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Newly privatised BMC beefs up R&D spend
Getting out of the public eye has allowed BMC to redirect shareholder funds into R&D and help it live up to its new motto “bring IT to life” – something that could refer to either the company or its customers’ IT projects… read more...
Mobile cast as the great retail leveler
Mobility has been identified as retailers’ biggest ally – able to restore some of the balance to the retailer-customer relationship which has been skewed by the internet… read more...
Tenth TIN100 report celebrates $8 billion NZ tech industry
The tenth annual TIN100 and TIN100+ report was released last night showing that software growth outstripped IT services growth for the first time… read more...
PayPal offers Aussies business loans; lines blur between technology and finance
Three of Australia’s biggest banks open innovation centres to spur technology development while PayPal offers small business loans as the lines blur between the technology and finance sectors… read more...
Intergen acquired by ASX-listed Empired, creates largest Australasian Microsoft services provider
ASX-listed IT services company Empired Limited (ASX:EPD) has acquired one of New Zealand’s leading IT services firms, Intergen Limited, for $A17.4 million via a Share Purchase Agreement to be paid over three years… read more...
NZ’s first fibre-only ISP MyRepublic promises to challenge incumbents
The new ISP says it is designed specifically for the UFB world and will challenge outdated incumbent attitudes on the importance of customer experience, products and pricing… read more...
Navman Wireless targets ‘people and plant’ with fleet management BI product
Navman Wireless, a global leader in GPS-based fleet optimisation products and services, has today launched its cloud-based BI-as-a-service solution for enterprise fleets called Adaptive Intelligence… read more...
SAP and IBM hook up on HANA
Software giant SAP has forged an international deal with IBM which will host its SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud Services in its data centres around the world – including those in Sydney and Melbourne… read more...
Heroes of tech recognised at ITx conference
The industry conference in Auckland last week culminated in the ITx Awards celebrating the best IT professionals from 2014… read more...
IRD chooses Accenture for first stage of $1.5 billion transformation project
Five months after releasing a closed RFP to multi-nationals Accenture and Capgemini, Inland Revenue has selected Accenture as its preferred provider of design services for the first stage of its business transformation programme… read more...
Semble launches NZ’s own mobile wallet
A “uniquely Kiwi” joint-venture will see a common mobile wallet available to Android smartphone users by early next year… read more...
ICT professionalism a focus for ITx 2014 conference
The three-day ITx Conference by the Institute of IT Professionals (IITP) kicked off with an emphasis on ethics, soft skills and growing the right professional people for a thriving NZ tech industry… read more...
Xero signs ex-pat Kiwi Andy Lark for US push
Cloud accounting specialist Xero has signed Andy Lark as its chief marketing officer – delivering the business with a wealth of insight about both the tech and finance sectors… read more...
Gartner: Digital economy drives IT spending and CIO agenda
The search for digitally enabled business models is driving global IT spending which will rise by 3.9 percent to more than $US3.9 trillion next year – but CIOs are controlling less and less of it… read more...
Ricoh New Zealand picks up rare Kofax Diamond Partner status
The company is the only Kofax partner in New Zealand to receive such high recognition… read more...
Canterbury Software Summit takes inclusive approach to promote tech
The Canterbury Software Summit is in full throttle and has deliberately chosen a low cost-to-entry and a political stance to appeal to the widest audience possible and promote the sector further… read more...
Australian biometrics pin down US offenders
Locally developed voice biometrics technology, already used by New Zealand’s IRD for taxpayer identification, has been picked up by Shadowtrack for US and Canada house arrest applications… read more...
Launch of.nz domain brings NZ in line with global trends
As of 1pm today, New Zealanders have the choice of a second local, simplified domain name for their websites and email addresses… read more...
Apple Matters: iOS 8…approach with caution, but Apple’s on track
The iPhone 6 might be dominating the mainstream media but, for the masses of iPhone users, the new iOS 8 update is causing its own stir. We asked Apple blogger Mark Webster if Apple is on the right track post-Steve Jobs… read more...
Goodbye InternetMana, hello an ICT policy agenda
At first glance a political party dedicated to technology should have had the ICT industry jumping for joy, but that was not to be the case as it garnered just 1.26 percent of the vote last Saturday… read more...
