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• NZTech explores uptake and potential of IoT in NZ

  ​NZTech has initiated a collaborative research project to better understand the potential benefits and risks of IoT for the New Zealand economy.

• Employees to wear their own device in 2014

  IT managers should take note of the plethora of new wearable devices popping up at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. They just might show up in the workplace.

• Nanotechnology offers benefits, but poses risks

  Warning: Your keyboard could be a danger to you and the environment.

• The unforeseen risks of software-as-a-service

  Terms seem to change meaning so often in IT. It used to be that outsourcing conjured up images of Bangalore. For many firms, outsourcing is now synonymous with software-as-a-service from companies such as Salesforce.com, Intuit and ADP, which will — for a healthy fee — help an organisation trim the fat off its business processes. While software-as-a-service may work miracles for your bottom line, surrendering control of a business process to a partner doesn’t mean you also jettison the risk of your data being exposed. In fact, you probably increase the risk.

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