Today at 14:05:14 - TV makers are gearing up to launch 3D TV sets in New Zealand this year but overseas pricing reveals a steep price premium over existing models, with a family of four required to spend US$600 (NZ$860) ...

Today at 11:50:13 - Lost in a big city? It is a familiar experience. So imagine if you could use X-ray vision to see what was on the other side of the building in front of you.

Today at 10:48:00 - Some time ago, a fella called God is said to have declared there should be some light on the subject.

Today at 09:32:10 - A three-year-old US toddler has died after shooting herself with a loaded gun that she mistook for a Wii controller, media reports say.

Today at 08:39:00 - The Department of Internal Affairs has released its much anticipated all-of-government PC tender, which could lock in - and lock out - PC makers from supplying government agencies.

Today at 14:05:11 - In a world first, an international team of researchers, which includes University of Otago archaeologists Chris Jacomb and Richard Walter, has successfully isolated ancient DNA from eggshells of exti ...

Today at 14:05:11 - Science New Zealand congratulates the winners of the first-ever Prime Minister's Science Prizes - the Science Prize, Emerging Scientist's Prize, Science Teacher's Prize, the Science Media Communicatio ...

Today at 09:31:00 - A carnivorous sponge with 'lip-shaped' spicules has been identified from the dark depths of the ocean.

09/03/2010 at 12:12:00 - "The award of the inaugural Prime Minister's Science Prize to Dr Bob Buckley and Dr Jeff Tallon from Industrial Research Ltd for their work on superconductivity is welcomed recognition of the contribu ...

09/03/2010 at 11:15:00 - IRL Board Chair Keith McConnell today congratulated Drs Jeff Tallon and Bob Buckley today on jointly winning the inaugural Prime Minister's Science Prize

Today at 11:59:00 - Facebook users will be able to see where their friends are starting next month.The social networking juggernaut will roll out location status updates - showing where friends are in news feeds. A New ...

Today at 11:52:27 - BERLIN - A German woman has failed in a bid to force her country's government to halt experiments at the world's largest atom smasher which she feared would lead to the Earth's destruction.Germany's h ...

Today at 10:03:13 - SAN JOSE, California - Cisco Systems has announced that it is upgrading one of its biggest pieces of networking hardware, a router that's used to power the most trafficked parts of the internet backbo ...

Today at 10:00:26 - SAN JOSE, California - A Microsoft researcher has won the $250,000 (NZ$355,800) Turing Award, one of technology's most coveted prizes, for his work helping design and build what is widely considered t ...

Today at 10:00:00 - This is still Year One of the internet Age, and social media is an infant. We are in the midst of a great era of experimentation and unpredictability. At their first investor pitch meetings, the found ...

Today at 06:43:22 - Six start-up companies offering very different services will compete for a prize worth over $70,000 on Saturday, during the two-day Planet 2010 communications and technology conference in Auckland. Th ...

Today at 05:42:46 - Stocks on Wall Street have climbed as the telecommunications sector continued to steam ahead after Cisco Systems announced a new high-speed internet router. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 48 p ...

09/03/2010 at 08:32:50 - TelstraClear has launched a new 3G service for residential customers, headlined by a $20/month, two-year plan that offers 29 cent/minute calls to any national number, 500 free txts, and mobile data ch ...

09/03/2010 at 06:24:28 - Now, granted, Vodafone’s spin doctors don’t have quite the practice of Telecom’s at dealing with network outages. But when intermittent problems hit 16 Vodafone cellsites around the ...

08/03/2010 at 06:54:19 - State-owned broadcaster Television New Zealand is launching a channel playing New Zealand programmes on pay television operator SKY Television's platform in June. The new channel, called TVNZ Heartlan ...

Today at 12:20:13 - Rumours that Twitter will launch search-based advertising are gathering pace in cyberspace.

Today at 12:20:13 - Sony claims it has fixed a bug in the PlayStation 3 which crashed millions of consoles for 24 hours.

09/03/2010 at 12:20:02 - A New Zealand inventor has put a bizarre floating machine that can also take to the skies up for sale.

09/03/2010 at 12:20:02 - The Queen is warning that internet use has become an "unaffordable option" for many people living in Commonwealth countries.

06/03/2010 at 12:20:04 - Cabinet minister Ed Miliband has become the latest politician to fall prey to a Twitter scam that sees sexually explicit messages sent from MPs' accounts.

05/03/2010 at 12:20:02 - Millions of web users across Europe are being asked by Microsoft if they want to continue using its Internet Explorer (IE) or change to another browser.

Today at 18:43:05 - Space Exploration Technologies aborted a test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, in what was to be a key milestone in its quest to fly cargo -- and eventually astronauts -- to the International ...

Today at 18:43:05 - The directors behind the Oscar-winning animated short "Logorama," are moving into the live-action world -- but they aren`t going Hollywood just yet.

09/03/2010 at 18:43:04 - The massive cement expanses that dot the flat Florida landscape have been launching pads for history: the first US astronauts blasted into orbit, the Apollo missions to the moon and nearly 30 years of ...

08/03/2010 at 19:58:05 - Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has said that a Bill to amend the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, would make poaching a stringent crime.

08/03/2010 at 06:28:11 - Rhinos, one of world`s most endangered animals, are being farmed on Chinese wildlife reserves to harvest their horns for medicinal purposes, a report by international conservation monitors has clai ...

Today at 23:59:07 - AP - China told the United States on Wednesday to make stronger commitments on climate change and provide environmental expertise and financing to developing nations.

Today at 23:44:06 - Reuters - IBM has started a two-year research program that aims to make cellphones easier to use for groups including the elderly and the illiterate.

Today at 23:29:08 - AFP - Google opened an online shop for business software hosted as services in the Internet "cloud."

Today at 20:59:06 - Macworld.com - Students of the hadouken have a new venue to test their fighting mettle: Street Fighter IV launched Wednesday for the iPhone and iPod touch. This seminal arcade fighter brings high-end ...

Today at 19:44:07 - AFP - Conservationists warned Wednesday that Malaysians' voracious appetite for turtle eggs could drive the marine creatures to extinction on its shores.

Today at 23:56:08 - HELSINKI (Reuters) - IBM has started a two-year research program that aims to make cellphones easier to use for groups including the elderly and the illiterate.

Today at 18:11:05 - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The directors behind the Oscar-winning animated short "Logorama," are moving into the live-action world -- but they aren't going Hollywood just yet.

Today at 16:11:10 - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With shrinking audiences, deep layoffs and two management shake-ups, MySpace, the one-time leader in Internet social networking, has had a rocky year.

Today at 16:11:05 - CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies aborted a test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, in what was to be a key milestone in its quest to fly cargo -- and eventuall ...

Today at 16:11:10 - SEOUL (Reuters) - LG Electronics Inc, the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker, on Wednesday launched a smartphone based on Google's Android operating system in South Korea, as it seeks to boost its relat ...

Today at 22:59:08 - BehindtheBuy.com Shares High-Tech Products to Help You Unwind, Remember Fun Times

Today at 13:44:09 - Barbara Finamore, from the National Resources Defense Council says renewable energy is essential in the 21st century.

Today at 13:44:09 - Toyota Prius driver Jim Sikes frantically called 911 when his car speed out of control on a stretch of San Diego highway. Ben Tracy reports the U.S. government wants to know what happened.

Today at 13:44:09 - Peggy Liu, from JUCCEE, joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, says energy powers nation growth.

Today at 13:44:09 - China is Cashing in its Emerging Energy Sector - What Solutions Will Help the U.S. Catch Up?

Today at 13:44:09 - Listen to the 9-1-1 call of the Prius driver whose car sped out of control on a San Diego highway before coming to a stop.

Today at 23:20:04 - WEDNESDAY   GOOGLE NEWS @Gizmodo – Google App Marketplace launches   GOOGLE MAPS NEWS @TheRegister – Google Maps for bikes   GAMING NEWS @Engadget – EA Spor ...

Today at 05:23:13 -   Steve Ballmer is the last person you’d expect to big up Apple.   But the main man at Microsoft has been quoted as saying Apple isn’t that bad after.   In a speech g ...

Today at 05:07:51 -   There are now more than 27,000 books available as apps according to mobile ad company Mobclix.   This compares to 25,400 games published in the last year, followed by entertainment, edu ...

Today at 05:00:31 - The Samsung E6 eReader caused no end of squabbling among the assembled hacks at CES, as the great and good of the tech world tried to get a close up look of this slider-style eReader.   And US ...

Today at 04:16:02 - MSI isn’t shy about unleashing new slimmed down PCs and the latest one, the X360 has just landed. Packing in the usual top end specs expected from MSI’s high end efforts, it really does lo ...

Today at 20:43:05 - Satyam Computer Services, in its new incarnation, `Mahindra Satyam,' still faces the aftermath of what happened on January 7, 2009, when its chairman B Ramalinga Raju confessed to orchestrating India ...

Today at 19:28:09 - The US will start accepting the applications for H-1B visas, most sought after by Indians, from April one for the fiscal 2011.

Today at 19:28:09 - The proposed multi-year contract between TCS and the UK government for administering its employment savings trust has evoked adverse comments from some British websites.

Today at 19:28:09 - LG Electronics Inc, the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker, launched a smartphone based on Google's Android operating system in South Korea, as it seeks to boost its relatively weak smartphone line-ups.

09/03/2010 at 22:43:31 - Almost six months after its international launch, LG GD 510 has come to India.

Today at 19:24:03 - Catch-up television over the internet has proved hugely popular in the UK, with the BBC's iPlayer leading the way, but most households are limited to watching on a computer screen.

Today at 19:09:02 - With so many ways to find, and places to watch, television, these are rich and exciting times for viewers. Now we can build our own television schedule around the other things we want to do, in ...

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06/03/2010 at 07:22:00 - Cyber-savvy smokers looking to quit on next week's No Smoking Day can kick the habit on Facebook.

Today at 17:33:15 - The discovery of a genetically different population of Tasmanian devils has raised hopes for the survival of the iconic Australian mammal threatened by a deadly cancer.

Today at 13:48:25 - Waterbirds previously only found on Queensland's eastern seaboard are being seen for the first time by Gulf of Carpentaria rangers around Burketown in the state's north-west.

Today at 13:48:25 - Researchers have uncovered the courses of ancient river systems under the Simpson Desert in Central Australia.

Today at 13:03:20 - Tasmania's Department of Infrastructure plans to extend a bridge on the Brighton Bypass to protect an aboriginal heritage site.

Today at 12:33:16 - The Department of Environment and Climate Change says Newcastle felt the effects of a big tsunami 50 years ago, making it important to be prepared for any future events.

Today at 18:20:10 - AMD has launched an 'Open' initiative designed to encourage 3D innovation and lower high costs typically associated with the evolving technology.  read more

Today at 21:20:12 - Three individuals have pleaded guilty in a federal court to scamming the Federal Communications Commission out of over $2.5 million with organizations they owned that were designed to help people with ...

Today at 21:20:12 - One week after EA Sports head Peter Moore said that the company will shift more of its focus to fitness video games, the publishing giant has announced an official sequel to its top-selling EA Sport ...

Today at 21:20:12 - Sony today announced that its video content delivery service on the PS3 now offers download-to-own HD movies from all of the major movie studios. The list is comprised of 20th Century Fox, Paramount P ...

Today at 09:50:03 - Frakkin' sweet! Bigpoint and NBC Universal will be showcasing a long-awaited Battlestar Galactica MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) at GDC 2010.   read more

Today at 13:48:15 - A MAN has been jailed for murdering his ex-girlfriend after he saw a picture of her on Facebook with another man.

Today at 13:48:15 - SONY says it will start selling 3D televisions in Japan in June, aiming to ride a new wave of interest in the technology.

Today at 13:18:17 - A BEST man's wedding prank results in possibly the first-ever conception recorded on Twitter, but the couple may never know.

Today at 10:21:32 - SEX.COM, often touted as one of the most valuable internet domain names, is due to head to the auction block next week.

Today at 10:09:58 - WOMAN fails in court attempt to show how the world's most powerful atom-smasher could cause a "black hole doomsday".

Today at 10:01:24 - INTERNET giant Google is testing a new television search service with Dish Network, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Today at 07:50:05 - The 600-million (approximately Rs 4,100 crore) UK Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA) deal, which was recently awarded to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to administer the National Employee Sa ...

Today at 07:44:00 - Despite the wedding vows and drama quotient, Rahul Mahajans marriage on television with 21-year-old Dimpy Ganguly was unable to beat the popularity of Rakhi Ka Swayamvar, NDTV Imagines earlier show in ...

Today at 07:43:30 - Bangalore-based information technology (IT ) services firm MindTree has set up an ambitious target of becoming a $1-billion (around Rs 4,600-crore) company over the next five years. The company achiev ...

Today at 07:20:56 - The Internet was built on freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like Google and Facebook are finding themselves caught ...

Today at 07:17:19 - At a press conference in Kolkata, Alok Garodia, president of Compass, said, Around 58 lakh Pcs have already been sold as of December 2009 at the national level. We expect East Indias share to remain a ...

Today at 06:26:01 - The driver of a Toyota Prius says he was taken on a wild ride Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck, reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph on a winding, hilly portion of a southern California ...

Today at 01:56:03 - This week's Game Developers Conference shows iPhone is a top gaming platform.

09/03/2010 at 06:41:01 - Renewed violence in Mexican cities bordering Texas has ignited fear among nearby residents, some of whom have turned to social media despite cartels' efforts to limit information.

09/03/2010 at 02:26:02 - Social media are, by definition, supposed to be a social experience. Make a profile and start connecting. Reach out to friends, old and new. Post a profile picture, and while you're at it upload a pho ...

09/03/2010 at 02:26:02 - Police have arrested a South Korean couple whose toddler starved to death while they were raising a virtual child online, authorities said.

Today at 03:59:02 - Waters from warmer latitudes, or subtropical waters, are reaching Greenland's glaciers, driving melting and likely triggering an acceleration of ice loss, reports a team of researchers from the Woods ...

09/03/2010 at 11:20:00 - Hives exposed to pyrethroid pesticides demonstrated inhibited reproductive abilities.

09/03/2010 at 11:09:00 - Researchers struggle to explain the price drop associated with wines carrying eco-labeling.

09/03/2010 at 11:04:00 - More people around the world are moving into sprawling cities built atop active fault lines.

09/03/2010 at 05:37:00 - The Large Hadron Collider will be ramped up to operate at 7 trillion electron volts later this month.

05/03/2010 at 21:23:00 - Travelling by the Delhi Metro? With Google's new service you can now get on-the-go information about schedules, routes, prices and commute times

04/03/2010 at 05:31:00 - The project, a collaboration between the Delhi government and the Survey of India, aims to create a comprehensive 3-dimensional GIS for Delhi

04/03/2010 at 00:38:00 - A Delta IV rocket will carry the satellite to its orbit around 22,000 miles (35,406 kilometers) above the Earth's surface

03/03/2010 at 17:03:00 - Apple said HTC has infringed on 20 of its patents covering aspects of the iPhone's user interface and hardware

03/03/2010 at 00:04:00 - The C5 handset will be one of the cheapest smartphones from Nokia, selling for 135 euros ($183), excluding taxes and subsidies, and hitting the shelves next quarter

05/03/2010 at 02:09:07 - You might think that measuring the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would be a priority. If you did think that, though, you would be wrongIN NEGOTIATIONS on nuclear weapons the preferred s ...

04/03/2010 at 23:17:22 - If females must compete, evolution will furnish them with weapons to do soWHEN a species evolves traits that seem to have little to do with individual survival—bright colours, say, or oversize h ...

04/03/2010 at 23:17:22 - The earliest animal tracks yet found have been unearthed in CanadaONE of the greatest mysteries of the history of life is the Cambrian explosion. Prior to 560m years ago, animal fossils are rare. Then ...

04/03/2010 at 23:17:22 - How to predict the consistency of snow“THE wrong type of snow” became famous as a lame excuse in Britain in February 1991 when, caught out by a cold snap, British Rail blamed severe disrup ...

04/03/2010 at 23:17:21 - In "Signs of life" (February 27th) we said that the Square Kilometre Array radio-telescope collaboration planned to build its grid over a square kilometre of land. In fact, it is the combined collecti ...

02/03/2010 at 19:39:00 - On holidays men are more likely to get malaria and sexually transmitted diseases whereas women suffer from stomach problems, Swiss research has found.

23/02/2010 at 04:32:00 - The timing of recent attempts to cast doubt over global warming is not accidental, according to top climatologist Martin Beniston.

22/02/2010 at 19:43:00 - The experimental Rolex Learning Centre, the talk of the architectural world, has opened its doors to students at Lausanne's Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL).

14/02/2010 at 05:36:49 - A Swiss journalist marooned five days in a French farmhouse with access only to Twitter and Facebook says social networking benefits the profession - sort of.

12/02/2010 at 22:01:00 - Would you go on a one-way trip to Mars? A Swiss documentary looks at people in the United States who would do so at the drop of a space helmet.

26/02/2010 at 13:00:00 - "Week by week, cybercriminals dress one of their infamous creations in a different costume, VirusBuster's experts report. The malware Trojan.FraudLoad has been distributed in e-mail messages pretendin ...

25/02/2010 at 16:00:00 - "The number of active mobile subscriptions grew 19,000 to 10.95 million in January, the communications authority NHH announced. The number subscriptions per 100 stood at 118.2 at the end of January, b ...

12/02/2010 at 15:00:00 - "Bredolab, a malicious program which last flooded the net in mid-December, seems to have launched a new offensive, VirusBuster warned. The Hungary-based specialist of computer security is one of the f ...

11/02/2010 at 16:00:00 - "Hungary's mobile carrier Pannon has set ambitious goals in its 2009 earnings report published on Wednesday.

09/02/2010 at 13:00:00 - "The first month of 2010 was even more peaceful than the already quiet December, at least as far as the Hungarian malware landscape is concerned. The only surprise was the resurrection of an old worm, ...

11/02/2010 at 01:05:48 - The Czech Republic's first and only science centre has recently celebrated its first birthday. Techmania, based in the western industrial city of Plzen, has already demonstrated its pulling power bas ...

10/02/2010 at 04:16:23 - Dr. Helena Illnerová is a biochemist, and one of the top minds in the Czech Republic. She is involved in practically every major academic committee there is in the country, from the council of the Nat ...

10/02/2010 at 02:53:55 - The Institute of Experimental Medicine in Prague has made a potentially very important breakthrough in treating spinal cord injuries. Using stem cells on paralysed rats, the team has managed to heal a ...

04/02/2010 at 02:46:00 - Czech scientists working in Mozambique have discovered a new species of fish that inhabits the rain pools of the savannah. Types of tiny killifish are found in many parts of the world, but what is uni ...

29/01/2010 at 03:43:24 - As of Tuesday, the Czech Republic boasts new air navigation technology that will give the country's aviation an edge over neighboring Germany and Poland. The newly acquired 3D tower simulator is capa ...

07/01/2010 at 00:29:00 - The US Hubble Space Telescope has captured the earliest image yet of the universe, just 600 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was just a toddler. Scientists released the photo today ...

06/01/2010 at 23:08:00 - On Tuesday, Google took the wraps off what may be the worst-kept secret on the Internet: a brand-new cell phone, designed by Google and made by HTC, called the Nexus One.

06/01/2010 at 21:18:00 - Google has also jumped on the phone bandwagon. It has now launched its own mobile phone, Nexus One. This phone joins about 20 other mobile devices that already run on Android, the mobile operating sys ...

31/12/2009 at 23:20:00 - What caused Wednesday's fire at one of India's best-protected and most-renowned nuclear centres? Originally, a short circuit was suspected to have caused the accident. But now, it turns out that one o ...

17/12/2009 at 19:48:00 - Athena Gurno thought her allergies were acting up when she started coughing in early October. But within days, Gurno, the 30-year-old mother of a young girl, was in a Seattle hospital, close to death ...