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  • Web 2.0 good for business collaboration, says BEA

    With the increasing use of Web 2.0 systems such as blogs, wikis and online social networks, pressure on corporate ICT and top management to allow similar tools and environments within the office will increase, says Sean Boiling, who manages BEA’s systems engineers in Australia and New Zealand.

  • Web 2.0 goes corporate

    For Jeff Herrmann, co-director of research at investment company Manning & Napier Advisors, the impetus to invest in Web 2.0 came abruptly late last summer. That’s when one of Herrmann’s analysts left the company — and much of his recent research vanished as well.

  • Hitwise predicts the next YouTube

    Hitwise, which collects internet usage data directly from ISPs to measure the traffic to more than 800,000 internet sites, has tapped the six Web 2.0 companies most likely to reach the soaring success of YouTube, Wikipedia or Flickr. To do so, it looks at the types of early adopters now using the sites.

  • Leading vendors declare end of browser wars

    The browser wars are over, and now Microsoft, Mozilla and other vendors plan to focus on positioning the browser as a development platform. That was the consensus of a panel of representatives in San Francisco at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo who help develop internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and the Google Reader.

  • Web 2.0 users open a Pandora’s box of security problems

    When she can’t find the financial information she needs in the system, the vice president asks her assistant to export the raw data from the financials database into a text file and email it to her at a remote meeting. She receives the file, imports the proprietary data into a spreadsheet, massages the numbers and shares the document online with another assistant, who polishes the final product. The presentation is a success, but the process didn’t involve Microsoft Office, SharePoint or other IT-approved enterprise-class collaborative tools.

  • 3G phones put NZ ahead in education tech

    New Zealand cellphone calls may be expensive, but we are further into the third generation of cellphone technology than many Western countries, including the US, says Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, an educational technology specialist from Virginia.

  • DEMO woman scopes New Zealand tech

    Last month Chris Shipley quietly spent 15 days touring Australia and New Zealand, scoping out the state of IT development in the region, and ended up picking out a Kiwi company she likes the look of.

  • The whys and wherefores of Web 2.0

    Web 2.0 means different things to different people, but according to Fidelity Labs’ Charles Berman, it could one day mean wider use on conventional desktops and websites of the colourful, three-dimensional graphical interfaces seen in virtual worlds like Second Life and popular games like World of Warcraft.

  • Symantec prepares for new era of computing

    There is a new wave of computing coming, says Mark Bregman, senior vice president and chief evangelist of Symantec, a title he says is quite unusual in our part of the world, but very common in Silicon Valley.

  • Web 2.0 melds well with SOA, incremental development – consultant

    The vaunted “Web 2.0” bunch of internet innovations includes surprisingly little that is new on a technical front, says consultant Stefan Korn. Most of it can be achieved in standard HTML. The new style represents, rather, an attitudinal change, towards a more two-way approach to the web.

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