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...

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...

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...

New website frontup.co.nz sets out to find out why New Zealanders are being charged more than our international peers for the same products, and the reasons seem similar to those causing the ‘Australia Tax’ across the ditch… read more...

There has been a step change in enterprises’ ability to economically capture, store, tag and index every conversation that their call centre ever has with a customer… read more...

New Zealand-based Unleashed Software is planning a push into the northern hemisphere as it seeks more sales and skills to fuel its growth strategy… read more...

Chinese e-commerce platform Alibaba is set to make history with the biggest Nasdaq IPO on record… read more...

While ICT election promises are less than bold, one thing is clear – the Government will have a significant impact on the sector as IRD, MSD and ACC all get major ICT projects under way, and SAP is one vendor gearing up… read more...

Agile development shops need to take a fresh approach to software testing and measure the success of software development according to a team’s ability to deliver what is expected by the business… read more...

In less than a decade the typical family home in Australia and New Zealand could contain several hundred internet connected devices as the cost of making a device internet-smart drops to around $1… read more...

A New Zealand company has launched the world’s first recordable video calling from within your CRM system… read more...

Evidence shows that the ‘hard sell’ does not generate loyalty, but a good experience does. The experts at MYOB discuss what salespeople need to achieve this… read more...

The experts at UXC Eclipse say there are a number of technologies that are driving the Life Sciences market forward… read more...

An online tool that tests accountancy technical competency was launched last week at the HR Game Changer Conference, giving those hiring accountants a reliable way to measure technical ability for the first time… read more...