Auckland newspaper NZ Statesman followed. Rudman decided journalism was the career for him, but the NZ Herald and Auckland Star thought otherwise when he came job-hunting. After a year on the "hippy trail" overland to London, he spent four years on Fleet St with various British provincial papers. He then joined the Auckland Star, winning the Dulux Journalist of the Year award for coverage of the 1976 Dawn Raids against Polynesian overstayers. He has also worked on the NZ Listener, Auckland Sun, and since 1996, for the NZ Herald as feature writer and columnist. He has a BA in History and Politics.Dropbox, Mailbox and the Latest Salvo of the Cloud Storage War?

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Written by Steve Ross, 19 May 2014

In February 2013, a free-to-use email management application called Mailbox shot up Apple's iOS App Store's ranks - becoming the store's second most downloaded app on the day of its release. Barely a month later, cloud-based file hosting giant, Dropbox acquired the app for $100 million - in a move which is still sending ripples across the cloud storage landscape.

The buzz around Mailbox was helped by the head of pre-release steam it built up for weeks, by filtering users through a queue which delivered tantalising progress updates: "There are 354,523 people in front of you..." The hype did, however, reflect real consumer interest in Mailbox's capabilities and pointed to its greater potential