News: Toshiba Announces Sleek Consumer Line-up

Posted on February 6th, 2012

Unveiled today by Toshiba (New Zealand) Pty Limited, the range boasts a number of new, high-performance treats, including the latest …full story

News: Kiwi IT Firm Joins Top NZ Companies on German Stock Exchange

Posted on February 3rd, 2012

A Kiwi company founded in a bedroom eight years ago with just $10 start-up capital has now been listed on …full story

BlackBerry Curve 9360 now available in New Zealand

Sleek, fast and easy-to-use, the Blackberry Curve 9360

delivers powerful social experiences and best in class communications.

 

Research In Motion (RIM) today announced that the BlackBerry Curve 9360 is now available in New Zealand.

Adele Beachley, Managing Director for New Zealand at RIM commented, “The BlackBerry Curve 9360 is a great choice for consumers who love to stay connected as well as business users who want access to BlackBerry’s best-in-class email, messaging, social apps and web browsing. This smartphone features the new BlackBerry 7 operating system, great performance enhancements, increased social connectivity, a 5MP camera and more. The Curve family of smartphones has always been popular and we think New Zealand users will be very pleased with the addition of this new model.”

The new BlackBerry Curve smartphone is slim, stylish and simply beautiful. It is ergonomically designed with a comfortable and iconic keyboard for fast, accurate typing and an optical trackpad for easy, one-handed navigation. GPS and Wi-Fi support are also included, as well as a 5MP camera with flash and video recording so that memories can be captured and instantly shared on ...full story

Posted by Karen on January 19th, 2012 in News | | Tags: , , ,

Four Ricoh products win the prestigious German “iF product design award 2012″

Four new products from Ricoh — the Ricoh Unified Communication System P3000, and the compact digital cameras GR DIGITAL IV, CX6, and RICOH PX — came out as winners of the “iF Product Design Award” at the “iF Design Award 2012.” This prestigious annual international design award ceremony is held by iF International Forum Design GmbH at Hanover in Germany.

The iF Design Award is a leading design award that has been presented by iF International Forum Design GmbH since 1953 to industrial products from all over the world that display superior design. Each year there are many applicants for this award. The winning products are selected from four categories: “product,” “communication,” “material” and “packaging.” Award winners are highly esteemed as products with a superior design that is recognized internationally. One of these awards, the “iF Product Design Award” evaluates not only superior originality and innovation in design, but also considers the functional aspects of the product, including ease of use, quality and environmental friendliness. This year, there were a total of 4,322 applicants from 48 countries from all over the world. Out of these, 1,218 products received awards after a rigorous examination.

 

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Posted by Karen on January 18th, 2012 in News | | Tags: , ,

Get the Party started this holiday season with Sony

Make the most of your music with Sony and Party Streaming. Now with a variety of Sony Products and Sony’s unique Party Streaming feature you can stream your music to other speakers or audio players and to different rooms in the house. Music becomes more social again with Sony!

What is Party Streaming?
Imagine having your entire music collection on your computer but being able to play all that music through a high-quality sound speaker without the need to attach it with long, trailing wires. That, in essence is what Party Streaming is.

You can even play the same song on another speaker or Hi-Fi system in another room and control both at the same time! Now hosting a party is easy, just set up some speakers in each room and control all the music in the house with one device.

The kids like pop but you like rock? Simple, with the room-by-room mode you can play different songs on different speakers throughout the house. It also means you can control how loud your kids’ music is!!

To make the most of Sony’s unique Party ...full story

Posted by Karen on December 20th, 2011 in News | | Tags: , , ,

Kingston’s Smallest USB Flash Drive DataTraveler Micro

Kingston, the independent world leader in memory products, today announced the launch of the DataTraveler Micro – one of the world’s smallest USB Flash drives. The DataTraveler Micro is designed in an ultra-small form factor that can be left in devices such as tablet PCs, slim notebooks, netbooks or car audio systems while on the move. The drive’s light weight and compact size easily adds up to 16GB of extra storage to a device without increasing its footprint. It is simple to use and just needs to be connected to any device with a USB port. DataTraveler Micro blends in easily without blocking other controls and is simple to use for storing, transferring and sharing photos, videos, music and other favorite files while on the move.

“Kingston’s DataTraveler Micro is a versatile USB Flash drive that is perfect for use with different devices such as tablets that have a USB port or in slim notebooks. Due to its small size, it is also convenient to be left plugged in while on the go,” said Nathan Su, Flash Memory Sales Director, APAC Region, Kingston.

Available in 8GB and 16GB, ...full story

Posted by Karen on December 19th, 2011 in News | | Tags: , ,

Apple’s Mac App Store Downloads Top 100 Million

Apple today announced that over 100 million apps have been downloaded from the Mac App Store in less than one year. With thousands of free and paid apps, the Mac App Store brings the App Store experience to the Mac so you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes account, and download and install them in just one step. Apple revolutionised the app industry with the App Store, which now has more than 500,000 apps and where customers have downloaded more than 18 billion apps and continue to download more than 1 billion apps per month.

“In just three years the App Store changed how people get mobile apps, and now the Mac App Store is changing the traditional PC software industry,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “With more than 100 million downloads in less than a year, the Mac App Store is the largest and fastest growing PC software store in the world.”

“With Autodesk products in both the App Store and Mac App Store, we can reach hundreds of millions of Apple users around the world,” said Amar Hanspal, senior vice president of Platform Solutions and Emerging ...full story

Posted by Karen on December 16th, 2011 in News | | Tags: , ,

Q Speakers – Review

Designing something so stunning that a global fashion magnate decides to sell it in their outlets in Paris, New York, and London is a dream come true for a Kiwi entrepreneur, and this is exactly what  went down with Auckland-based Q speakers.

It isn’t terribly hard to see why Q Speakers’ striking design caught Ralph Lauren’s eye. Un-boxing the review unit had me emitting an involuntary “oh wow”. That visitors to Casa Pilcher have also been stopped in their tracks says volumes about the striking design statement made by Q’s rather stunning speaker. Even better, the Qs actually sound better than they look.

Rather than opting for a traditional left and right speaker design, the folks at Q have cleverly crafted a single sound bar design complete with an integrated class-D digital amp. So not only is it an ideal solution for apartment dwellers who simply don’t have the space to spare for the usual bog-standard two-speaker cabinet setup, but it’s also sufficiently stylie that they’ll want to locate it where it can be seen.

Overall, Q is definitely different. Take its driver units for instance. The only ...full story

Posted by Tone on November 3rd, 2011 in Hi-Fi | | Tags: , , , , ,
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