Technology

Lake data goes national

Monitoring information collected by the Bay of Plenty Regional Council on lake quality is now available on the Land, Air, Water, Aotearoa (LAWA) website - one of... Read More

Grandfather's fury at Facebook post

An aggrieved grandfather will take legal action against a woman who posted to Facebook to accuse him of inappropriately touching his grandson. It could prove to... Read More

Technology improves efficiency & safety

In a New Zealand first, Waikato Hospital has moved out of the dark ages and into the digital with an electromagnetic tracking device. The unassuming cube of metal... Read More

‘Case-by-case’ for drone approvals

Operators of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) will now need approval to fly them over Thames-Coromandel District Council... Read More

Ditching the home phone

While people around the world are learning to live without a home phone service, it seems New Zealanders are slow to follow their example, despite the large savings... Read More

Scammers target Bay businesses

A targeted email attack known as 'whaling” is causing significant financial losses to businesses, including those in the Western Bay of Plenty. Tauranga Police... Read More

The future is now at Thames Hospital

The digital future for rural health has arrived on the Coromandel with Thames Hospital carrying out its first ‘virtual ward round' recently. Several rehabilitation... Read More

Internet outage raises questions

A cascade of power failures left internet users across Tauranga without service for around three hours on Sunday afternoon. The fault, at Chorus' Cameron Road exchange,... Read More

Success for new design programme

The first of Tauranga's newest digital media designers are all set to graduate, and ACG Yoobee School of Design programme manager Kevin Sharp couldn't be more proud. It's... Read More

New App for AIMS Games

Parents who have children taking part in this year's AIMS Games can now see how their kids are doing at the touch of a button thanks to Deb Posa and her team at... Read More

Bay engineer named as finalist

The Tauranga engineer who designed and built a kiwifruit picking robot for his PhD thesis has been named as a finalist for the NZ Young Innovator of the year award. Robotics... Read More

First stop NZ for new iPhones

New Zealand is set to become one of the first countries in the world to take delivery of the new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus after the devices were unveiled in San Francisco. Apple... Read More