Westpac New Zealand has signed a five-year agreement with IBM as part of an extensive services and technology contract that will see the bank migrating its IT systems to the latter’s data centre in Auckland.
Vodafone has activated three separate 4G spectrum bands – 2600MHz, 1800MHz, and 700MHz – on a cell site in Northcote. This theoretically creates three times the capacity of a single spectrum site, though actual speeds could vary depending on the number of users, device capability and radio conditions.
New customers and existing customers who resign on a 24 month Vodafone Red Business plan until the 18th of September, will get twice the amount of data for 24 months.
Snowball Effect, an online equity crowdfunding platform, will go live to the public on Wednesday after being granted its licence by the Financial Markets Authority.
Telecom has officially become Spark New Zealand today.
Chorus has stated that the Final Pricing Principle (FPP) processes should ensure that the regulated price for broadband services is grounded in the reality of New Zealand’s circumstances.
Hall's Group, NZ-based cold chain logistics company, has signed an agreement to fit out its entire fleet with the Eroad system.
Microsoft New Zealand today announced it is donating $1 million in cash, software and services to the High Tech Youth Network to provide pathways for young Kiwis into the IT industry.
Education New Zealand has deployed a Microsoft private cloud in the third and final phase of a programme of work that focused on improving the user experience of its staff who are spread in 20 global locations.
A University of Auckland student team has won first place and a $50,000 prize in the Innovation category at the Microsoft Imagine Cup World Finals in Seattle this week for their social interaction app, called ‘Estimeet’.
Telecom is calling for more national consistency on the products offered by the fibre companies to avoid what it calls a “fibre tangle”.
Wellington-based Pencarrow Private Equity has taken an equity stake in ARANZ Geo, developers of 3D geographical modelling software Leapfrog.
Microsoft Devices has announced that the Lumia 930 will arrive in New Zealand this month.
A whopping 84 per cent of 91,000 IT service incidents logged with Dimesion Data’s (DiData) service centres in 2013 were related to non-device issues such as human error, telecom failures or environmental issues, leaving only 16 per cent of these incidents being device related.
Talent2 and the Ministry of Education have agreed that the management and operation of the Novopay payroll service will transition from Talent2 to a new government owned company on 17 October 2014