Tauranga’s 17-year old Callum Riddington has won the Baldwins supreme award at Bright Sparks 2014 for his invention, Kiwi Drones… read more...

Microsoft has switched on its Australian cloud, operated out of data centres in Sydney and Melbourne, announced Equinex and Telstra as express network partners, along with a cloud marketplace… read more...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The new ISP says it is designed specifically for the UFB world and will challenge outdated incumbent attitudes on the importance of customer experience, products and pricing… read more...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, 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...

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...

The industry conference in Auckland last week culminated in the ITx Awards celebrating the best IT professionals from 2014… read more...

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...

A “uniquely Kiwi” joint-venture will see a common mobile wallet available to Android smartphone users by early next year… read more...

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...

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...

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...

The company is the only Kofax partner in New Zealand to receive such high recognition… read more...

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...

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...

As of 1pm today, New Zealanders have the choice of a second local, simplified domain name for their websites and email addresses… read more...