The government has announced a $50 million round of technology grants this week, to aid the research and development projects of several Kiwi companies… read more...

comScore has released the State of the Internet New Zealand study and the results show that social media is far and away the biggest time-sink when online… read more...

Parents of Orewa College students have been told that they will need to purchase an iPad2 for year nine students for 2012… read more...

As last issue’s iStart 2011 Investment Intentions Survey clearly showed, Business Intelligence has become the ‘must-have’ application of the moment… read more...

The launch of the Kiwinet collaboration network is promoting NZ ICT projects looking to commercialise… read more...

NZ Inc needs to get aggressive and get noticed if kiwi innovation is to leave its mark – that was the conclusion from last Friday’s hectic Ice Ideas Conference in Auckland… read more...

If you or your team are not managing email effectively, they are not managing their time effectively. Office productivity expert Debbie Mayo-Smith has provided iStart with a few ‘freasy’ tips to get on top of the email overload… read more...

Most organisations consider their website to be critical, yet web teams rarely have respect, power or resources. Here’s how to change that… read more...

Dick Smith was forced to take its site down this morning after a glitch allowed customers to purchase items for the mistakenly displayed prices of zero dollars… read more...

Google+’s first snafu sees beta users plagued with spam… read more...

Alasdair Thompson has been dismissed from the role of chief executive with the EMA following comments about female employees taking excessive sick leave due to their periods… read more...

Servers belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) have been breached again, this time with some 2,646 files from the server posted online as proof of the exploit… read more...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Microsoft Office 365, the company’s newest cloud service, in Australia and New Zealand… read more...

Leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, has broadcast his first Twitter message, praising Christ and informing the faithful that the Vatican’s new news site has been launched… read more...

The public and the private sector have teamed up for a new initiative that could provide up to NZ$1.5 million to encourage SMEs to expand their businesses… read more...

IBM has won the contract to build the Joint Border Management System (JBMS) for a reported NZ$75 million for the first stage of the four year project… read more...

New technology that turns sound waves into electricity is being used to develop mobile phones that charge themselves using the sound of the human voice… read more...

In an attempt to bring the nations census data into the 21st century, India, home to 1.2 billion people, has outlined plans to begin issuing state-of-the-art biometric IDs to its citizens… read more...

Reports suggest that Australian media giant Fairfax is currently reviewing the status of New Zealand online auction site TradeMe and may sell the asset… read more...

eBay Inc. today announced that it has agreed to acquire Magento Inc., the creator of a leading open source ecommerce platform… read more...