Privacy without a tinfoil hat
Everything in your smart home, from the lightbulbs to the thermostat, could be recording you or collecting data about you. What can you do to curb this intrusion?? Davey Winder looks into how to...
Technology
Pupils set emerging tech-idea challenge
Pupils set emerging tech-idea challenge
Modern technology and young minds might be key to such future innovations as self-navigating lawnmowers, virtual home furnishing and user-adaptable positioning technology.
1m books to go online for blind, dyslexic
1m books to go online for blind, dyslexic
Even as audio versions of best-sellers fill store shelves and new technology fuels the popularity of digitized books, the number of titles accessible to people who are blind or dyslexic is minuscule.
Overcoming apps conflicts
Overcoming apps conflicts
This year could be the one in which chief information officers go from zero to hero, according to Andrew Fox, head of mobility at SAP ANZ.
Mobile-phone app to help flat hunters
Mobile-phone app to help flat hunters
Finding a place to call home can be a tricky business for tertiary students, but two Otago Polytechnic computer whizzes hope to ease the burden as the great migration and annual student flat hunt begins.
Govt broadband move embarrassing backdown: Labour
Govt broadband move embarrassing backdown: Labour
The Government has been accused of an "embarrassing back-down" after ditching a controversial regulatory holiday for ultra-fast broadband (UFB) providers.
Rakon production set to rise significantly with new plant
Rakon production set to rise significantly with new plant
Technology manufacturer Rakon is to significantly increase its production from July when a new Chinese plant is expected to open.
Two-way TV for youth
Two-way TV for youth
It's always a bold move going into youth markets, but TVNZ thinks the time is right to roll out its new, interactive formula. The state broadcaster's new digital, youth-orientated channel U launches...
Technology helps scientists recover lost information
Technology helps scientists recover lost information
Advanced imaging techniques are allowing the recovery of lost information from key heritage documents, including the handwritten draft of the American Declaration of Independence, leading US-based preservation scientist Dr Fenella France says.
Correct time for adapting with geeks
Correct time for adapting with geeks
Social networks, Twitter and mobility are all technological trends that would need to be considered carefully by businesses as staff became more accustomed to using them, Gen-i head of mobility Joe...
Dunedin developer creates smart system
Dunedin developer creates smart system
Dunedin IT developer Hayden Bell has developed a software program specifically for "smart" mobile phones that could change the way users make real-time live bookings on internet sites.
Hobbit rally organisers cry foul over Facebook page removal
Hobbit rally organisers cry foul over Facebook page removal
The group behind yesterday's rallies to keep the Hobbit films in New Zealand is crying foul after its webpage was "arbitrarily removed" by social networking site Facebook.
New ICT strategy for govt agencies
New ICT strategy for govt agencies
Government agencies are going to have to tighten up the way they buy and use information communications technology (ICT), Internal Affairs Minister Nathan Guy says.
Digital strategy for Dunedin released
Digital strategy for Dunedin released
A list of 12 projects to develop a "Digital Dunedin" is part of the city's digital strategy, confirmed at the final full council meeting before the election yesterday.
Phone, email scams prompt warning
Phone, email scams prompt warning
People are being warned to be vigilant as government departments learn of phone and email scammers.
Samsung unveils iPad competitor
Samsung unveils iPad competitor
Samsung has unveiled a new tablet PC named Galaxy Tab as the latest device meant to rival Apple's popular iPad.
MySpace users can sync posts to Facebook
MySpace users can sync posts to Facebook
MySpace, which recently revamped itself to look more like Facebook, is now allowing users to sync their posts to Facebook, too.
Booking moves with times
Booking moves with times
A Queenstown-based tourism software specialist company is developing a next-generation reservations system which will manage product availability, send commissions and take payments, all linked with online communications.
Program's worldwide influence expanding
Program's worldwide influence expanding
A Jade Software Corporation product launched at the Port of Otago in 1994 is now being used around the world. Business editor Dene Mackenzie talks to Jade executives about the continuing growth of the company.
'Jail-breaking' iPhone is legal: US Govt
'Jail-breaking' iPhone is legal: US Govt
Owners of the iPhone will be able to legally unlock their devices so they can run software applications that haven't been approved by Apple, according to new US government rules.