Kordia Women in Technology scholarship recipient announced
Posted on 17-Jul-2020 14:36 News, Computing
Kaitlin Te Rito has been awarded the Kordia Women in Technology scholarship for 2020. The scholarship was established by Kordia in association with the University of Waikato to acknowledge and support up-and-coming female talent and future technology leaders.

Lenovo launches new ThinkPad P Series mobile workstations
Posted on 23-Jun-2020 09:17 News, Computing
Lenovo is building on the reliability and performance of its mobile workstations, launching the next generation of the ThinkPad P Series: the ThinkPad P15, ThinkPad P17, ThinkPad P1 Gen 3 and the all-new ThinkPad P15v.

AMD introduces Ryzen 3000XT desktop processors
Posted on 19-Jun-2020 14:58 News, Computing
AMD has three new additions to the 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen desktop processor family – the AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT, AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT and AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT processors.

Intel introduces 10th Gen Intel Core H-series for mobile devices
Posted on 2-Apr-2020 21:09 News, Computing
Intel breaks beyond the 5 GHz barrier for laptops with the launch of the 10th Gen Intel Core H-series mobile processors.

Intel brings innovation with technology spanning the cloud, network, edge and PC
Posted on 7-Jan-2020 15:54 News, Computing
Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) that pave the way for autonomous driving. A new era of mobile computing innovation. The future of immersive sports and entertainment. Intel demonstrated all of these and more at CES 2020, showcasing how the company is infusing intelligence across the cloud, network, edge and PC, and driving positive impact for people, business and society.

AMD announces high performance desktop and ultrathin laptop processors
Posted on 7-Jan-2020 15:42 News, Computing
AMD introduces world's first 64-core HEDT processor, AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X.

AMD unveils four new desktop and mobile GPUs including AMD Radeon RX 5600
Posted on 7-Jan-2020 15:32 News, Computing
AMD Radeon RX 5600 series offers up to 20 percent faster performance on average across select games and up to 10 percent faster performance on average across select esports games.

Intel introduces cryogenic control chip to enable quantum computers
Posted on 10-Dec-2019 21:32 News, Computing
With Horse Ridge, Intel introduces an elegant solution that will enable the company to control multiple qubits and set a clear path toward scaling future systems to larger qubit counts - a major milestone on the path to quantum practicality.

Microsoft New Zealand Partner Awards results
Posted on 18-Oct-2019 10:18 News, Computing
A total of 56 Microsoft Partners competed for the honours announced at a glamorous ceremony held at St Matthew in the City, Auckland with Intergen coming on top with three awards and Umbrellar crowned New Zealand Partner of the Year.

The Warehouse chooses Elasticsearch service
Posted on 18-Sep-2019 13:55 News, Computing
New project is expected to minimise fraud on returned items.

New Zealand PC Market returns to growth
Posted on 15-Sep-2019 12:24 News, Computing
Despite the growth in 2019Q2 IDC predicts that New Zealand's Traditional PC market will continue to decline in 2019, with a drop of -3.9% YoY expected in 2019Q3.

Starship hopes new app will help combat antibiotic resistance challenges
Posted on 27-Aug-2019 19:43 News, Computing
Starship has developed an app to make prescribing antibiotics for children smarter and more efficient for paediatricians, as antibiotics resistance becomes an increasingly global challenge.

Intel expands 10th Gen Intel Core Mobile processor family
Posted on 23-Aug-2019 10:22 News, Computing
Intel Corporation in August 2019 introduced eight 10th Gen Intel Core processors for modern laptop computing. The new mobile PC processors (formerly code-named "Comet Lake") are tailor-made to deliver increased productivity and performance scaling for demanding, multithreaded workloads while still enabling thin-and-light laptop and 2 in 1 designs.

Lenovo introduces single-socket servers for edge and data-intensive workloads
Posted on 9-Aug-2019 21:26 News, Computing
New platform drive advanced network intelligence and analytics by delivering new levels of workload efficiency and performance to address growing pain points for our telecommunications customers.

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.3
Posted on 9-Aug-2019 16:57 News, Computing
New office application is a feature-rich major release of the LibreOffice 6 family with better performance, a large number of new and improved features, and enhanced interoperability with proprietary document formats.

Intel announces next-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with up to 56 cores
Posted on 7-Aug-2019 15:41 News, Computing
Cooper Lake processors will incorporate built-in AI training acceleration and be available first half of 2020.

Intel launches first 10th gen Intel Core processors
Posted on 2-Aug-2019 09:17 News, Computing
Intel has officially launched 11 new, highly integrated 10th Gen Intel Core processors designed for remarkably sleek 2 in 1s and laptops. The processors bring high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) to the PC at scale, feature new Intel Iris Plus graphics for stunning entertainment and enable the best connectivity with Intel Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) and Thunderbolt 3.

New Zealand tech sector growing at a fast rate
Posted on 25-Jul-2019 07:24 News, Computing
NZTech's 10th annual meeting in Auckland today will emphasise just how staggeringly fast the sector is growing.

Scientists unveil image of quantum entanglement
Posted on 13-Jul-2019 06:00 News, Computing
For the first time ever, physicists have managed to take a photo of a strong form of quantum entanglement called Bell entanglement – capturing visual evidence of an elusive phenomenon which Albert Einstein once called "spooky action at a distance".

New Zealand PC Market declines on the back of high channel inventory, IDC reports
Posted on 18-Jun-2019 17:35 News, Computing
In the first quarter of 2019, New Zealand's Traditional PC market experienced a -8.3% year-on-year (YoY) decline in unit shipments, according to the latest IDC Asia/Pacific Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. 

Intel introduces new 10th Gen Intel Core Processors and Project Athena
Posted on 28-May-2019 19:28 News, Computing
Intel made a sweeping set of product and technology announcements, spanning the hottest segments of the PC industry. From new 10th Gen Intel Core processors and new details on Intel's innovation program (code-named "Project Athena") that will take mobile computing to an entirely new level, to the first-ever gaming processor with an all-core turbo of 5 GHz, Intel again raised the bar for PC experiences.

HPE to acquire supercomputing leader Cray
Posted on 20-May-2019 11:07 News, Computing
The explosion of data from artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics and evolving customer needs for data-intensive workloads are driving a significant expansion in HPC.

Porirua City Council first to adopt new council software solution Datascape
Posted on 15-May-2019 12:00 News, Computing
Datascape is Datacom's new smart council and community cloud-based solution.

Micron launches high-performance NVMe SSDs for cloud and enterprise markets
Posted on 30-Apr-2019 10:27 News, Computing
The Micron 9300 SSDs enable near real-time access to data by providing lowest average write latency.

Redgate brings together major industry speakers for SQL in the City Summits
Posted on 13-Apr-2019 12:35 News, Computing
In Australia and New Zealand, the founder of SQL Down Under, Greg Low, will provide a detailed introduction to Azure DevOps, and show how compliant database DevOps fits into the picture.