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  • Council goes mobile to boost biosecurity

    Auckland regional council’s wireless application allows biosecurity field officers to remotely upload and download spatial data using PDAs that connect to a centralised SQL server.

  • In the van: Sulco’s mobile sales solution

    Tool and equipment vendor Sulco operates 25 vans selling and delivering products to workshops around New Zealand. The company has implemented a mobile sales solution aimed at increasing efficiency of the sales order process, eliminating delays and double handling of data, reducing errors and also increasing available sales time for van operators. The mobile system also includes a database of product and customer information.

  • City Care stays in touch

    City Care, which provides contracting services to local authorities and other asset owners, is benefiting from a mobile solution introduced to improve communications between office and field workers.

  • Telecom throws rural toys out of cot

    Even before ICT Minister David Cunliffe’s announcement of the regulatory package, including local loop unbundling, Telecom had started to scale back on investments in broadband for the rural sector, according to Simon Moutter, chief operating officer of Telecom.

  • US county enacts wireless security law

    Westchester County, New York, has recently enacted a new law that requires local businesses to implement “minimum security measures” for protecting their wireless networks.

  • Reach under new management

    Wi-fi network provider Reach Wireless is under new management says the company’s owner Craig Foss, who is also the National MP for Tukituki.

  • Wireless technology mooted to relieve Auckland traffic

    Several of the schemes proposed by the government-initiated study into relieving Auckland traffic congestion would use a combination of wi-fi and radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to detect cars whose drivers choose to take busy routes or who cross a “cordon” around the central city.

  • AccPac gives Wellington wireless company scalability

    Wireless equipment supplier 4RF is a test case of scalability in business software. In five years, the Wellington company has expanded from five to 85 staff, opened offices as far afield as Florida in the US, Malaysia, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom and secured customers in 45 countries.

  • Terralink goes into wireless navigation

    Wellington-based mapping solutions provider Terralink International has closed a deal with French mobile GPS navigation solutions provider Webraska to offer Webraska’s platforms for navigation and location-based mobile services to New Zealand.

  • Wi-Fi — use and abuse

    I live in San Francisco, the city where wi-fi access is considered a fundamental right. Seriously, that's what our mayor, Gavin Newsom, said recently.

  • Bidder for Wired Country

    Counties Power is negotiating with a “preferred bidder” over the future of its wireless network, run under the Wired Country brand name.

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