Candace Kinser, CEO of NZ Technology Industry Association (NZTech), chats with ComputerWorld NZ on the important issues facing the country’s ICT sector and how the association is working with both the government and the industry to enable faster, stronger growth in the future.
NZ businesses are being warned they risk missing out on substantial revenue and cost saving opportunities if they fail to take heed of the growth in mobile internet and technologies.
Digging into his experience with police work and understanding of trends on a global scale, Hong-Eng Koh, senior director and global lead of justice and public safety within Oracle’s division focusing on the public sector, makes the case for social-enabled policing (SEP).
Telecom has outbid Vodafone, becoming the successful bidder in the government’s “digital dividend” auction of the final 2x5 MHz lot of 700 MHz radio spectrum.
Telecom’s ICT services division Gen-i has donated a supercomputer to AUT University that will now be used to support student learning and boost research for radio astronomy.
Online accounting software firm Xero has appointed Silicon Valley executive, Simon McIver, to the position of head of global sales and marketing operations.
Dimension Data has been awarded a score of 94 (out of 100) by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) for its climate change strategy.
Women who want to aim high in their careers should avoid the ‘superwoman syndrome’ or trying to do everything and grind themselves down, say a panel of successful women in IT who spoke at the Australasian Computer Science Week event.
Paul Matthews, CEO of the Institute of IT Professionals (IITP), has a candid chat with ComputerWorld New Zealand on the changing nature of the industry, the challenges that are yet to come and the role of the various IT organisations in the country.
Hawaiki Cable, the Kiwi company planning to build a 14,000 km cable system between New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii and the US west coast, has signed up another customer.
Upper Hutt-based Layer3 has designed a Kiwi-ised Microsoft Office 365 portal that it claims is the next step in cloud computing.
Telecom Retail Chief Executive Chris Quin is warning Yahoo Xtra customers about a spam email that has been sent to some Yahoo Xtra email accounts.
For Suite, a Kiwi company with big ambitions, receiving Microsoft’s Start-Up Partner of the Year Award in 2012 was ‘a nice little pat on the back.’
Kiwi company, Cloud Scale, has launched a hosted system for businesses to store large amounts of data inexpensively.
The latest in ICT systems can be of no use when your staff don’t know how to use them effectively. With the right investment in training staff, even the slightest bit, can result in surprising gains and improved productivity.