New MetService site caters to weather enthusiasts
MetService has developed a new version of its website, now in beta trials.
Stories by Stephen Bell
Detail on kiosk fault too risky to release: MSD
The security fault labelled "critical" in Security-Assessment.com's May 2011 report on the Ministry of Social Development's kiosk systems was promptly fixed, but MSD still declines to provide detailed information on the reasons for suppressing details of the fault under the Official Information Act.
New industry prices for access to copper network
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Privacy Commissioner labels 2012 the year of the data breach
A clutch of serious events, particularly to do with unintentional release of government-held information, have led privacy commissioner Marie Shroff to label 2012 "the year of the data breach", in her annual report released yesterday.
National Library at a 'digital watershed'
A Big Data exhibition is being staged in the refurbished National Library in Wellington.
Look at worker-types, not device-types for mobile deployment
The mobile device is causing just as big a change in ways of working at the beginning of this century as the internet was at the end of the last century, says Kevin Noonan, consultant with Ovum.
Cloud works for government, says Ovum
Case studies conducted by industry analyst Ovum into cloud computing implementations "illustrate that benefits were greater than expected, while risks and difficulties were lower than typically experienced by traditional ICT projects", says Ovum's Steve Hodgkinson.
Online interaction with government grows
An increasing number of New Zealanders are using central and local government services online, according to a new analysis of specifically government-oriented data from last year's World Internet Project survey. However, use varies widely across the population, with some unusual patterns.
Windows 8 shoots for non-smartphone users, says local developer
Local developers for Windows 8 are glad to be dealing with a market that is already mature and now easily extended to a smartphone platform.
Open source developers Catalyst and Egressive combine forces
Catalyst IT has taken over fellow open source developer, Christchurch-based Egressive.
High NZ internet usage figures disputed
Professor Jeffrey Cole, director of the World Internet Project (WIP) survey, visiting New Zealand from the US, praises this country for having the highest penetration rate of internet connection among the more than 30 countries surveyed by the organisation.
Statistics NZ survey finds data caps and speeds increasing
The number of New Zealand internet users with datacaps of 50 gigabytes (GB) or more increased by almost 800 percent compared with a year ago, an annual Statistics NZ survey of internet service providers has found. More than 50 percent of customers now have a datacap of 20 GB or more per month.
Hansard to replace aging system
Hansard, the record of Parliamentary proceedings, is set to get a new production system, to replace one that was adapted from a system built for the Canberra Parliament.
Wanganui in semi-finals of intelligent communities contest
Wanganui has been chosen as one of the world’s top 21 “intelligent communities” in a list drawn up annually by the New York-based Intelligent Community Forum. It is the first New Zealand city to be so recognised.
Govt-Microsoft panel aims at more consistency, less cost
The Department of Internal Affairs has set up a panel of five service providers for licence administration and management services in connection with government agencies’ purchase of Microsoft products and services.