Microsoft Office 2007 has been deployed across the whole of the Civil Aviation Authority’s operation, following a four month trial earlier this year, says Arthur Devitt, the CAA’s CIO.
Optimation’s Equip utilities billing software development has been put on hold, according to an industry source. The project was given a grant of $1.8 million from the Foundation of Research, Science and Technology in June, but now “the application is dead”, says the source. As a result contractors have been laid off and permanent staff redeployed.
All I want for Christmas is ... a turquoise iPod nano. Well, it’s described as blue in the blurb, but in my mind it’s turquoise. Oh, I’ll settle for any of the colours, the silver, the pink, the green or the black, or the red one, the special edition one which sees US$10 from every sale go to the Global Fund, which fights AIDS in Africa.
ICT contracting is on the rise, say local recruitment firms, partly fuelled by a lack of skilled staff in the market and partly by government initiatives.
Australian company Centricom has developed technology which allows for online payments straight from users’ bank accounts. Centricom’s Payments online (POLi) supports all the major banks in New Zealand. The company has 15 customers in Australia, but none in New Zealand so far, as no NZ merchants have signed on yet to use the service.
ACE Training, a privately owned computer training company, is offering students a one-year industry internship upon completion of one of its Microsoft courses — the Diploma in Computer Technology.
An industry consortium is tackling the ICT skills gap by establishing a postgraduate qualification for graduates with three- or four-year tertiary qualifications. The Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Development covers technical updates and management topics. It is a two year course that allows students to continue working full time while studying.
Following Apple Computer Inc.'s launch of iTunes and Apple online store in New Zealand today, Renaissance Ltd. will no longer be maintaining the Web site and online store on Apple's behalf, said Paul Johnston, managing director of Renaissance. But apart from that, everything else remains unchanged, he said.
Right Hemisphere has won the top slot in the “up and coming” category in the US Military Training Technology magazine’s annual awards for technology contributions to the military training community — for the third year running.
Four New Zealand companies received the 2006 Technology Commendation Award from the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology in Christchurch last week.
Voice over IP technology could become the new malware battle zone, according to Enrique González-Ochoa, a researcher with Panda Software’s surveillance department in Spain.
It’s air-points with a difference — the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) is a 3Com TippingPoint programme that pays security researchers for finding unpublished vulnerabilities and reporting them to TippingPoint.
For the second year in a row regulation compliance has proved to be the main driver behind improving information security, according to Ernst & Young’s annual global information security survey
Telecom has upgraded its online shopping mall Ferrit to allow users to pay for multiple items with one transaction.
The emails that form the basis of researcher Nicky Hager’s book The Hollow Men, which forced National Party leader Don Brash to resign, could well trigger the country’s first prosecution for theft of email.