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Apple seeks slice of payments market

September 11, 2014 | Newsdesk
The launch of Apple Pay, which will turn the new iPhone6 and Apple Watch into tap-and-go digital wallets, can’t take place in A/NZ before 2015 because part of the security framework is missing… read more...
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Infographic: Online retail sales index

September 11, 2014 | Newsdesk
BNZ has released the results of its latest Online Retail Sales Index and the results show that traditional local retailing is under mounting pressure… read more...
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TechEd NZ: Microsoft enters sexy tech race

September 11, 2014 | Clare Coulson
In a battle for the ‘sexiest’ tech company you’d be forgiven for not even considering that Microsoft could be in the running, but after the last couple of days, things could be about to change… read more...
Frost & Sullivan Awards

Megatrends and what you need to know about them

September 11, 2014 | Newsdesk
Global research firm Frost & Sullivan recently announced the winners of its inaugural New Zealand Excellence Awards, preceded by its Growth, Innovation and Leadership (GIL) Congress 2014… read more...

Only one A/NZ business makes grade on supply chains

September 8, 2014 | Newsdesk
Only one organisation based in Australia has made the cut for Gartner’s annual list of the most effective supply chains in Asia Pacific – and New Zealand fails to rate a mention… read more...

Salesforce community plug-in described as LinkedIn for corporates

September 4, 2014 | Newsdesk
Salesforce has released software templates that allow organisations to build communities of customers, resellers or employers so they can interact and collaborate in the cloud including from mobiles and wearables… read more...
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Code Club opens young eyes to IT careers

September 4, 2014 | Newsdesk
An after-school computer code writing programme for intermediate and secondary school Kiwis will officially kick off at ITx, New Zealand’s conference of IT, in early October. IITP’s Techblog editor Simon Eskrow reports… read more...
Political debate

Opposition R&D tax credit policy described as ‘scattergun’

September 4, 2014 | Newsdesk
Electioneering focused on the tech sector this week with a political debate in front of the country’s top high-tech companies where politicians aired their science, technology and innovation policies… read more...
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NZ’s science and tech policies better than Australia’s

September 3, 2014 | Beverley Head
New Zealand’s science, technology and innovation policies have been under scrutiny in the lead up to this month’s election, iStart’s Australian correspondent, Beverley Head, reports from across the ditch… read more...
Telecos M2M

Ovum says telcos must do more to win M2M land-grab

September 2, 2014 | Newsdesk
Ovum forecasts that the M2M market will reach $US66 billion by 2019 and urges operators to invest in their own capabilities if they want to gain share in the much-hyped but equally important IoT market… read more...
Email

Is your email signature legal?

September 2, 2014 | Vendor
The laws and legislation surrounding email disclaimers are tightening all around the globe with the prospect of significant fines for non-conformists… read more...

Online ad market growth moves up a gear

August 31, 2014 | Newsdesk
The local online advertising market saw healthy growth in the latest quarter but the star performer differs from international trends. read more...

Hypecycle identifies technologies ahead of their time

August 28, 2014 | Beverley Head
Organisations experimenting with internet of things deployments, wearables, cryptocurrencies or big data could be in for a long wait before they bear real fruit. Beverley Head reports… read more...
Airborne Honey

NZ’s oldest honey brand pots tech world-first

August 28, 2014 | Newsdesk
Amongst the current focus on manuka honey authenticity and traceability, one 100-year-old Kiwi honey-maker has turned to technology to prove its quality and provenance… read more...
Moven

Westpac inks deal with Moven, turns money management on head

August 26, 2014 | Newsdesk
The New York mobile money management start-up is taking a different approach to the way people interact with money and is going global starting with an exclusive deal in New Zealand… read more...
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Online EFTPOS payments in the offering, says Paymark

August 21, 2014 | Newsdesk
Electronic payments processor Paymark has announced that it will be launching online EFTPOS early next year… read more...

Will enterprise take the IoT bait or miss the boat?

August 19, 2014 | Newsdesk
City-wide wi-fi networks could be harnessed by enterprising organisations that want to deploy internet connected sensors or devices – but is business ready to seize the nettle?… read more...

Job matching software deal will highlight real-time skills shortages

August 19, 2014 | Newsdesk
Analysis which will identify in near real-time the underlying technology skills being sought by enterprises across A/NZ could also be used to shape the nations’ immigration and education policies… read more...
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Finzsoft eyes m-banking sector with Sush Mobile purchase

August 14, 2014 | Newsdesk
The financial technology company is setting up to profit from the next wave of digital disruption in banking with the acquisition of Sush Mobile… read more...
AppWrap ICT news

AppWrap: ICT news wrap up Q3 2014

August 14, 2014 | Newsdesk
A wrap-up of news stories that caught our eye over the the past quarter of ICT news including appointments, departures, deals done, implementations completed, mergers, acquisitions and partnerships… read more...

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