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• Managed services beat 'baby datacentres'

  Slow but steady growth

• Spectrum A to Z

  Allocation of the 700MHz spectrum band that becomes available in November 2013 following the digital switchover will enable the next evolution in the delivery of mobile broadband.

• How universities will produce the next generation of ICT stars

  Lincoln University

• Video cuts travel, enhances work-life, builds staff rapport

  Ulrika Hedquist talks to three New Zealand organisations about their use of videoconferencing

• CRM systems: Unitec and Localist adopt different strategies

  According to IT analysts, the CRM systems market is buoyant, providing a raft of solutions for organisations looking to upgrade. In this article Computerworld looks at two very different CRM implementations.

• Mobility: BYO computing has arrived

  One percent of Trade Me users are now accessing the website via smartphones. That doesn’t sound like much, but according to spokesperson Paul Ford, that equalled 1.5 million mobile visits in April. Breaking down that one percent, he says around 23 percent visited the company’s mobile site and 77 percent visited via the Trade Me iPhone app.

• Getting the most out of ERP

  Customisation slumps

• ICT Minister speech notes:TelCon11

  The following speech notes were provided by officials to ICT Minister Steven Joyce for a speech he gave at the Telecommunications and ICT conference (TelCon11) in Auckland on Thursday April 7, 2011. Please note that Joyce may or may not have used these notes in his actual speech and he cannot be quoted as having said any of these points unless there is an independent note or recording that he did so.

• ICT Minister speech notes: KANZ Broadband Summit 2011

  The following speech notes were provided by officials to ICT Minister Steven Joyce for a speech he gave at the Korea-Australia-New Zealand (KANZ) Broadband Summit 2011 in Hobart, Australia on Thursday April 28, 2011. Please note that Joyce may or may not have used these notes in his actual speech and he cannot be quoted as having said any of these points unless there is an independent note or recording that he did so.

• ICT Minister speech notes: TUANZ Telecommunications Day

  The following speech notes were provided by officials to ICT Minister Steven Joyce for a speech he gave at the TUANZ Telecommunications Day in Wellington on Thursday May 19, 2011. Please note that Joyce may or may not have used these notes in his actual speech and he cannot be quoted as having said any of these points unless there is an independent note or recording that he did so.

• ICT Minister speech notes: Hi Tech Awards

  The following speech notes were provided by officials to ICT Minister Steven Joyce for a speech he gave at the Hi Tech Awards in Wellington on Friday May 6, 2011. Please note that Joyce may or may not have used these notes in his actual speech and he cannot be quoted as having said any of these points unless there is an independent note or recording that he did so.

• Moving to the cloud - the users' perspective

  According to recent research commissioned by Microsoft, New Zealand organisations here are among the most knowledgeable in the Asia-Pacific region when it comes to cloud computing.

• How BA can avoid marketing campaign fights

  Westpac has used business analytics to improve the impact of its marketing campaigns, by targeting particular campaigns to the section of the customer base most likely to respond favourably.

• BA no longer preserve of maths and stats buffs

  The role of business analytics as a key element in business strategy and tactics is changing, says author and SAS product manager Evan Stubbs. It is becoming at the same time more critical to the organisation’s competitive success and more “democratised” – people at all levels and in all parts of the company need to use it and create value from it, he told the SAS Users of New Zealand conference is Wellington recently.

• Safeguarding data in the enterprise

  Webdrive