Items filtered by date: Tuesday, 02 December 2014

Jan 16, 2018 - Tomas Izo, a lead engineering director in machine perception at Google Research, will be an exciting speaker at the biggest global tech summit ever held in New Zealand in Auckland on February 19 and 20. The event, Digital Nations 2030, is an international meeting coinciding with the visiting ministerial and business delegations from the world's leading Digital Nations and the D5 meeting in Wellington next month. The D5 is a network of the world’s most advanced digital nations.

Biomedical Services NZ Ltd shared approach offers model also to wider public administrative IT projects

Jan 16, 2018  -  Biomedical Services New Zealand is an enduring example of a public sector enterprise offshoot that shares premium resources and brings scale to the application of skills that are always in short supply.  It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Wairarapa District Health Board which is responsible for the Masterton Hospital.

Jan 16, 2018  -  Retail card spending rose 0.5 percent in the December 2017 month when adjusted for seasonal effects, Stats NZ said today. This is the fourth consecutive monthly rise in retail card spending.December 2017 monthly retail card spending up

Jan 16, 2018 - The latest NZIER Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion shows a sharp drop in business confidence following the General Election, with a net 11 percent of businesses expecting economic conditions to deteriorate over the first half of 2018. Business confidence had fallen in the previous quarter ahead of the General Election, and it appears uncertainty over new Government policies have made businesses even more downbeat.

Jan 16, 2018  -  Two additional hybrid models have just bolstered the New Zealand fleet of Avis Car Rental making theirs the largest fleet of hybrid rental vehicles available in New Zealand. The luxury BMW X5 XDrive40e plug in electric Hybrid SUV and Toyota Corolla Hybrid Hatch will sit alongside the existing Toyota Camry Hybrid.

• Scaffolding industry: It's 'more difficult to hire skilled peopl
• Hands off motorists’ piggy bank, Phil
• A decade without discs: The original MacBook Air turns 10 today
• Fairfax New Zealand Limited (Fairfax Media) will change its company business name to Stuff Limited 1 February 2018.
• Top Google researcher speaking at digital summit in Auckland
• Chatham has plans for new mining consent
• Single owner for Anzco
• Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will join 20 other countries at a meeting to discuss how to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
• Auckland Airport to sell North Queensland Airports stake for A$370 million
• Testing on Whanganui's new $39m wastewater plant begins

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Jan 16, 2018  -  January blues? Not a problem in Mojave today as VSS Unity successfully completed her seventh glide flight! 

Jan 16, 2018  -  OAG, the global authority on airline and airport data, selected  an airline that even travel agents may not be familiar with as No 1 in their  top 10 list of the world's most   punctual “mainline” airlines in the world (meaning reasonably major), each with the percentage of flights that arrive within 15 minutes of their scheduled arrival time.