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According to a new scientific study, conducted by researchers at the University of Utah, and published in the August 6th issue of the respected scientific journal Nature, the new and young New Zealand tectonic plate is slowly reaching maturity, benefiting from an unexpected source of help – water deposits locat... |
6 August 2009
20:01 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation announced recently the launch of its new Windows Mobile handset HTC Snap on the market in New Zealand. The new device comes towards users with a variety of capabilities, while being developed so as to fulfill customers' every need without overwhelming them with unwant... |
3 July 2009
06:26 GMT |
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Apple has posted new iPhone OS 3.0 launch dates on corporate websites like Apple Australia, Singapore, and New Zealand because of earlier-than-US time zones. Although Apple is falling late in delivering the software, iPhone OS 3.0 should become available any minute now, worldwide. Territories such as Australia, Japa... |
17 June 2009
08:36 GMT |
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The second mobile phone in the world to run under Google's Android operating system, the HTC Magic, will become available for purchase in New Zealand starting with June this year, exclusively through Vodafone’s retail stores, as well as online on the company's website. According to Vodafone's GM ... |
18 May 2009
05:14 GMT |
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Wildlife experts in New Zealand were thrilled to discover a hatchling baby tuatara in the New Zealand forests this week, officials announced on Thursday. The reptiles are highly endangered and extremely rare, and individuals haven't observed them in the wild for more than 200 years. Needless to say, everyone at ... |
21 March 2009
06:31 GMT |
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On Wednesday, a New Zealand resident handed over an incriminating mp3 player to American authorities, thus concluding a tense period for him and for the Americans. The man purchased the device from a regular store a while back, only to find various documents on it that were most likely left behind as a result of the ... |
29 January 2009
09:34 GMT |
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A New Zealand man was shocked to discover classified U.S. military files on a USB device he acquired from an Oklahoma hospice shop. The device, which should have functioned as an MP3 player, contained personal information about soldiers and equipment deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq.Chris Ogle from Whangerei, NZ, pai... |
29 January 2009
03:39 GMT |
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The hard-line anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd announced on Wednesday that it was ready to renounce its violent actions in the freezing waters of Antarctica this season, if the governments of Australia or New Zealand filed a case against Japan for illegal whaling, and asked for the termination of the country's ye... |
21 January 2009
03:18 GMT |
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The Bulgarian Interior Ministry and the Health Ministry in New Zealand are being confronted with virus outbreaks on their computer networks. The infections have hindered the normal operations in several departments. Bulgaria's Minister of Interior, Mihail Mikov, announced that an unnamed computer virus had sprea... |
12 January 2009
02:52 GMT |
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New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) announced last week that some areas of the country would most likely suffer the effects of a long-lasting drought, making this the second year in a row when people in the eastern part of the country are deprived of regular amounts of rainf... |
28 November 2008
10:23 GMT |
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While analyzing the extremely rare Yellow-eyed penguin populations in New Zealand, scientists stumbled upon bones that showed different DNA than they were expecting to find. The discovery led them to conclude that the spread of the new penguins, which are now also endangered, was favored by the fact that the Polynesi... |
20 November 2008
03:09 GMT |
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Australian & New Zealand residents and iTunes users can now rent or download movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, MGM, Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate, according to Apple. More information, including pr... |
15 August 2008
05:38 GMT |
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A hacker known online as AKILL - his real name is Owen Thor Walker - has recently been brought to justice in New Zealand. The 18 year old admitted to six charges of e-crime as well as to being the mastermind behind a botnet that led to damages of over $20 million and caused a Pennsylvania University server to crash. ... |
15 July 2008
03:05 GMT |
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Mobile users from New Zealand will be the first ones to buy Apple's new iPhone 3G on July 11. That's not only because the Southern Hemisphere country is where, according to the UTC time, July 11 arrives first, but also because Vodafone decided to start selling the handset come 00:01 AM on that day. Thus, ... |
7 July 2008
09:20 GMT |
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Religion has always had the weirdest influence on people, who went to war over it on repeated occasions (and still are), despite the predominantly peaceful doctrines the churches praise in sermon every week. But hey, if it'll stop a true believer that happened to talk the talk but failed to walk the walk, religi... |
11 March 2008
06:16 GMT |
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Owen Thor Walker, 18, a computer programmer from Hamilton, New Zealand, is facing up to ten years of jail time for allegedly being the head of an international cyber crime network. Additional charges brought against him are: accessing a computer for dishonest purposes on two counts, damaging or interfering with a com... |
29 February 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Oh boy, this is a funny one indeed. I always had a feeling that Bjork had more of a kinky side than most people imagined, but it wasn't until this weekend that we had confirmation. No, the singer didn't show up at a concert dressed in dominatrix gear and waving around a whip (perhaps that would have been a ... |
14 January 2008
05:29 GMT |
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A long time ago, it was only the main YouTube. Then, there was a YouTube for 10 other countries. A few days ago, YouTube evolved in two new nations. Today, the Google video sharing technology steps into New Zealand. Just like the other flavors of the product, YouTube New Zealand is supposed to promote the local conte... |
25 October 2007
09:48 GMT |
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New Zealand has joined the list of countries that had their government computers attacked and hacked into by malicious users. This is becoming almost a trend nowadays. I guess hacker schedule is something like: Sleep, hack a bank, eat, hack a government, go to work, take down a site, eat, hack a government, go to bed... |
11 September 2007
06:05 GMT |
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I'm sure many of you agree that spam is definitely a problem for the Internet because more and more e-mail addresses are assaulted by millions of unwanted messages sent from every corner of the world. Some time ago, the authorities from numerous countries started a powerful offensive to block spam and to release... |
14 March 2007
11:51 GMT |
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