Carriers' Forum revenue reflects a busy year
The Telecommunications Carriers’ Forum has reported increased revenue in an extended 2009 financial year.
Stories by Rob O'Neill
Forum: Grumpy editor vents on ACTA and Auckland
Sometimes you just have to vent.
$5.4 billion a year: the cost of IT failure in NZ
ICT failures can be costly disasters, but quantifying the total cost of failed IT investment is incredibly difficult.
A$200 million Qantas deal clinches Fujitsu centre for NZ
A five-year A$200 million deal between Qantas and Fujitsu, signed in April for end user support services, was the clincher that led Fujitsu to build a new global delivery centre in Auckland, says Stuart Stitt, Fujitsu's local managing director.
Q&A: Roger Sessions on the total cost of failure
You've heard of total cost of ownership for IT, well now we may be approaching a new IT metric — the total cost of failure (TCF). According to US-based software expert Roger Sessions, the cost of failed IT investment is much, much higher than many would realise when total failed investments and their opportunity costs are included.See also: $5.4 billion — the cost of IT failure in NZ
REANNZ takes international network contract to market
Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand (REANNZ) is putting its international network supply contract up for tender, seeking "high capacity, high speed, uncontested and transparent" connectivity for its KAREN research network.
2008 kind to SAP NZ, but 'slippage' hits in 2009
New Zealand was a standout performer in the SAP world in 2008, SAP’s local managing director Graeme Riley told Computerworld, after reporting 20 percent year on year sales growth last month.
Updated: Meridian halts $20 million Oracle billing project
Meridian Energy has stopped development on a $20 million, two-year effort to replace its billing and CRM systems with Oracle technology, according to a report.
NZTA to establish national integrated ticketing system
The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) Board has decided to establish a national ticketing programme for public transport and has approved funding for the development of the Auckland Regional Transport Authority’s integrated ticketing system as a first step, NZTA announced today.
New Era IT displaces HP at UCol
Education sector specialist New Era IT has won the IT support contract for UCol, the institute of technology in Palmerston North, Wanganui, and Wairarapa, displacing incumbent HP.
Canterbury Uni scopes app futures
For one Oracle user, OpenWorld 2009 in San Francisco was “a bit flat”.
Telecom, TiVo, Sony partner for launch
TiVo licensee Hybrid Television has teamed up with Telecom and Sony to deliver a series of New Zeland-first services on the TiVo platform — including unlimited TiVo downloads for any Telecom broadband customer using the device.
NZ developers push hard at OpenWorld
The New Zealand-based independent software vendors attending Oracle’s OpenWorld conference, held in San Francisco earlier this month, report good opportunities coming out of their conference investment.
Forum: Ta da! A new Windows emerges from Vista's dark shadow
It’s hard not to conclude that the glitz has gone out of operating system launches. To anyone who remembers the launch of Windows 95, all the succeeding iterations of Microsoft’s desktop operating system have failed to develop the same level of hype.
CHH struggles to extract scanned Kinleith invoices
Forest products company Carter Holt Harvey is strugging to retrieve invoice evidence in a lawsuit it is pursuing against firms that built a co-generation plant at its Kinleith mill site.