Skinny boss leaves after six months
The head of Telecom’s sub brand Skinny has “left to pursue other opportunities”, just six months after it was launched.
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Facebook CIO to speak in Auckland today
Tim Campos, CIO of Facebook will share his insights on leading ICT at the world’s largest social network, at the CIO Summit in Auckland on June 25 and 26 at the SkyCity Convention Centre.
Kiwi appointed to Internet Society board
Wellington-based internet governance specialist Keith Davidson has been elected to the main board of the Internet Society (ISOC) - an international organisation that promotes open standards on the internet.
Ex-Localist CIO to head vendor's NZ operations
Ken Holley, former CIO of NZ Post-owned Localist, has been announced as the head of New Zealand operations for contact centre cloud provider Ipscape.
Fry Up: Pop Quiz II
Pop Quiz II
Fry Up: Rumours
Rumours
Scholarships awarded for NZ game developers
Two budding game developers will have their first year of study at Media Design School New Zealand’s (MDSNZ) two new game development programmes paid through a scholarship funded by Wellington-based game studio Sidhe and mobile games publisher PikPok.
Telecom confirms earnings on track
Telecom says it is on track to deliver first half year earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) guidance of around $560 million, with net earnings guidance expected to be between $160 and $190 million.
Fry up: Waiting, waiting, waiting...
Very exciting new mobile game in development, maybe
Budget 2012: Govt to spend $166m on Advanced Technology Institute
Announced in the government's budget today is an allotment of $166 million towards developing an Advanced Technology Institute (ATI).
DIA child sexual abuse investigation leads to international arrests
Traditional policing techniques rather than technology led to the discovery of a series of closed groups on social networks that were being used to distribute child sexual abuse pictures.
Twitter jumps on Do Not Track bandwagon
True privacy can be hard to come by in the socially enabled online world, but Twitter on Thursday announced that it has joined Firefox maker Mozilla in taking a big step forward for users.
Fry Up: Three things that go ouch
It’s a cruel world and the best advice when you’re lying face down in a pool of tears is to get over it. Harden up. Move on. Even if the bullets hurt.
Apple patches 36 bugs in OS X
Apple yesterday patched 36 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, most of them critical, plugging a hole that revealed passwords used to encrypt folders with an older version of FileVault.
No big shift to the cloud for unified communications and collaboration
The 2012 IDG Enterprise Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) survey highlights the uptick in UC&C adoption and investments in the coming 3 years -- specifically in enterprise organizations -- demonstrating the value organizations place on technologies that enable consistent and connected communications between employees, customers and partners. Numerous triggers including social media and collaboration are contributing to the uptick in investments, however the proliferation of consumer devices is seen as the biggest trigger -- 74% of enterprise organization are accelerating UC&C plans because of consumer devices.