The greatest period in human history
The Internet is helping us move towards a more educated, prosperous, healthy and wealthy world, says Gerry McGovern...
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Xero raises $18.6 million for Australian push
Xero has recruited some high-profile investors and acquired accounting management software company Max Solutions, as the company prepares for accelerate Australian and worldwide growth...
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Dotcom contests seizure of NZ assets, denied bail
Accused Megaload founder Kim Dotcom has filed papers with the Auckland High Court arguing that the freezing of his assets is excessive...
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Prediction: Economic rollercoaster to continue in 2012
After several years of talking about the benefits of ICT innovations and industry transformation, 2012 will be the year that organisations have to take action, says IDC...
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Fast-growing Optimizer makes first strategic acquisition
Optimizer HQ has purchased Desaign, an animation and motion graphics company, just days after announcing its listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange...
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KiwiNet hits innovation ball into business court
Innovative NZ science research projects are being put up to attract investor interest for commercial development…
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Gentrack scores Hong Kong International Airport billing contract
Airport management solutions provider Gentrack has signed a contract that will see it deploy its billing system to one of the busiest airports in the world: Hong Kong International...
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RIM founders step down under investor pressure
Research In Motion shares dropped more than nine per cent Monday with the news that the founders of the troubled technology company, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis had stepped down and a new CEO named from within the executive ranks...
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Kiwi businesses reveal strategies for 2012
A new survey says that customer satisfaction and growth into new markets will be the top priorities for Kiwi businesses in the coming year...
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Kiwi IT firm lists on German stock exchange
A Kiwi company founded in a bedroom eight years ago with just $10 start-up capital has now been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange...
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Top six finalists named in BNZ’s Start-up Alley competition
The finalists have been found in BNZ’s Start-up Alley, a competition to help grow New Zealand’s web and technology start-up businesses, and will now have a chance to get time in the Landing Pad in San Francisco…
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Ricoh and Intel judged world’s top IT sustainability performers
Oekom Research, one of the world's leading rating agencies around sustainable investment, has carried out an extensive study of more than 200 IT companies worldwide, and named Ricoh and Intel joint number one...
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Steve Jobs action figure scrapped after Apple bites back
Plans for the (terrifyingly) lifelike Steve Jobs doll have been shelved after a request from Jobs’ family and “immense pressure” from Apple lawyers...
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Go UK competition offers businesses over $100k in prizes
A British organization has launched a business plan competition designed to open up the UK to Australasian businesses looking to expand into Europe...
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Trouble in paradise: how technology can trump the tyranny of distance
For most of New Zealand's history we've been bound by one simple fact: we're a long way from everywhere...
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IBM makes bold technology predictions for the coming years
IBM is generating both cautious ‘maybes’ and more than a little eye-rolling and with its latest round of five-year tech predictions that include mind-reading smartphones and a revolution in the way we view spam emails...
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Cisco ANZ nabs former Nokia exec for VP position
Cisco has appointed Richard Kitts, former head of Nokia Siemens Indonesia, as VP for Australia and New Zealand...
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New Apple CEO scoops US $378m
Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, is set to receive $378 million worth of compensation for 2011, one of the biggest pay packages on record...
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Bidding begins on new domain-name suffixes
Bidding begins this week on the new word and brand name inclusive internet domain suffixes, as ‘.sport’ and ‘.bank’ join ‘.com’ as accepted domain-names...
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iStart starts up on Aussie soil
iStart, New Zealand’s long-standing independent tech publisher, today announced it has opened an office in Sydney to better support its growing list of Australian readers and advertisers...
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Steve Joyce out, Amy Adams in - New ICT Minister announced
Newcomer Amy Adams is surprise ICT Minister replacement in John Key’s cabinet reshuffle...
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Microsoft NZ launches new social media-based community portal
New Zealand Microsoft Communities has announced the launch of a new website for its user groups, that will add blogging, forums and online profiles to the organisation’s online offering...
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Paul Bowkett appointed cloud sales manager for Microsoft NZ
Microsoft NZ has appointed Paul Bowkett as its new cloud sales manager, making him responsible for sales of all Microsoft Cloud Services to small medium business customers across New Zealand, including Office 365, Windows Azure, Windows Intune, Office and CRM Online. 
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Gartner reveals top 10 commercial business apps for tablets
Business apps for tablet devices are moving beyond the first wave of personal productivity tools towards more manageable and secure enterprise applications that support major business initiatives, according to the latest research by Gartner...
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Jade sells Empower HR to Fusion 5; announces new business
Jade Software has sold Australasian human resource and payroll business, Empower HR, to Kiwi company Fusion5, while announcing new security venture...
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Poll: Cloud remains top IT priority for 2012
For a second straight year, cloud computing tops the list of IT investments for coming year with cybersecurity and mobile/social computing tying for second...
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Endace founder named engineering entrepreneur of 2011
Dr Ian Graham, former Dean at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Waikato and a founder of Endace has been named New Zealand Entrepreneur of the Year at the New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards this week in Wellington...
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Jade and Clearview join forces for new investment app
Jade Software has partnered with Australian financial services company ClearView Wealth to produce a new client investment portal and mobile application that is expected to produce millions in revenue in 2012...
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Christchurch dunny maker bares all and cashes in
After asking businesses to describe the ‘pain points’ and day-to-day issues that were hindering their growth, dozens of Kiwi businesses entered the Greentree GAME ON competition, hoping their case was strong enough to land them a quarter-million dollar makeover. And the winner is...
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$8m boost for hi-tech start-ups
Wellington-based angel investment group Angel HQ is partnering with the New Zealand Venture Investment Fund to invest up to NZ$8 million into start-up companies...
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Online shopping service launches for Xmas
Yahoo! NZ and PriceMe have announced a new partnership hoping to capitalise on the Christmas consumer rush...
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ICEHOUSE celebrates 10 years with international award
The Icehouse has been named joint winner of the Best Internationally Connecting Incubator award with Australian organisation ATP at the 10th Incubation Conference and Global Awards held in Auckland this week...
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BNZ launches NFC swipe phone wallets trial
A mobile phone which doubles as a ‘virtual wallet’ has come a step closer with a trial launched this week by Bank of New Zealand and Vodafone...
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Half of all NZers victims of fraud as cyber-crime runs rampant
New Zealand is leading the way in terms global economic crime, with Australia following close behind, says a new survey which finds fraud and cyber crime growing unchecked down-under...
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Seven really, really easy ways to get more business via Facebook
While Facebook may be seen as the working day’s number one enemy when it comes to procrastination and time wasting, you shouldn’t underestimate its potential to reach both a massive and extremely targeted audience, says MYOB’s online search guru Daylan Pearce.
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Datacom, Fujitsu and Theta Systems scoop BI, CRM and ERP awards at the Microsoft Partner Awards
Hundreds of people gathered at the Viaduct Events Centre in Auckland last week for the Microsoft New Zealand Partner Awards 2011, Microsoft NZ’s premier event for recognising the top IT companies designing solutions on Microsoft platforms…
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Hard drive prices skyrocket in wake of floods in Thailand
With fewer hard drives rolling out in flood-stricken Thailand, consumers are being warned that price hikes are on the way…
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Finalists named in $250K Greentree software contest
The 10 finalists in Greentree’s Game On competition have been chosen and public votes will help decide which company wins up to $250K worth of business software and services...
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Australian Arrow Research officially launches Tencia software in NZ market
Australian accounting and business management software supplier, Arrow Research Corporation, will officially launch their latest accounting software solution, ‘Tencia’, to the New Zealand market on the 1st of November 2011...
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IT spend will top NZ $6 billion by 2015
Organisations are beginning to up their IT spends once again, says IDC NZ's new report, 'New Zealand Vertical Markets IT Spending: 2010-2015 Forecast and Analysis'...
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Jobs vindicated: Flash player for mobile devices dead, Adobe shares tumble
In a shock move, Adobe has announced that it will cease support for its multimedia platform, Flash, confirming rival Steve Jobs’ long-running prediction...
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Trade Me floats at $2.70 a share
Fairfax says it plans to raise $529.5 million through the initial public offer of popular auction site Trade Me...
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NZ Tech breaks the $7B mark
A five percent growth in revenue in 2011 has seen New Zealand technology companies pass $7 billion in annual revenue says the just released 2011 TIN100 report...
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Finalists revealed for the Microsoft NZ Partner Awards
Microsoft has announced the finalists for the prestigious 2011 Microsoft New Zealand Partner Awards, a showcase of local industry’s best and brightest...
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Bigger than Apple - Samsung surges ahead to become world’s biggest smartphone seller
Samsung has kicked Apple off the top of the heap as sales of Samsung electronics overtake those of former market-dominator Apple Inc...
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Virginia Rometty new CEO of IBM
IBM has named its new chief executive – the first female chief executive in company's 100-year history...
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Kiwi companies win govt cloud tender
The DIA has awarded lucrative infrastructure-as-a-service contracts to New Zealand-owned companies, Revera and Datacom...
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RightNow Tech to sell as acquisition-hungry Oracle moves into cloud space
Oracle has scooped cloud-based customer service provider, RightNow Technologies Inc for a reported US$1.5 billion...
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Fujitsu entices SMEs with free cloud offer
Fujitsu is targeting SMEs and ISVs by offering a free trial of its Australian-based computing cloud platform as it attempts to push beyond the enterprise sector...
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Supreme New Zealand innovator named
Point-of sale innovation Vend took out the Supreme Award at the Bayer sponsored New Zealand Innovators Awards last night, as well as winning the award for Innovation in ICT...
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Entrepreneur to promote NZ’s technology capabilities – by breaking the world land speed record
Wellington property developer Richard Nowland is looking for $30M in investment to build ‘Jetblack’ - a vehicle designed to break the world land speed record by 2016...
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Orion strikes major e-Health deal with Microsoft
Orion health Asia Pacific has signed an agreement to purchase Microsoft’s hospital information software assets which will enable it to offer to provide solutions to the global eHealth market...
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Blackberry offers 12 free apps after three day outage
RIM is offering its customers free apps as it attempts to make good after last week’s disastrous outage...
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Telecom settles with Commerce Commission for $31.6M after discrimination accusations
Telecom will pay rivals $31.6 million to resolve allegations of discrimination under the Telecom Separation Undertakings...
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$US200 billion spike in new revenues predicted for telecoms sector
Analysts are forecasting $US213.8 billion of new revenues up for grabs in the global telecoms sector between 2012 and 2015, due to high growth in a number of industry segments...
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Apple event disappoints fans: no iPhone 5 release
Steve Jobs wasn’t the only thing missing at yesterday’s Apple event. One of the most anticipated products in Apple’s history, the iPhone 5, will remain on the backburner for now, with fans having their high-expectations dashed with yesterday’s underwhelming launch of the iPhone 4S...
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HP hires Goldman Sachs to fight ‘investor activists’
Wary of possible action from activist shareholders Hewlett Packard has hired Goldman Sachs to help the company defend itself against investor-driven change at the embattled computer giant...
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Gen-i wins Govt contract to supply Apple products
Gen-i has announced that it will be one of two suppliers of Apple products on the All-of-Government laptop and desktop computer procurement panel...
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Big-screen LED shines as PC monitor market flourishes
The Dell-led PC monitor market has hit double digit growth as Australasian customers take a shine to larger LED PC monitors...
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SMEs showing growing confidence, staff numbers
Small businesses are displaying ‘prudent optimism’ says a new report which sees nearly a third of small businesses planning to increase their permanent staffing levels during the next quarter, up almost fifteen per cent from last year...
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MYOB invests in hunting bigger business
MYOB, specialist in SME accounting software, is investing in a set of products designed to attract bigger fish, expanding its EXO Business enterprise suite to include an integrated CRM module...
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CallPlus dumps Vodafone for Telecom XT
CallPlus and Slingshot today announced they are abandoning former partner Vodafone and switching to Telecom Wholesale to provide “faster, flexible and more competitive mobile services” to the burgeoning Kiwi smartphone market...
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Google Wallet likely to boost loyalty programs
Google Wallet looks set to invigorate Kiwi loyalty schemes as NFC technology delivers customer incentives and drives foot traffic into stores...
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The Optimism Bias, or don't believe satisfaction surveys
We need to find a way to bridge the huge disconnect between what people say they do and what they actually do, says Gerry McGovern...
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Survey: Emerging ICT companies leading charge in NZ’s economic recovery
New Zealand’s technology export sector is leading the way in New Zealand’s economic rebirth, according to the soon-to-be-released TIN100 report, a survey of New Zealand’s largest technology exporters...
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Cloud gets lucrative as revenue forecast to quadruple to A$2 billion
IDC survey of Australian end user enterprises puts compound annual growth at 34 per cent, quadrupling services revenue by 2015…
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Survey: Systems and processes biggest cause of employee attrition
A news survey has revealed what employees want, and don’t want from their employers, with systems and processes proving to be the biggest workplace frustration...
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It’s official: 2010 was a tough year for business
There’s no denying it: 2010 was a difficult time for Kiwi businesses, with NZ suffering through the first decrease in total industry income in more than 10 years...
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The hunt is on for NZ's most tech-savvy school teacher
Microsoft is searching for 2011’s most innovative school teacher with the opening of this year’s Microsoft’s Innovative Educator Awards...
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NZICT appoints new CEO - will focus on UFB, SMEs
Candace Kinser, “evangelist for innovation” and former CEO of Biomatters, to replace Brett O'Riley as new CEO of NZICT...
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NZ feels surge in spending during the first week of RWC
NZ businesses are enjoying a sharp increase in spending, as RWC tourist spending spikes dramatically, even before the opening ceremony kicked off on Friday night...
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Simon Power: SMEs to be freed from general purpose financial reports
The Minister of Commerce has announced proposals that will see SMEs enjoy drastically simplified financial reporting, a move expected to cut business compliance costs by $NZ90 million a year...
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Lucky fan scores ‘ultimate prize’: Microsoft’s corporate box for RWC final
Wellingtonian Niki O’Conner is enjoying a surge in popularity after scoring the Microsoft corporate box for the Rugby World Cup 2011 final for her and 14 of her friends...
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What’s wrong with NZ’s take on copyright?
Now that the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011 has come into effect, many Kiwis will have a raft of new worries when it comes to their internet writes TelstraClear chief executive Allan Freeth...
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Want to generate B2B leads from Twitter? Get your prospects to follow you
There is no doubting Twitter’s massive growth worldwide. Almost everyone knows of Twitter, millions use it, and thousands are hopelessly addicted to it...
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HP boss: HP to review, not kill, PC division
Country manager of Hewlett Packard Personal Systems Group (PSG) met with media yesterday to ease uncertainty surrounding the company’s future plans after the dramatic events of last month... 
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Infor announces new apps for Force.com; Salesforce buys in
Software vendors Infor and Salesforce.com have revealed plans to release three new applications for Force.com, integrating Infor’s ERP solutions into the cloud platform...
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Sony debuts the ultimate 3D gimmick: the head-mounted 3D theatre
Immersive 3D entertainment is coming to the home market as Sony unveils its HMZ Personal 3-D Viewer, a headset that delivers a 3D viewing experience to an audience of one...
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Cisco accused of aiding Chinese torture
Technology company Cisco is being accused of aiding the Chinese government in the torture and human rights abuses of outlawed religious sect Falun Gong...
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Apple defeats Samsung in European court
Apple has achieved a decisive victory in the ongoing patent war with Samsung with a Dutch judge banning the sale of three Samsung devices from mid-October onwards...
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Motorola is facing probe over alleged bribes of $NZ3.7 million
US mobile giant Motorola and a European political lobbyist face bribery allegations in an investigation by US authorities it has been reported...
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Kiwi company launches e-books with a soundtrack
Enjoying a quiet read could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to new Kiwi technology that marries soundtrack material with electronic reading devices...
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Cloud computing code of practice proposed
Plans for the development of a voluntary Cloud Computing Code of Practice to inform and safeguard the public around cloud computing issues have been announced...
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Greentree puts $250k up for needy businesses
Greentree puts $250k up for needy businesses Businesses in need of new software are being encouraged to enter a new $250,000 competition run by Greentree Business Software...
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Labour vows to repeal file-sharing internet termination clause
The Labour Party is promising, if elected, to repeal the controversial ‘three strikes’ law that comes into effect today...
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The return of the TouchPad
Just when you thought you’d seen the last of HP’s touchscreen offering, the company announces one last run of the product to meet demand...
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Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple
Apple’s board of directors has announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of the company but will remain chairman of the board...
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NZ’s largest tech conference now underway in Auckland
2,000 IT professionals and software developers have descended upon Auckland for New Zealand’s largest technology conference, the three day Microsoft Tech.Ed…
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Online advertising continues to climb as advertisers look ‘beyond the click through rate’
Online advertising in New Zealand experienced double digit growth for year-on-year ad revenue in Q2 says a new report, as mobile devices, video and social media continue to attract advertisers...
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MYOB sold to US firm
The bidding war over MYOB has ended with the accounting software giant being sold to US private equity firm Bain Capital for a reported $NZ1.5 billion...
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Sales soar as HP quits TouchPad game
HP’s decision to ditch its TouchPad offering just seven weeks after its New Zealand launch has sent Touchpad sales soaring, as customers rush to buy heavily discounted remaining stock...
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MetService website dishes out viruses to chilly Kiwis
Visitors to the MetService’s website over the last few days may have picked up more than they bargained for...
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New deal makes SAP first choice for utilities
Electricity distribution company WEL has selected the Soltius New Zealand SAP best practices solution to replace their financial and asset management systems, with the implementation project to kick-off later this month...
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NZ IT firms score big with science and innovation grants
The government has announced a $50 million round of technology grants this week, to aid the research and development projects of several Kiwi companies...
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Google shells out $15 billion for Motorola
Google’s acquisition of the phone maker Motorola Mobility for $NZ15 billion represents the company’s biggest deal ever...
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Vodafone guilty of misleading customers: fined $400K
Vodafone New Zealand has pleaded guilty to breaching the Fair Trading Act in relation to its Vodafone Live! mobile phone internet service...
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RIM caught in the middle of UK rioters, hackers and officials
UK authorities are claiming that Blackberry messaging is being used a key communication tool by rioters in London...
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Apple becomes largest US company (briefly)
After days of volatile stock market action, Apple momentarily became the US’s largest company, edging out oil monolith Exxon Mobil temporarily before close of trade on Tuesday...
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e-waste recycling network gets a $1 million govt boost
The NZ government will spend more than $1 million to support the recycling of electronic waste such as televisions and computers announced environment minister Nick Smith this morning...
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Apple forces new Samsung tablet off shelves
Apple has won an agreement from Samsung to prevent the new Galaxy tablet on shelves – for now...
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NZ online shopping to increase to $2.68 billion in 2011
A new report predicts big increases in online shopping for 2011 – with half the population shopping online this year spending an average of NZ$1400 each...
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Web too slow? Let Google rewrite it for you
Google have announced the release of their new service, Page Speed, which promises faster load times by fetching the content from users’ servers, rewriting them and serving them via Google’s own servers...
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Commonwealth Bank CEO calls it quits
Australia’s highest paid CEO, Ralph Norris, will retire as MD and CEO from the Commonwealth Bank come November...
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Slingshot offers half price broadband
Slingshot has launched half price broadband plans for the New Zealand market...
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Hackers target Rupert Murdoch website
The Sun’s website has been hacked and the front page redirected to a fake article claiming that Rupert Murdoch is dead...
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1 in every 5 online minutes wasted on social networking
comScore has released the State of the Internet New Zealand study and the results show that social media is far and away the biggest time-sink when online...
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iPad makes compulsory stationary list at Auckland school
Parents of Orewa College students have been told that they will need to purchase an iPad2 for year nine students for 2012...
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Cisco cuts 6,500 jobs
Networking giant Cisco has announced that it will slash 6,500 jobs in an attempt to lower costs...
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Better (but still not free) Auckland wi-fi for RWC
Auckland is expanding its wi-fi services in time for the RWC, but it still won’t be free...
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ICE Ideas Conference a sellout success - review
NZ Inc needs to get aggressive and get noticed if kiwi innovation is to leave its mark - that was the conclusion from last Friday’s hectic Ice Ideas Conference in Auckland...
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$500M technology innovation network launched
A new network has been launched encouraging collaboration between universities and crown research institutes to commercialise science and technology in New Zealand...
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LinkedIn steals number 2 social-network spot from MySpace
Figures just released reveal that LinkedIn is now the second largest social network in the US behind Facebook...
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Glitch sees Dick Smith giving items away for free
Dick Smith was forced to take its site down this morning after a glitch allowed customers to purchase items for the mistakenly displayed prices of zero dollars...
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Microsoft launches Maori Language Packs
Microsoft New Zealand has launched new local language packs for Windows 7 and Office 2010...
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Google+ unleashes the spam
Google+’s first snafu sees beta users plagued with spam...
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Alasdair Thompson sacked from the EMA
Alasdair Thompson has been dismissed from the role of chief executive with the EMA following comments about female employees taking excessive sick leave due to their periods...
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NATO server hacked, files now online
Servers belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) have been breached again, this time with some 2,646 files from the server posted online as proof of the exploit...
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2degrees makes a play for New Zealand business
2degrees has unveiled a range of mobile plans targeting New Zealand businesses, promising a repeat of the impact it made on the consumer market when it launched less than two years ago...
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Online game raises $38,000 Earthquakes – selling only virtual goods
New Zealand-based online social gaming company SmallWorlds has raised $38,000 for earthquake relief by selling limited-edition virtual capes to gamers…
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Microsoft Launches Office 365: full iStart review
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Microsoft Office 365, the company’s newest cloud service, in Australia and New Zealand…
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The Pope sends first Tweet
Leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, has broadcast his first Twitter message, praising Christ and informing the faithful that the Vatican’s new news site has been launched...
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Kiwis take coveted global awards from Microsoft
Kiwi companies GreenButton and Provoke have walked away with awards at the prestigious 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner of the Year Awards…
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IBM lands NZ border management system
IBM has won the contract to build the Joint Border Management System (JBMS) for a reported NZ$75 million for the first stage of the four year project...
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iCloud Announced: What you need to know
After months of intense speculation, Apple has finally announced the launch of their cloud computing service, iCloud...
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$1.5 million kick-start business fund announced
The public and the private sector have teamed up for a new initiative that could provide up to NZ$1.5 million to encourage SMEs to expand their businesses...
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US building scale model of the internet
The US has launched plans to construct a scale model of the internet that will help researchers to study the outcome of possible cyber-war scenarios...
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Sega’s database hacked
This time it’s Japanese gaming company Sega Corp with egg on its face after 1.3 million customer records, including logins and passwords, are stolen...
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Something to shout about: researchers developing the sound-powered mobile phone
New technology that turns sound waves into electricity is being used to develop mobile phones that charge themselves using the sound of the human voice...
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India to issue 1.2 billion biometric cards
In an attempt to bring the nations census data into the 21st century, India, home to 1.2 billion people, has outlined plans to begin issuing state-of-the-art biometric IDs to its citizens...
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Yellowfin praised in ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ BI survey
BI software vendor Yellowfin has beaten out some major players in a recent BI vendor survey...
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NZICT CEO Brett O’Riley resigns
Brett O’Riley, CEO of NZICT has announced his resignation from the group in a letter to the organisation’s members yesterday...
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Fairfax to sell TradeMe?
Reports suggest that Australian media giant Fairfax is currently reviewing the status of New Zealand online auction site TradeMe and may sell the asset...
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eBay acquires Magento – looks to create “global commerce operating system”
eBay Inc. today announced that it has agreed to acquire Magento Inc., the creator of a leading open source ecommerce platform...
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Great minds come together for Ice Ideas Conference
The Ice Ideas Conference is bringing together some of New Zealand's best thinkers and doers to talk turkey about growing great kiwi businesses…
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Apple to unveil iCloud next week
It’s official: Apple CEO Steve Jobs will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with the unveiling of its upcoming cloud services offering, called, predictably, iCloud...
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MS McKinsey report: The web is a job creator, not killer
A new report once and for all dispels the myth that the World Wide Web is destroyer of jobs...
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IBM Launches NZ$80 Million Cloud Data Centre in New Zealand
IBM has just announced the official launch of its new NZ$80 million data centre at Highbrook Business Park in Auckland, New Zealand...
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Animal ID scheme delay welcomed
Federated Farmers is welcoming the decision by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) to delay the implementation of the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme from its planned 1 November start.
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Free Wi-Fi for Wellingtonians
Announcing the initiative today, Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says Wellington will be the first city in New Zealand to offer free wireless internet services across most of its CBD...
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IBM more valuable than Microsoft for the first time in 15 years
While the lead may be only temporary, IBM has indeed edged out old rival Microsoft for the first time since April 1996, becoming the second most valuable tech company in the US, behind market leader Apple Inc...
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Out-dated EFTPOS terminals to be disconnected on June 1st
Paymark is warning that businesses that have out-dated EFTPOS machines will have them deactivated if they are not upgraded by June 1...
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Expecting an economic boost from the World Cup? Yeah, right.
According to a nationwide survey, Kiwi business owners are not expecting much, if any, of an economic recovery from the Rugby World Cup...
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Sam Morgan’s surprising new investment
TradeMe founder Sam Morgan has given New Zealand-based social game SmallWorlds a $2.5m shot in the arm...
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ChristChurch earthquake shakes investor confidence
The February Christchurch earthquake has had a significant negative impact on investor confidence according to the latest ASB Investor Confidence Survey...
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Microsoft’s online suite kicks users out of cloud
Those thinking that cloud computing has yet to reach acceptable levels of stability have received more ammunition following Microsoft’s latest online malfunctions...
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Microsoft buys Skype: $US8.5 billion, cash
After a week of rumours that Facebook and Google may acquire internet communications company Skype, US technology giant Microsoft has swooped in and sealed the deal the deal for a reported $US8.5 billion...
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2011 NZ Hi-Tech Awards winners announced
The winners of the NZ Hi-Tech Awards 2011 were announced in Wellington on Friday night with Rakon taking away both the PwC Hi-Tech Company of the Year Award and the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Hi-Tech Company of the Decade Award...
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NZ high-tech industry gears up to court China, employ robots, during the RWC 2011
The local high-tech industry is pulling out all the stops to make the most of the international attention set to be generated by the 2011 Rugby World Cup...
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Commerce Commission slashes mobile termination rates
The Commerce Commission has ordered the country’s mobile phone operators to dramatically cut the amount they charge each other for disconnecting a call on rival networks...
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NZ Post plans move to paperless digital platform
NZ Post is currently testing a new online platform that could see ‘snail-mail’ become a thing of the past...
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Police issue warning around PlayStation hack
The New Zealand Police are warning people to be vigilant following the hacking of 77 million Sony PlayStation accounts worldwide...
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Amazon outage the ‘worst in cloud computing history’
Amazon’s Web Services goes down, calling into question the reliability of cloud services...
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Apple accused of tracking iPad, iPhone user location
Apple’s bad press continues as reports surface that the company’s iPhone and iPad are collecting users’ location information...
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Microsoft switches to 100% recycled paper
Microsoft has announced that it will be switching to 100 per cent post-consumer recycled printing paper in all its Puget Sound facilities, including its Redmond headquarters, starting April 22...
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Telecom/Vodafone seal rural broadband deal
As anticipated, Telecom and Vodafone have secured the contract for the Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) to deliver on the government’s promise of vastly improved and affordable broadband for rural New Zealand.
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‘Localist’ launches, looks to take on Yellow Pages
New Zealand Post has launched a new local information and directory service called Localist, which looks set to compete with business directory veteran, The Yellow Pages...
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Lawson’s new ‘Mashup Designer’ software released
Lawson’s latest piece of software allows users to create their own mini-applications - without having to write software code themselves...
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ANZ’s ‘goMoney’ mobile banking app goes live
ANZ New Zealand have launched their mobile banking application, ANZ goMoney, as a way for ANZ customers to transfer money between friends, relatives and businesses using only mobile phone details...
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Telecom hit with record fine for anti-competitive conduct
The High Court in Auckland has imposed a record $12 million penalty against Telecom for breaching section 36 of the Commerce Act in the so-called ‘data tails’ case...
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Subcard hits the small screen
Loyal Subway customers are breathing a huge sigh of relief as they can now ditch their Subcard from their wallets...
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EFTPOS at the Rugby World Cup? Forget it.
Fans hoping to use their EFTPOS cards at the upcoming Rugby World Cup are headed for disappointed - none will be available...
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Study shows internet more important than ever for business
A new survey shows that the internet is now permeating every aspect of New Zealand business - from where farmers buy supplies to how retailers reach customers...
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Smartphones, tablets defeat netbooks as most popular mobile Internet device
Tablets and social networking services are key revenue growth opportunities for operators in Asia-Pacific according to mobile broadband industry survey...
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Koala map brings out the care bears
A new online mapping portal will help caring communities protect local koalas and their habitats...
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Vodafone NZ pulls out of Egypt – brings jobs home
Vodafone has announced it is creating 125 local jobs by consolidating all of its contact centre operations in New Zealand...
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David Kirk predicts All Blacks to win World Cup
Microsoft announces deal for NZ$2 million sponsorship of the RWC 2011 tournament...
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New robots speed up sheep processing
The meat industry is set for an efficiency boost thanks to new robotic technology from a results-oriented public private partnership...
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Free online stores for Canterbury
Website builders Smallfish are offering to help small Christchurch stores affected by the quake to start trading online…
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IT vendor consolidation goes another round
Local and international IT vendor consolidation is continuing as integrated solutions seen as the future…
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Satellite images capture Japan before and after
The NY Times has published a before and after pictorial of the coastal towns impacted by the recent earthquake…
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Online auction competition heating up
Auction and trading website Sella has promised to remain commission free after a major boost in activity...
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Kiwis flocking to the cloud
New Zealand has been named the most cloud savvy country in Asia Pacific, according to a recent business survey…
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Lessons for all in NZ website study
A recent NZ website study has found plenty of room for improvement when it comes to engaging users…
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Auckland expansion for Australian Telco provider
Two key appointments and a new Auckland office will drive Telcoinabox's growth in New Zealand...
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Rapid software response helps Christchurch stricken
Quick thinking volunteers had disaster relief website Christchurch Recovery Map up and running within hours of the devastating earthquake hitting Christchurch on February 22...
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Mobile operators need to wake up to Facebook threat
An industry expert says mobile operators are helping grow competitor’s market share...
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Orcon unbundles first South Island exchanges
Orcon has unbundled its first South Island exchanges, marking a significant milestone for the company, and has also announced it will be unbundling two new North Island cities...
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New Zealand to form NZ ‘international review’ group
New Zealand (NZ) IT stakeholders and technical industry experts are to form a NZ ‘international review’ group to an ISO/IEC subcommittee on cloud computing services...
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Microsoft key to smartphone for Nokia
Opinions may be split on the Microsoft and Nokia partnership but most agree the Finnish mobile phone maker did not have much choice...
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Boosted signal not so sure for non Vodafone customers
People who work from remote locations may have breathed a sigh last week when Vodafone launched its new 3G reception booster Sure Signal...
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Fujitsu Leads NZ’s IT Service Management as First Accredited ISO 20000 Vendor
Fujitsu New Zealand Limited announced it has become the first vendor in New Zealand to achieve the rigorous ISO 20000 international standard for IT Service Management and has secured accreditation across multiple locations...
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CallPlus chooses OneAccess for local managed services
New Zealand telecommunications provider CallPlus has joined forces with OneAccess, the second largest branch office router vendor worldwide, to provide its customers with access to managed services over their IP network...
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Business seeks eased compliance in election promises
Filing tax returns electronically in exchange for tax credits would be a popular option aimed at easing the compliance burden for New Zealand businesses according to a new survey...
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Payroll provider brings first .Net4 product to market
Christchurch-based HR software provider PayGlobal’s chief executive Hugh Martyn says new product is the first to leverage the latest workflow tools from Microsoft...
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Eighty jobs set for Two Degrees Mobile expansion
Two Degrees Mobile is increasing its investment in New Zealand with a second contact centre. It is set to open in Christchurch’s CBD this year...
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Redundancies in line after Certus take over
The buy out of Australia company Software Traction by fellow IBM provider Certus Solutions is not as good for staff as it is for customers...
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Orcon unbundles local loop network
Orcon has unbundled exchanges in Hamilton and Tauranga...
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Smart reshuffle set to grow merchant services company
NZX listed Smartpay plans to expand in the Australian market with the help of newly appointed chief executive officer Andrew Donaldson...
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$300 million RBI investment not enough for farmers
Federated Farmers chief executive officer Conor English says the Government’s rural broadband initiative (RBI) needs significant change to deliver real value...
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Free-to-call directory delays launch citing testing issues
0133’s launch has been delayed until the end March due to system development issues, and slow subscription uptake...
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Virtual marketing's future in business
Outsourced and remote marketing is the way forward for many businesses says advertising specialist Paul Wilkes...
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CallPlus’ new product connects with small business
CallPlus’ new voice solution aims to give big player options to small businesses...
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Google ANZ pulls new managing director from News Ltd
Ex-Deputy CEO of News Ltd Australia Nick Leeder has been appointed as the regional manager of Google Australia and New Zealand after a lengthy search...
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Australian FMCG market checking out new CRM system
Global CRM and decisions support solutions provider StayinFront’s new on-demand system aims to pick up the pace in the FMCG sector...
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European online FX trader heading down under
Foreign exchange retail broker FXPro Financial Services has got its eye on the Australasian market...
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Frucor takes SAP system to Fujitsu’s cloud
Australasian beverage supplier Frucor sees benefit in moving ERP infrastructure to the cloud...
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Public slant on New Zealand Government’s ICT council
Private sector representation is low on the Government’s newly announced ICT Council...
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NZ Post deal aims to improve New Zealand national security
Gaining the public’s confidence in information security management has proved a priority to the New Zealand Government...
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Integrating ticketing system gets onboard with Auckland buses
An Auckland Transport deal sees bus, rail and ferry users’ one step closer to an integrated ticketing system...
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New Kiwi technology gets nod from old UK University
New Zealand based multi-media learning company Vital English will partner with the prestigious Cambridge University for a new online programme...
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IDC NZ ICT Predictions: 2011 - The Year of Transformation
2011 is set to be a year of transformational and unpredictable change for New Zealand's Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) sector.
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No walk in the clouds for Xero after IRD alert
Internet-based accounting system Xero’s CEO Rod Drury was quick to reassure customers after Inland Revenue Department tightened up on cloud computing...
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Kiwi made fleet tracking solution takes the high road on simplicity
NZ owned fleet management business FleetSmart have plugged a gap in the market for a practical low cost asset tracking product for kiwi businesses.
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TVNZ tunes into IT delegation
Television New Zealand is passing the IT buck to staff with its new delegation and automation software.
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82 percent will sign up for fast broadband - but at what price?
Businesses want high end internet but not high end prices according to a new survey by Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand (TUANZ).
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Nothing super about council governance says business survey
Confidence in local and national government is low according to a MYOB Business Monitor survey...
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Orcon ups its offering
Government owned Orcon adds another notch to its belt with the purchase of business management services provider Bizo...
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SEEK moves smartly on mobile market
Job seeking on-the-go just got easier for Smartphone users...
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Tablet and mobile device sales start to bite into the PC market
PC sales for the year are less than projected and iPad –type devices are blamed...
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Councils not working hard enough for NZ businesses
Almost half of the businesses in New Zealand are unhappy with the support of their local council...
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Government moves to change TV viewers to digital
The government has officially launched a national campaign to promote the switch to digital television...
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Rush of enthusiasm for chance to prove NZ is innovative leader
New Zealand trade and enterprise has had to halt its tender for a multi-channel project “to position New Zealand as a world leader in technology innovation” because there is so much interest...
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Kiwi project software heads for Silicon Valley
A New Zealander whose rapidly growing online business includes NASA and Volvo as clients is about to open offices in the US...
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NZ online advertising shows 18% year on year growth
The latest online advertising expenditure figures for New Zealand show healthy growth...
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Mobile phone number “porting” reaches milestone
Half a million numbers have now been “ported” showing the reality of mobile competition at the moment in New Zealand...
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Business tech world optimism for 2011 gets boost
Hewlett-Packard’s results beat expectations and bring surge of optimism...
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Local companies fail to back up virtual systems 
A Symantec survey reveals many virtual systems in Australia and New Zealand are not properly protected...
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Google and Microsoft meet in the cloud
Business users are testing a new Google Doc plug-in that enables it to sync with Word documents...
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Lobby group calls for mobile termination rates elimination
The Telecommunication Users group is calling for mobile termination rates to be virtually eliminated resulting in cost reductions for consumers...
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Kiwi Company launches online ERP II application for small to medium businesses
Letstrade International, founded by Kiwi entrepreneur, Peter Montgomery, is launching the new application that integrates with Xero...
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Govt tender gives companies chance to prove NZ is innovative leader
New Zealand trade and enterprise is inviting tenders for a multi-channel project “to position New Zealand as a world leader in technology innovation”...
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IT executives sweat for charity
Senior IT executives are going the extra mile this week to raise money for a women’s refugee...
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New security challenges loom in 2011
Unisys’ predictions for the next 12 months note that the consumerisation of IT trend has created vulnerabilities in organisations’ network perimeters...
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Bandwidth demands boost ON sales
The continuing need for bandwidth is boosting sales of optical networking equipment...
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NZ’s civil defence goes hi-tech
Farmside, New Zealand’s leading satellite telecommunications provider, hope to provide a modern technological solution to Civil Defence and Emergency Management staff...
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CBA's Norris receives Customer Service CEO of the Year award
CBA’s $16 million man gains recognition for contribution to bank’s customer service...
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Telecom added to Sybase operators
Sybase 365 has added Telecom to its operators  of its IPX (IP eXchange) and GRX (Global Roaming eXchange) on-net community in the Asia Pacific region...
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Silverstripe achieve open source server certification
The web development company claims it is a world first...
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FrontRange chooses new channel partner
Palladium Technology Limited, a provider of business software solutions, has been selected as its newest channel partner...
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Top event centre gets network upgrade
D-Link Australia & New Zealand is upgrading services at Auckland’s exhibition centre, the ASB Showgrounds...
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Datacraft & McAfee launch new cloud platform here
Datacraft has partnered with McAfee to launch a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) Security platform in New Zealand...
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A Kiwi invention has been named one of the top inventions of the year
New Zealand invention the Martin Jetpack has just been named one of Time magazine's 50 Best Inventions of 2010...
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Shared care software to transform Canterbury health system
HSAGlobal’s Collaborative Care Management Solution (CCMS) is being implemented as a part of a programme transforming the region’s system...
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NZ airline travelers are embracing new smart technology at airports and it’s to be co-ordinated with Australia
SmartGate, the new automated passenger clearance system at Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch Airports,  processed  its 500,000th passenger this week...
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Nokia appointment
Nokia has appointed a new General Manager of the company’s Australian and New Zealand operations...
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Market insight iPhone app
Ovum has launched an iPhone app that makes market insight and research mobile for the business traveller...
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More options for regional broadband
The government is calling for applications for access to radio spectrum in the 2.5 GHz band, which will assist deployment of wireless broadband services in regional New Zealand...
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New Zealand in bottom third for fixed line services
It’s bad news for New Zealand in a new Commerce Commission report benchmarking New Zealand prices for fixed line and mobile telecommunications services against international prices...
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Firm thinks mobile isn’t growing as fast as claimed
A global telecom advisory firm thinks growth is exaggerated and firms should hold off 4G...
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NZ software gets chosen by US government agencies
Two leading US government agencies are the first customers to purchase fast-growing New Zealand software company Biomatters’ new software package, Geneious Server...
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Microsoft picks Auckland school among chosen few technological leaders
An East Auckland high school has been chosen for the global Microsoft Innovative Schools Programme...
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Where are the NZ businesses online?
The latest MYOB Business Monitor wonders why only 34% of Kiwi businesses own a website...
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Sled dog computer doctors need makeover
New Zealand has some ugly business websites and the hunt is on to find the worst...
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More funding for wheelchair technology
The New Zealand company that launched a robotic exoskeleton to enable wheelchair users to stand and walk in July this year has received further TechNZ investment...
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Is your mobile secure? Many Kiwis are slack with security
New research reveals that New Zealanders are leaving themselves vulnerable by not securing their mobile devices...
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Blackberry gets local maps
BlackBerry users in Australia and New Zealand can now access a free Blackberry maps app...
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Kiwi iPhone developers conference
Jade Software will host the country’s first conference dedicated to iPhone and iPad developers in Christchurch on 4 December, 2010...
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Online merchants get client-aware cloud
NetSuite marries a new Intel Web API and promises merchants a competitive advantage...
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Stand by for the Internet of Things
A report looking at the technology space in 2020 predicts that soon there will not be many devices not connected to the internet...
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Slice and dice business data
The first ERP vendor to embed and optimise IBM Cognos 10 functionality into its software has been launched...
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Which companies are really making a green difference?
Too many companies are making promises about their “green” appliances, according to Greenpeace New Zealand...
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Making money will “keep mobile operators awake” in 2011
Ovum says Asia-Pacific mobile operators will have a dilemma to solve...
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TIG CEO resigns
The Telecommunications Industry Group‘s CEO has resigned but won’t be replaced at this stage...
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Cloud the big trend but Australia “sleeping through it”
Cloud computing heads the top trends within both Public sector and Enterprise IT for next year in the list devised by Ovum, the global research and advisory firm but opportunities in this region are being missed...
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Report reveals global mobile market almost saturated
A report out today reveals 90% of the world's population now has access to mobile networks but growth is slowing...
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Microsoft gets serious about the cloud
As space in the cloud computing area grows including with Google documents, Microsoft NZ has announced the launch and pricing details of Office 365...
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Tablets to take off at expense of netbooks, e-readers
A new report suggests worldwide media tablet sales will total 19.5 million units this year and keep growing...
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2degrees bucks retail trend
The fast growing operator has decided to open retail stores – the first in Auckland’s Sylvia Park...
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Ovum says multinationals must step up in managing mobile costs
In a new report, the independent telecoms analyst claims that multinationals are struggling to manage the ever growing cost and complexity of business mobility...
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IPv4 addresses going fast
Less than five percent of the world's IPv4 addresses remain unallocated, according to The Number Resource Organization...
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Australia’s online advertising  grows with mobile set to rise
Australia's online general advertising market grew in 2010 for the fifth year running and has shaken off the recession blues...
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Telecom under investigation
The Commerce Commission has confirmed it’s launched an investigation into an alleged breach of separation undertakings by Telecom...
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Mobile voucher scheme launched
Numerous deals of the day and voucher services are being launched as competition in this space hots up...
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Sqware Peg picks up Sydney business award
Sqware Peg, a leading Cloud Computing consulting and solutions provider in the Asia-Pacific region, has won  a top business award...
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Auckland buses track their performance better
Auckland’s transport authority is using SAP BusinessObjects BI reporting and analysis tools  to report on the performance of bus operators in the region...
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Mobile payments about to explode in this region
Mobile payments in Asia-Pacific are expected to more than double to US$3.6b in the next five years...
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Government looks to make more technology savings
The government has announced how it’ll save millions  in the technology area as well as cutting red tape...
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Government ICT direction gets the thumbs up
A government paper setting the policy for Government ICT use has been welcomed by the industry...
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CallPlus launches Managed WAN solution
CallPlus has launched its Managed Wide Area Network (WAN) solution to complement its range of SIP and IP based services...
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Kiwis careless with their personal identity stuff
New Zealanders have been urged to take action to protect themselves against identity fraud after a recent Newspoll survey...
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NZ’s internet story told in video and song
This is the 21st anniversary of New Zealand’s connection to the Internet and a Wellington digital agency has created a site to tell its story...
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Business infrastructure systems increasingly under political attack
A new Symantec survey reveals half of the infrastructure providers questioned have experienced politically motivated cyber attacks...
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Fujitsu puts its head further in the Cloud
Fujitsu is launching a self-service Cloud Services Portal, to offer a fully flexible model for IT infrastructure, platforms and applications...
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Global provider Datacraft acquires all of Integral Axon
Leading specialist IT solutions and services provider Datacraft  has made a conditional offer to acquire 100% of Integral Axon Computer Systems for an undisclosed sum...
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Citrix enables video conferencing in High Def
Video conferencing for businesses is set to soar – and Citrix has found a way to eliminate the annoying choppy images...
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Government funding for sorting machine
TechNZ will invest $3.7 million over 30 months in a project to research and develop an innovative produce sorting machine...
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Young entrepreneurs rewarded
Students with bright business ideas have been given awards by the AUT...
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Cloud triggers boom for wholesale telecoms market
Increasing demand for cloud-based services is driving a boom in the wholesale telecoms market, according to Ovum...
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Fast broadband moves ahead
New Zealand is another step closer to ultra-fast broadband today...
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Win help to be smarter
A NZICT  contest will help a business become smarter through technology...
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Video conferencing saving two hours of work a week
A study released today says that workers are now finding benefits of video conferencing beyond the accepted travel and other cost savings...
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Moving to the clouds? Here’s a deal
iStart is looking for a business that is just  setting up or migrating its business to the cloud...
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Buy now before it hurts
Kiwis went on a pre-GST spend up...
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Simple processes work
More proof today that sometimes simple is good -and the more businesses that adopt the principle, the better it will work for them...
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Start of new Google search bidding war?
A search specialist says some marked changes in the paid and natural search landscape could be ahead after he noticed a tweak in Google’s instant search results...
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New daily deals website celebrates launch with $1 iPods
Coveted products including iPods, soft toys and confectionery will go on sale for as little as $1 next month to celebrate the launch of New Zealand’s hottest new daily deals website…
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Developers get phone challenge
NZ software developers are being challenged to come up with some of the world’s first apps for the new Windows Phone 7 platform...
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More signs we’re not out of the woods
The country’s SMEs are still clearly struggling with the after effects of the world wide economic dip...
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Moving forward on mobile termination issue
The Commerce Commission has commenced the process for determining the wholesale price for terminating mobile calls and text messages...
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SKY available on computers
An Orcon SKY TV deal announced today will mean you will be able to watch SKY on your computer.
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University project creating location-based tools we dream about
Research is trying to find answers to questions like how do mobile technologies affect group cohesion, interaction and conflict?
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Fast wireless mobile phone charger coming soon
In two years time, you may be able to charge your mobile phone without the need for cables.
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Kordia does deal with Datacom
Kordia has entered into a new wholesale channel partnership with New Zealand’s largest privately-owned IT services provider, Datacom.
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Milestone for Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Microsoft has announced a key milestone for Microsoft Dynamics CRM with the beta release of its next-generation product for cloud-based and on-premise deployments.
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Vodafone launches iPhone App for VNZMAs
Vodafone’s gone geek chic with a FREE Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards iPhone app, launched today.
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KiwiRail-IBM deal to deliver a smarter rail network
A $3m deal uses IBM services to bring KiwiRail in line with modern day rail networks.
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Online ad market growth moves up a gear
The local online advertising market saw healthy growth in the latest quarter but the star performer differs from international trends.
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Mapping BI Data: easier, but you can fall over the cliff
In the old days, mapping data was easy. You bought a wall map and lots of colourcoded pins. Then you stuck them on the map. Fast, easy and cheap. But the information content was superficial at best...
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Rugby scoreboard goes high tech
While there are lots of iPhone applications to keep track of the score of top-notch rugby, Gordon Brown realised there wasn’t one for simply keeping the score in grassroots rugby...
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Mobile health risk real, but bluetooth cuts radiation by 90 percent
Nothing is risk-free. Mobile phones are a wonderful invention and we’ve taken to them with alacrity. However, the results of the recent 10-years-in-the-making Interphone project make grim reading...
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Infor on track to trump Oracle in the integration game
Infor may be on track to beat rival Oracle in delivering the Holy Grail of a properly integrated ERP-and-essential-business-applications suite...
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FlexiTime online payroll lets SMEs get on with business
A Kiwi start-up has put payroll online for small business in a similar move to that of online accounting success Xero – as well as integrating with Xero…
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New animal tracking standard opens door to Chinese advantage
A recent government standards announcement could mean losing another agri-tech race after kiwi’s do all the hard work...
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Co-creating software creates true custom fit
It’s the way of the future – developers and users working to together on a daily basis, via the web, to create software that really does fit ‘requirements’ snugly…
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Power-hungry internet needs to nap
The internet’s present tiny energy consumption is growing fast. It may need computers to help it sleep if it’s not to pose a green threat…
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Aussie's on-the-go holiday planner
Is Tourism Australia’s new mobile capable tool aimed at IT savvy travellers or the advertising departments of industry big players?
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Microsoft Office 2010: rich features and in the cloud
The new suite is an up-to-date take on its 2007 predecessor, with an emphasis on social networking and collaborating online…
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Online advertising still growing
Online advertising grew 12.3 percent in the first financial quarter of the financial year compared with the first quarter of 2009, to reach NZ$55.3 million...
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SAP goes mobile with Sybase
SAP’s acquisition of mobile specialist Sybase will allow it to deliver its ERP software to mobile devices…
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Hospitals buying into e-Trading gateway slowly despite savings
A medical e-gateway, and related eProcurement initiatives, promise savings between $21 and $51 million through efficiency improvements…
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SAP and the Supercity
Major contracts worth over NZ$90 million altogether have been awarded to build the new Auckland Council’s customer-focused ICT infrastructure…
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Integral-Axon merger reaches boon for SMEs
The acquisition of Axon by Integral is good news for small business, says Maclean Computing...
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Electronics still toxic, but Apple and HP show the way
Greenpeace’s latest Guide to Greener Electronics shows some electronic companies making headway while others are falling behind…
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How secure is your smartphone?
With staff increasingly mobile and mobility applications burgeoning, security threats are becoming as real on smartphones as they have been for some time on PCs. Being aware is the key to staying clean…
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Epicor’s next-generation ERP looks to SMBs’ needs
ERP goes mobile, as well as focusing on helping users reduce costs and encourage a better response from their own customers…
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LG's Android lands in New Zealand
Mobile phone maker LG announces its first handset based on Google’s Android operating system will be available in the local market...
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There’s sales in them thar blogs
Once upon a time, those with a sharp commercial eye might have mined the hills, with pickaxes, for gold, now they mine the web with software tools for the golden sales opportunities out there…
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Wirelessly yours: Mobico wins double award
It was a double act for Mobico at the recent Motorola ANZ Awards – it picked up two major awards.
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Beyond No. 8 fencing wire
We’re not as innovative as we think we are, says an IBM study. New Zealand innovation flatlined between 2000 and 2007, and then took a recessionary dive.
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Timetable for Government's ultra-fast broadband network announced
Crown Fibre Holdings announces indicative timetable for network build partner selection process.
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Local software market tipped to continue recovery
Ovum says major vendors are well-placed as the economy improves.
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Fast-paced data centre growth continues
Energy-guzzling business shows no signs of slowing down, says Frost & Sullivan.
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Aviation Security Service chooses Quintiq for employee scheduling
Avsec aims to boost operational efficiencies with a new system that can cope with common rostering issues faced by the agency such as delayed flights.
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Geographic Information Systems pioneer to attend NZ summit
ESRI founder Jack Dangermond to present keynote address at Annual GIS Senior Executive Summit in Wellington…
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Auckland IT event to feature leading vendors
Organiser Eagle Technology hopes the initiative – allowing direct interaction with a range of providers – will become an annual event…
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Unisys picks 2010 to be a big year for security roll-outs
IT services and software company predicts miniaturisation and attitudinal change will drive the take-up of innovative measures focused around identity security …
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Objective claims local government wasting $1.4m a year
Councils losing out on potential savings through inefficient document management, says the content solutions vendor…
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IT salaries forecast to remain flat this year
Contract rates and demand for staff expected to continue to be impacted by tough economic conditions… 
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Dell signs Simms International as NZ distributor
New arrangement in local SMB channel mirrors a similar approach Dell has taken in other markets, the company says.
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Microsoft seeking ‘road warrior’ sales staff to promote Office 2010
Top salespeople invited to apply for audition and four-month contract.
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Intergen first to win elite SharePoint status
Kiwi integrator’s expertise pays off as it becomes the world’s first Microsoft SharePoint Elite certified partner.
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Social media ‘key to increasing customer engagement’
Survey finds New Zealand businesses believe social media builds customer relationships, but few are prepared to invest in it significantly.
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Malware and spam rise 70% on social networks
Report finds three out of four businesses fear corporate security risks from staff use of social networking sites.
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Kordia selects Juniper Networks for network upgrade Telecommunications provider boosts network capacity to 10Gbps as data traffic and customer demand increases.
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TelstraClear enhances printing efficiency with Canon
Tailor-made in-house solution expected to save $200,000 a year in reduced paper and toner use, meaning a return on investment in nine months.
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QV partners Revera for virtual computing infrastructure
Outsourcing property valuation service’s IT infrastructure results in savings of 20%.
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Ovum forecasts modest recovery for local IT services market
Research firm expects 2010 to “an optimistic year, sprinkled with a healthy dose of cautiousness”. Project-led consulting and systems integration work also tipped to rebound.
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IT research forum aims to drive economic growth
New organisation focused on bringing industry, academia and government research communities together to help grow of the local software economy.
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Internet reaches critical turning point
New Zealand businesses must sit up and take note of the need to migrate to the new method of addressing computers and servers, says the IPv6 Taskforce.
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Businesses demand more reliable broadband
Survey finds a need for more consistency of service. Regional service providers promise to deliver.
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Avoiding data loss and digital footprints
Mobiu USB data key targets mobile staff who need access to sensitive files while out of the office.
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NetSafe launches Cybersafety resource for businesses
Whatsit business security resource website simplifies IT security policy implementation, especially for smaller businesses.
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New ISO standard signals Risk Management is maturing
ISO 31000 aims to help organizations develop, implement and continuously improve their risk management framework.
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TracMap secures major US deals
Local GPS guidance systems business sees big market potential in the large North American rural fire-fighting industry.
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Simms International opens for business in New Zealand
Former Renaissance MD Paul Johnston tasked with building up the IT distributor and supplier’s new local operation.
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Growth in PC shipments hits seven-year high
Gartner says all regions around the world experienced positive shipment results during the final quarter of last year.
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Hacking: the new form of organised crime
The ‘industrialisation’ of hacking by criminal cartels is the new decade’s greatest security threat, according to Imperva.
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Unisys predicts a ‘biometrics boom’ in 2010
While organisations go on the offensive to protect data, advances in surveillance systems and continued Trojan attacks are also on the horizon.
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Paper Plus Group signs with SmartPay
Merchant technology provider SmartPay picked to supply point of decision marketing systems and in store radio across 164 shops.
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Gen-i launches cloud strategy and services
ICT services provider gears up to tap into the growing Australasian market for cloud computing solutions.
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ECN Group partners with Innovit
Local business process management and messaging solutions specialist says its deal with Innovit will make implementing GS1net solutions easier for its customers.
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Fujitsu wins five year services deal with Meridian
Electricity generator says new converged operating and delivery model will major benefits, including significant cost reductions.
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New Zealand outperforms other countries in technology innovation
Strong performance of kiwi companies in the annual Deloitte Technology Fast 500 shows local innovation is alive and well, says ICT industry body.
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Microsoft announces changes to partner awards
Company expands categories for next year’s local awards and aligns timing with global schedule.
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Gartner predicts strong growth for open-source BI
Open-source business intelligence tools production deployments picked to grow five-fold through 2012.
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Infosys opens its first New Zealand office
Up to 100 of the IT services and outsourcing company’s staff will work from New Zealand at any one time, spread across client sites and the new Wellington office.
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Cisco marks 10 Years of IP telephony in New Zealand
A decade after NZ Post first trialled IP telephony, the technology has transformed the way local businesses operate.
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IBM building new ‘state-of-the-art’ Auckland data centre
The $80 million facility will harness the latest green technologies, including making use of outside air for cooling during winter months.
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New Zealand Defence Force awards Gen-i major licensing contract
Appointment as Microsoft and other software licensing management partner extends Gen-i’s existing relationship with NZDF.
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IT job market tipped to improve
2010 will be a better year for technology job seekers, but the pick-up in New Zealand is likely to lag behind Australia, says recruitment specialist.
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Microsoft releases Office 2010 beta
The latest beta versions of SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight 4 can also be downloaded for a complimentary test.
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IDC warns the rough economic ride isn’t over
Issuing its top 10 predictions for 2010, the IT analyst firm says while the economic recovery will accelerate IT-based business transformation, the rough ride isn't over.
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Survey shows ‘workforce planning’ is on most companies’ to-do list
Despite tough economic times, almost half of businesses expect to spend more on WFP next year.
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VectorFibre launches ‘all you can eat’ business broadband service
Network company says its unlimited InterNet offer is a “critical departure” from standard business data plans.
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Poll finds local businesses switching on to video communications
40% of New Zealand companies have invested in VC over the past year and almost half plan desktop implementations within five years.
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GeoSmart launches online route optimisation solution
The mapping company’s new software-as-a-service Route²GO solution is being promoted as a way for smaller businesses to save travel costs and time.
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Zeacom adds ‘Record and Evaluate’ module to UC offering
With contact centre agents spend more time engaging with high-value customers, effective reporting and evaluation tools are critical, company says.
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Airways NZ plans ahead with Oracle Primavera
New project management solution allows air navigation services business to pull all this information together in one central and easily accessible location.
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Datamail Group orders HP digital presses
Country’s largest communications management group says the HP Indigo W7200 commercial presses represent a “re-engineering” of its business.
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‘Human error’ causing more business data disasters
Increasingly complex storage systems and reductions in corporate IT staffing levels are behind the growing number of bungles, says Kroll Ontrack.
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Organisations urged to start planning for Windows 7 migration immediately
FrontRange Solutions outlines four-stage plan to ease the pressure of switching to the new operating system.
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IMS Payroll launches online module
Major local payroll software provider adds web-based data entry and processing capabilities.
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Cortell shines at IBM Business Partner Awards
BI specialist picks up the Supreme Business Partner of the Year award for its deployment of a Cognos TM1 solution for burger chain Wendy’s.
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NetSuite adds ‘social intelligence’ to business software
Vendor says its InsideView for NetSuite application is the first to bring social media insights directly to its CRM and ERP solutions.
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Most companies survive GFC without cutting IT staff
IDC survey finds that to survive the global financial crisis, firms have trimmed admin, operations and ICT budgets rather than making IT staff redundant.
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Hardwired hands-free kits way to go
Once you go hard-wired you won’t look back.
This is the message from hands-free car kit distributor Grant Eveleigh.
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Is Facebook worth it for business?
Facebook hasn’t had much success with its advertising efforts so far, now it’s hoping that brand-oriented company Facebook pages will prove a winner.
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IT Spending Survives the Global Recession
Survey finds CFOs are demanding efficiency gains and cost savings from IT initiatives, and modifying existing systems is often the preferred option.
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Warning to BlackBerry Users: Beware the PhoneSnoop
Could your competitors be listening in on your business calls? A simple BlackBerry app makes corporate espionage easy – at least in theory.
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Virtual Computer expands into New Zealand
Virtualisation vendor partners with resellers to grow its presence in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Microsoft trims cost of Business Productivity Online Suite
The business communication and collaboration software delivered as a service is now used by more than 200 New Zealand companies.
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Leighton Contractors extends managed print services contract with HP
Construction company says partnership with HP has already reduced costs and improved staff productivity.
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Humes signs Infor to support plant growth
As it builds a new state-of-the-art plant, New Zealand’s largest pipeline systems supplier is focused on improving planning processes and reducing stock levels.
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NextWindow selects Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management
Local optical touch screen exporter is the first company in New Zealand to deploy Oracle’s PLM solution.
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Local Microsoft partner takes the stage at international SharePoint conference
Intergen’s Chris Auld shares his company’s experience with a global audience ahead of next month’s beta release of SharePoint 2010.
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Pingar debuts kiwi-made enterprise search solution
Local software developer says while half of all searches don’t find the correct answer, it has the solution.
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Local SaaS vendor launches new on-demand CRM tool
ActionStep says its new product – called CRM+ – can help businesses boost sales in a tough market.
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Author-it and Lionbridge launch multilingual content delivery solution
Partnership focused on unified global content lifecycle solution for managing content in multiple languages and formats.
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“Context-aware computing” tipped as the next business advantage
Gartner says within six years, context will be as influential in mobile consumer services and relationships as search engines are to the web.
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Plant & Food Research selects SAP Business Suite
Crown research institute says rapid deployment, and on-time, under-budget delivery adds up to good value.
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IBM partners with eCom for business processing
Partnership will deliver IBM’s FileNet content and business process management solutions to clients throughout New Zealand and Australia.
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Telecom picks Opengear and Prophecy Networks for remote management
Country’s largest telco using centralised, out of band management of all equipment in its Network Integration Lab.
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Punk legend Iggy Pop fronts for Orcon
Local telco’s latest promotion involves the music icon putting a band together – with kiwi talent he meets online.
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CourierPost marks birthday with super-fast Kiwi sorting system
The national courier is now 20 years old and still keen to innovate. Its locally developed automated sorting technology has increased parcel-sorting capacity by a whopping 600 percent, it says.
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Orcon launches locally-developed cloud computing service
ISP says the service, aimed at SMEs and launched under its iSERVE brand, is a first for New Zealand.
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Statistics NZ selects IBM for 2011 Census imaging services
Contract aims to improve quality and accuracy of data captured during the five-yearly national head-count.
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IT confidence in US bodes well for New Zealand
KPMG says local technology firms will benefit from the new positive economic outlook of American IT companies.
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AXA picks Gen-i for mobility solutions
Insurer has sights set on cost savings and improved productivity as it moves to the new XT mobile network.
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Amway signs mobile deal with Vodafone
Partnership will see Vodafone handsets and services promoted through Amway’s network of independent business owners.
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LogMeIn promises easy, secure remote access
Despite the advent of Google Docs and remote access to email via the web, working remotely remains an issue for many staff.
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Survey finds over half of IT departments fail to deliver value
Importance of ‘service value management’ tipped to grow as lack of real-time metrics aligning IT with business needs continues to frustrate corporates.
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Vector’s Nigel Bernie appointed SAP User Group chair
Infrastructure company’s IT business systems manager plans to expand the NZSUG’s reach as Business One and SAP BusinessObjects users come onboard.
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Improve your business pitch, NZX boss tells IT start-ups
Investors looking to buy into fledgling technology companies want to hear business plans, not product details, says Mark Weldon.
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API Consumer Brands implements Infor Advanced Scheduler
The custodian of Blackmores, Health Basics and other well-known brands expects to increase production capacity by 20% with its new solution...
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Agile expands Networks Group
Company appoints Phil Josephs as business development manager responsible for growing its carrier and service provider business.
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Security concerns keeping businesses out of the cloud
Poll finds corporate concerns about security and data privacy continue to be the major barriers to enterprise adoption of cloud computing.
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Microsoft gifts $1.4m of software to Barnardos
Corporation says its donations to non-profit organisations in New Zealand topped $5.5 million over the past year.
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Windows Mobile app store to sell business applications
The forthcoming iTunes-style store will offer downloadable applications aimed at small business as well as the more usual fun consumer apps.
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Jet Reports goes one better with V2009
Jet Reports, the Excel-based report writing tool designed for business people, has been rewritten in Microsoft .NET Version 2009 and launched on September 21.
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Zintel Acquires Cogent
Communications solutions provider says the $1.9 million deal will broaden its telephony offering.
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Air New Zealand awards telco contract to Gen-i
Global network management services agreement aimed at saving costs and improving technology.
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TechEd gives customers a voice
Unusually, the recent New Zealand Microsoft developer’s conference showcased how six major customers are using technology to leverage business, help babies and more.
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Survey finds local organisations exposed to file recovery risk
Poll of senior ICT decision makers shows Australian and New Zealand organisations require ‘information intervention’ to improve governance processes.
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Maori Land maps out future
Te Puni Kokiri, the Ministry of Maori Development is using the latest mapping software to build its Land Information Base.
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Microsoft’s Tech Ed conference hits Auckland
The country’s largest IT summit draws more than 2000 attendees to SkyCity.
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World-first claim for local online medical alert service
125,000 New Zealander MedicAlert users set to benefit from emergency access to vital medical records.
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Department of Building and Housing selects Objective
EDRMS specialist tasked with designing a solution to support the growth of the government agency’s knowledge base.
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Symantec Donates Software to local charities
Enterprise software available to eligible charities, voluntary and community groups.
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‘Antique and collectable’ computers up for auction
Organisers of the eDay electronics recycling initiative plan to sell donated technology gems on Trade Me.
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Fonterra moves mobile business to Gen-i
In a significant business win for Telecom’s ICT services business, the dairy giant is shifting more than half of its mobile connections away from Vodafone.
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New auction website targets local IT industry
DealFoundry promoted as a tool for consumers, small businesses, IT dealers, manufacturers and distributors.
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SAP expands University Alliances Program in New Zealand
AUT joins University of Auckland and Waikato University as a third local participant in the ‘hands-on’ software education initiative.
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New Zealand contact centres continue to expand
Local call centres defy the impact of the global financial crisis, but growth is set to slow next year.
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Open Source Society targets public sector with ‘Remix’ project
New Zealand Open Source Society initiative aims to encourage government agencies to look at open source as a way of cutting desktop computing costs.
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IBM supercomputer boosts NIWA’s environmental forecasting
Science institute’s $12.7 million IBM Power 575 will be the most powerful climate research supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere...
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Optimation partners with Indian IT services giant HCL
The two companies say their combined mix of global scale and local expertise will benefit New Zealand customers.
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Olympic Software brings new spend management solutions to NZ
Global vendor Ariba says its on-demand corporate spending technology can boost local businesses’ bottom line.
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NetSuite luring businesses into the cloud with “Cash for Clunkers” promotion
Cloud computing vendor offers new customers who ditch legacy software $500 off for every $5,000 they spend.
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Growth-focused businesses continue to invest in IT to improve ‘customer care’
Despite tight economic times, IDC says New Zealand firms are still using technology to ‘keep customers happy’.
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Dell appoints new NZ country manager
Mike Hill replaces Deborah Harrigan and will focus on growing the local business market.
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Intergen flags Azure’s ‘scalable’ cost-savings advantages
The new Microsoft cloud platform will handle workload peaks with ease.
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HP Opens Global Applications Services Centre in Christchurch
Government apps centre also in the pipeline for Wellington as company increases its focus on “best-shoring” to meet client needs.
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Kmart selects HP retail publishing solutions
In-store and online service will allow customers to order prints and ‘creative’ photo products.
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Recession sees local IT vendors focused on verticals
Tough economic conditions are encouraging New Zealand vendors to target specialist niche markets, says IDC.
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SmartPay buys ProvencoCadmus payments business
Company says the $6 million acquisition makes it New Zealand’s largest eftpos provider.
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Kaseya opens New Zealand office
IT automation software provider aims to grow its managed services capabilities in the local market.
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Napier City Council selects Accela asset management solution
Local authority plans to use the software to eventually track almost 100,000 assets.
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Microsoft releases Dynamics POS 2009
The new solution for retailers is available in five countries, including New Zealand.
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NetSuite partners with Australian start-up JCurve Solutions
Partnership delivers a quick and easily-deployable packaged business management solution targeted at Australian and New Zealand SMEs.
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ERP competition hots up as users demand more but want to pay less
Big ERP providers like SAP and Oracle are coming under pressure from customers seeking better value as the recession bites into their budgets.
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Txt keyword quadruples radio adverts’ results
Blue Crystal chlorine-free pool and spa cleaner marketer Counties Cleaner got a sparkling result when it added a text keyword option to its nationwide radio marketing campaign...
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2degrees halves call prices, promises business offering
The newbie telco has slashed call prices and is pushing pre-pay as the recession-busting mobile way for consumers and businesses. While its launch offering is aimed at consumers, it says it has a business offering waiting in the wings…
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Rod Oram future-gazes at IBM Forum
Veteran business commentator Rod Oram heads the speaker list at Auckland’s forthcoming IBM Insight Forum 2009 and says he will be conducting a ‘standing in the future’ exercise to focus on Auckland 20 years on…
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Big turn-out for contact centre body launch
Contact centres’ business value is rising because of their low cost, but ‘isolated’ managers feel the need of networking support CCiNZ can provide.
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New contact centre body in triple launch
Frustrated contact centre professionals needed a place to meet, share ideas and access resources – they have it now in the form of the new Contact Centre Institute, which launches in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch this week.
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Australia puts business online as broadband speed jumps
Australian business users are downloading data big-time – twice as much as last year, in fact.
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‘Going green’ on par with GFC for Oz businesses
An Infor survey of business’ attitudes to carbon emission reduction found it was still high on companies’ hot-list despite recession worries.
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iPhone provides sweet smartphone satisfaction
It’s the apple of users’ eye – far outstripping rival Blackberry when it comes to user love.
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Information is power - business looks to BI for help
Companies may still be in survival mode, but the outlook is improving and with it an interest in knowledge management.
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Free battery recycling service
Recytech is offering a free nationwide battery take-back services to businesses nationwide.
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MapIt mapping software ‘tells a story’
ESRI’s latest offering, MapIt – offspring of the marriage of GIS and BI – promises to make studying data a cinch for business managers, enabling them to think and plan geographically.
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Two-thirds of Kiwi businesses doing alright
Revenue stays the same for most companies – up for some, according to MYOB survey.
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2degrees’ sign-up of 20,000 bodes well for business users
News that 20,000 people have already registered for new third mobile operator 2degrees shows how keen people are to embrace new telecommunications offerings – and how unimpressed they are with what Telecom and Vodafone currently offer.
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MagnumMac Christchurch store ‘the business’
Bucking the recession gloom, Apple reseller Renaissance opened a new MagnumMac store in Christchurch in early July.
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EMA bolsters membership with 'recession' e-marketplace
The Employers and Manufacturers Association has come up with a novel way to boost membership – an e-marketplace, called E-MArket.
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3Com cites 'value and technical excellence' as reasons to switch
The company’s H3C router and switching products are now No. 2 in the world – because it offers both value for money and technical excellence, it says.
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Soap star: seven ways to survive the recession
It was more a case of soap’s up, rather than surf’s up for soap giant P&G during the Great Depression. But it spent its way out of trouble. Now, an NZ Trade & Enterprise report details how companies can do similar to survive and thrive in this recession.
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Accomplish xeros in on online accounting market
Long-time Australasian accounting software specialist Accomplish aims to give Kiwi online accounting service sharemarket darling Xero a run for the money.
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Cloud computing propels NZ$1.3 billion market to business’ benefit
Bucking the trend for all forecasts to be doom-and-gloom recession reports nowadays, analyst IDC’s latest report says the consulting and integration (C &I) market is set grow over the next five years, to reach NZ$1.3 billion.
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Savio Maximizes SME potential
CRM provider Maximizer and New Zealand’s Savio Solutions have joined forces as business partners on both sides of the Tasman.
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Social media a hit with business – but how do you use it?
Survey finds companies are keen to experiment with the new technology, but aren’t sure how, nor are their initiatives proving very successful so far.
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Oracle’s Ellison tells why he’s chasing low-margin business
The database company, which recently bought Sun – and its jewel, Java – is keen to move into the difficult hardware business.
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SMBs get access to BI the SaaS way
It’s not only the economic slowdown that’s driving New Zealanders to SaaS, says analyst firm IDC.  The enterprise market is saturated in New Zealand and this is driving vendors to look at the small- to medium-sized business market, says analyst Vern Hue.
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Kodak signs up Nutech
Kodak has signed up Nutech IT Supplies as distributor for consumer and professional businesses in New Zealand.
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Pronto eases into Phase 6
Pronto Software has released a new version of its flagship ERP solution, PRONTO-Xi.
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Sixty-eight percent of consumers fear security details at risk
A survey by research company callcentres.net has found 68 percent of New Zealanders interviewed feared their security details were at risk.
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Cloud computing – out of the sandbox into the mainstream
It’s a long-term ‘disruptive’ development that the global recession is only speeding up –customers buying only what services they want – and only when they want them.
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Third mobile network launch set for August
Switch and retain your old number – and phone.
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Slashing of ‘rip-off’ European mobile rates could be good for NZ
A drastic recommendation by the European Commission that “rip-off” mobile termination rates (MTRs) be cut to 1.5 to 3 euro cents could be good news for NZ consumers – and third mobile player NZ Communications, now renamed Two Degrees Mobile.
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Tandberg goes mobile with Movi PC-based video
Tandberg has released a PC-based mobile video-communications tool, called Movi, aimed at business users.
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Cheap recession mobile offering in the wings?
While Telecom and Vodafone have been battling it out in courts and the media, NZ Communications could end up stealing a march on the pair.
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Survey finds Auckland IT sector bucking recessionary trend
Auckland recruiters Potentia recently surveyed 450 IT sector managers and found, surprisingly, that the majority of IT organisations expect to more than survive this year and actually increase revenue. A significant proportion of organisations are also planning to expand, says Potentia. 
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Bay of Plenty council goes Objective route
Western Bay of Plenty District Council has chosen Objective’s content management system to help it store and manage the myriad of information related to the range of services it offers local people.
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Twitter marketing - the next big thing?
Do you twitter? As in the SMS-style online chat phenomenon that recently hit an all-time popularity high? Maybe you should. The business case for tweeting is building – but some subtlety is required.
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Six cost drivers behind US$42 billion SaaS uptake
Analyst IDC finds cost is the major factor driving up spending on cloud computing, also known as SaaS, which is set to jump three-fold, to US$42 billion, by 2012.
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Enabling goes down on the farm with CRT
Enabling has won the tender to upgrade South Island co-operative Combined Rural Traders’ ERP system with a ‘people-centric’ Microsoft Dymamics AX solution.
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‘Hot’ clouds and the GFC top IDC 2009 conference topic list
Hot topics on the list for discussion at analyst firm IDC’s forthcoming annual ‘Directions’ conference include Cloud Computing and the challenges we face as a result of the global financial crisis (GFC).
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Oracle’s $US7.4 billion Sun buy provokes much excitement
Oracle’s US$7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems has caused much excitement in both the tech and business communities because of its implications for the future openness of Java and MySQL.
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Focus on IBM Cognos award
IBM has named its Cognos Partners of the Year for 2009, with Focus Strategies and Solutions winning the premier Business Intelligence of the Year Award for Australia and New Zealand.
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Renaissance takes on NetComm’s rugged routers
Renaissance has been appointed exclusive distributor for Australia’s NetComm range of rugged industrial 3G cellular products in New Zealand.
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Samsung appoints senior manager sales and marketing
Samsung has appointed Francis File to a new role in the company: senior manager sales and marketing for consumer electronics, IT and appliances.
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Backing up small business with Plan-b
The Auckland data back-up services company has launched an online ‘business continuity’ service for SMEs
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Canon appoints new senior general manager marketing for Australia
Canon has promoted New Zealand managing director Craig Manson to the newly created position of senior general manager, marketing, for Canon Australia. The move is part of the company’s transition towards becoming more customer and channel focused.
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Sybiz appoints new channel manager
Software provider Sybiz has appointed Neil Landers as channel manager for New Zealand. Landers brings a blend of technical know-how and sales management experience to his new role that should benefit both customers and the channel.
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Carter Holt Harvey opts for SAP BusinessObjects
Following a competitive tender, Carter Holt Harvey has chosen SAP BusinessObjects to provide standardised BI reporting and analysis tools to end-users in its building supplies group.
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Bypass recession pain the web way
EconomicTurningPoint.com is an unusual – and timely – website forum. It’s from the US, but is nevertheless still useful.
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Create your own phone short-cuts
Tired of continually having to unlock your phone and scroll through various menus and submenus to get to the feature you want?
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Nokia sets store by new app shop
Following in the footsteps of Apple’s pioneering success with the Apple App Store, Nokia is opening a similar store for its millions of phone users.
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Kiwi first for accounting software for blind
A blind Dunedin entrepreneur has helped adapt a locally made small business accounting package for blind users.
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Nokia users get extra care
Nokia is opening a care centre in Auckland as part of a multi-million dollar investment programme. A second centre is planned for Christchurch in the middle of the year.
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Rodney Hyde tipped as Minister for Commerce Commission
Controversy continues to swirl around the Commerce Commission, with the possibility that outspoken ACT leader Rodney Hyde is to be appointed Minister for the Commerce Commission.
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Google takes the Latitude
Do you have reason to share your location with colleagues or friends, or your boss? If so, then a new free Google Maps add-on could prove very useful.
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Canon appoints country manager
Canon has appointed Mike Johnston to the newly created role of country manager for Canon New Zealand.
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Next-Gen Orcon goes to Wellington
Orcon is launching its next-generation network in the capital, giving Wellingtonians a taste of high speed connection.
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Controversial copyright act scrapped
In a rare case of government paying heed to grassroots objections, the National Government has scrapped the controversial Copyright Amendment Act (Section 92A).
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Txt2complain and get better service
Kiwis really don’t like to complain – it goes against the retiring, we-don’t-want-to-stand-out’ national character – but that doesn’t mean we don’t fume over bad service. Now a Kiwi company has come up with a text-based way of getting the ‘I didn’t like it’ message across without the person having to endure a personal confrontation.
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Copyright law puts businesses at risk from rogue downloaders
Businesses need to be aware they could be at risk from the activities of rogue employees who illegally download music and films while at work.
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Telecom prepares for 'T-Day'
Telecom has finally announced the launch of its new cellular network and has been using statements like "The mobile phone revolution begins" and "A new era in New Zealand's telecommunications is at hand".
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Storage: Trends to watch in 2009
As we move into 2009, Simon Elisha , chief technologist of Hitachi Data Systems ANZ, offers his predictions for the year ahead in the dynamic world of enterprise data storage.
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Windows 7 - what’s in it for business?
While most people are still getting to grips with Vista, Windows 7 - Microsoft's latest version of its operating system - is provoking a lot of interest. The question is what's in it for business users?
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Kiwifruit packer harvests sweet result with RFID
EastPack achieves pay back in less than 12 month with RFID warehouse solution saving around $400,000-plus  in its first year, with more savings to come.
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Web analytics tool tracks off-site activity to discover what ads work best
Coremetrics has developed a tool that tags – and then maps –display ads, videos and microsites to see what drives customers to a client’s website. 
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Kiwi Google engineering director wins ‘World Class’ tall poppy award 
Expat Craig Nevill-Manning and creator of Maori language Google has won the ICT category of the World Class New Zealand Awards.
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Vodafone and Telecom neck-and-neck as both roll out 3G networks
Telecoms users on-the-go to benefit as mobile broadband services reach 97 percent of people.
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Recession to accelerate shift to online advertising
While spending on online advertising is set to slow further, TV and print advertising spend will continue move online.
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Survey finds East/West divide in digital media habits
The so-called digital divide between emerging and developed economies worldwide may not be that wide after all.
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SmartPay buys wi-fi operator FIVO
IP-services company National Communications Corporation (NATCOM) says it has finalised the sale of its New Zealand wi-fi technology and network services business, FIVO, to listed transaction technology company SmartPay.
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Lawson brings APAC operation together
Lawson Software is combining its Australian and New Zealand business with its Asia operations to create a unified Asia Pacific regional organisation.
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New ICT industry body has skills high on agenda
More than 30 of the country’s leading ICT companies have agreed in principle to join together in the creation of a new ICT industry association.
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Report proposes utility expansion for broadband future
Research released by internet advocacy group InternetNZ concludes that utility expansion provides the best opportunity for dramatic improvement of New Zealand's broadband infrastructure.
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Local ICT industry working on IPv6 transition plan
Following a workshop convened by the Ministry of Economic Development, major ICT industry and stakeholder organizations have agreed on the need for New Zealand to develop a transition plan from IPv4 to IPv6, the next generation Internet addressing protocol.
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EROAD joins road user charge trial in Sweden
New Zealand technology company EROAD is to deploy its eHubo product in a government sponsored field trial to develop an electronic road user charge system for heavy vehicles in Sweden.
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Technology makes us greener and more productive, says Vodafone
According to a Vodafone survey, kiwis believe they are more productive at work and have less of an impact on the environment as a result of mobile phones and broadband at home.
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Pumpkin Patch deploys Riverbed Steelhead WAN appliances
Local children’s clothing retailer Pumpkin Patch has deployed a range of Riverbed Steelhead appliances at its New Zealand headquarters and its regional offices in the UK and US.
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Economic crisis set to hit NZ hardware and software vendors hardest, says IDC
In its latest report – Economic Crisis Response: The Impact on the New Zealand ICT Market – IT research firm IDC says hardware and software markets will be the hardest hit in the local market during the economic downturn.
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Ovum warns of major IT services issues in 2009
The impact of the slowing economy on business process outsourcing (BPO) business models, the convergence of IT and telecom services, and the continued importance of quality and security are among the top issues IT service providers will face in 2009, according to IT consulting firm Ovum.
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Mega-D Botnet returns after McColo shutdown
One of three major botnets shut down as a result of the closure of major spam hosting provider, McColo, has been re-established and is back spamming in large volumes, according to security vendor Marshal8e6.
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Roast laptop, anyone? The year’s top data disasters
Vendor Kroll Ontrack has released its fifth annual top ten list of “data disasters” and says the list –a global representation of real data loss situations compiled by its Ontrack Data Recovery engineers –demonstrates that regardless of how prepared you are, data loss can be unavoidable.
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Survey finds ongoing demand for storage spend
The majority of CIOs will continue spending money on boosting their organisations’ storage capacity despite the economic crisis, according to a new survey.
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Telecom begins inbound roaming on new mobile network
Telecom’s new W850 mobile network has passed a key milestone with the start of inbound roaming for overseas visitors.
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Defence Force selects TelstraClear and Vodafone
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has selected TelstraClear as its preferred supplier for Wide Area Network services and Vodafone for the provision of mobile services.
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Fronde technology boosts mobile commerce in the Philippines
Logica and New Zealand company Fronde Anywhere have launched a new mobile ordering and payment service in the Philippines with i.can Worldwide, part of the TAO Group of companies.
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Kiwi tech sector ‘out-markets’ the US
Kiwi technology companies outspend their US counterparts on sales and marketing, but not necessarily on the most effective strategies, according to a new study.
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Livestock Improvement embraces utility computing
Hamilton-based farm improvement company Livestock Improvement (LIC) has signed a five-year deal for utility computing from ICT infrastructure provider Revera.
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Sun Microsystems offers cheap deals to start-ups
Sun Microsystems has unveiled its Sun Startup Essentials Program, offering free and heavily discounted Sun products and services to newly established businesses.
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New Symantec report reveals booming underground economy
Security vendor Symantec has released a new report detailing an online underground economy that has matured into an efficient, global marketplace in which stolen goods and fraud-related services are regularly bought and sold, and where the estimated value of goods offered by individual traders is measured in millions of dollars.
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Unisys completes ‘green’ data centre
Unisys has completed the expansion of its Kapiti data centre, near Wellington.
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Research finds strong demand for ID theft protection
Five out of 10 New Zealanders are extremely or very concerned about the security of their financial transactions, up sharply according to the latest Unisys Security Index.
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Transpower plugs into TelstraClear’s network
TelstraClear has signed a 10 year contract with Transpower for enhanced fibre services from its Next IP Network.
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Global spam cut after botnet host shut-down
On November 11, the volume of spam around the world fell by as much as 70 percent due to the shutdown of a major spam hosting network, McColo.
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Netsuite targets Salesforce.com customers
Competition in the on-demand CRM space is intensifying, with mid-market vendor NetSuite announcing an “aggressive” new pricing program aimed at winning local customers from rival software-as-a-service provider Salesfoceforce.com.
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‘Back to basics’ approach to IT spend expected next year
IT research firm IBRS believes the impact of the global economic crisis will result in businesses focusing their 2009 IT spend on technologies that increase productivity or save costs.
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NZ Rugby Union pics StayinFront for CRM
CRM vendor StayinFront has won a contract to develop a new CRM solution for the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU).
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Microsoft offers interest-free financing
Microsoft Financing has announced it will offer a zero-interest deal over 36 months for new purchasers of selected Microsoft Dynamics ERP and Microsoft Dynamics CRM software solutions.
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FrontRange boosts local channel presence
FrontRange Solutions says it has strengthened its channel presence in New Zealand by expanding its relationship with its premier partner, Focus on Business.
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Marshal to merger with 8e6 Technologies
New Zealand-founded security company Marshal is merging with 8e6 Technologies, a US-based specialist in web filtering appliances and technology, to form a new company, Marshal8e6.
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Zeacom and Datasquirt launch SMS queuing solution
Zeacom and Datasquirt are launching a new SMS-based communications service for organisations wanting to better manage high volumes of in-bound and out-bound customer calls.
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Next Generation Networks conference registrations open
The Commerce Commission has opened registrations for its Next Generation Networks conference, to be held in February.
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Cisco targets small business market
Networking giant Cisco has announced a $US100 million global strategic initiative focused on small business networking and communications solutions for companies with fewer than 100 employees.
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Microsoft offers free software and support to start-ups
Microsoft has launched a global program designed to help accelerate the success of entrepreneurs and early stage start-ups.
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Ricoh becomes first carbon neutral NZ office equipment company
Copier and printer company Ricoh says it is the first supplier in the New Zealand office equipment market to achieve a carbon neutrality rating through the carboNZero programme. Ricoh says as well as offsetting emissions from its own business operations, it has gone a step further and also offset greenhouse gases emitted as a result of customers using its copiers and printers.
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Survey finds businesses believe IT is crucial for business success
The inaugural SAP/EMA Innovation for Growth Survey has revealed the importance of IT to the success of New Zealand businesses.
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ComOps lands in New Zealand
ComOps, an Australasian provider of business software products and services, has launched offices in New Zealand citing robust opportunity for its suite of business software solutions among both local public and private sector organisations.
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Diligent Board Member Services Signs Burger King
Listed software company Diligent Board Member Services says it has signed a deal with the parent company of international fast food chain Burger King to use its web-based Diligent Boardbooks service.
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Sales move online as economy tightens
New Zealanders are turning to internet sales for additional cash according to the latest sales figures from Trade Me.
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TeamTalk expands secure technology network
Communications company TeamTalk has rolled out secure top end IP-based “P25” technology in Auckland, linking to the service already in place in Wellington and Christchurch.
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NZRS replaces .nz name server
New Zealand Registry Services (NZRS) has replaced the authoritative name server for the .nz Domain Name System (DNS) has been replaced.
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Infor launches Web 2.0 user interface
Software vendor Infor has used the inaugural Australian Inforum conference to unveil MyDay, a new role-based Web 2.0 user interface that sits on top of Infor's Open SOA platform.
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Technology drives Air New Zealand domestic airport changes
Air New Zealand customers will be among the first in the world to access radio frequency identification-enabled technology that will enable self-scanned check in and boarding at domestic airports.
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Broadband uptake increases
An OECD report showing that broadband penetration in New Zealand is growing at the sixth fastest rate in the developed world has been welcomed as excellent news by TUANZ, the Telecommunications Users Association.
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Politicians challenged to better broadband commitments
The broadband commitments being made by both major political parties are a move in the right direction, but not enough by themselves, says ICT consultancy firm Voco.
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Retailers using technology as a competitive advantage
A study by Global Retail Insights, an IDC company, has found that New Zealand retailers are beginning to use emergent payment technologies not only to complete a financial transaction, but also to enhance the retail experience, increase operational efficiencies and to obtain competitive advantage.
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Southland District Council beefs up storage platform
Southland District Council is banking on SAN storage to cope with fast-rising volumes of rich media and virtualisation requirements.
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Tuapeka Gold Print chooses Syspro for ERP
New Zealand’s largest supplier of printed pens and promotional products, Tuapeka Gold Print (TGP), has selected Syspro Software as its new company-wide ERP system to underpin rapid growth plans.
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TelstraClear launches VDSL2 business offer
TelstraClear says it is now offering New Zealand businesses the fastest DSL broadband technology in the country, VDSL2.
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Graeme Riley appointed SAP’s local MD
SAP New Zealand has appointed Graeme Riley as managing director, reporting to Tim Ebbeck, SAP’s ANZ president and CEO.
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Resort gets NZ’s first gigabit fibre network
Residents of the newly-developed Gracefield Living community resort in Stoke (near Nelson) have become the first in New Zealand to enjoy a broadband network capable of 1Gbps speeds.
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Jade chief executive to become Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canterbury
Jade Software’s chief executive, Dr Rod Carr, had been appointed Vice-Chancellor at the University of Canterbury.
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Companies struggling to attract tech-savvy ‘millennials’
A survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit and Alcatel-Lucent’s call centre and customer interaction arm Genesys has found most companies are struggling with how to adapt their businesses to serve a new wave of consumers from the “millennial” generation.
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Napier high-tech graffiti initiative wins award
Location intelligence solutions provider Pitney Bowes MapInfo has handed Napier City Council its “Outstanding Implementation of a Geographic Information Systems Project” award for the council's new graffiti mapping solution.
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Smartphone market heads into a storm
Life just got tougher for the tech-conscious executive trying to decide which smartphone to accessorise – thanks to Research In Motion’s latest BlackBerry: the touch-screen enabled Storm.
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NZ businesses accused of undercharging
According to Software Associates, New Zealand businesses are losing up to five per cent of their profits each year as a result of undercharging.
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Waikato DHB signs with Vodafone
Enabling clients to contact its community workers wherever they are and reducing costs are just two of the ways the Waikato District Health Board will benefit from a new contract with Vodafone to provide its fixed line and mobile telephone services.
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Royal Mail selects Blackbay mobile worker solution
Following successful trials, Royal Mail has chosen New Zealand mobile enterprise solutions and services specialist Blackbay’s Delivery Connect solution to provide a real-time mobility solution for the majority of Royal Mail’s tracked products, including Special Delivery and Recorded Signed For.
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Compliance prompts records management spending
A survey by enterprise content management specialist Open Text has found New Zealand and Australian businesses are planning to invest in records management solutions to meet regulatory requirements.
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New provider tackles ‘sorry state’ of data centres
A newly launched ICT infrastructure consultancy says it aims to help businesses close the gap between advances in technology hardware and systems and their increasingly rundown accommodations.
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Retail sectors spends up large on IT
A new report by Global Retail Insights, an IDC company, has shown that IT expenditure in New Zealand's retail industry is not expected to slow down over the next five years.
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Kordia progressing Trans-Tasman cable plans
Kordia says it is making solid progress with the development of its business case to build a new fibre optic, submarine cable that will link Australia and New Zealand.
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New SmartPay GM restructures business
Merchant services provider SmartPay has implemented a restructuring programme to focus the company on its three main market segments of telecommunications, music/media and the taxi transaction payment market.
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WaikatoLink opens technology pathway into China
WaikatoLink, the commercialisation and technology transfer company of the University of Waikato, has set the foundation for more effective market access into China by entering into a partnership with their equivalent at one of China’s top universities, Tsinghua University.
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NetValue joins elite Microsoft club
Microsoft has named Hamilton IT services and development company NetValue as its first New Zealand-based High Performance Computing (HPC) Partner and a Microsoft High Potential Managed Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner.
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Jab reminders to be sent by txt
Absentmindedness is no longer an excuse for failing to follow doctor’s orders. 
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Companies in the dark over worker surfing
Workers’ private time online is spiralling out of control according to an ICT security consultant, Paul Hortop from Voco.
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MSD chooses Dell desktops and notebooks
The Ministry of Social Development has chosen Dell as the hardware vendor to supply its personal desktop and notebook computers for the next three years.
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ICT industry highlights ‘copyright confusion’
Industry organisations representing the telecommunications sector, internet service providers, user groups, internet advocates and IT professionals have all labelled parts of the recently passed Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act “a deeply flawed law that undermines fundamental rights and simply will not work”.
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NZ's Endev partners with WorkTech
Fortune 500 companies around the world depend on WorkTech software for their daily operations.
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Jade Software schedules trains in Toronto
Jade Software Corporation says an IT system it developed for passenger trains in Toronto, Canada, has gone live.
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Eagle boosts SAP Business One practice with strategic acquisition
Eagle Technology is boosting its SAP Business One implementation and service capability, following the acquisition of Enprise Solutions’ SAP Business One consulting practice.
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Williamson outlines National’s IT strategy
The National party’s ICT spokesman, Maurice Williamson, used a recent speaking engagement at a CIO luncheon forum hosted by Zephyr Consulting to outline National’s IT strategy to an audience of senior industry executives.
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Agile connects with an Australian partner
Voice, video and contact centre technologies specialist Agile has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with convergence and contact centre integrator GlobalConnect Australia, an arrangement the two organisations say will mean a commitment to providing uninterrupted service and support for customers on both sides of the Tasman.
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Computer Brokers becomes Lexel Systems
Auckland IT infrastructure solutions provider Computer Brokers has changed its name to Lexel Systems.
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Codec acquires Black Coffee Software
Codec Software has completed its purchase of Wellington-based Java developer Black Coffee.
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Study finds mobile phone coupons help win over consumers
While most consumers’ initial reactions to marketing and advertising messages on their mobile phone can often be negative, a recent survey from ABI Research found that their level of responsiveness can often be improved if they are offered incentives.
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IT engineering named a ‘recession proof career’
IT engineering has been named as one of five “recession proof” career options by recruitment firm Tradestaff.
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Integral Technology Group acquires APL Plus
Integral Technology Group has made what it calls “a significant investment” through the acquisition of APL Plus Ltd.
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Identity and access management market heats up
IT research firm IDC says competition in the identity and access management (IAM) market in Australia and New Zealand has intensified over the last 12 months.
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Eclipse appoints national business development manager
Business solutions provider Eclipse has appointed Boris Lamb as the company’s national business development manager for New Zealand.
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US payment processor acquires NZ’s Financial Automation
Financial Automation Limited (FAL), a New Zealand-based international provider of fuel card processing software solutions, has been acquired by US-based Wright Express Corporation for around $US9 million.
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Imarda wins $US10m freight company deal
Fleet tracking solutions company Imarda has announced a US$10 million deal with a major, publically listed, US freight services company to provide an advanced Telematics based solution.
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HealthAlliance wins Symantec award
Security vendor Symantec has named Auckland’s HealthAlliance as one of two winners of its 2008 Visionary Awards for Australia and New Zealand.
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Advertising guru Roberts joins Telecom board
Telecom has appointed kiwi advertising industry high-flyer Kevin Roberts to its board, replacing retiring director Patsy Reddy.
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Blue Wing Honda and Intek Security implements Lawson QuickStep Distribution
Blue Wing Honda and Intek Security Group, Auckland-based import and distribution businesses both owned by Caspex Corporation, are implementing Lawson QuickStep Distribution, a pre-configured ERP package designed for distribution-based companies.
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Marketing Impact buys MessageMedia
Marketing Impact, one of the country’s largest mail processing providers, has bought MessageMedia, a text messaging provider, and specialist in bespoke customer management processes.
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Napier City Council selects Cognos TM1
Napier City Council has selected Cognos TM1 to provide it with a reporting, budgeting, planning and modelling solution.
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Sex, drugs and software lead spam purchase growth
Twenty-nine percent of internet users have purchased goods from spam emails, according to new research by Internet security company Marshal.
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NEC pushes into local unified comms market
Business communications giant NEC has announced the New Zealand availability of its unified communications offerings for the SMB and enterprise markets, describing the launch as “marking a major assault on the UC market”.
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Mitre 10 first to deploy AnySite
Pitney Bowes MapInfo, a global provider of location intelligence solutions, has launched AnySite New Zealand, a market analysis application is says is tailored for the local market and delivers visual and predictive analytic capabilities to improve the accuracy and efficiency of territory management and site selection.
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SAP adds CRM to Business All-in-One
SAP New Zealand has announced the local availability of CRM functionality in the SAP Business All-in-One solution, a move it says addresses the needs of midsize companies to better manage every aspect of their customer relationships.
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Bailey to head restructured SmartPay
Former Cadmus Technology head Ian Bailey has been appointed managing director of integrated merchant services provider and electronic product distribution company SmartPay.
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Intergen named Microsoft Partner of the Year
Intergen has been named Microsoft Partner of the Year, the top honour handed out at Microsoft’s annual Partner Awards, held in Auckland.
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Microsoft grows devices & applications team
Microsoft’s Specialised Devices & Applications (SDA) group, responsible for the retail channel of the company’s keyboards, mice, webcams and Office for Mac software, has announced several appointments as it moves into a new financial year.
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Securing personal information remains a challenge
Securing personally identifiable information (PII) is a top concern facing business and technology executives this year, according to a survey of more than 3,100 professionals in more than 95 countries.
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Multi-million dollar deal for kiwi medical-tech company
New Zealand medical technology company Enztec has secured a deal to supply innovative surgical instruments to DePuy International, one of the top four orthopaedic companies in the world.
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Jade  goes live in Northern Territories hospitals
Christchurch-based enterprise solutions developer Jade Software has made further inroads into the Australian health sector with the go-live of its applications across the Northern Territories’ Health Service.
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Education Ministry selects Talent2
Australian-based human resources outsourcing provider Talent2 has secured a support deal with the Ministry of Education, which operates New Zealand’s largest payroll.
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Paymark signs Sybase and Yellowfin
New Zealand payment transaction company Paymark has implemented a new transactional data and reporting solution jointly deployed by Australian business intelligence (BI) provider Yellowfin and global enterprise software company Sybase.
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iSOFT signs $3.5 m deals with three DHBs
iSOFT, a subsidiary of Australia’s IBA Health Group, has signed agreements valued at over $3.5 million with three New Zealand district health boards (DHBs) for iSOFT patient management and clinical systems.
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Unisys introduces UC test drive service
Unisys has announced the availability of a trial service enabling enterprise customers to test drive Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007, and Microsoft Office LiveMeeting at no cost.
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Maclean Computing buys ATL Systems
IT solutions provider Maclean Computing is acquiring IT solutions business ATL Systems Limited.
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TelstraClear develops trans-Tasman TelePresence
TelstraClear says it is developing New Zealand’s first end-to-end trans-Tasman telepresence experience.
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Software Associates exports to Australia
New Zealand IT company Software Associates has started exporting a warehouse management product to Australia.
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Businesses yet to embrace social networking
The majority of users of social networking websites are motivated mainly by personal needs and a desire for entertainment, rather than business and practical objectives, according to a survey by Gartner.
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Telecom to build sustainable Wellington offices
Telecom has signed an agreement with The Wellington Company to develop new purpose-built environmentally rated premises at 52 Willis St, Wellington.
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George Bush and Microsoft exploited by spammers
Emails with exploitive headlines mentioning George Bush, Microsoft and Al Qaeda in their subject lines are part of a co-ordinated malicious spam campaign from criminals controlling the Rustock botnet.
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Otago Uni joins Sun Microsystems initiative
The University of Otago has achieved a coup by becoming the first university outside of the United States to be selected as a Sun Microsystems OpenSPARC Centre of Excellence.
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Survey: NZ Businesses cautious of Web 2.0
New Zealand’s small and medium businesses (SMBs) remained concerned about security risks from mobile devices and Web 2.0 applications such as social networking, according to a new survey.
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Sage taps new Business Solutions CRM partner
Sage Business Solutions, part of the global Sage Software group, has signed customer relationship management (CRM) specialist Focus On Business Limited as its implementation partner and reseller in New Zealand.
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Norfolk Group signs Gen-i
Gen-i has won a managed ICT contract with Norfolk Group, an international provider of integrated building and engineering services.
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Gen-i and Vodafone sign major Government department
The Ministry of Social Development has signed contracts with Gen-i and Vodafone for its telecommunications services.
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West Coast DHB trials Cisco HealthPresence
Cisco, the West Coast District Health Board and Gen-i have announced an agreement to deliver the first global trial of Cisco HealthPresence between two organisations: Buller Health in Westport and Grey Base Hospital, about 100 kilometres away in Greymouth.
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Auckland Uni rolls out Google Apps
The University of Auckland is rolling out Google Apps Education Edition to 50,000 students, staff and alumni.
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Telecom picks Alcatel-Lucent for IP network build
Telecom says it is engaging its long-time infrastructure partner Alcatel-Lucent to deliver an Internet Protocol (IP) nationwide network that will bring voice, internet and mobile telephony services together onto one integrated technology platform.
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SAP New Zealand targeting growth in Business Intelligence
SAP says it is focused on building its Business Objects presence in New Zealand and has hiring two experienced business intelligence experts to drive growth.
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Nextspace appoints CEO
Local 3D visualisation industry “catalyst” organisation Nextspace has appointed Gavin Lennox as its CEO.
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Local organisations unclear on emissions
Only 22 percent of Australasian businesses have practices in place to enable them to measure carbon emissions, according to a survey of 2,500 IT professionals from medium and large businesses and government organisations.
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DS reports strong local profit growth
The local arm of global IT business services company EDS has reported a healthy rise in revenue and profit for last year after it picked up more high-paying work from its blue-chip client base.
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InternetNZ welcomes web domain name changes
The Internet Society of New Zealand, InternetNZ, has welcomed two significant decisions announced at a meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Paris.
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Public Records Act means skills crisis
With the pressure on to achieve Public Records Act compliance by 2010, tenders for electronic document and records management systems (EDRMS) are starting to flow thick and fast.
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SmartPay launches VoIP
Local integrated merchant services provider and electronic product distribution company SmartPay has expanded its range of services to include VoIP (Voice Over IP) and telephony services.
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VAD and IronPort team up
Security appliance vendor IronPort Systems has further increased its New Zealand market focus, signing a nationwide distribution agreement with Value Added Distributors (VAD). The distribution agreement follows IronPort’s recent employment of a New Zealand-based team.
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Firms in the dark over IT assets
Organisations across New Zealand and Australia have little or no idea of the true value of their IT assets and the contribution those assets make to the business.
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New fibre network on trial in Orewa
The next generation of broadband delivering content-rich services to New Zealand households over an open access fibre network is being piloted in a new housing development in Orewa, north of Auckland.
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Metlifecare chooses StorageCraft for data protection
Retirement village operator Metlifecare has selected StorageCraft’s ShadowProtect Server to provides disaster recovery, system migration and real-time data protection for its Windows servers.
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Local mobile software firm launches into the UK
Christchurch-based mobile software specialists Netresult Mobility have launched in the United Kingdom.
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SAFI Technologies reverses acquisition trend
Christchurch-based SAFI Technologies has reversed the usual trend of US companies buying out successful New Zealand businesses – it has acquired US-based hosting and domain company, Host World Wide.
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It’s official: NZ broadband lagging
A new official report into the state of the New Zealand broadband market shows it is up to 50 percent behind the performance of the UK, Australia and the US in some key areas.
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Software industry associations form alliance
New Zealand’s primary software associations – New Zealand Software Association (NZSA), Canterbury Software Inc (CSI), Website Developers Association NZ (WDANZ) and Wireless and Broadband Forum (WBF) – have signed collaborative agreements to form the “Software NZ” alliance.
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Software helps farmers meet Kyoto obligations
A software solution developed by MAF, AgResearch and FertResearch will enable farmers to accurately estimate their greenhouse gas emissions and help New Zealand comply with its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol.
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iPhone 3G due in New Zealand on July 11
Vodafone and Apple have announced that the new, much-anticipated 3G version of Apple’s iPhone will be available in New Zealand, Australia, Italy, and Portugal on July 11.
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Tough times mean more spam
Security company Symantec says it is seeing a continuing trend of spammers capitalising on the economic slowdown in order to harvest personal information.
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Digital Island launches SME broadband redundancy solution
Telecommunications company Digital Island has developed what it believes is a New Zealand first – its NetDEPEND Internet access product.
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Xero now available on the iPhone
Local software developer Xero has released a customised version of its software-as-a-service accounting solution that runs on Apple’s iPhone.
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PGG Wrightson chooses Promapp
Rural services group PGG Wrightson has chosen the Promapp process management toolset to support its ongoing process improvement efforts.
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Orcon upgrades network infrastructure with Juniper
Internet service provider Orcon has deployed Juniper Networks MX960 Ethernet Services Routers and E120 Broadband Services Routers to increase the capacity and performance of its network infrastructure.
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Vodafone launches the Red Network
Vodafone says it is launching a new era in fixed line broadband in New Zealand with the introduction of its ‘Red Network’.
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Jade Software wins $20m development contract
Two years ago Christchurch-based Jade Software Corporation sold its health IT business to UK health software and related services supplier Ascribe PLC in a transaction which netted millions of dollars from the sale of intellectual property rights and future services with Jade.
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New Zealand Communication Appoints CEO
Mobile network aspirant New Zealand Communication has appointed Singapore-based Mike Reynolds as its Chief Executive Officer, and he will be relocating to Auckland next month.
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Zintel buys Commspec
Publicly listed ICT company Zintel has announced the conditional acquisition of Commspec (NZ) Limited, a reseller of Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung telephony solutions.
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Telecom appoints senior execs
Telecom has announced two key appointments to its executive team.
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Medtel goes mobile with Lawson
Medtel, an Australasian supplier of high technology products to the medical industry, has purchased Lawson Enterprise Mobility for Service to provide greater business process efficiency in the field.
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Symantec snares SunCorp
Security vendor Symantec has been selected by Australasian financial services group Suncorp to secure its information, minimise data loss risk and reduce its storage and retrieval costs.
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Online advertising up 67% to new record
New Zealand online advertising hit record levels during the first quarter of 2008, according to research from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Kiwis embracing internet video
New Zealand and Australian broadband users are spending considerably more time using the internet than watching television or movies and are downloading video in significant numbers, a study by Cisco has found.
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Budget heralds $500m broadband pledge
The Government’s 2008 Budget included provision for a “five-year down-payment for a 10 year plan which will take New Zealand towards the government’s vision of a fast broadband future”.
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IBM appoints new distributors
IBM has appointed Ingram Micro to join Express Data as its broad-based distributor for all its software brands – Information Management, Lotus, Rational, Tivoli and Websphere.
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Spammers switch from remedies to replicas
Spam promoting replica watches, pens and cheap jewellery has taken over from spam pushing male enlargement and sexual performance pills as the leading items for sale by spammers according to new data released by security vendor Marshal’s TRACE security team.
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Fronde’s success with mobile authentication
Wellington-based mobile financial services solution provider Fronde Anywhere says it is enjoying “significant uptake” of its mobile two-factor authentication platform, TwoSecure.
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NZ Communications secures new backing
United States telecommunications investor Trilogy International Partners has taken a 25 percent shareholding in NZ Communications, which is currently building this country’s third mobile phone network.
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Gen-i signs four-year telco deal with ANZ National Bank
ANZ National Bank and Telecom subsidiary Gen-i have signed a new agreement that extends their existing services and relationship to include a core telecommunications infrastructure upgrade.
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Dell expands virtualisation offer
Dell has announced what it is calling its broadest ever line-up of dedicated virtualisation solutions.
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Data service company Digiweb goes green
Christchurch-based data service provider Digiweb says each year, the average business server produces approximately a third of a tonne of carbon emissions.
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Yellow Pages embraces digital media
Yellow Pages Group has announced the creation of a new Digital Media business unit, to be headed by the company’s current marketing director, Blair Glubb.
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Ballance selects SAP for enterprise apps
Fertiliser manufacturer and distributor Ballance Agri-Nutrients has selected SAP to provide enterprise applications to replace its legacy system.
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Young software guns off to Paris
After intense competition, Team Phoenix from the University of Canterbury emerged as the winner of the New Zealand final in the worldwide Software Design Invitational of Imagine Cup 2008.
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Kordia eyes Northland broadband opportunities
Broadcast and telecommunications company Kordia says the first steps have been taken towards possible development of a multimillion dollar publicly-owned broadband network tailor-made for the Northland region.
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SAP releases environmental compliance solution
SAP has announced the New Zealand launch of SAP Environmental Compliance (EC), an enterprise-wide software platform which enables companies to monitor and manage their greenhouse gas emissions to ensure they comply with national and worldwide environmental laws and policies.
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Telecom halves roaming charges
Telecom says its mobile customers who roam overseas will be able to make or receive calls for half price until the end of November.
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Cisco launches TelePresence in New Zealand
Cisco New Zealand has announced the local availability of the company’s life-size “face-to-face” TelePresence 3000 videoconferencing solution.
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Poor customer service costs businesses
More than half of the consumers surveyed in a new customer experience report have ceased buying products and services from a company due to poor customer service and a high number felt that the supplier didn’t know it had lost their business.
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Vodafone launches new VoIP/mobility suite
Vodafone says its newly-launched Vodafone Office suite of services for businesses will enable customers to keep their landline number, and answer it on whatever device they have to hand – an IP desktop phone, mobile or softphone on a laptop.
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Fronde appoints new CEO, reports profit
Software development and integration company Fronde Systems Group has appointed Ian Clarke as its new chief executive.
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New network partnership targets Whangarei businesses
TelstraClear and Northpower say they plan to bring next generation telecommunications services to Whangarei businesses by Christmas.
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WorldxChange adds Juniper routers
Internet service provider WorldxChange has deployed Juniper Networks’ E320 broadband services routers to enable the quality delivery of advanced voice-over-IP and high value Internet services. WorldxChange has also deployed Juniper Networks’ secure service gateways (SSGs) to secure its services and backend systems–including its domain name system (DNS) servers.
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Government Technology Services GM appointed
The State Services Commission has appointed a general manager of the new Government Technology Services (GTS) business unit.
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TelstraClear returns to business mobile market
TelstraClear has launched new mobile plans for business customers and a “whole of business” proposition following its split last year with Vodafone and the signing of a new mobile network access agreement with Telecom.
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National pledges to build $1.5b network
A National Government would invest up to $1.5 billion to drive the roll-out of a fibre-to-the-home broadband network.
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ICT industry growth slows
Total sales of goods and services from New Zealand's information and communication technology (ICT) industry increased 3.3 percent to $18.2 billion in the 2007 financial year, according to Statistics New Zealand.
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Study finds green IT low on NZ business agenda
Beyond recycling and energy-efficient light bulbs, two-thirds of New Zealand businesses are struggling to act sustainably, according to the first New Zealand research into ‘Green IT’ by IBM and the New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development.
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Space-Time Research signs Infometrics
Wellington economic forecasting organisation Infometrics has selected Melbourne-based Space-Time Research’s SuperSTAR solution to deliver its data analytics capabilities.
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Software Associates launches secure messaging solution
New Zealand development company Software Associates has launched Securit-e, a secure, digital document exchange system.
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CA shifts focus to channel sales model
Software vendor CA has re-jigged its New Zealand operation, shifting the focus to a “significantly expanded” channel sales model.
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High customer churn rates hitting NZ businesses
Switching suppliers has become a national habit costing New Zealand businesses $320 million a year in lost business, according to new research out today.
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Government calls for feedback on Digital Strategy
Communications and Information Technology Minister David Cunliffe is calling for all New Zealanders to have their say on the Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 which has been released for public comment today.
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Unisys expanding Kapiti data centre
Unisys New Zealand is expanding its data centre in Kapiti, near Wellington, doubling the capacity of the facility.
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Most popular websites accessed at work: Google, Facebook and Trade Me
A survey by New Zealand Internet security and management company Mako Networks shows Google, Facebook and Trade Me were the top three most accessed websites during business hours in March.
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Survey Result: Ceos behind data breaches should be jailed
An international survey of 107 security professionals conducted by Websense at this year’s e-Crime Congress reveals a quarter of respondents believe the arrest and jail sentence for the CEO or Board member responsible would be a fitting punishment for a serious company data breach that exposes consumers’ confidential data.
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TANDBERG and Agile in new strategic partnership
Global technology provider TANDBERG, a specialist in telepresence, high-definition videoconferencing and mobile video products and services, says it has strengthened its channel presence in New Zealand with the appointment of Agile.
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New Trans-Tasman submarine cable planned
New Zealand Government-owned telco network company Kordia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Australia’s PIPE Networks under which the two companies have agreed to collaborate on a project to establish a new, private fibre optic cable linking the two countries.
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OOXML format wins ISO approval
The ISO international standards body has voted to adopt Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as an international standard based despite strong opposition from a number of quarters, including organisations in New Zealand.
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TSB adds POLi payments to its online banking
The TSB Bank has integrated the POLi payment service into the heart of its internet banking software.
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Spam up in March, says Symantec
Worldwide spam activity continued to inch upward in March, according to security company Symantec. The latest Symantec Spam report says spam levels “bounced” higher during the month, averaging 81 percent of all emails and peaking at times during the month at all-time highs of nearly 88 percent.
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Honeywell is sweet with Electricity Commission
Technology manufacturer Honeywell has been selected by the Electricity Commission to partner in a three-year programme to help local businesses reduce their electricity consumption.
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Maclean Computing launches integrated IT/Tel service
Auckland-based Maclean Computing, which focuses on
solutions for mid-sized businesses, has launched a telephony and IT integration service it says will fill a gap in the market.
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New R&D tax credit arrives
A new 15 percent research and development (R&D) tax credit for businesses came into effect on April 1.
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Freightways bundles up Australian info and document businesses
Freightways has extended its presence in the Australian information management market spending $A5.9 million buying Canberra-based National Records Managers (NRM) and Melbourne’s Fine Paper Suppliers (FPS).
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EDS New Zealand searching for new MD
Industry heavyweight EDS New Zealand has announced the resignation of MD Steve Murray, who has left the organisation for family reasons after just under two years at the helm.
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Sheppard Industries powers on with Lawson ERP
The Sheppard Industries Group, an Auckland-based Australasian cycling industry provider, has revved up its ERP capabilities through a new deal with solution provider Lawson Software.
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Rotary Platforms NZ milks Sage for growth
The fast-growing manufacturer of rotary platforms for the dairy industry has deployed Sage’s resource planning and management solutions.
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