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India to issue 1.2 billion biometric cards
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?
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”
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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...
Sam Morgan’s surprising new investment
TradeMe founder Sam Morgan has given New Zealand-based social game SmallWorlds a $2.5m shot in the arm… read more...
Christchurch earthquake shakes investor confidence
The February Christchurch earthquake has had a significant negative impact on investor confidence according to the latest ASB Investor Confidence Survey… read more...
2011 NZ Hi-Tech Awards winners announced
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...
NZ high-tech industry gears up to court China, employ robots, during the RWC 2011
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...
Police issue warning around PlayStation hack
The New Zealand Police are warning people to be vigilant following the hacking of 77 million Sony PlayStation accounts worldwide… read more...
Amazon outage the ‘worst in cloud computing history’
Amazon’s Web Services goes down, calling into question the reliability of cloud services… read more...
‘Localist’ launches, looks to take on Yellow Pages
New Zealand Post has launched a new local information and directory service called Localist, which looks set to compete with business directory veteran, The Yellow Pages… read more...
ANZ’s ‘goMoney’ mobile banking app goes live
ANZ New Zealand have launched their mobile banking application, ANZ goMoney, as a way for ANZ customers to transfer money between friends, relatives and businesses using only mobile phone details… read more...
