Making sure high quality fruit is actually high quality is quite an issue for the fruit industry not only here but all around the world. When you're working with hundreds of thousands of fruit per day, it can quickly become a nightmare.
IBM has launched an updated and more open version of its corporate instant messaging and collaboration software, Sametime.
New Zealand is as susceptible to all kinds of cyber attacks as the rest of the world, says Rogan Mallon, principal systems engineer at Symantec New Zealand. This is despite our remote location and low population and is because of our increasing use of broadband.
There is an opportunity for New Zealand’s automated manufacturing industry to compete with lower-cost countries, says Keith Nosbusch, chairman and CEO of Rockwell Automation, a US-based provider of automated systems. The future for countries like New Zealand is in manufacturing high-quality, complex products.
Online subscription-rental company DVD Unlimited has managed to slash its phone bills by nearly two-thirds thanks to an email-response management system, says general manager Kirsty Way.
New research from Visa International has found that even though 66% of New Zealand merchants are concerned about protecting cardholder data, only a third are complying with the international standard for payment security — the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.
The IT skills shortage and the plummeting numbers of ICT students are the main drivers behind Lincoln University’s decision to revise its computer science degree.
Auckland-based software company Activate Technologies has developed software that automates and delegates common IT tasks to users, allowing IT resources to focus on higher priority projects.
The Sahana project was originally developed to help cope with the disastrous consequences of 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. A free and open source disaster management solution, the integrated system is a set of web-based disaster management applications for managing information before, during and after a disaster.
Disaster recovery systems are no longer something that only financial institutions are concerned with, says Jerry Vochteloo, principal technical architect at Symantec Asia-Pacific.
The third IT salary survey, conducted by recruitment firm AbsoluteIT, shows that national permanent salaries increased by 4.43% from June 2005 to July 2006.
Sydney-based Software Choice is developing a New Zealand directory and plans to launch the service at the end of the year, says managing director Meredith Thompson.
“If you want your organisation to be the leader in the industry, avoid ‘best practice’ processes,” says Mike Kennedy, Gartner’s senior programme director for executive programmes. Kennedy was speaking at the CIO annual conference held in Auckland last week.
Simon Nicholson, product development manager of transition services at Telecom, gives some practical recommendations to make the move to IP communications as successful as possible for companies.
Airways New Zealand has signed a contract with Christchurch-based Alchemy, a software development and design company, to develop an online air traffic capacity management tool.