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Apple Matters: Great Apple gifts for the holidays
Tis the season to be rewarded – and here are some things Apple aficionado Mark Webster has recently looked at… read more...

Universal opprobrium for copper pricing decision
TUANZ, Vodafone, Spark voice discontent with ComCom draft decision on copper pricing… read more...

How farmers can get OnSide with health and safety
New health and safety system for farmers to launch next year… read more...

Finally, less form filling for online payment
Digital easy in a good week for payments in NZ… read more...

Five tech trends to watch
Rapid growth in information volume and complexity is putting data centres under pressure, accentuated by customer behaviour changes driven by mobile and social trends, writes Arron Patterson… read more...

Orion goes global with Amadeus, looks to accelerate Precision Medicine
Platform to enable highly personalised healthcare and the implementation of Precision Medicine… read more...

Another big IT company appoints a chief customer officer
Kaseya’s new CCO stops by in Australia and New Zealand; ‘as a service’ mobility means increased focus on customers… read more...

Pay with your Android as ANZ introduces GoMoney Wallet
It’s very nearly 2016 and we still use plastic tokens – essentially a 1950s technology – to make payments… read more...

Spark boosts cloud services capabilities by acquisition
Spark has signed a conditional agreement to acquire privately-owned South Island based IT infrastructure and professional services company Computer Concepts Limited (CCL) for $50 million… read more...

Big data after the hype
Big data is perhaps another of those IT industry things that makes you go ‘oh, really, show me the money’. But while a little hype fatigue can be expected, the use cases are steadily appearing… read more...

New partnership heralds en masse precision medicine
Trifecta to deliver ‘world-leading integrated precision medicine solution’ right here in NZ… read more...

TechnologyOne says 2015’s been pretty good
Australian software provider TechnologyOne has increased its footprint in New Zealand… read more...

Digitising government while ensuring citizen privacy and security
Digital governments will prove transformative for planning and delivering services to citizens – but the data being captured, stored, analysed and managed poses security and privacy risks… read more...

Fronde’s new CEO
Former Fisher & Paykel exec takes top job at tech solutions company… read more...

Cloud shakeup for the contact centre market?
Let there be contact centre solutions for all… read more...

Never mind property, a tech correction is coming
It’s not a matter of if but when, writes IMD Professor Michael Wade – and he calls the coming crash a good thing… read more...

CA rallies call for next level Agile – breakout out of the IT silo
Having conquered a decent chunk of the IT profession’s hearts and minds the Agile movement has set its sights on a broader swathe of enterprise professionals as it seeks to achieve ‘next-level Agile’… read more...

Virtualise your CIO
Managed services provider shoves desk, chair and nerd into the cloud… read more...

Mind the bumps on the Windows 10 upgrade journey
While early adopters will rush to implement Windows 10 as quickly as possible, most organisations will take a more sober ‘wait-and-see’ approach, writes Adam Blue… read more...

The growing challenge of travel industry email fraud
The popularity of internet travel bookings is attracting attention from cybercriminals keen to nab a share of the proceeds… read more...