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."
“We are honoured to have Andy join the team as our new Head of Product."
“Omnichannel is the single biggest trend transforming the retail industry right now,” says CEO Vaughan Rowsell at the launch of Vend Ecommerce.
Providing better access to knowledge about online behaviour, including an 0800 helpline, are among the recommendations in a report about New Zealanders’ online behaviour.
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.
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.
Around 55 per cent of Kiwis are now using the internet to research their medical woes and 22 per cent claim to be doing so once or more each week.
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s (APO) Organ Symphony concert will be streamed online as a live broadcast, and made available to watch online on APO’s website as well as Radio New Zealand’s afterwards.
New Zealanders are increasingly using government online services, as measurede by Better Public Services.
Massey Primary has become the first school to go live with a connection to Network for Learning’s (N4L) managed network
Maori and Pasifika New Zealanders are less likely to use the Internet with 14 per cent of people being non-users, compared to 7 per cent of New Zealand Europeans and 3 per cent of Asians.
New Zealand ISP Orcon has confirmed its intention to acquire 40GBps of interntional bandwidth capacity on the New Zealand/Australia-US segments of Hawaiki Cable’s submarine cable system.
The Bank of Queensland seeks to use social media and other forms of online engagement to serve customers across more channels, according to the bank’s CEO, Stuart Grimshaw.
The effects of an increasing number of outages of web-based service providers were felt in New Zealand recently when hosted software provider Xero was forced offline for 45 minutes after datacentres at RackSpace, which hosts Xero's data, failed on June 30, causing a 45-minute outage for Xero customers.
The Rackspace incident is far from the only case of a service provider going down in recent months. Based on news reports, the number of such incidents appears to have been increasing lately, analysts say. They cited shutdowns of the Google Apps software hosted by Google, a major outage at PayPal earlier this month and a distributed denial-of-service attack on Twitter, as well as the Rackspace datacentre incident.
Domino's Pizza lost about US$77,000 in free pizza due to a weak password on an online promotion that wasn't supposed to go live – a type of security problem that is all too common, according to a presentation at the Black Hat USA conference.
Direct law enforcement of online child protection can be expected to ramp up this year with the creation of a new police team called Online Child Exploitation Across New Zealand (OCEANZ).