FutureBrand has release their annual Country Brand Index, and once again New Zealand scores big including the most desirable place to visit in the world.
CBI, now in its fourth year, is a comprehensive study of approximately 2,700 international business and leisure travelers from nine countries conducted by FutureBrand, a leading global brand consultancy, in conjunction [...]...
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Windows Mobile was originally launched as Pocket PC in April 2000. It was born in an age when Microsoft was busy trying to tie everything to the Windows Desktop and cast a long shadow over every part of the IT industry. It was not long after that that the Windows wheels fell [...]...
As I suggested yesterday, the meltdown of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) was a very fishy affair. The outage was blamed on “connectivity” which suggests network issues, but as I suggested it did not sound plausible because it was not a complete outage, but very spotty services. This to me suggested a database issue.
Well today [...]...
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With Microsoft’s stumbling with the lauch of Vista has come a litany of stories about the demise of Windows as the IT industries richest franchise. However it’s death, if evident, will be slow and painful and will be a result of lots of small cuts, not a wholesale shift to...
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IPhone 3G Mania struck New Zealand at 12am (NZ Time) this morning as red beanie (touke) wearing yanks desend on Auckland’s Vodaphone shop on Queen St.Both ifixit.com and Engadget.com flew to New Zealand to get their mitts on lamburgers and Apple’s iPhone.
Engadget was on hand to chronical the world’s...
Sunnyvale CA based automotive devices company PLX Devices has created the PLX Kiwi. A variation on their multifunction gauges, it has an embedded algorithm that calculates mileage and suggests how to drive to maximize fuel economy. The kiwi score keeps track of efficiently you drive.
According to PLX Devices:
The Kiwi is a simple to use plug [...]...
Those of us who are used to the nightmare of upgrading and installing software on Windows will relate to Bill Gates 2003 experience when he tried to download and install Moviemaker:
I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack … so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went [...]...
For one otherwise entirely ordinary Auckland day each year, all Aucklanders are asked to capture a moment in their Auckland, in whatever way it manifests itself to them through a camera lens.
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The California Governor appeared live via a two-way satellite link to offer help to New Zealand businesses concerned about climate change.
He held up California as an example of how environmentally friendly policies can also be good for economic growth and employment.
Schwarzenegger was in good spirits as he pointed out the green tie and green watch [...]...
Colin Murdoch, 79, the creator of the disposable syringe, the tranquilliser gun, the childproof bottle cap and the silent burglar alarm died on Sunday after a long battle with cancer.
He was a pharmaceutical and veterinary chemist as well as an inventor. Working late at night at the kitchen table or in his workshop, Murdoch became [...]...
Vancouver, the Auckland of the North (: , has the Vancouver Sun and the Vancouver Sun has a lengthy article discussing how Kanucks can contemplate Kiwiland.
There are many things that count as luxurious. Caspian Sea caviar. High-thread-count sheets. Vintage Champagne. Gulfstream IV private jets. But the greatest luxury is that rarest of all things: time.
In [...]...
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Anna Coddington plays 3 tracks live on the Radio Wammo Show on Kiwi FM. Never Change, Hold You Here and What a Shame off her debut album The Lake out June 2008.
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Kiwi Super Model Rachel Hunter’s moggie now have their own dog house based on a southern Californian mansion.
The idea was that of builder Alan Mowrer and interior designer Michelle Pollak. Starting with child playhouses, they were so asked to build playhouses for people’s pets. They have since built country cottages, lavish colonial mansions and an [...]...
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When the Herald was given a chance to talk to Irish heart-throbs Westlife in Christchurch yesterday, this journalist stood aside, and long-time fan Kristy Lyttle stepped up.
Westlife, with 40 million albums sold and nearly as many number one hits as the Beatles, started their New Zealand tour with a sold-out show in Christchurch last night [...]...
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The Milford Sound and Queenstown have taken first and second place in the World’s Top 100 Destinations Poll taken by travel website TripAdviser.com.
TripAdvisor’s Destinations Awards represent the opinions of millions of travelers. The winners were determined by a combination of TripAdvisor’s travelers’ favorite places and overall popularity on TripAdvisor.
“Whether it’s for their unique beauty, or [...]...
Black Grace – a New Zealand slang term for courage and bravura – began 13 years ago as an all-male troupe with a South Pacific accent is taking North America (and Toronto in particular) by storm. The recipient of numerous acclaim from the likes of the Boston Globe and the New York Times they have [...]...
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Watch the animation in Day and Night of the proposed Memorial to one of New Zealand’s favorite sons’ and hero
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The Hamilton 400 was held a couple of weeks ago. Those of you who have grown up down up know of the 40 year old tussle between Holden and Ford that culminates each year at the Bathurst 1000. The series is known as the V8 Supercars. Unlike NASCAR, it has retained since 1960 the Stock [...]...
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Film: An Island Calling
Where: Royal Ontario Museum Toronto (Hot Docs Film Festival)
When: Thursday 24th April 2008, 7-15pm
Director/Producer: Annie Goldson
Rating: (5/5 Kiwis)
For other show times see Hot Docs Website.
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Based on the book Deep Beyond the Reef: A True Story of Madness and Murder in the South Pacific, Kiwi director Annie Goldson takes us through the story of Scott Family as well as colonial and post colonial Fiji right up to the coup of 2006.
Narrated by the author, Owen Scott, Annie paints a picture of Owen’s journey from his earliest recollections of family life in the islands, to the brutal murder of his older brother Maurice to his journey back to Fiji to find some answer and some closure to his brother’s (and his partner Greg...
Film: The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins
Where: Alliance Cumberland Toronto (Hot Docs Film Festival)
When: Monday 21st April 2008, 9-45pm
Director/Producer:Pietra Brettkelly
Rating: (5/5 Kiwis)
For other show times see Hot Docs Website.
When we talk about Africa and in particular the current civil war(s) that rage on the continent, we inevitably build a framework around our thinking based largely on years of the western media monochromic view of the region. In “The Art Star and the Sudan Twins” Performance Artist Vanessa Beecroft travels to the Sudan initially to build her own political statement but is quickly consumed with adopting two “orphan” twins and take them back to the comfort of her Long Island existence.
Vanessa encapsulates this western framework in her...
Quintessential Kiwibloke Sam Neil is profiled this week in Time Magazine along with his vineyards in the Otago province of the South Island. Sam’s biggest achievements were Jurassic Park, Hunt for Red October and The Piano.
Back in his native New Zealand, this son of three generations of importers of French vintages planted his first five [...]...
Over the last two weeks on my travels in the South West, I have met about 10 people who have either been to New Zealand, intend to travel to New Zealand or have a niece who won’t come home from New Zealand. Our good friends at the Melbourne Age have a blog/promotion called TrampaboutNZ (Note: [...]...
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This week’s music is strictly from Down Under, the home of the Finn Brothers, Dave Dobbyn’s DD Smash, Middle Earth and Lucy Lawless aka Xena Warrior Princess.
The first song this week is from dDub of Auckland New Zealand called Comfort.
If you love the sound of The Specials or Madness you will love this track. dDub [...]...