online - News, Features, and Slideshows

• ​Sky Chief jumps ship to head up Lightbox’s product offering

  “We are honoured to have Andy join the team as our new Head of Product."

• Vend helps brick and mortar retailers to set up an online store in minutes

  “Omnichannel is the single biggest trend transforming the retail industry right now,” says CEO Vaughan Rowsell at the launch of Vend Ecommerce.

• Is there a need for education about online privacy in NZ?

  Providing better access to knowledge about online behaviour, including an 0800 helpline, are among the recommendations in a report about New Zealanders’ online behaviour.

• More NZ businesses going online: report

  The latest MYOB Business Monitor Digital Nation Report states that 41 per cent of New Zealand SMEs now operate a business website – up from 34 per cent in March 2013. A further 7 per cent operate a social media site, while 16 per cent have both a website and a social media site.

• Kiwis are relatively savvy in protecting online identity, says study

  Age, cultural background, income and education are significant factors in how Kiwis manage their personal information online, a Victoria University of Wellington study, has found.

• INSIGHT: Rise of online means days of hit-and-miss advertising are fast ending

  Advertising as an attempt to persuade people to buy things is as old as the hills and it certainly predates by millennia the print and electronic delivery technologies that became so powerful during the last century.

Whitepapers about online

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  Network infrastructure for online testing

  Measuring how well students and districts are performing relative to state educational standards can now be accomplished through online testing, which means educational outcomes can be improved overall. This whitepaper looks at what opportunities online testing provides students and teachers, the IT barriers commonly encountered as well as how to overcome them.

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  Integration: Why ‘good enough’ doesn’t cut it