I was in Wellington bar Matterhorn this time when the XT network failed. The first I knew of it was a text message from my boss asking if my phone was able to make calls, as she had been unsuccessful in calling me from her XT handset. Sure enough, a few attempts to make calls […]
MoreIf you work in or near the media, you’ll have heard the nervous buzz from journalists over the last few days about the depressing options facing Radio New Zealand if it is to cut costs and stay within its flat, $38 million budget. The Journz mailing list where a smattering of Kiwi hacks hang out […]
MoreIn the age of CSI-style crime dramas it is difficult to imagine a time when DNA evidence wasn’t part of any criminal investigation. But the first court case in New Zealand where DNA evidence was presented happened only as recently as 1990 and on the world stage, the first case involving DNA profiling went to […]
MoreGoogle’s corporate blog has already been the source of one jaw-dropping announcement this year – the internet giant’s promise to stop filtering results on the Google China web domain, risking its entire business in China. Now we have Google revealing plans to invest in a trial fibre-to-the-home network in the US that will reach 50,000 […]
MoreIn the days before the internet journalists the world over hoped and prayed for the day when the plain manila envelope turned up in the post crammed with sensitive documents sent by a whistleblower. When I worked on the Herald editing the tech section, such a bundle turned up one day and produced a front […]
MoreIn the world of medical research, Dr Andrew Wakefield is about as controversial a character as you can find. It was Wakefield who was behind claims published in The Lancet in 1998 that pointed towards the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine being linked to autism in children. His paper and subsequent statements to the media […]
MoreThe Herald on Sunday produces more evidence today of the perils of using your phone for email and surfing the internet while abroad. While making calls and sending text messages while abroad has become much more affordable for consumers and the charging schedules easier to understand, the same cannot be said for using mobile data […]
MoreThe Listener out this weekend, features an interview with Dr Nina Fedoroff, who was in the country last week talking agricultural science and genetic modification and covers the other side of the GM argument with Green MP Sue Kedgley also featured. It is worth a read, particularly the interesting side bar by writer David Lomas […]
MoreToday’s Taranaki Daily News carries a piece by Helen Harvey in its feature section looking at Sciblogs and some of its contributors. The feature isn’t online, but you can read it in full below… view full screen for larger text size.
MoreIt was fairly predictable that Dr Nina Fedoroff’s comments about genetic modification during her visit to New Zealand this week would raise the hackles of anti-GM group GE Free NZ. It was also ironic that Fedoroff, Hillary Clinton’s science and technology advisor, arrived just as GE Free New Zealand went back to court where Crown […]
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