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...

A new report once and for all dispels the myth that the World Wide Web is destroyer of jobs… read more...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

TradeMe founder Sam Morgan has given New Zealand-based social game SmallWorlds a $2.5m shot in the arm… read more...

The February Christchurch earthquake has had a significant negative impact on investor confidence according to the latest ASB Investor Confidence Survey… read more...

Rakon chips in big time winning both the PwC Hi-Tech Company of the Year Award and the NZTE Hi-Tech Company of the Decade Award… read more...

The local high-tech industry is pulling out all the stops to make the most of the international attention set to be generated by the 2011 Rugby World Cup… read more...

The New Zealand Police are warning people to be vigilant following the hacking of 77 million Sony PlayStation accounts worldwide… read more...