New Zealand PC Market has strongest year ever in 2020
Posted on 23-Mar-2021 13:18 News, Computing
New IDC New Zealand research shows demand for education devices and continued switches from desktops to notebooks has driven an increase in notebook sales leading to the strongest year of PC shipments on record.
The James Dyson Award is looking for New Zealand's next big inventor
Posted on 23-Mar-2021 12:04 News, Web media
The 2021 James Dyson Award international design competition is now open for entries. Since 2005, the James Dyson Award (JDA) has challenged inventive and entrepreneurial undergraduates and recent graduates of engineering and design to "design something that solves a problem".
D-Link launches new Unified Wireless AX3600 Wi-Fi 6 4x4 Dual Band PoE Access Point
Posted on 23-Mar-2021 11:53 News, Wi-Fi
The DWL-X8630AP is prepared to handle all day-to-day demands of medium to large-sized enterprises. Equipped with Wi-Fi 6, it brings massive performance improvements, as well as all the features of 802.11ax now being available across the 2.4GHz band, as well as the 5GHZ band.
Fitbit announces Fitbit Ace 3 next generation activity and sleep tracker for kids
Posted on 15-Mar-2021 16:14 News, Health
Ace 3 helps kids develop healthy habits by encouraging them to get active and get the sleep their growing bodies need. The device helps motivate kids to get moving to reach the 60 daily active minutes with reminders to take at least 250 steps per hour, with an option to customise during school time.
Sonos launches Sonos Roam ultra-portable speaker
Posted on 11-Mar-2021 11:10 News, Consumer Electronics
A simultaneous connection to both WiFi and Bluetooth makes streaming seamless wherever you are. When you’re listening at home, Roam connects to your system and streams on WiFi, and when you leave it intuitively switches to Bluetooth and automatically re-pairs with your mobile device.
ASUS ROG releases new ROG Phone 5 Series
Posted on 11-Mar-2021 10:38 News, Android
ROG unveils their latest ROG Phone 5, ROG Phone 5 Pro and ROG Phone 5 Ultimate series, the latest generation of advanced gaming smartphones.
Spark launches 5G service in Christchurch
Posted on 9-Mar-2021 09:11 News, 5G
Spark is continuing its national 5G rollout and to kick off the year, has switched on 5G in central Christchurch.
New Zealand mobile operators agree to provide more information to consumers
Posted on 9-Mar-2021 08:56 News, Mobile
Consumers will gain access to 12 months' usage information in an easy-to-follow format, receive an annual summary of their usage and spend with a prompt to make sure they are on the right plan, and have access to a comparison tool to help them compare and choose.
Hearing aids Oticon More uses AI to help people hear
Posted on 5-Mar-2021 15:34 News, Health
With more than 700,000 New Zealanders affected by hearing loss, hearing aid manufacturer Oticon is urging people to take action - and is helping with the launch of a device that uses Deep Neural Network trained with 12 million everyday-life sound scenes.
AMD unveils AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card
Posted on 5-Mar-2021 11:30 News, Computing
Harnessing the AMD RDNA 2 gaming architecture, high-performance AMD Infinity Cache and 12GB of high-speed GDDR6 memory, new AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics cards provide up to twice the performance in select titles than current installed base of older-generation graphics cards.
D-Link A/NZ launches new DXS-3610 Series Layer 3 Stackable 10G/100G Managed Switches
Posted on 2-Mar-2021 11:20 News, Computing
D-Link A/NZ has launched two new DXS-3610 Series Layer 3 Stackable 10G/100G Managed Switches, the DXS-3610-54S which houses 48 x 10Gb SFP+ Ports and 6 x 40/100Gb QSFP+/QSFP28 Ports, as well as the DXS-3610-54T which provides 48 x 10GBASE-T Ports and 6 x 40/100Gb QSFP+/QSFP28 Ports.
Intel and OEMs create Ultraportable Gaming laptops
Posted on 2-Mar-2021 11:09 News, Gaming
Intel's research reveals that nearly 40% of gamers want thinner, more versatile gaming laptops that are also great all-around PCs for work, school, content creation and personal activities.
