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Stories by Anthony Doesburg
Web designer says keep it simple
AUCKLAND (10/13/2003) - The tourism industry's Internet gateway to New Zealand gets a low mark from Irish Web design specialist Gerry McGovern.
Woosh goes Southland's new network
AUCKLAND (10/10/2003) - The symbolic launch takes place today of the first regional broadband network subsidized by the government.
Sun's deepening gloom
Sun Microsystems watchers have been writing the company’s obituary for the past few years, as the Wintel juggernaut becomes steadier in its course. They’ll have gained more reason for head shaking with its latest financial utterance – what had been a $US12 million in net income in the three months to the end of June is now recorded as a $US1 billion loss, after a tax adjustment.
Forget LLU, FTTP is where excitement is
As most of us await copper local loop competition, Pukekohe residents can choose fibre
High time for high growth
It appears to have gone largely unnoticed that the government’s ICT taskforce released its final report three months ago. Perhaps that’s because nothing notable following on from the report has happened yet.
Ghost team safe in Symantec acquisition
Integration teams will work out how the products will be brought together
No more free love on the web
The internet’s hippy era is over, according to an Irishman whose web design company, Nua, was once worth a paper fortune. Today, Gerry McGovern makes a living talking about web publishing, with emphasis on “publishing”.
Privacy concerns growing: IBM exec
Overreaction to 9/11 is causing a swing back to privacy protection
Shock! Horror! Computers boost productivity
The productivity paradox, that nagging economic anomaly that suggested the billions of dollars spent on computers over the past few decades had been wasted, has been declared solved.
Acer wins as PC Company staggers
No NZ PC maker bid for department’s contract
UPS and downs of power supplies
Disruption of electricity supplies has one positive effect: it’s good for UPS and generator sales.
No IRD lifeline for local PC maker
It was a rich irony that last week saw the Inland Revenue Department name Acer as its preferred desktop PC supplier for the next three years, and possibly the next five.
Unisys touts blueprint for collaboration
Former BearingPoint consultants collaborate with Unisys on business process coding
CIOs need to get in the boss's ear
CIOs unsure of their place in the world would have come away with useful clues from a couple of presentations in Auckland last week. A CIO turned CEO, Gen-i’s Garth Biggs, provided a guide to what the boss wants from the information chief. IDC analyst Peter Hind, meanwhile, gave an interpretation of technology trends of the past year and a glimpse at what’s just over the horizon. Both were speaking at CIO magazine's annual conference.