Last week, twelve school students aged 12-15 from Te Wharekura o Mauao, a M?ori emersion school in Bethlehem, Tauranga, spent the week in
A Kiwi photography start-up is trying to raise $1.5m to get off the ground. Its plan: to take group photos individually. Can it carve
Loyalty schemes have two functions: data gathering and encouraging an emotional connection with your brand, says TRA’s Colleen Ryan. If yours isn’t doing either,
On Wednesday night, Kode Biotech won the Supreme Innovator Award at the NZ Innovators Awards.
Kode Biotech and its amazing anti-cancer treatment has won the Supreme Innovator Award at the New Zealand Innovators Awards 2015, held at The Cloud
In 2006, marketing commentator Michael Palmer wrote a post called ‘Data is the new oil’ on his blog. It read: “Data is just like
“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten once asked a bemused American audience at the conclusion of the Pistols’
The Reserve Bank has announced that New Zealand’s shiny new upgraded banknotes will soon be in circulation ($5 and $10 notes will start circulating
It seems like there’s an unending wave of innovative products coming out of the New Zealand tech sector at the moment. We’re making software
Since they first appeared in China circa CE 1000, humankind’s relationship with firearms has been a fraught one. As that problematic relationship finds itself
Idealog’s very own Biggles dons his flying goggles and test-drives a build-your-own helicopter simulator
Another day, another app, this time from former Serato CEO Sam Gribben. The app, called Melodics, aims to provide the means and the motivation
We live in an increasingly urbanised world. As the populations grow, and economies continue to move away from rural agriculture to urban production and
Enphase Energy is launching a national trial of a Christchurch and California-designed integrated home energy solution combining solar generation, storage and control.
As home automation makes its way to the mainstream, a system that lets you answer your doorbell on your smartphone or tablet is now
Kiwi company IT Power have created a fully portable data-centre housed within an ISO shipping container. The first, they believe, New Zealand-made unit of
The customer, they say, is king. But as the mobile revolution takes hold, and takes company reps further and further away from the office,
Skills-starved tech corporates pledge $600,000 to OMGTech!, the initiative started by Vaughan Rowsell and Michelle Dickinson to inspire kids to stop gaming and start
The emissions scandal at Volkswagen is one reason New Zealand should be taking electric cars far more seriously than it is. Environmental writer Andy
Baycorp’s acquisition by Nasdaq-listed Encore Capital is more about megabits than muscles
From Stuxnet to Sony, the US military to Ashley Madison, hacking makes headlines, but for every high-profile breach, there are hundreds more happening every
Loyal readers will know that I was recently 3D scanned and then printed for some unknown, deeply mysterious promotional reason.
Orion Health CEO Ian McCrae says lumping IT in with other “tech” subjects at school is putting bright kids off, and exacerbating the skills
Many were called, but few were chosen. From over 80 finalists and 63,000 votes, we're down to six in the final round of the
Police around the country have been cracking down on driver distraction this week. The Herald reports that Auckland Police have pulled over a man