctor Martin Cooper, a former general manager for the systems division at Motorola, is considered the inventor of the rst modern portable handset. Cooper made the rst call on a portable cell phone to his rival, Joel Engel, head of research at Bell Laboratories. (You can imagine what Cooper said: Guess where Im calling from). In 1973. Bell had introduced the idea of cellular communications in 1947 with their police car technology and had been racing to beat Motorola. But in the end Motorola was rst to incorporate the technology into a portable device designed for use outside a vehicle. In New Zealand, one of the rst organisations to embrace mobile phones was the New Zealand Police, although only in a limited way at rst due to budget constraints. Each unit cost many thousands of dollars. Pictured top right is Detective Inspector Peter Robinson, then head of the drug squad, who said he could imagine a time when the police would use them more, but it was all a matter of funding. Picture bottom right is where mobile phone technology is at in 2007. It is a production model of the Tag Heuer phone, watch and MP3 player. The unit is due out later this year and, like the rst mobile phones back in the 1980s, they are guaranteed to have a high price tag.

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Console gaming

console battlefront
With all three next generation game consoles now available, the race is on to put together the most attractive and popular games collection
ast months long anticipated launch of Sonys PlayStation 3 console means the battle is now on to become the worlds favourite gaming platform. But however good the technology, the success or failure of each console will come down to the quality of the games available for each of them. Here are some of the latest.

New heroes in the

SONYS PLAYSTATION 3
Resistance Fall of Man: Easily the biggest of the PlayStation 3 launch titles, Resistance Fall of Man details the struggles of US soldier Nathan Hale as he does battle against the Chimera hordes. The nasties in question are an alien race who have swept across Europe and Asia and are in the process of invading good old mother England in an alternate reality earth circa 1950, one where World War II never happened. The action is reminiscent of the Call of Duty games with the inclusion of some truly terrifying enemies. Multiplayer buffs will love the fact that up to 40 people can play online on with virtually no st-st-stuttering. Motorstorm: If insanely fast racing with near incontrollable jumps and a ton of eye popping crashes is your thing then look no further than Sonys Motorstorm. Featuring some of the most gorgeous graphics weve ever seen in a game, this teeth clenching offroad racer delivers plenty of thrills and more than its fair share of spills. Vehicles at your disposal range from speedy little quad bikes all the way up to heavy duty trucks capable of blitzing any opponents from the screen. Online multiplayer supports up to 12 players and there arent many games that will put a grin on your face any faster.

Virtua Fighter 5: Games like Tekken and Dead or Alive tend to get most of the attention, but serious ghting buffs will know that neither comes close to touching the Virtua Fighter series in depth or skill. Sure the complexity can be a bit intimidating for rst timers, but persist and youll be richly rewarded. Virtua Fighter 5 boasts a substantial cast of characters, each with their own unique ghting style. Single player includes the traditional arcade ghts, a quest with its own storyline and practice mode. Unfortunately theres no online multiplayer, but we believe this game is best with just a few friends in any case.
nally gets a little love. As the name suggests this is largely the same game as its PS2 counterpart. This differences however make an already great game legendary with vastly improved graphics, ten new exclusive songs from the likes of My Chemical Romance and Iron Maiden and the potential to download new tracks via Microsofts Xbox Live service. Battlestations Midway: Battlestations Midway suffers from a bit of an identity crises part action and part strategy. But that doesnt get in the way of this being a good old fashioned scrap in the Pacic. You play as a navy ofcer and over the progress of the single player game nd yourself increasing in rank, commanding lowly PT Boats to begin with and eventually working your way up to a mighty aircraft carrier and its accompanying escorts. You can use the map to order ships about and launch aircraft, or hop in the cockpit of any one of dozens of ships, submarines and planes and do battle yourself.

Reviews by NIgel Clark

MICROSOFTS XBOX 360
Crackdown: The man responsible for Crackdown was one of the creators of Grand Theft Auto. Hes since left Rockstar and created his own studio and this is the rst result. Crackdowns heritage is obvious in that a huge open city is provided and you can help yourself to vehicles, weapons and cause a huge amount of carnage. This time however youre one of the good guys and to make things even better an upgradeable cybernetic suit enables superhuman strength and the ability to leap literally, from building to building. Big plus is the online co-op mode where you can explore the city and take down mob bosses with a friend. Guitar Hero II: When you pick up a guitarshaped controller for your home console, a little magic is made. Guitar Hero has been a winning formula in its two iterations on the Playstation 2 console and now the Xbox 360

NINTENDO Wii

Excite Truck: With
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Wii the racing genre takes a whole new spin. Using the motionsensing controller as if it were a steering wheel, you race hulking monster trucks all over the globe. In a welcome break from tradition, Excite Truck throws realistic driving physics away and opts for total carnage instead. Rather than racing for pole-position, you must outclass your opponents with insane jumps, impossible drifts and any other kind of daring-do you can muster. As a bonus you can do away with the games rock soundtrack and play your own MP3s instead, a first for the Wii.
Smooth moves: Newcomers to the realm of WarioWare should brace themselves before entry. Like the fevered dream of a child gorged on sugar, the game throws bizarre images and sounds at the player so quickly the average human mind barely has time to comprehend, let alone play. Made up of hundreds of microgames, which are over within a matter of seconds, players must decipher what the crude graphics and noises want from them before time expires. While the Wiimote actions are simple youll only get through with sharp reexes and a predilection for insanity.
SSX Blur: As either a snowboarder or skier, players have greater control than ever before as they y down an array of enormously over the top mountains. Tilting the nunchuck control to varying degrees will hone a sweeping arch or tight turn. A quick upward ick of the nunchuck launches your racer into the air, while erratic ailing of the Wiimote produces physics-defying ips, spins and grabs. The unconventional control scheme coupled with a tremendous sense of break-neck speed makes for one of the most refreshingly original takes on the genre.

New technology

gadgets for 2007
box Elite was unveiled last month to spoil the launch of Sonys Playstation 3 in Australasia and Europe. The new unit updates the Xbox 360 with a high denition (HDMI) connector, allowing users lucky enough to have HD at-screen TV sets to plug directly into the console to get the best quality picture possible. The Elites hard drive has also been boosted from 20GB to 120GB. This will come in handy for storing videos, music and photos, especially for those using the optional wireless adapter to stream content from a computer. Theres no HDDVD drive included as Microsoft continues to offer this as an optional extra, a strategy contrasting that of Sony, which puts a high-denition Blu-ray drive into all PS3. The Elites fetching black case will impress gamers. It debuts here over the winter. Price: US$480 (www.xbox.com)

Four must-have

and 512MB of memory just enough grunt to run Windows Vista. Its 5.6-inch SVGA screen is large enough to operate regular applications and theres a full-sized keyboard to make typing easy. In terms of networking, the FlipStart has built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and EV-DO mobile broadband. The Blackberry-inspired FlipStart also comes with a serious price tag. Price: US$1999 (www.ipstart.com)

of its bulkier rivals. A remote control simulates the functions of Apples successful FrontRow technology, making media playback easy. A major omission is the ability to record live TV, turning the Apple TV into a MySky-type personal digital recorder. There have also been early complaints about the video quality of movies and TV programmes purchases on iTunes and played back on Apple TV. Price: US$299 www.apple.com/appletv

SLINGBOX

2007 may just be the year that the Slingbox makes its mark in this country. This little device plugs into your TV and internet connection, allowing you to view TV programmes from anywhere in the world via the net. All you need to do is open up an internet browser on your laptop, log onto a broadband connection and youll be streaming your video feed from home. You can even stream your Slingbox content to a mobile phone if youre willing to pay the data charges the video transfer will rack up. Youll never miss your favourite programmes again. Price: US$100$249 (www.slingbox.com)

APPLE TV

Apple TV is a digital hub that plugs into your TV and stereo allowing you to display videos and listen to music held on Apple TVs 40GB hard drive. Mac and PC owners can wirelessly stream content from their iTunes library to the device, which is about the size of a hardback book and can be tucked away discretely in a TV cabinet, unlike some

FLIPSTART

Multi-billionaire investor and co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen, wants to shake up the computer notebook market with his new gadget the FlipStart a compact laptop thats quite powerful. It features a 1.1GHz Pentium processor

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Podcasting

best local podcasts
ick of the music on your iPod? Try downloading a podcast. Nigel Clark checks out the latest options.

Photo: Peter Meecham

Discover some of the

THE ODD COUPLE OF MOVIES

The premise is original yet surprisingly makes perfect sense. Andie is a Christchurch bloke who loves his big blockbuster action movies. Bronnie is a lm student from Auckland who has more artiswtic tastes. He takes her to a movie of his choice and she takes returns the favour. The two review each others lms with the besieged Toby as the geek in the middle. Theres plenty of comedy to be found as well as the latest movie news and celebrity gossip, To listen for yourself, visit www.bigpod. co.nz and search for Odd couple.

GEEKPULP (SPEAKPULP)

Found at tech/gaming site www.geekpulp. co.nz, the stars of Speakpulp are Brian and Austin (the Wugg) and whatever unfortunate victim they can attach a set of headphones to. Obviously infatuated with all things which go beep and hold many buttons, one of the most
endearing features of their weekly show is their earnest ordinariness and approachability. Sure these guys sound like the nice chap next door (except for that Wugg, hes scary) but the truth is theyve got their ngers on the pulse of the local gaming scene and have ready access to some of the movers and shakers from companies like Microsoft.
BEIGE BRIGADE (BYC PODCAST)
Straight from the crew that made a sport of wearing fashion defying beige uniforms in support of their beloved team comes the ofcial
podcast from the (in)famous Beige Brigade. Helped on with a little crude humor, a few beers and special guests such as umpire Billy Bowden, this is the place to go to for a regular take on how well the New Zealand Cricket team is going and a good deal of inexpert analysis of the rules, such as the Duckworth Lewis system. Almost helplessly incapable of staying on topic through the entire show, theyre more than happy to poke fun at themselves. One show is even dedicated to the lads trying to talk about anything but cricket. Listen in at beigebrigade.co.nz/loop/byc/

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