2012-05-22 11:10:25 // Esther Goh
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As smartphones grow in number and importance, finding good data to back up marketers' understanding of user behaviour is paramount. Enter Google to the rescue with a new project on mobile consumer behaviour: thinkwithgoogle.com/mobileplanet.
2012-05-11 10:49:57 // Ben Fahy
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Countdown's upping the customer experience ante with the launch of its iPhone app that features a digital shopping list and barcode scanning technology, as well as the ability to check prices, find recipe ingredients, collect loyalty points and shop online.
2012-05-07 10:09:50 // Idealog
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Challenger mobile network 2degrees is slowly gaining market share with innovations like the introduction of rollover minutes on Pay Monthly plans, and today, it's launching a new feature allowing users to share data allowances between multiple devices.
2012-05-04 09:42:36 // Idealog
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Last week a mobile wallet trial in Auckland was announced with certain retailers and the HOP public transport ticketing system, but mobile payments on buses and taxis are already underway in Wellington
2012-04-30 17:41:08 // Idealog
Telecom, Auckland Transport and Westpac plan to start trialling a mobile wallet system from next month in collaboration with Gemalto, Thales and Paymark.
2012-04-20 09:57:12 // Idealog
Video conferencing specialist Asnet Technologies has launched a new tool for medical professionals – the Practitioner Cart.
2012-03-30 10:53:46 // Idealog
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Come April Kiwis will have ported 800,000 phone numbers from one telco to another, according to the New Zealand Telecommunication Forum.
2012-02-28 15:02:05 // Esther Goh
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Three-quarters of New Zealand businesses have up to 100MB of unused mobile data per connection left at the end of each month, and over half have up to an hour left of unused voice minutes.
2012-02-15 10:36:09 // Esther Goh
Assuming the world does not, in fact, come to an end this December, the number of mobile-connected devices on earth will exceed the number of people on it by the end of the year.
2012-02-14 10:22:10 // Esther Goh
Google is disabling its prepaid cards for Google Wallet used in some NFC phones – for now – following the discovery of two hacks that leave users' cash vulnerable.
2012-02-09 10:17:28 // Idealog
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Mobile operator 2degrees this morning announced the number of people using its network has climbed 50 percent to 875,656.
2012-01-26 19:30:53 // Siobhan Leathley
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Sick and tired of punks leaving their seat and sidling their way to the end of the row, disrupting your movie?
2011-12-21 10:14:15 // Idealog
Is Apple's bright light waning?
The latest figures from IDC suggest this might be the case, with Samsung overtaking Apple's top position in the New Zealand smartphone market with a share of 28.5 percent.
2011-12-20 12:37:40 // Siobhan Leathley
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The Tintin experience just got even better for fans – HarperCollins Publishers, Weta and Moulinsart have collaborated on an app to let viewers immerse themselves into Hergé's rich fictional world.
2011-12-12 09:48:14 // Siobhan Leathley
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TelstraClear head Allan Freeth says telcos must move toward providing tailored services as the data explosion gains momentum.
2011-12-12 09:32:11 // Idealog
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Upstart mobile operator 2degrees has made a complaint to the Commerce Commission following news that Telecom would be "sim-locking" the handsets of customers using its new Skinny brand.
2011-11-16 15:19:33 // David MacGregor
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Smartphones are no longer just for the upwardly mobile – and if you haven't figured out how to use them to your advantage, you need your head read.
2011-11-07 13:33:20 // Nick Churchouse
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Local startup uSnap.us, which provides a mobile and web application for guest-sourcing wedding photos, has been crowned winner at Startup Weekend Wellington.
2011-11-03 15:56:29 // Vaughn Davis
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Once the white-collar criminal's weapon of choice, the London riots have democratised the Blackberry better than any ad campaign could.
2011-11-03 10:04:33 // Idealog
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Upstart mobile operator 2degrees has unveiled the world's first Te Reo Māori smartphone, an IDEOS X3 that will go on sale before Christmas.
2011-11-02 16:03:18 // Esther Goh
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Your phone is already your calendar, your camera and more – and soon it could be your wallet, too.
2011-11-01 15:13:20 // Cath Winks
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The Herald’s TimeOut section has been reinvented as an interactive print product, leading APN to claim to be the first New Zealand publisher to launch an augmented reality app.
2011-10-31 14:33:39 // Esther Goh
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Sony Ericsson has teamed up with surf label Billabong on the Xperia Active, a partnership that's fitting given it's billed as a phone for outdoorsy types.
2011-10-28 13:44:43 // Esther Goh
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Injecting a bit of spice into the average Kiwi’s limited cooking repertoire is the aim of Fast, Fresh & Tasty, a new iPhone app launched today.
2011-10-26 10:32:41 // Idealog
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The Tongariro Crossing has become the first national park to get its own interactive smartphone app, just in time for the summer swell of keen hikers and walkers.
2011-10-25 10:02:38 // Idealog
Telecom, Vodafone and 2degrees have reached an agreement to let customers to purchase apps and digital content on their cell phone and have it charged to their phone bill.
2011-10-21 11:34:17 // Sarah Robson
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Better to get in first with the good idea, savings and all, than to be beaten to it, says Veronica Nobbs.
2011-10-17 11:22:48 // Idealog
The stuff.co.nz mobile team has triumphed at the 2011 W3 Awards in Los Angeles, bringing home not one but two commendations from a pool of 3,000-plus entries.
2011-10-06 16:27:51 // Esther Goh
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Struggling to find motivation to lace up those shoes and hit the pavement? Would you run faster with a horde of bloodthirsty zombies in hot pursuit?
2011-10-05 10:27:56 // Esther Goh
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Apple put an end to all the rumours today, revealing the new iPhone 4S and announcing release dates for iOS 5 and iCloud.
2011-10-05 10:00:19 // Idealog
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Increased competition in the mobile market has contributed $2.24 billion to New Zealand’s economy, according to a report released today.
2011-09-29 10:42:14 // Idealog
Microsoft and Samsung have reached a cross-licensing agreement, a deal that means the company will receive royalties on every Android smartphone and tablet sold by Samsung going forward and potentially in retrospect.
2011-09-22 14:35:25 // Ben Fahy
Kiwi app Snapr's photo sharing game, Capture the Flag, has captured the attention of some major Kiwi brands. Will it capture consumers?
2011-09-19 10:29:15 // Esther Goh
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Research has revealed a major disconnect between what devices Kiwi employees say they use for work purposes and what employers think staff are, in fact, using.
2011-09-15 10:01:58 // Idealog
Kiwis are choosing to make more cross-network calls and text messages following the the Commerce Commission's decision to slash mobile termination rates earlier this year.
2011-09-14 13:41:42 // Esther Goh
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It's generally accepted that Android is proving a solid challenger to iOS' grip on the market, and if Samsung's Galaxy SII is anything to go by, it's not hard to see why.
2011-09-09 10:18:10 // Esther Goh
Ovum is tipping app downloads in the Asia-Pacific market to grow by almost 200 percent this year, with Android's dominance forecast to soar to new peaks in the near future.
2011-09-06 09:09:09 // Ben Fahy
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When it comes to making successful branded apps, there are generally two rules: either make it useful or give it some novelty value. And, if possible, combine elements of both.
2011-08-31 16:39:02 // Matt Cooney
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While most phone makers muddle around in the middle, there's one outstanding performer – and one in catastrophic decline
2011-08-25 14:24:01 // Idealog
Not content with merely helping consumers get the best deal on electricity with Powerswitch, Consumer NZ has launched a telecommunications comparison website to cut through the maze of packages on offer.
2011-08-10 17:13:58 // Esther Goh
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Just a year old, Kiwi startup Vend has raised a big chunk of capital from Europe and now has its sights set firmly on the US market.
2011-08-10 13:53:19 // Esther Goh
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Remember Dot, the smallest-ever stop-motion animation? Riding high on the success of that short film, Nokia decided to give the N8 another workout and have a shot at creating the largest stop-motion instead.
2011-08-04 13:00:23 // StopPress Team
Auckland mobile marketing company Pocketvouchers has a bit of a spring in its step after signing deals with global payment processor ePay and local daily deal site GrabOne recently.
2011-08-03 11:13:21
Google's Android platform dominates almost 50 percent of the global smartphone market, with Asia-Pacific remaining its largest market.
2011-07-21 09:30:16 // Idealog
"Seek, and you shall find", the saying goes. And we're increasingly going mobile when it comes to search; the number of Kiwis using cell phones to look for jobs is up 60 percent, according to Seek.
2011-02-15 10:16:56 // Deirdre Robert
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How do you like your 3D? On the big movie screen perhaps? How about in your hand? Global electronics company LG is set to bring 3D to consumers in an entirely different platform, announcing at the Mobile World Congress that it has developed what it says is the world’s first 3D smartphone.
2010-10-15 10:42:43 // Mitchell Hall
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Derek and Geoff Handley created The Hyperfactory, a high-tech Kiwi business that competes with the world’s best, and in July they sold it for megamillions. Mitchell Hall asks what they’ve learned about entrepreneurship and dreaming big—and why New Zealand needs more like them. Plus: An investor speaks.
2010-09-10 09:36:58 // Matt Cooney
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Eighteen thousand kilometres from home, wandering through the 2,000-year-old ruins of a Roman city, Glen Barnes had a vision of the future.
2010-06-30 10:40:34 // Design Daily Team
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New Zealand might not yet have the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but hopefully Whitcoulls' substitute, the Kobo, will fit these Moleskine covers.
2009-09-11 10:02:11 // Matt Suddain
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It’s 30 years since the release of the Sony Walkman. Matt Suddain tracks the evolution of portable music—and the complaints of those who wish it would go away.
2009-05-23 13:46:42 // Jason Kemp
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Very few of the ideas at the Entrepreneurial Summit seemed that interesting at all to me. Perhaps its the different tech focused world that I live in but I did think asking the "usual suspects" for surprises was a tough thing to do.
Open Table is a start-up that raised US$70m earlier this week by fulfilling the simple task of making restaurant bookings easy to do. I couldn't help thinking that NZ could do plenty of projects like this.
2008-04-07 11:58:36 // Melanie Cooper
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New Zealand’s mobile-phone marketers are getting international traction—but they’re held back at home.
