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• Apple to crack down on game developers
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 15 April
  Following a clampdown on many of the practices used to write apps for the iPhone and iPad, fledgling game designers are nervously waiting to see if their creations will be accepted by Apple.
  Discussion starters:
  • Gaming design
  • Quality assurance issues
• From tantrums to app-y days
  www.stuff.co.nz, 17 April
  Few can legitimately boast that an iPhone app changed their life but for 10-year-old Grace Domican, unable to speak due to autism, the touchscreen phone has given her a voice for the first time.
  Her mother, Lisa Domican, created a picture-based iPhone application to help her communicate and the tool was so successful she is now trialling it in a school for autistic children in Ireland.
• Encrypt your Hotmail and Gmail
  www.stuff.co.nz, 20 April
  An Australian-developed browser plug-in promises to protect webmail content from computer hackers and block keyword-related advertising.
  It works by encrypting email messages at the user's computer via a browser toolbar. Recipients need to download a free version of the software - called Armacrypt - to decrypt messages. Emails remain encrypted while in transit and in storage on mail servers.
• Kiwi firm set to write new global chapter
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 20 April
  The Auckland-based business is believed to be the first company in the world to have created an interactive, touchsmart and voice-activated application of children's books for Apple devices.
  Discussion starters:
  • Conversion from print media to an interactive digital platform</br> • IP issues – copyright protection
• NZ joins Google Buzz privacy backlash
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 21 April
  "It would be better to have this as an opt-in - in other words, allow people to consciously choose what they make public. At the moment, it takes an extra step to protect your personal information," Ms Shroff said. Google New Zealand spokeswoman Annie Baxter, said she would get back to nzherald.co.nz on what the company would do in the future. Another spokeswoman pointed nzherald.co.nz to its privacy principles . The status-quo is not good enough for the Commission.
• Cellphones as learning devices in school
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 30 April
  Most schools have banned mobile phones in the classroom - but Howick College isn't like most schools.
  Discussion starters:
  • Characteristics of Technological Outcomes: alternative function
  • m-learning
• e-book service now live
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 28 May
  Readers looking for a copy of a hot new bestseller now have the option of turning digital rather than paper pages after the launch of Whitcoulls' e-book service.
• 'Anti-grooming' software can detect paedophiles
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 2 June
  Scientists have developed "anti-grooming" software which can tell young people if they are chatting to an adult posing as a child on the internet.
  Trials among pupils at a secondary school have shown it to be remarkably effective in helping them spot other internet users' real ages.
• Top 500 Supercomputers
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 2 June
  Seven ultra-powerful computers from New Zealand made the latest Top 500 list of supercomputers with list of supercomputers with Weta Digital taking six of the spots in the list.
  Discussion starters:
  • Alternative Supercomputer powers
  • Performance specifications
• 2010 World Cup: And the Winner Is …
  New York Times online, 4 June
  A goal by David Villa in the 61st minute proved to be the game-winner as Spain won its first World Cup title, defeating Brazil in the final of the 2010 tournament in South Africa... Well that's according to a blink-of-the-eye computer simulation using current video gaming technology.
  Discussion starters:
  • Computer simulation
• Anthony Doesburg: Fibre firms wooing backers for deep-sea link
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 7 June
  It's wooing season in the international telecommunications world and a couple of New Zealand wannabe undersea fibre-optic cable ventures are in the thick of the action.
  State-owned Kordia and Pacific Fibre, whose backers include IT entrepreneur Rod Drury, Trade Me millionaire Sam Morgan and Warehouse founder Stephen Tindall, are each trying to sign up customers for proposed new cables designed to break the stranglehold that Telecom-dominated Southern Cross has on internet bandwidth between New Zealand and the rest of the world.
• Yahoo ready to roll out Facebook facelift
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 8 June
  SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo's latest facelift will include a Facebook touchup.
  As part of changes rolling out this week, Yahoo will import personal updates from Facebook's social network for users who want a bridge between two of the world's most popular websites. The Facebook link will need to be turned on by each Yahoo user.
• Technology keeps farmers on track
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 11 June
  The Tracmap company, based in Mosgiel, Otago, develops and sells GPS-based systems for use in farm vehicles such as fertiliser spreading trucks and pesticide sprayers.
  Discussion starters:
  • Fitness for purpose in an agricultural environment
• Gaming movement technology levels the playing field
  TV3 Campbell Live video, 14 June
  A Christchurch gaming developer has come up with an all new way to introduce players to the world of gaming. Using locally-developed movement technology, it is levelling the playing field between the very young and the very old.
  Discussion starters:
  • Gaming technology
  • Nature of Technology: interdisciplinary practice
• German TanDEM-X satellite seeks 3D view of Earth
  news.bbc.co.uk, 21 June
  The TanDEM-X satellite has blasted into orbit on a mission to acquire the most precise 3D map of the Earth's surface. The German radar spacecraft will fly in formation with an identical platform called TerraSAR-X launched in 2007.
  Together, the pair will measure the variation in height across the globe to an accuracy of better than two metres.
  Their digital elevation model will have myriad uses, from helping military jets fly ultra low to showing relief workers where an earthquake's damage is worst.