• MYOB floats new cloud platform
• Kiwi smartphone purchases soar in 2012
• From ‘best practice’ to ‘next practice’
• Tech salaries soar as upgrades and business growth drive demand for staff
• Telecom announces 4G trial
• Yahoo CEO resigns over fudged resume
• Bridging the content management chasm
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Smart software solutions for sticky problems
When formaldehyde is a key ingredient of the products you’re making, you can’t afford to take risks. That stuff is not only dangerous; mistakes can be really expensive. A cleanup could cost $100,000...

Auckland Council bosses front on IT spending
After persistent rumours questioning the IT decisions inside the Super City, iStart embarked on a wide ranging investigation into council IT systems, and whether amalgamation works. Auckland’s CEO, CFO and CIO fronted – here is the full interview…by Chris Bell

Keeping Maxnet’s data centre powered up and cooled down saves big bucks
To keep ahead of the demands of its growing customer base, Maxnet needed leading edge data centre infrastructure that was both cool and efficient...

SCA Hygiene abandons the paper trail for SAP CRM
A focused SAP CRM strategy is delivering major growth in sales and profitability for SCA Hygiene Australasia’s Away From Home division, Australia and New Zealand’s largest supplier of napkins, serviettes, paper cups and plates...

Vaughan Rowsell on taking point of sale to the cloud
How a Kiwi start-up is revolutionising the retail payment industry with a clever cloud-based POS alternative that’s rapidly going global...

BYOD - Mobilty goes viral
A year ago it was the development no employer wanted to know about; now, it’s the movement every employer has to deal with. Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) computing is the trend du jour, but is it really the Holy Grail of increased productivity, customer engagement and happy employees? Or are we just nearing the peak of inflated expectations before the inevitable trough of disillusionment?...

AppWrap ICT deals and dealings 2012
A wrap-up of the past quarter's ICT news...

iStart Blog
Welcome to the iStart blog page. The blog will be updated with useful opinions, tips, tricks and musings on communicating technology solutions to business...