Auckland :: New Zealand
| updated Sun Nov 22 15:12:56 -0800 2009
| technology-news
Residents of an Auckland retirement village now have a robot helper, thanks to new research into inexpensive robotic assistants for the elderly. Selwyn Retirement Village in Pt Chevalier, where its tasks will include taking vital signs and giving reminders.
Auckland :: New Zealand
| updated Sun Nov 22 03:40:48 -0800 2009
| technology-news
While hospital costs have increased by around 6% per year, funding has only increased by around 3% (through the ‘future funding track’ formula). It has been made worse by the senior doctor workforce crisis in district health boards because New...
Auckland :: New Zealand
| updated Thu Nov 19 00:37:23 -0800 2009
| technology-news
Health Minister Tony Ryall is adamant there will not be funding cuts for the health sector in next year's budget. The possibility has been raised after Auckland District Health Board papers indicated the DHB was looking to cut five to...
Auckland :: New Zealand
| updated Tue Nov 17 18:30:53 -0800 2009
| technology-news
Xbox Live Gold subscribers who use Facebook and Twitter will get stand-alone applications to allow status updates and tweets right from the console...Facebook streams and updates are visible for friends on the popular social network, and it's possible to compare...
Auckland :: New Zealand
| updated Tue Nov 17 17:07:45 -0800 2009
| technology-news
After years of phony war by the Vodafone-Telecom duopoly, real competition has broken out in the New Zealand mobile phone market with the entry of a new operator willing to throw disruptive pricing into the marketing mix. Add a regulator...
Wellington :: New Zealand
| updated Sun Nov 15 11:34:15 -0800 2009
| technology-news
Aids is not monkey business... Part 1/ Journalist, Bob Brockie, wrote in his column at the Dominion Post newspaper in Wellington, New Zealand, about 20 years of solid research made to discover the causes of Aids. There is no doubt...
Auckland :: New Zealand
| updated Tue Oct 13 06:16:20 -0700 2009
| technology-news
Announcement due on lab testing 13/10/2009 10:12:02 An announcement is being made today on changes to laboratory testing in Auckland. Some of the work recently awarded to Australian firm Labtests will be given back to the previous provider Diagnostic Medlab,...
Icann – the official body that ultimately controls the development of the internet thanks to its oversight of web addresses such as .com, .net and .uk – said today that it was ending its agreement with the US government. The...
Auckland :: New Zealand
| updated Fri Oct 02 11:04:46 -0700 2009
| technology-news
A day after Mr Turnbull threatened to quit if rebel Liberal colleagues refused to fall into line over climate change, the move itself appears to have fallen flat. While West Australian MP Barry Haase and NSW senator Bill Heffernan have...
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