Kiwi company comes home
Marshal Software’s tale is one that bears repeating — even if not always in polite company.
Stories by Paul Brislen
NZ falls behind in broadband race
Despite increasing our broadband uptake by three connections per 100 inhabitants, New Zealand still languishes in 22nd place in the latest OECD broadband survey.
It's the economy, stupid
It’s hard to believe that in 2006 the number of dial-up internet users in New Zealand is still rising. Statistics New Zealand says the number has increased by almost 5% from last year and that’s from a pretty high base.
Third World broadband standard coming to NZ
New Zealand’s continued reliance on dial-up internet access is galling to some but for former New Zealander Norm Hosken, it’s a goldmine.
Two-factor authentication an illusion, says security vendor
Most New Zealand banks looking at two-factor authentication as a way of providing higher levels of security to their online banking customers.
How Telecom won the broadband war
Telecom has comprehensively lost the recent PR battle and its share price dipped substantially in the process. The stock market didn’t falter, it didn’t fail and bankers weren’t seen throwing themselves into the streets of Wellington as a result.
Sales figures fiddled, says Toshiba
Research firm IDC is playing down allegations by Toshiba that some vendors are inflating their sales figures in the cut-throat Australia New Zealand notebook market.
Dot com days at Trade Me
Trade Me, the country’s busiest website, has been sold to Fairfax media group for $700m.
Open all hours
Free as in beer or free as in speech? Open source is an often contentious issue that can cause huge arguments and great divides within companies and within the industry as a whole. Some argue about whether open source is a Communist plot (thanks for that, Bill) and some argue about how to even define what open source actually is. Users, as ever, seem unmoved by the arguments, and simply want to be able to open their email and spell check their documents.
Regulation - time to get its boots on
Telecom’s attempts to have its cake and eat it too have finally caught up with the company.
The Awards are here — excellent!
Picking winners is a tricky business. We tend to frown on it when our governments try and whenever anyone seems particularly pleased with their own efforts, we talk about that old chestnut, the tall poppy syndrome. That’s not a Kiwi-specific thing, by the way — it’s quite common all around the world. My old granny used to say “pride goeth before a fall” whenever anyone seemed chuffed with their own lot in life.
Computerworld Top News over Christmas
Computerworld's daily Top News email newsletter will take a break over the summer.
Yellow Pages goes from strength to strength
The Yellow Pages isn’t resting on its laurels following its recent re-launch. Despite seeing a 20% increase in usage, the Yellow Pages has launched its free online mapping service for businesses.
Through the telco looking glass
And so we’re to unbundle the incumbent’s network.
Rakon gets smaller and weaker (but in a good way)
Auckland engineering firm Rakon may have cornered the market in providing quartz crystals for everything from radios to GPS locator beacons, but its new product is designed to take on the cellphone market in a whole new way.