Social networking websites continue to grow in use, application and size and in doing so are creating opportunities for new players in the market. The genre of website has come a long way since the early days of bebo and myspace, and while Facebook and Twitter appear to be among the larger and leading players, internet giant Google’s newest project, Google Buzz, which taps into this market, should not be written off as some critics More...

Tauranga man Ross Bendall is looking for investors to make his internet search engine called Kissit2 a success. The point of difference for the December 2008 launched Kissit2 is the very thing that started him on the search in the first place – the fact in English there are many words with the same spelling but different meanings. Ross Bendall. The major search engines do not recognise this, frustrating many internet searches. It was that frustration that started Ross off on the More...

One of the main catalysts for the advance of technology is traditionally military application. The advancement of flying technology is a prime example of how the stimulus of war greatly fast tracked man’s ability in the sky. But as society evolves there are other strong triggers for science and one modern catalyst is for search and rescue. SunLive blogger Andrew Nimick has observed that the mobile phone is one such technology that is More...

The computer market is immensely competitive and the next product to roll off the technology conveyor belt is likely to be equally as demanding when Apple produces it – the ‘islate’; as it is rumoured to be called. This would be the hardware business’ version of the tablet PC – a touch screen computer. For the full story see Andrew Nimick’s latest More...

Recession is one of the words that will be forever associated with 2009. Recession adversely affected most, if not all, of the sectors in the New Zealand economy and the internet was not removed from this plight. With falling advertising revenues and the associated fallout of decreased revenue leading to redundancies – online content quality suffered in many cases. With the economy seemingly recovering now, there is room for some dynamic More...

People aren’t learning too quickly about online scams and the good old fashioned ‘Nigerian letters’, ‘marriage proposals’ and ‘person needed to help unlock funds’ frauds continue to fool and upset people. To find out about which scams are the worst, see SunLive blogger Andrew Nimick’s latest entry, where he examines the latest report from the Internet Crime Complaint More...

Tim Holland and Ross Crawford had fans watching their every move as they flew two new light aircraft from Australia’s Gold Coast to Tauranga. The flight’s progress was tracked by a new GPS system in the cockpit called Spidertrack that transmitted the plane’s position via the internet. Caption: Tim Holland with one of the Jabirus he brought back from Australia. Tim says it was quite a big undertaking for a light aircraft, “We had to take a lot of safety equipment More...

Bay of Plenty based technology business Pingar is moving closer to obtaining a share of the search market after a public launch of its newest product. Pingar has developed a new method of acquiring search results using a pdf and so cutting down on wasted ‘browsing’ time. For all the information about the launch and the product, see Andrew Nimick’s latest blog. More...

Aquinas College student Daniel Collins has proved himself one of New Zealand’s top young inventors after he won the supreme award in the Bright Sparks national competition. Daniel Collins’ invention the microLOG has won the national Bright Sparks competition for 2009. The 16 year old built a device called a microLOG that records data from sensors which then transmits via Twitter to a mobile phone as a tweet. The Bright Spark judges were particularly impressed with Daniel’s More...

Telecom’s CDMA mobile network will be down for up to an hour early sometime Tuesday morning. Telecom says the CDMA network will be down for 30-60 minutes between Blenheim and Huntly, sometime between midnight and 6am. None of the Telecom public relations staff contacted would reply to messages this afternoon. CDMA (code-division multiple access) refers to any of several protocols used in so-called second-generation (2G) and third-generation (3G) wireless communications. As the term More...