“There is growing evidence that more people these days don’t work from a physical workplace, but work from home or other places,” says David Thorns, director of the social science research centre at the University of Canterbury.
Information and communication technologies cause GDP to rise, according to a research project by Nancy Chu, Ken Carlaw and Les Oxley, at the University of Canterbury.
A patient health ICT system being rolled out by the Waikato District Health Board could reduce the number of mistakes that cost patients’ lives.
Electricity wholesale market platform company M-co, also called the Marketplace Company, has been on an adventurous journey towards service-orientated achitecture (SOA). It is set to become a web-service enabled organisation, with the aid of internet-based trading system, Comit.
An anonymous government department is requesting proposals to build an alternative telecommunications network in New Zealand, according to a request for information (RFI) from Consultel. The independent telecommunications consulting practice is acting on behalf of the unknown department, which doesn’t wish to be named.
Transport company Supershuttle is about to launch a virtual call centre, using voice over IP (VoIP).
Integration with existing hardware and software was the key driver behind Premium Power’s decision to dump its existing CRM (customer relationship management) platform in favour of Microsoft.
Before an organisation decides to roll out a CRM system it should consider a few questions.
Kiwi software developer Peace Software has won two significant deals this year. In January, Peace signed a contract with Service Essentials, a joint venture between Australian electricity distributors Energex and Ergon Energy, to bill and manage 70,000 commercial and industrial retail and network energy customers in five Australian states.
Email and internet content security software company Marshal is back in New Zealand. The company opened its new Auckland office and R&D centre seven weeks ago and there is room for expansion, says CEO Ed Macnair.
Massey University's EpiCentre epidemiology center is helping fight avian influenza using state-of-the-art software.
“Lotus Notes has 40,000 active customers across the world, and any idea that Notes is dead is a dead idea,” says Ken Bisconti, vice president of IBM Workplace, portal and collaboration products.
Infrastructure services vendor VeriSign has introduced its Security Risk Profiling Service, which aims to help organisations identify, visualise and quantify information security risks, the company says. The product is targeted at large enterprises, such as investment banks.
"Google hacking" is on the rise, according to a study by masters student Natalia Nehring and Ellen Rose, senior lecturer at the Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences at Massey University.
Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and the University of Auckland have developed in collaboration an e-learning authoring tool, and 7,000 copies of it are downloaded worldwide every month, according to Andrew Higgins, director of e-learning at AUT.