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IRD Business Transformation project seeks nominations for ICT reference group

July 29, 2014 | Newsdesk
The group is designed to offer a forum where outside perspectives can be shared and views exchanged in a free and frank manner between the ICT sector and the Inland Revenue… read more...

Frost & Sullivan defines the ‘connected living’ market

July 25, 2014 | Newsdesk
The analyst says massive technology-led disruption across all industries globally, driven by the rapid proliferation of connected devices and services, is moving everyone and everything towards a state of ‘connected everything’… read more...

Drury fires up political debate

July 25, 2014 | Newsdesk
Last night Minister for Communications and Information Technology Amy Adams and her opposition counterparts attended a political panel on ICT… read more...

Cloud integration platform replaces legacy systems by stealth

July 24, 2014 | Newsdesk
Integration platforms which allow applications, data and cloud services to be woven together into a seamless computing fabric are also being credited with allowing legacy systems to be replaced by stealth… read more...

NZ crime buster Wynyard boosts Sydney operations

July 22, 2014 | Newsdesk
New Zealand-based Wynyard Group has opened an Asia Pacific Operation Centre in Sydney, more than doubling its Australian headcount and boosting its data analytics capabilities… read more...
Dear John letters

Dear John letters won’t cut it for modern marketers

July 22, 2014 | Newsdesk
Clear evidence has been uncovered of the benefits of personalising marketing campaigns for individual clients and customers – but most A/NZ marketing executives stall after adding a name to an email… read more...
AppWrap ICT news

AppWrap: ICT news wrap up Q2 2014

July 21, 2014 | Newsdesk
A wrap-up of the past quarter’s ICT news… read more...

Microsoft restructures, “eliminates” Nokia

July 18, 2014 | Newsdesk
Microsoft has today announced a restructuring plan that will eliminate up to 18,000 jobs over the next year as it aligns the recently-acquired Nokia and repositions the business to be a productivity and platform company… read more...
Telecom NZ

Telecom jockeys for position

July 16, 2014 | Newsdesk
Telecom is making clear moves to diversify its offerings and survive in a digital age, making a large number of announcements in the last month, including naked ultra fibre services and, this week, new 4G services over its new 700MHz spectrum… read more...

NBN Co starts fibre-to-the node rollout

July 16, 2014 | Newsdesk
More than 650,000 Australian premises are now theoretically able to connect to the National Broadband Network, and 210,000 have done so according to a mid-year update from NBN Co… read more...
business navigator

Domecq launches new cloud-based business navigator

July 10, 2014 | Newsdesk
Technology entrepreneur and ex-Localist CEO Christina Domecq last night launched her latest project that has the potential to turn the small to medium business world on its head… read more...

Respect Network turns personal data into currency but maintains privacy

July 10, 2014 | Newsdesk
Australia is one of the first four countries to host personal clouds for people wishing to use the still fledgling Respect Network as a gateway to connect them with online products, companies and services… read more...

Gartner sheds light on local IT spending patterns

July 9, 2014 | Newsdesk
The recent IT spending forecast for Australia and New Zealand shows, among other things, a growing desire for customer experience-related enterprise software… read more...

Gartner revises IT spending forecast down for 2014

July 3, 2014 | Newsdesk
Worldwide IT spending is still increasing, but not as much as Garter initially predicted due to changes in the market… read more...

Aussie’s Vocus could shake up NZ data solutions market with FX acquisition

July 2, 2014 | Newsdesk
The purchase means Vocus is now an integrated provider of fibre, data centre and internet in New Zealand and aims to replicate its successful Australian formula across the Tasman… read more...

Small NZ surf brand Coastlines rides cloud with SAP

June 25, 2014 | Newsdesk
A year after launching its cloud-based Business ByDesign suite in the New Zealand market, SAP has announced its first local adopter, and it’s much smaller than its traditional clientele… read more...

Tool shows A/NZ software developers are world class

June 25, 2014 | Newsdesk
A benchmarking tool that lets software teams compare themselves with the world’s best suggests that Australian and New Zealand development teams outperform their peers in terms of quality… read more...

Gen-i enters Aussie agreement with Telstra

June 25, 2014 | Newsdesk
The ICT services company is renewing its focus on New Zealand businesses and the Telstra partnership will remove the burden of its Australian clients while offering expanded services… read more...
Orcon

Kiwi ISP buys Orcon

June 20, 2014 | Newsdesk
CallPlus hits 220,000 customers and $200 million with purchase of Orcon… read more...

Telecom banks on cloud to power future profits

June 18, 2014 | Newsdesk
Telecom is continuing to reinvent itself in its bid to survive in an increasingly digital marketplace, with the announcement this week of the acquisition of a cloud services business… read more...

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