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May 22, 2012
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Wireless car charging tech pioneer HaloIPT is off to the UK after being acquired by mobile equipment heavyweight Qualcomm. Its staff will now join Qualcomm’s European Innovation Development
group based in the UK, which will bdelivering London’s first pre-commercial trial of wireless
electric car charging starting in
early 2012.
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The government is certainly keen to prove its
commitment to science and technological innovation – its newest policy
will involve pumping $60 million into a series of ‘National Science
Challenges’ to stimulate R&D. As part of its economic development plan, National wants to invest in
public challenges over the next four years to find solutions in
anywhere from four to eight key areas. Science minister Wayne Mapp said the challenges might include how New Zealand can intensify
primary industries in an environmentally sustainable way; new and
cost-effective technologies for sustainable energy production; or producing a new generation of high-value foods.
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Kiwi
company Envirocomp, which specialises in composting disposable nappies, announced
earlier this year it had been acquired by the New Zealand office of
UK-based facilities services company OCS — a move it said would provide the
company with unprecedented access to foreign markets. Now plans to takes its ‘HotRot’
nappy composting plant to the world are firmly afoot, with OCS signing a sponsorship agreement with
Kimberly-Clark Corporation that gives the manufacturer of
the Huggies brand the right of first refusal to sponsor OCS’s Envirocomp
composting facilities as they are installed around the world.
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In an effort to shake up the “cosy duopoly” of DB and Lion, Independent Liquor is moving into new territory – the retail tap
beer market. Independent Liquor chief executive Julian Davidson said the entry of its
brewing division Boundary Road Brewery into the estimated $900 million
retail tap
beer market would see international brands such as Carlsberg
and Kingfisher available on tap along with NZ Pure,
the Boundary Road craft range and Wild Buck New
Zealand Ale.
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Kiwi tech firm GeoOP has topped off a massive year with a win at the 2011 Consensus Software Awards, which reward the
most innovative software in Australia and New Zealand. GeoOP was the only New Zealand winner, with the others being GuestPoint, Riskware and The Manufacturing Simulation, and was used by the Christchurch Student Volunteer Army to orchestrate
the completion of 4,000 jobs by 15,000 volunteers following the Canterbury quakes.
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An internet infrastructure mapping network and and
two wireless broadband projects have scored close to $50,000 in funding
from InternetNZ thanks to its Community Projects
Funding Round. And applications are now open for projects related to the Christchurch rebuild with a total of $435,000 available.
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With the Rena’s oil all but salvaged,
many might breathe a huge sigh of relief. But the saga is by no way over and if
anything, it poses some serious questions around the laws, or lack thereof,
that exist in New Zealand to deal wth such incidences. To get a little clarity
on the matter, we posed a few questions to AUT’s senior lecturer in law, Vernon Rive.
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