6 April 2009 - The Governor-General of New Zealand has a new website that allows browsers to take a video tour of Government House Wellington prior to its closure.

A mobile phone application developed by New Zealand technology company Altaine (www.altaine.com) has taken out two awards in the worldwide MOTODEV Widget Developer Challenge.

New York - April 01, 2009: People Networks today announced that Bebo Open Mobile Messaging is now available to Vodafone New Zealand customers.

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).