Expand The amount of crime is escalating in Wellington. Photo / NZ Herald Police say robberies in Wellington have spiked and have appealed for public after at least four incidents in the past three days. On Monday, a man held up a Newlands dairy with a knife, escaping with cigarettes. Yesterday an Auckland couple was [...]
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Glassie abuser jailed again
Posted by admin on February 21st, 2012
Expand File photo / NZ Herald One of the men jailed for abusing Rotorua’s Nia Glassie has been sentenced to a further six months’ jail on charges, including drink driving and breaking into a dairy. Michael Paul Pearson, 23, appeared in the Rotorua District Court yesterday after pleading guilty to a charge each of burglary, [...]
Woman, 18, in court over Hayden Miles murder
Posted by admin on February 21st, 2012
Christchurch teenager Hayden Miles. Photo / Supplied An 18 year-old woman accused of helping the man charged with the murder of Christchurch teenager Hayden Miles to evade police was back in court today. A judge this morning continued a name suppression order on the advice of a medical report. The unemployed woman is charged with [...]
Steve Jobs returns to stage on iCloud
Posted by admin on June 19th, 2011
Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs strode back into the spotlight on Monday to unveil the iCloud, a music-streaming service that the company hopes will power its next stage of growth and popularise web-based consumer services. A still thin-looking Jobs walked out to a standing ovation from the more than 5,000 Apple faithful at its Worldwide [...]
Smart steps to counter rising home loan rate
Posted by admin on June 19th, 2011
Today, most home buyers are reeling under the weight of increase in their home loan interest rates or loan tenure. Take for example, the instance of Mukherjee who availed of home loan of Rs 1,15,00,000 at the interest rate of 9.75 per cent in May 2009. His EMI was 1,09,079 for a 240 months period. [...]
Stalemate continues: Maruti sacks 11 workers at Manesar plant
Posted by admin on June 19th, 2011
The country?s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) today sacked 11 employees at its Manesar facility for inciting others to take part in a strike, which the company has termed as illegal. Production at the plant has been crippled since Saturday as around 2,000 workers stopped working demanding recognition of their Union. According to [...]
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No Comments »Winners And Losers In Latest Privacy Battle
Posted by admin on June 14th, 2011
1:08pm UK, Tuesday May 24, 2011 Sophy Ridge, political correspondent & Carole Erskine John Hemming (L) has been criticised for naming Ryan Giggs in Parliament:: The WinnersTwitterThe social networking website is arguably the biggest winner.Events over the last few weeks have provided Twitter with the kind of publicity money can’t buy and the data shows [...]
Road To Ruin: England’s £5bn Pothole Bill
Posted by admin on June 7th, 2011
9:38am UK, Thursday May 26, 2011 To view this content you need Flash and Javascript enabled in your browser.Please download Flash from the Adobe download website.A survey of 152 local authorities found 40% had a backlog or repairs totalling ￡5.36bn.But Labour estimates if this bill was reflected across the whole country, the total would in [...]
Talk, and the phone will listen
Posted by admin on June 5th, 2011
Google Maps is great for navigating through a city, but it?s not really advisable to twiddle your thumbs on the keypad to search for an address as you drive through the roads of our country. You can just ask the app to search the address, quite literally. With better phones in the market, voice searches [...]
