New Zealand has moved up four places to occupy the 12th place in the highest adoption of mobile broadband in the OECD, according to a report by the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology, and Industry.
The report says that as of June 2011, 54.3 percent of New Zealanders were subscribed to a mobile broadband service. Australia came in at eighth with 64.8 percent, and the top ranked Korea has 99.3 percent subscribed.
New Zealand mobile networks are distancing themselves from the recently discovered monitoring software installed surreptitiously on millions of phones overseas.
With a shortage of experienced IT workers in New Zealand and the competition to recruit them increasing, Sky City Entertainment Group is hoping its new internship programme will help it secure the best of New Zealand’s up and coming young IT talent and at the same time provide them with much needed real world experience.
Steven Mayo-Smith, former CIO of Yellow New Zealand, is now the general manager of technology at Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC).
Mayo-Smith was made redundant two months after starting his role at Yellow in April of this year, after the company went through a major restructuring when then CEO Bruce Cotterill resigned.
Poor broadband penetration, internet infrastructure and difficulties securing regional distribution deals is keeping Netflix from coming to New Zealand, says Brent Ayrey, vice president of product innovation at Netflix.
Companies in New Zealand are looking to leverage the rise of smartphone adoption among consumers, but with so many platforms and development paths available to them, how should they approach this, if at all?
Panelists on the social media panel at ITEX kicked off the session by giving the IT managers in the crowd a few simple words of advice to help their marketing and social media teams: give them the tools they need, and get rid of IE 6.
The panel talked about their experiences using social media to market their companies, and the challenges they face online and with their IT teams.
Prime Minister John Key today launched the High Tech Youth Academy (HTYA) at Kia Aroha College, in South Auckland, less than a week out from the general election.
New Zealand-based Datasquirt has announced the conditional sale of its complete business to Californian call centre provider LiveOps, for US$12.5 million ($16.4 million).
Spotify, the music streaming service which has taken the US by storm, is now preparing to expand to New Zealand’s shores.
Orcon has signed New Zealand based video streaming and hosting company e-cast to its national content delivery network (CDN) service.
Crown Research Institutes GNS Science, Landcare and National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) are working together with the New Zealand Geospatial Office to open the flow of environmental data between government agencies by harmonizing the systems used for managing it.
Currently, New Zealand environmental information is collected by a wide range of government agencies including regional councils and district councils, SOEs, and research institutes. Each uses varying methods and systems, making the sharing of data and co-operation difficult.