Tag Archives: New Zealand

Kim Dotcom allowed $49,000 in monthly living expenses

March 23, 2012   USAtoday.com

Brett Phibbs, AP

Kim Dotcom, the founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload, speaks to reporters after he was granted bail and released in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Dotcom’s cash earned him New Zealand residency

March 14, 2012   USAtoday.com

Documents released to the Associated Press this week under New Zealand public records laws show that immigration officials granted the Megaupload founder residency that year after deciding the money he could bring to the country outweighed concern about criminal convictions in his native Germany for computer fraud and stock-price manipulation.

Dotcom was charged with racketeering in the U.S. this year; prosecutors say he facilitated millions of illegal downloads through his website. U.S. authorities are seeking Dotcom’s extradition from New Zealand, where he remains under house arrest.

At the time his residency application was being considered, Dotcom had made charitable contributions in New Zealand and was planning to sponsor a fireworks show for the city of Auckland at a cost of 600,000 New Zealand dollars ($492,000). He set a deadline for immigration officials to act on his application and threatened to move to Australia

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Behind The Scenes Of Tourism New Zealand (Case Study)

March 9, 2012   SmashingMagazine.com

Behind The Scenes Of Tourism New Zealand (Case Study)

In 2011 we saw the rise in popularity of two relatively new trends: responsive Web design and the use of HTML’s canvas. While some websites had experimented with both, in the last 12 months we’ve seen these trends move from the fringes firmly into the mainstream.

Responsive Web design is more a concept than a technology — an ideal that many new websites aspire to. Canvas, on the other hand, is an HTML5-based technology that opens the door to a new wave of interactivity. In this article, we’ll look at a website that embraces both of these elements, one that has been nominated for a

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The megalife of Kim Dotcom

January 30, 2012   USAtoday.com

But the story of Kim Dotcom, 38, a German born as Kim Schmitz who liked to call himself King Kimble, reaches far beyond a cartoonish persona, self-promotion and a criminal record of pump-and-dump stock fraud.

The former computer hacker is the principle figure behind Megaupload, which U.S. prosecutors charge was a global empire that reaped a mega-fortune from illegal digital distribution of movies, songs and other copyright works.

In a New Zealand jail awaiting extradition to the USA on charges of racketeering, money-laundering and copyright crimes, Dotcom has found himself at the center of a high-stakes battle over Internet freedom vs. copyright protection. It

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Talking Your Tech: Still writing letters?

January 28, 2012   USAtoday.com

So it got us to wondering — when’s the last time folks sent a real, physical letter? Do people actually write them anymore? Or is it all e-mail and texts?

While in Las Vegas recently, we stopped by the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, where we spoke to a cross-section of potential letter writers, locals from Las Vegas and California, and folks from as far away as Brazil, Australia and New Zealand. Here’s what they had to say:

Yeah, they still write

— “Absolutely. I write letters to my girlfriend in Connecticut. A letter feels more personal than a text message,” says Californian Kyle Madson.

His girlfriend, Matoula Tsetsos, says “It’s definitely

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