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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...

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...
Shared services costs

Shared services cost is the bottom line

May 25, 2011 | iStart
Can lessons from the UK government shared services experience be applied to New Zealand’s public sector? A UK expert in implementing shared desktop services in govtt recently visited these shores to meet with key customers and industry leaders… 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...
Steve Maharey

University Challenged CEO: Steve Maharey

May 23, 2011 | David McNickel
Massey University’s Facebook page isn’t set up to allow ‘friends’, but according to Vice Chancellor Steve Maharey, creating partnerships is actually going to be the big secret for University success for the foreseeable future. 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...

Sam Morgan’s surprising new investment

May 16, 2011 | Newsdesk
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

May 16, 2011 | Newsdesk
The February Christchurch earthquake has had a significant negative impact on investor confidence according to the latest ASB Investor Confidence Survey… read more...

Satisfaction flunk

May 12, 2011 | Jonathan Cotton
Almost 80% of business decision makers responsible for customer satisfaction think they deliver ‘poor’ or ‘average’ results…View as PDF read more...

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