Unless you’re a proud member of the Beige Brigade or a high school cricket coach you may not have heard about the Kiwi cricket smartphone app knocking the world for six. Kiwi smartphone app CricHQ, co-founded by former Black Caps captain Stephen Fleming, is forecast to overtake popular website TradeMe in the number of online [...]

A New Zealand entrepreneur has developed a smartphone app that can convert voice to text cheaply and in just a matter of hours. Alexei Dunayev’s app, Transcribeme, uses voice transcription technology to organise recordings of meetings, for example, into logical chunks, such as between breaks in conversation or with a change of speaker. The app [...]

BLOG: Do you ever wonder who’s behind the scenes while your enjoying watching a movie at your local cinema? Well, that’s the projectionist, which is actually what I do for my part time job. We frantically thread up the movies you watch through 35mm projectors before the shows are about to start, as well as [...]

Review: It has been three months since my technology-greedy mits got a hold on the white iPhone 4. Considering Apple made me wait 10 months for it after the black counterpart was released, I had high expectations for my new little gadget. Firstly let me get this straight. I love my gadgets but I’m no [...]

Young viewers are keeping their eyes on two screens at once with the “.co-hosts” on the new television channel U. TVNZ launched U on May 14, targeting 15-24 year olds. Every Monday and Wednesday night a range of .co-hosts go online to chat with other viewers about the shows airing at the time. Nick Baker [...]

The skies are looking bright for IT contractors familiar with cloud computing. According to the technical director for contracting recruitment company Crackerjacks, Frane Karaman, rising popularity for cloud computing is resulting in higher pay and more work for IT contractors. Put simply, cloud computing involves using virtual servers to store data and software. Karaman says [...]