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Air New Zealand improve RNP Performance at Queenstown airport with GE Naverus
Posted on 30-JUL-2010 12:18 Commentscomments Tags News, Computing
RNP is a form of Performance-based Navigation that ensures the aircraft follows a carefully designed path that can provide navigational flexibility, such as custom-tailored, curved paths through mountainous terrain or congested airspace.

HTC grabs ex-Sony Ericsson executives
Posted on 29-JUL-2010 18:54 Commentscomments Tags News, Mobile
Sony Ericsson's ex-CTO Ron Louks and Sony Ericsson's ex Head of Products Kouji Kodera join HTC.

Amazon releases new Kindle, now available to New Zealand consumers
Posted on 29-JUL-2010 14:36 Commentscomments Tags News, Consumer Electronics
Kindle's wireless delivery and content is now in a 21 percent smaller and 15 percent lighter design, with better contrast, faster page turns, up to one month of battery life, double the storage, and available to New Zealand users.

Apple updates Safari 5 browser
Posted on 29-JUL-2010 10:10 Commentscomments Tags News, Apple
Apple has released Safari 5.0.1, turning on Safari Extensions and introducing the Safari Extensions Gallery.

TVNZ 7 Internet debate to stream live
Posted on 29-JUL-2010 09:20 Commentscomments Tags News, Privacy
The debate will be broadcast live and streamed across the Internet as part of TVNZ 7's Spotlight on science and technology month, and will analyse and discuss online safety, privacy, use and abuse of social media, government filtering, and censorship.

Pacnet joins Pacific Fibre to build Trans-Pacific subsea cable
Posted on 28-JUL-2010 16:58 Commentscomments Tags News, Broadband
The 13,600 km cable will land in Sydney, Auckland and Los Angeles, and will also offer the most direct route between these landing points, delivering the lower latency connections that are being demanded by core customers.

Intel confirms light beams can replace electronic signals
Posted on 28-JUL-2010 10:00 Commentscomments Tags News, Computing
Intel creates world’s first end-to-end silicon photonics connection with integrated lasers. Impact on computer design, with dramatic increase in performance and energy savings.

NZICT Group appoints new Board
Posted on 27-JUL-2010 16:29 Commentscomments Tags News, Computing
NZICT membership is nearing 100 New Zealand technology firms and related organisations with collective revenue of more than $10 billion and staff of around 10,000.

TrueNet launches new broadband monitoring service in New Zealand
Posted on 26-JUL-2010 11:46 Commentscomments Tags News, Broadband
TrueNet is a joint venture between open source IT company Catalyst IT and broadband report analysis company Jonette Consulting.

Super Talent announces USB 3.0 Express Drive
Posted on 24-JUL-2010 14:53 Commentscomments Tags News, Consumer Electronics
Performance USB 3.0 flash drive at a performance USB 2.0 Price

Microsoft licenses ARM Architecture
Posted on 24-JUL-2010 14:18 Commentscomments Tags News, Mobile
Since 1997 Microsoft and ARM have worked together on software and devices across the embedded, consumer and mobile spaces, enabling many companies to deliver user experiences on a broad portfolio of ARM-based products.

IBM unveils its most powerful mainframe, the zEnterprise System (with video)
Posted on 23-JUL-2010 16:34 Commentscomments Tags News, Computing
IBM zEnterprise is the most powerful, scalable mainframe server the company delivered, up to 60% faster than System z10, with same power consumption. More than 100,000 virtualized servers can be managed as a single system.

Unisys announces new ClearPath cloud solution
Posted on 23-JUL-2010 16:00 Commentscomments Tags News, Computing
Unisys-hosted solutions give ClearPath clients new, cost-efficient options to source IT infrastructure for application development and modernization.

New Managing Director announced for Microsoft New Zealand
Posted on 23-JUL-2010 13:47 Commentscomments Tags News, Computing
Paul Muckleston, announced as new managing director Microsoft New Zealand, replacing Kevin Ackhurst who is moving to Singapore to take up the position of vice-president Sales and Marketing for Asia Pacific.

Blackbox launches self-powered noise-cancelling earphones for iPod and iPhone
Posted on 23-JUL-2010 10:53 Commentscomments Tags News, Consumer Electronics
Active Noise Rejection now available for Apple devices, batteries not required.

New Zealand media companies lured by iPad launch
Posted on 23-JUL-2010 10:40 Commentscomments Tags News, Apple
New Zealand Herald, North & South magazine release iPad apps on launch day.

Vodafone announces data plans for iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G in New Zealand
Posted on 22-JUL-2010 08:52 Commentscomments Tags News, Apple
Data plans for iPad will be available on a month by month basis, providing users with the freedom to activate or cancel a plan at any time.

.nz domain names with macrons to launch next week
Posted on 22-JUL-2010 08:00 Commentscomments Tags News, Computing
People will be able to register .nz domain names using the macronised vowels ā, ē, ī, ō and ū.

NIWA installs new IBM Supercomputer FitzRoy
Posted on 21-JUL-2010 18:19 Commentscomments Tags News, Computing
One of the most powerful supercomputers of its kind has been switched on at the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA).

Vodafone brings the Nexus One to New Zealand
Posted on 21-JUL-2010 09:41 Commentscomments Tags News, Android
The Nexus One is a Snapdragon powered, HTC smart phone including the latest evolution of the Android operating system.

LogMeIn for Android released
Posted on 20-JUL-2010 10:08 Commentscomments Tags News, Android
Popular remote control app LogMeIn Ignition is now available for Android devices.

Seagate debuts GoFlex Home, easy-to-use centralized storage
Posted on 20-JUL-2010 09:49 Commentscomments Tags News, Consumer Electronics
New consumer-level device offers wireless backup, sharing and streaming of music, photos, movies from multiple computers in the home.

Orcon expands unbundled network
Posted on 20-JUL-2010 09:39 Commentscomments Tags News, Broadband
Telecommunications company Orcon has unbundled three more Auckland exchanges – Birkdale, Henderson and Albany – with a total of 41 now unbundled across the country.

iPad available in nine more countries this Fridaym including New Zealand
Posted on 20-JUL-2010 09:07 Commentscomments Tags News, Apple
Beginning this Friday, customers can purchase all models of iPad through the Apple Store and selected Apple Authorised Resellers.

InternetNZ announces funding for Computer Clubhouse New Zealand
Posted on 19-JUL-2010 11:16 Commentscomments Tags News, Computing
The Computer Clubhouse initiative exposes adolescents from underserved communities across New Zealand to computing and Internet technologies. Youth make use of state-of-the-art technology and work with adult mentors to develop vocational skills and build self-confidence.


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