The United States Government has put forward a proposal that allows procurement of scarce yarn, textiles and apparels from countries that are not signatories to the planned Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. Addressing the ...
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New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra has opened Sri Lanka's first solar powered milk chilling centre. The Hanwella-based facility, which officially opened this week, has been designed to conserve around 22,000 kW per year. The centre, which ...
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A year to the day after his Megaupload sites were shuttered by the U.S. Department of Justice for copyright infringement, Kim Dotcom will launch a new file-sharing site offering 50GB of free space to members. Dotcom posted the ...
Kim Dotcom has apologised to users of his new website, Mega, for the "poor service quality". The new "legal" cloud storage website went live in New Zealand at 6.48am local time on Sunday and Dotcom threw a huge launch party at his ...
While the world’s online sharing community is excited about Kim Dotcom’s bold new venture, the file-storage and sharing service Mega, it is already drawing criticism from security researchers, who advise not to trust it. The ...
For the first time in Australia and New Zealand, value chain professionals can in 2013 compete globally against fellow professionals in a unique and innovative learning format. The Fresh Connection Global Challenge is in 2013 offering an ...
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US-based stevia extracts producer Sweet Green Fields announced that it has achieved a patent in Japan for the high purity extraction process, the Fast Precipitation Process (FPP). The company noted that its extraction process draws ...
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The Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has released details of recalled Jindi cheeses. The recall, which involves a variety of brands sold in different packaging, follows the finding that more cases of illness had been linked to ...
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Toyota Australia has begun shipping its locally produced engines to Thailand and Malaysia, growing its export program to new markets following the opening of its brand-new Altona engine plant in Victoria. Both hybrid and conventional ...
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New Zealand - Ten years ago, the first of many copies of LightFactory, the PC-based control system, was put on sale. Founder and CEO Martin Searancke developed LightFactory out of a passion for the industry and a knack for writing code. ...
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Kim Dotcom hit headlines last year when his Auckland mansion was raided by police and his business, the much-loved Megaupload, was shut down by US authorities. Twelve months later, Dotcom and his co-accused from the Megaupload site took ...
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Kim Dotcom, the man behind the now defunct file-sharing site Megaupload, has launched a new service called Mega. Like Megaupload, which was shut down following polie raids on Dotcom's New Zealand mansion in January 2012, Mega is a web ...
Tags: Kim Dotcom, file-sharing, Megaupload
Jindi Cheese Co is recalling all cheeses produced before 7 January following an outbreak of Listeria infections that has been linked to the company. Officials at Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) said late last week that 18 ...
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Indicted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom launched a new file-sharing website today, promising users amped-up privacy levels in a defiant move against the US prosecutors who accuse him of facilitating massive online piracy. The colourful ...
Over 800 of the companies at Nuremberg choose not to exhibit at any other toy show. And, with over 2,700 exhibitors in total, it's an event that you simply can't afford to miss. Samantha Loveday takes a look at what we can expect from the ...
Tags: Toy Fair, toy, toy industry