What about the new iPhone 5?

Posted on 19th Sep 2012 08:29 | By Anonymous Author

Graeme Elvinof Mackenzie Elvin I love new technology and one of the latest releases is the new iPhone 5. I want one, my staff all want one too, and they want me to pay for it.  I know why my staff want one; they get a flash toy, music, camera, texts, emails, YouTube, Facebook, all that.  Of course occasionally they use them for work...

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New Bay business text service

Posted on 20th Apr 2012 16:28 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew NimickPoint Concept twitter.com/andrewnim During the weekend on which we held the Bay Of Plenty Mashup competition we were given the use of a text message service run by local Bay business startup Itext. The service called Vortext (neat pun) is aimed at helping smaller business take advantage of the use of mobile phones in today’s...

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Mashup a success

Posted on 2nd Apr 2012 15:56 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew NimickPoint Concept twitter.com/andrewnim What a fantastic weekend at the second Bay Of Plenty Mashup competition. I spent the entire weekend at the competition talking to teams, mentors, parents and anyone who decided to pop in and see what it was all about. Everyone commented on what a great event it was and what a fantastic learning...

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Mashup competition this weekend

Posted on 30th Mar 2012 14:36 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew NimickPoint Concept twitter.com/andrewnim This Saturday is the second Bay Of Plenty Mashup competition at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic Bongard campus on Cameron Road. We have 13 teams entered this year, which is a really good number from the BOP schools. Over 20 information technology, business and marketing professionals have offered...

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On watch for dirty words

Posted on 26th Mar 2012 16:46 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew NimickPoint Concept twitter.com/andrewnim I came across this list the other day. I had to look up one or two terms. The Department of Homeland Security keeps an eye on all the social media feeds, looking for key words. Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, some documentation pertaining...

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Programming in schools

Posted on 27th Feb 2012 10:33 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew NimickPoint Concept twitter.com/andrewnim This Thursday I attended a meeting set up by the Priority One Instep team. Myself and Rory Birkbeck were there to represent the IdeaShed and we were meeting secondary school teachers from schools all-round the Tauranga region. The meeting’s main purpose was to introduce the IdeaShed to the...

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Changing spots on the sun

Posted on 13th Feb 2012 16:55 | By Anonymous Author

Weather Eyewith John Maunder The ‘Maunder Minimum’ is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms’ on the sun – became almost zero.  The period is named after the solar astronomer Edward Walter Maunder (1851-1928) who, while working at The...

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What’s right about copyright?

Posted on 2nd Feb 2012 11:34 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim CopyRight The Right not to be copied The Right to enjoy ALL profits from your work Unless you have been ensconced in the bush for a few months you will have noticed that copyright is a big issue at present with SOPA and PIPA; we must also not forget ACTA. What you may not have realised is that...

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No trend for February rainfall

Posted on 31st Jan 2012 14:32 | By Anonymous Author

Weather Eye with John Maunder Rainfalls for the month of February have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898 (except for 1904,1908,and 1909). The graph show the range of rainfalls from a high of 343 mm in 1936 to a low of 7 mm in 1973. The long-term average rainfall for Tauranga for February is 90 mm. The graph show no significant overall...

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Emergency tech ideas – first-hand

Posted on 19th Jan 2012 14:57 | By Andrew Nimick

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim Some of you may remember a post I did way back when SunLive first launched as it is today, about the use of smart phones in emergency situations. My focus was on ambulance crew and doctors. Having been involved in a car crash last November and then ridden in an ambulance to Thames Hospital –...

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