Microsoft wants to fire your receptionist, are you and I next?

Every year robots get a little more capable. In Japan where there has been a short supply of security guards they've built security robots to patrols malls at night.

Now Microsoft are showing off there latest foray in robotics with a new rec... (more in the full post)

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A lot of things are happening at Vodafone on this very special day:

• Prepay customers will start being charged a dollar per call to customer services when a Customer Service Representative is required
• Prepay customers will no longer be able to switch to the classic prepay plans
• ihug Limited will soon no longer exist and will completely be part of Vodafone New Zealand Limited.

It's not surprising that ihug will soon be completely part of Vodafone (rather than the current rebranding) as this fully makes their fixed line products to become part of Vodafone, and reduce confusion.

Things to note:

• Phone numbers won't change
  Here are the numbers, just for reference:
  
  Residential: 0800 438 448
  Business: 0800 438 458
  Red network: 0800 800 215 <- they finally release this!
   
• Billing is still separate, but pay Vodafone New Zealand Limited directly
  Currently, we get a statement which needs to be paid to ihug Ltd, even though it's completely branded Vodafone

I better hope that they clean up the My Vodafone interface as part of this, as it's currently quite messy and unprofessional compared to other ISP account management sites.


The webpage with the information about this changed from welcome to our place to our place is your place:

http://www.vodafone.co.nz/help/ihug-customers-welcome.jsp

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Back in April I wrote about Microsoft's music store closing, thus rendering any music purchased from that store worthless. Why? The music is DRM infested, and thus will stop playing after they switch off their servers that are needed for license veri... (more in the full post)

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