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Te Reo no longer lost in translationFrom today you'll be able to use Google in the second of New Zealand's official languages.
Just go to the translations page on the web's most used search page, and in the middle of the list, which goes from Afrikaans to Zulu, the Maori option will come up.
July 31, 2008
Investor slams Yahoo management as 'pathetic'
SAN FRANCISCO - Billionaire investor T Boone Pickens has sold all of his holdings in Yahoo in a pique over the way the internet company's management handled sales talks with Microsoft.
Pickens told the San Francisco Chronicle that he sold all 10 million of his Yahoo shares at a loss, because he grew frustrated with the company's repeated rebuffs of Microsoft's advances.
July 31, 2008
Hotels forced to install internet spyware
WASHINGTON - Foreign-owned hotels in China face the prospect of "severe retaliation" if they refuse to install government software that can spy on internet use by hotel guests coming to watch the summer Olympic games, a US lawmaker said.
Sen. Sam Brownback, a Republican, produced a translated version of a document from China's Public Security Bureau that requires hotels to use the monitoring equipment.
July 31, 2008
Trouble word score: Scrabulous gets kicked off Facebook
NEW YORK - The creators of a Scrabble knockoff responsible for countless hours at the online hangout Facebook suspended their word game after being hit with a lawsuit, disappointing fans who logged on expecting to make their next moves.
Hasbro the company that owns the North American rights to the word game, last week sued the brothers in Calcutta, India, who created the Scrabulous program. Separately, Hasbro asked Facebook to block the program, something the site resisted despite risks of losing immunity protection from copyright lawsuits.
July 31, 2008
New Media reshapes the future of journalism
The convergence of Web 2.0 technologies is rapidly making its way into more traditional forms of media such as print and TV. This paradigm shift has caught some educational institutions off guard with journalism courses still sticking to the same curriculum that they had ten years ago.
Don Dodge from the Microsoft Startup Zone claims that blogs are going professional and replacing newspapers for insightful, fast breaking, news and analysis.
July 31, 2008
Secret Agent Clank
GamesEA hits bum note despite Rock Band successTrouble word score: Scrabulous gets kicked off FacebookPSP PG
July 31, 2008
Facebook prepares for the clone wars
In its bid to go global, Facebook is facing off against itself.
Clones of the wunderkind social-networking website - some of which resemble Facebook right down to colour, font and layout - have popped up in local languages worldwide.
July 31, 2008
Diversity works for Renaissance
New Zealand computer distributor Renaissance has reported its June year net profit rose 20 per cent to $1.46 million despite losing a good chunk of its business when Apple decided to sell direct to major customers.
The company is sticking to earlier guidance that its full-year pre-tax profit would be slightly ahead of last year's $5.2 million profit.
July 31, 2008
EA hits bum note despite Rock Band success
Video game publisher Electronic Arts posted a smaller net loss for its fiscal first quarter yesterday and more than doubled its revenue thanks to soaring sales of games such as Rock Band - even as it spent more on marketing and development.
Both the earnings and revenue figures fell short of analyst estimates, however, and EA shares dropped in extended trading.
July 31, 2008
Ancient gadget tracked Olympics
ATHENS - An astronomical calculator considered a technological marvel of antiquity was also used to track dates of the ancient Olympic Games, researchers said.
The 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism - with some 30 bronze gears - was known to have been used to calculate phases of the moon, eclipses and other celestial movements.
July 31, 2008
UFO-chaser extradited for mother of all military hacks
LONDON - Some call it the biggest hack of military computers; perhaps it was just a big embarrassment.
Gary McKinnon - accused of breaking into military and Nasa computers in what he claims was a search for UFOs, allegedly causing nearly US$1 million in damage - has lost his appeal against extradition to the United States.
July 31, 2008
Kiwi kids become online sex victims
New Zealand children as young as 12 are willingly sending inappropriate images of themselves to adults contacted on the internet, a conference has been told.
An internet safety conference in Queenstown this week discussing "complicit victims" was told of a 15-year-old girl who sent 300 photos of herself to an internet "boyfriend" she had never met.
July 31, 2008
Don't text and walk, warn ER docs
CHICAGO - The warning came too late for Barack Obama's adviser: Don't walk and text at the same time.
Obama aide Valerie Jarrett fell off a Chicago curb several weeks ago while her thumbs were flying on her Blackberry.
July 31, 2008
Net revolution leaves dial-up users behind
The gulf between dial-up internet users and those with broadband is greater than that between dial-up users and those with no internet access at all, says the leader of an international internet survey.
A study released on Monday by AUT University's Institute of Culture, Discourse and Communication, showed nearly one in three internet users were still using dial-up internet - a high proportion compared with other developed countries.
July 30, 2008
Only way is up for Kiwi-made jet pack
Put away the Gulf Stream and park your Lamborghini, the ultimate in transportation accessories is on the market and will be yours for just $100,000, if you are prepared to wait one year for delivery.
This is the machine that will really impress your friends - assuming you don't mow them down upon arrival.
July 30, 2008
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