Broadcasting Minister Amy Adams has announced plans to update the Broadcasting Act with a new Digital Convergence Bill saying the Act needs to better reflect today’s converged market.She has also provided a progress report on the Government’s Convergence work programme, saying it is making excellent progress.
The Ministry of Health has scrapped it National Health IT Board, replacing it with a Digital Advisory Board.
Christchurch’s local fibre company, Enable, has launched a 1Gbps downstream, 500Mbps upstream wholesale residential fibre broadband service across its coverage area in Christchurch and surrounding towns.
The Commerce Commission has filed charges in the Auckland District Court against Trustpower over the marketing and sale of its bundled electricity and unlimited data broadband offer.
Online marketplace and advertising business, Trade Me (NZX: TME), has lifted revenue by 9.2 percent to $218.0 million for the year to 31 June 2016 but after tax profit was down 6.5 percent to $74.9m. EBITDA was up 4.5 percent to $140.5 million.
Smart city projects in Christchurch, Canterbury and elsewhere have been named among 14 top smart city projects in IDC’s 2016 Smart City Asia Pacific Awards (SCAPA), with IDC singling out New Zealand’s achievement in its announcement.
Spark has reported a decline in after tax profit of 1.3 percent to $370 million on the back of revenues to $3.5 billion, down one percent. However EBITA and pre-tax profit were both up: EBITDA by 2.5 percent to $986 million and pre-tax profit by 6.2 percent to $512 million.
Xero has announced a partnership with PayPal claiming that, by allowing a business’ customers to pay direct from the invoice, it will reduce payment delays.
Citrix has revealed that Sky TV has been using its NetScaler SD-WAN to manage high and unpredictable network demands during the Rio 2016 Olympics, ensuring production teams on the ground had access to critical applications, data and tools needed during the games.
Access4, a provider of unified communications as a service, has opted to offer its customers a cloud-based call recording service from ASX-listed Dubber (ASX: DUB).
Spark New Zealand has named Ed Hyde as the new CEO for Spark Ventures, replacing Rod Snodgrass whose departure was foreshadowed in April.
Oracle has secured a three-year deal to supply its software and services to all NZ government departments and agencies, making it the second-largest global ICT supplier to the government.
Spark has made a submission to the Commerce Commission formally opposing the proposed merger between Sky and Vodafone on the grounds that Sky’s monopoly of rights to premium sports will limit access to these events.
Motorola Solutions is to supply New Zealand Fire Service with some 4500 new personal mobile radios for firefighters that include a speaker/microphone integrated into the firefighter’s breathing apparatus.
Meet Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s vision of the future of computing. It’s called simply ‘The Machine’. It’s a radical departure from today’s computer architecture that is being developed HPE’s R&D arm, Hewlett Packard Labs, to deal with the conflicting trajectories of computing hardware and software.