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- One way to crack a coder shortage: Ever tried to get hold of a professional who can write computer code? Such ... bit.ly/148Tngl 3 days ago
- National Science Challenge winners underwhelm: There’s only one word really to describe the winners of the Nat... bit.ly/13VCjdn 6 days ago
- Email sales tool allows companies to ‘dress to impress’: On the face of it, creating clever emails with embedd... bit.ly/12LLXMH 1 week ago
- Problemsourcing initiative gets the academic once-over: Open innovation and crowdsourcing are two relatively r... bit.ly/15H3zj5 3 weeks ago
- The Power of Un-Location gets an airing: Toby Ruckert of Unified Inbox had an interesting blog recently – demo... bit.ly/17eZor6 1 month ago
Category Archives: IT
One way to crack a coder shortage
Ever tried to get hold of a professional who can write computer code? Such is the shortage, that a recent would-be returning ex-pat Kiwi, who knew how to program, put out a general inquiry through WellRailed if anyone in Wellington … Continue reading
Posted in cloud computing, Development, education, IT, SciBlogs, technology
Tagged Chalkle, Joshua Vial, Ruby
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The Power of Un-Location gets an airing
Toby Ruckert of Unified Inbox had an interesting blog recently – demonstrating what he has called the Power of Un-Location. (sticK had a blog on an earlier version of Unified Inbox here.) For a brief period while in Shanghai, he … Continue reading
Posted in cloud computing, Entrepreneur, Innovation, IT, SciBlogs, sustainability, technology
Tagged disconnecting, Toby Ruckert, Unified Inbox
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Lightning Labs shows off its first flowers of startup blooming
Lightning Labs, a lean startup hub of selected neophyte companies located for three months on Wellington’s The Terrace, gave a ‘where we’re at, what we’ve learned’ quickfire talks recently. The fullhouse (dozens on the waiting list), heard how the nine … Continue reading
Posted in Angel investment, Development, Entrepreneur, high tech, Innovation, IT, Market validation, SciBlogs, start-up, technology
Tagged Lightning Labs
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Little school thinks bearly big
“And the prize for the best use of social media and punching well above its weight goes to,”….drum roll….”Koputoroa Primary School”. This 170 pupil country school, seven kilometres north of Levin on the Kapiti Coast deserves heaps of praise, alongside … Continue reading
Posted in education, Entrepreneur, high tech, Innovation, IT, SciBlogs, Science, technology
Tagged Koputaroa Primary School, Teddy Bears holiday
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Getting to grips with multicore’s hugely disruptive technology – an opportunity for NZ Inc
There was some serious brainpower assembled at the recent Multicore World 2013 conference in Wellington. Some of the subject matter was way-beyond the once over lightly understanding that I have of computers and computing. But the clear message was that … Continue reading
Posted in cloud computing, Entrepreneur, high tech, Innovation, IT, open source, SciBlogs, technology
Tagged Ian Foster, Nicolas Erdody, Open Parallel, Poul-Henning Kamp
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Wellington Startup Weekend well pitched
According to John Holt, the brainchild behind the San Francisco located Kiwi Landing Pad, the final pitch presentations at the Wellington Startup Weekend were better than 75% of those he’s seen in the USA. Given that those State-side entrepreneurs are … Continue reading
Australian Gene Patent Held Valid: Patent is for Isolated Nucleic Acid, not for Information Per Se
By guest blogger Doug Calhoun In a decision: delivered on 15 February 2013, nearly a year after the oral hearing, Federal Court of Australia Justice John Nicholas held that the Myriad Genetics patent for “An isolated nucleic acid coding for … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, IT, Patent, SciBlogs, technology
Tagged Doug Calhoun, gene patent
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Personalised time/place knowledge goal of ThunderMaps
Location-based intelligence is one of the up-and-coming applications of all things mobile. Wellington-based startup ThunderMaps reckons it has a solution to a problem – individuals and organisations having geo-knowledge that is valuable to others, but having no practical way of … Continue reading
TIN100 again proves it is the meat of an innovation club sandwich
One way to consider the value of the TIN100 report is to consider what things would be like if it didn’t exist. The almost 200 colour page report on the NZ-owned top 100 (well 200 if you count the additional … Continue reading
Posted in cloud computing, Entrepreneur, high tech, Innovation, IT, SciBlogs, Science, sustainability, technology
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Location-based intelligence industry a hidden NZ gem
It’s one of those ‘hidden’ industries, ripe for an explosion in growth with the increasing use of smart phones and tablets, of which Joe Public is mostly unaware. One of its (self-aware) challenges is its name – geospatial – which … Continue reading
Posted in high tech, Innovation, IT, Prototyping, SciBlogs, technology
Tagged geospatial, location-based intelligence, Mike Donald, Terralink
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