Clever use of smart cards at Waiariki Institute
Waiariki Institute of Technology in Rotorua has rolled out smart cards for identity and access control, printing and photo-copying control and bus fares.
Stories by Ulrika Hedquist
Toybox: Sony Vaio pocket-companion cute but expensive
Sony’s ultraportable Vaio VGN-P15G arrived at my desk last week.
It started with a kiss
A trio in Auckland has built a photo application, called TagYou, for Facebook.
Fracture wins South by Southwest web award
Auckland-based design and development studio Fracture Media Syndicate won an award at the South by Southwest Web Awards, held in Austin, Texas, earlier this month.
Updated: TiVo comes to NZ
TVNZ has finally confirmed market rumours that it is buying a share in TiVo in ANZ and bringing the platform to New Zealand by Christmas.
Toybox: Noise-cancelling earphones for quiet times
I’ve been enjoying the silence here at the Toybox open-plan headquarters this week. Local audio technology company Phitek sent a pair of Blackbox C14 noise-cancellation earphones to test and they do actually work.
Now is the right time for developers, says expert
What makes start-ups successful and how should new companies deal with the global economic crisis? To find some answers, Computerworld talked to local experts, start-ups and companies that have seen success in the global market.
Trade Me rolls out network control
Online auction site Trade Me has rolled out an application control system to manage the demands of its growing user base.
Right Hemisphere joins PLM Alliance
Right Hemisphere, developer of visual product communication and collaboration software, has boosted its presence in the product lifecycle management space by joining the PLM Alliance.
Virtualisation slashes costs and truancy for school
Glenavon primary school in Blockhouse Bay in Auckland has rolled out virtualisation technology from desktop virtualisation company NComputing.
TelstraClear bails from copyright code talks
TelstraClear has pulled the rug from under efforts to implement New Zealand's controversial new copyright law.
Toybox: It's touch and click with BlackBerry Storm
Now we’re talking! Research in Motion’s first touch-screen phone — the BlackBerry Storm — is pretty cool.
Kill the trolls and keep tasks simple
To realise the benefits of crowdsourcing — outsourcing tasks to a group of people or a community — community designers need to stick to certain rules, says social media consultant Derek Powazek.
Swords drawn over Conan copyright
A local website has removed recordings of the Conan novels under the threat of legal action from the US, despite the material being in the public domain in New Zealand.
DNA algorithm predicts human behaviour
A company in Christchurch claims it has come up with a biological systems-based algorithm that can predict human behaviour.