It looks like 2009 could be the year when facial recognition technology will start to take off. The idea is quite simple - use the computer to match the faces in a photo against a database of known faces to find specific photos.

Research in Motion, the maker of BlackBerry phones, has finally launched BlackBerry App World, which is a one-stop shop for add-on BlackBerry applications.

2 APRIL 2009 - Funding of $9.6 million over four years has been awarded to a University of Auckland-led materials development programme that aims to transform New Zealand's manufacturing sector through partnerships between research and industry.

1 APRIL 2009 - Nearly half a million customers are using Vodafone's $1/day mobile internet casual rate but customers tell us they want more so Vodafone is launching $10/month mobile internet.

This week's announcement that  a Skype application for the iPhone will appear in the Apple App Store on Tuesday will begin to change the costs of iPhones.

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31 March 2009 - Recruitment website Change Agent offers Kiwi's the opportunity to vouch for their friends to help them into a new job (and get rewarded $2,000 - $12,000 for their good deed).

If you are reading this than you obviously survived the "Ides of March," but now you have to "beware the worms of April!" No, not the worms that crawl around in the Spring mud - but the worms that crawl around in the muck of the Internet and computers that don't have good ant

For the last month the Twitchhiker has tweeted his way around the world and made it all the way from the United Kingdom to New Zealand.

Technology and the law butted heads a few more times this week. For many music fans, their computers and cell phones will soon be silenced.