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May 22, 2012
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More funding will be injected into the science
sector to transform Industrial Research Limited (IRL) into an advanced
technology institute, Prime Minister John Key announced yesterday. Over
the next five years, an additional $120 million and $150 million will
be invested in IRL to see it become a high-tech headquarters for New Zealand.
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Google’s going indoors – one of its latest
features lets members of the public view the interiors of businesses
found on Google Maps. Shops in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch,
Dunedin, Invercargill, Blenheim and
Nelson, as well as Australia, Japan, the US, London and Paris, had the
option of inviting Street View photographers inside to snap photos to
enhance their listings.
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Health and beauty company Comvita has bought Te
Awamutu-based apiary Waikato Honey Products to increase its supply of
manuka honey. Comvita chief executive Brett Hewlett said the business would provide
it with additional supply of both pasture and manuka honey and would be
incorporated into the existing Kiwi Bee Apiary business.
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Capitalising on the mobile and online movement,
Reachmedia has released the next version of its catalogue viewing
platform, which effectively takes catalogues, resizes them and publishes
them in a Facebook environment and on mobile apps. In
addition, parent company Lasoo
recently added a daily deals department that collates a host of
available offers from the likes of Groupy, GrabOne and Cudo and also
moved its content to HTML5 to enable cross platform social and mobile applications.
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Getting the sustainability
message across isn’t the easiest of tasks, but starting at the grassroots
level seems a wise place to start. A new mobile interactive classroom is hoping
to do just that.
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TVNZ is out to reproduce the success of interactive, digital
Emmy award-winning, Ondemand-only show Reservoir Hill with a follow-up
along similar lines: a new spoof comedy show called Auckland Daze. With the tagline “4 male wannabes, 4 supersized egos, 4 your entertainment”, he
series follows a model, a stuntman, a dwarf entertainer and a stand-up
comedian trying to make it in Auckland’s ridiculously small
entertainment industry.
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The London riots, according to any number of televised bearded
experts during and since those strange and violent August nights, were
entirely predictable. But what no-one predicted, Vaughn Davis asserts,
was the way they managed to make the Blackberry cool again.
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Solar inverters aren’t new, but EnaSolar saw a gap in the market for a
product that was lightweight and more efficient in its design, requiring
fewer callouts and with easier options for upgrading.
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A product is nothing without good people behind it. And the best teams are lovingly nurturing, brutally honest (or honestly brutal) and devastatingly effective together, saysMichael Elwood-Smith.
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