ShadowTech, a program to enable secondary school girls in years 9 to 11 to get a feel for the IT industry by spending a day with a female IT executive, wraps up in Hamilton today after days after events in Auckland, Christchurch, Palmerston North and Dunedin earlier this month.
Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) has revealed the recent Budget set aside almost $2m to support the development of a regional satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) to significantly improve GPS accuracy.
Vocus and Vodafone have branded Chorus’ proposed pricing for unbundled access to UFB fibre services as predatory and its proposed reduction of just $0.15 per month as pathetic.
The Department of Internal Affairs has launched public consultation on its plans for Kiwis to share their personal information with nominated government agencies.
New Zealand could be getting another LoRaWAN wide area network for IoT following announcement by French LoRaWAN gear maker Kerlink and Indian tech giant Tata of plans to promote and deploy LoRaWAN IoT networks globally.
The University of Auckland says it has scored millions of dollars of Government funding to help understand and unlock the power of artificial intelligence (AI).
Wellington based start-up, Situate Me has been awarded $60,000 from the Westpac NZ Government Innovation Fund to test a chatbot, dubbed Ema, designed to trawl a range of social media sites to gather information posted in the wake of a natural disaster or emergency situation and distil it for emergency services and emergency management decision makers.
The CEO of NZTech Graeme Muller is urging New Zealand tech companies to study the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and position their solutions as ways to achieve them.
The Commerce Commission says New Zealand’s broadband networks enable most New Zealanders to reliably stream high definition (HD) video, most of the time.
Spark’s outgoing CEO, Simon Moutter, his nominated replacement, customer director Jolie Hodson, and HR director Joe McCollum have provided a detailed account of the telco’s transition to an agile mode of operation.
The Commerce Commission has decided against any further regulatory intervention in the provision of backhaul services
Wellington based company Global Seismic Data has installed what it claims is a world-first into a number of buildings in Wellington: A cloud-based system for monitoring the impact of seismic activity on a structure.
Seventy nine percent of New Zealanders are concerned about the protection of their identity and use of personal data by organisations, according to a survey commissioned by Digital Identity New Zealand (DINZ), a member of the NZ Tech Alliance.
The minister for finance, Grant Robinson, has released a document canvassing the options for taxing services provided purely digitally, the so called ‘Facebook tax’.
Chorus has banned Auckland-based UFB subcontractor Clearvision Communications — stated mission “To Connect the world and be the best fibre installation company” — from undertaking any work on the Chorus UFB network, following a determination from the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) that found Clearvision had commited several breaches of New Zealand employment standards.