Microsoft New Zealand managing director Helen Robinson used her opening remarks at the Tech Ed conference in Auckland today to ask developers to "encourage" Standards New Zealand to support the Open XML file format.
Statistics New Zealand today demonstrated version 2 of its web-based statistical processing and publishing system, which allows Excel 2007 users to both analyse and publish data from the one interface.
There were unseemly scenes in the PR departments of New Zealand’s telcos and ISPs last week as Orcon, Vodafone’s ISP Ihug and TelstraClear jostled for coverage after Telecom’s stage-managed opening of its first unbundled exchanges in Auckland.
What a difference a few months can make in IT.
A student wireless network tester, or 'war driver', who revealed security failings in South Auckland wireless networks (Computerworld, July 23) won his top prize in his school science fair with the project.
If Randal Jackson thinks that the New Zealand Customs Service has awarded a tender to Hewlett-Packard, he is misinformed (Computerworld, 30 July).
An overhaul of the IT infrastructure supporting its 31 New Zealand hotels has delivered significant savings for Millennium Hotels and Resorts, which operates the Copthorne and Kingsgate hotel brands.
The software as a service model (SaaS), where applications are hosted online and delivered to users through a web browser, is changing the face of corporate computing. But at one Auckland company the model is allowing the unthinkable: the integration of top-end CRM system Siebel, now owned by Oracle, with the ubiquitous small- and micro-business financial software package MYOB.
First, I’d like to apologise in advance for that headline. A few months ago, while meeting with Telecom, I mentioned that I had never actually been inside a telephone exchange. We discussed the possibility of having a quick tour of one and an explanation of how local loop unbundling (LLU) will be implemented.
When all hell breaks loose, systems fail and your vendor relationships go legal, there may be only one solution: an IT troubleshooter.
The 2007 Computerworld Excellence Awards were announced on Friday night. Next week’s Computerworld will offer full coverage in a special supplement. Until then, here are the winners:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Telecom has refuted user group TUANZ’s criticism that it is under-investing in — and making excess profits from — the New Zealand market, saying TUANZ’s figures are out-of-date.
Computerworld's second-ever podcast is now online. We talk to John Pratt about computers in general and Differential Analyser No 2 in particular, featuring in a new Museum of Transport and Technology show in Auckland (intro starts about 6 minutes into podcast). Also discussed, the AA ditches Open Office, a Facebook frenzy and the shaky-looking new Banking Code of Practice.
News that the New Zealand Automobile Association is to throw out Open Office in favour of Microsoft’s software is a blow to open-source ambitions. But it shouldn’t surprise. The AA cites interoperability as the major issue here and says, whether we like it or not, Microsoft Office, and its document formats, are a de facto industry standard.