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Technology underpins thoroughly modern marketing
Successful marketing in the 21st century requires a fresh approach linking data, mobile platforms and creative but valuable-to-the-consumer campaigns… read more...

Apple matters: Apple Watch is ‘out’, but so is a new MacBook
Mark Webster considers the just-announced Apple Watch but, more intriguingly, there’s a very new MacBook, plus ResearchKit available… read more...

Microsoft awards posturing in full swing
Microsoft partners are touting their prowess and comparing achievements in the run up to the awards night on 19th March… read more...

Flow wins US market research agreement
MBA students from San Diego State University have signed up to do market research on Flow’s best method of entry into the US market… read more...

Finalists for Microsoft NZ 2015 Partner Awards announced
MEDIA RELEASE: Wave of new businesses entering competition with leading cloud and mobility solutions… read more...

Apple Matters: Return to Apple Maps
Much was made of Apple’s Maps app when it first appeared a couple of years ago, thanks to errors. Mark Webster looks at it now… read more...

Enterprise needs to leadfoot IoT security
Gartner estimates that right now there are barely any enterprises which have formal plans to address aggressive cybersecurity business disruption attacks via the internet of things, but things are changing rapidly… read more...

Spark challenges ComCom copper pricing model
New Zealand’s largest retail telco says an 80 percent premium above median international wholesale pricing is “unnecessary”… read more...

Eroad dangles $10k carrot for new recruits
The rapidly-growing electronic road user charges and transport services company Eroad (NZX:ERD), is offering a NZ$10,000 signing bonus to new software engineers who join the firm… read more...

Industry steps up to identity challenge
In a connected world of people, things and enterprise, effective and efficient identity management and authentication is essential but complex… read more...

A/NZ uni spinoff targets big data demand
RoZetta Technology, officially launched this week, is an attempt by 40 Australian and New Zealand universities to commercialise their big data expertise… read more...

Apple Matters: Feeling secure
Everyone wants to feel secure and even the idea that someone might be snooping on electronic devices is unsettling. Mark Webster looks at security for Apple… read more...

Data demand surges – but at what price to enterprise?
Consumer appetite for mobile data is surging – but are corporates getting a raw deal if they are paying for it?… read more...

Global ERP firm makes home in Auckland
Rapid local growth proves New Zealand is fertile ground for ERP sales… read more...

Infor announces crusade for recognition
ERP vendor Infor is pushing for more adoption of its cloud suite, announcing a major sponsorship of the Crusaders rugby team to boost brand recognition… read more...

MYOB and Xero take battle on the road
Australia and New Zealand’s leading accounting software companies are going up against each other on three fronts; innovation, customer count and now roadshows… read more...

Orion Health partners with all five South Island DHBs for regional patient information system
MEDIA RELEASE: 11 February 2015 – eHealth software company Orion Health has signed a commercial agreement… read more...

How APIs are building the new enterprise
Sydney is this week hosting up to 300 of Australia and New Zealand’s leading API developers at a conference intended to showcase the role of APIs in creating “composable enterprises”… read more...

Samsung’s TV a sign of problems to come
The company’s ‘listening TV’ has highlighted the coming privacy mine-field that smart technology and the internet of things will introduce for business… read more...

Spark/Vocus JV ups fibre ante
Spark and Vocus have entered in to a joint venture in a move that has surprised some in the industry… read more...