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May 22, 2012
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Jade Software, New Zealand’s largest software
company, has partnered with Australian financial services company
ClearView Wealth via its mobile platform company JOOB. Jade managing director Craig Richardson said JOOB’s advantage lay in its flexibility, and the company is forecasting $2 million to $3m of new Australian sales from the product for 2012.
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Video conferencing just got
easier
with the VGo, a robot launched by Asnet Technologies at the
recent Health Informatics NZ conference that enables users to connect
face-to-face with individuals in remote
locations. The process involves a user
speaking into a laptop webcam and the VGo projecting their voice and face
through its screen.
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New Zealand business LanzaTech has received
a US$3 million grant from the United States Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) to speed up the commercial accessibility of the next advancement in
alternative aviation fuel. Dr Jennifer Holmgren,
LanzaTech’s chief executive, said the programme would provide critical fuel data and
assessment of US production opportunities.
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Five years ago, Time magazine broke with tradition and named “You” its Person of the Year. And now TED is making history by awarding its 2012 TED Prize not to an individual but to an idea – the City 2.0.
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Christchurch-based Smail & Co, which compares its current business system to a long-drop dunny in the era of the ensuite, has taken out the Greentree Game On grand prize. Idealog columnist and contest judge Mike Hutcheson praised the company’s “bare-faced” cheek and irrereverent approach to its entry.
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If
it was all about manvertising earlier this year, with the likes of
Mantrol, Mammoth and Lion Red’s Manpoints all being launched around the
same time, Colenso’s new fully integrated campaign for Pepri including TV, web, radio,
Juice TV promo and even a brand ambassador, is probably closer to
boyvertising. While Bromitment is bound to appeal to its target
audience, it’s also sure to get the goat of those who don’t like
simplistic sexual stereotypes in their advertising.
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Victoria University student Roger
Wilson has emerged victorious in the NZIA Graphisoft Student
Design Awards, a design competition contested by the top
four final year students from each of New Zealand’s three architecture
schools. Wilson, 23, won for his scheme for a revived township at Denniston, an historic
West Coast mining settlement.
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A new report from the OECD and the International
Energy Agency says energy efficiency is the top priority for reducing
carbon emissions. The key message is that a transformation is required in the way the world produces, delivers and consumes energy. The report, Green Growth Studies: Energy,
says the carbon-intensity of the energy sector must be lowered and
decisions must be made on the future of the energy sector due to huge
global demand
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