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Google+ unleashes the spam

July 11, 2011 | Newsdesk
Google+’s first snafu sees beta users plagued with spam… read more...

Alasdair Thompson sacked from the EMA

July 6, 2011 | Newsdesk
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...

NATO server hacked, files now online

July 6, 2011 | Newsdesk
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 Launches Office 365: full iStart review

June 30, 2011 | Newsdesk
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Microsoft Office 365, the company’s newest cloud service, in Australia and New Zealand… read more...
Pope Benedict XVI

The Pope sends first Tweet

June 30, 2011 | Newsdesk
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...

$1.5 million kick-start business fund announced

June 22, 2011 | Newsdesk
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 lands NZ border management system

June 22, 2011 | Newsdesk
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...

Something to shout about: researchers developing the sound-powered mobile phone

June 15, 2011 | Newsdesk
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...

India to issue 1.2 billion biometric cards

June 14, 2011 | Newsdesk
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...

Fairfax to sell TradeMe?

June 8, 2011 | Newsdesk
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 acquires Magento – looks to create “global commerce operating system”

June 7, 2011 | Newsdesk
eBay Inc. today announced that it has agreed to acquire Magento Inc., the creator of a leading open source ecommerce platform… read more...

MS McKinsey report: The web is a job creator, not killer

June 1, 2011 | Newsdesk
A new report once and for all dispels the myth that the World Wide Web is destroyer of jobs… read more...

Apple to unveil iCloud next week

June 1, 2011 | Newsdesk
It’s official: Apple CEO Steve Jobs will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with the unveiling of its upcoming cloud services offering, called, predictably, iCloud… read more...

Great minds come together for ICE Ideas Conference

May 27, 2011 | Newsdesk
The ICE Ideas Conference is bringing together some of New Zealand’s best thinkers and doers to talk turkey about growing great kiwi businesses… read more...

Free Wi-Fi for Wellingtonians

May 26, 2011 | Newsdesk
Announcing the initiative today, Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says Wellington will be the first city in New Zealand to offer free wireless internet services across most of its CBD… read more...

Salesforce looks to calm sovereignty fears by building an Australian datacentre

May 24, 2011 | Newsdesk
Cloud computer provider Salesforce has said that it will build a datacentre in Australia as fears over offshore data escalate… read more...

Google Android now sitting at the top of the mobile OS heap

May 24, 2011 | Newsdesk
It’s official: Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world, says technology research group Gartner Inc… read more...

IBM more valuable than Microsoft for the first time in 15 years

May 24, 2011 | Newsdesk
While the lead may be only temporary, IBM has indeed edged out old rival Microsoft for the first time since April 1996, becoming the second most valuable tech company in the US, behind market leader Apple Inc… read more...

Expecting an economic boost from the World Cup? Yeah, right.

May 17, 2011 | Newsdesk
According to a nationwide survey, Kiwi business owners are not expecting much, if any, of an economic recovery from the Rugby World Cup… read more...

Microsoft’s online suite kicks users out of cloud

May 16, 2011 | Newsdesk
Those thinking that cloud computing has yet to reach acceptable levels of stability have received more ammunition following Microsoft’s latest online malfunctions… read more...

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