Technology

A changing time online

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... Read More

Who gets fooled the most?

People aren't learning too quickly about online scams and the good old fashioned ‘Nigerian letters', ‘marriage proposals' and ‘person needed to... Read More

Watch out for that plane

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... Read More

Bay business tackles Google

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... Read More

Tech spark for Bay teen

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... Read More

Telecom mobile network to go down

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... Read More

Tga broadband speeding up

Chorus, Telecom's network access business, has completed a third of the work to enhance the broadband network in Tauranga. New roadside cabinets containing faster... Read More

Social searches online

The big news in technology this week is the release of Microsoft's Windows 7. Its release has been well received, with its main premise focused on simplicity. The... Read More

Searching simplified

Bay based IT business Pingar, is the only New Zealand company involved in the Microsoft show in Las Vegas this week. Pingar has developed a new way for a search... Read More

Rain threatens e-Day

A steady stream of cars has turned up at Baypark Stadium for Environment Bay of Plenty's annual e-Day. Volunteers helping with the project expected the rain to... Read More

I can see my house from here

The Bay of Plenty has recently leaped into higher definition on Google Earth thanks to a little known committee called the joint GIS committee. ... Read More

Tauranga 3D on Google Earth

The home of SunLive at No 1 The Strand is one of only two Tauranga buildings able to be viewed in 3D on Google Earth. The modelling is by David Johnson from VisualCAD... Read More