NZICT appoints new Board of Directors
Posted on 1-Aug-2012 13:52 News, Computing
NZICT, the industry association representing the tech sector of New Zealand, appoints a new Board to include Directors from top IT, government and education organisations.
Optimation joins forces with Google Enterprise Partner Barbador
Posted on 20-Jul-2012 09:04 News, Computing
Cloud start-up Barbador is a Google Enterprise Partner specialising in consulting services that help enterprises leverage the power and scale of Google’s enterprise cloud platform to build innovative cloud-based solutions that enable enterprises to innovate, simplify and transform.
Microsoft unveils the new Office
Posted on 17-Jul-2012 11:08 News, Computing
The new Office is social and unlocks modern scenarios in reading, note-taking, meetings and communications and will be delivered to subscribers through a cloud service that is always up to date.
Yahoo! appoints Marissa Mayer as President and CEO
Posted on 17-Jul-2012 10:59 News, Computing
Most recently, Mayer was responsible for Local, Maps, and Location Services for Google, the company’s suite of local and geographical products including Google Maps, Google Earth, Zagat, Street View, and local search, for desktop and mobile.
IBM launches SmartCamp for entrepreneurs in New Zealand and Australia
Posted on 10-Jul-2012 14:52 News, Computing
SmartCamp forms part of IBM’s Global Entrepreneur Program and aims to support the next generation of entrepreneurs that hope to capture emerging business opportunities in fast-growing industries such as healthcare, public sector, natural resources, utilities and telecommunications.
CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson
Posted on 4-Jul-2012 20:06 News, Computing
At a seminar held at CERN today as a curtain raiser to the year’s major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs particle.
Dell to acquire Quest Software in US$2.4 billion transaction
Posted on 3-Jul-2012 08:51 News, Computing
Dell recently announced the formation of its Software Group to build upon its existing software expertise. The Dell Software Group will add to Dell’s enterprise solutions capability, accelerate strategic growth and further differentiate the company from competitors by increasing its solutions portfolio with Dell-owned intellectual property.
HP unveils next phase in extreme low-energy server initiative
Posted on 20-Jun-2012 10:36 News, Computing
HP today announced that for the next phase of Project Moonshot, the company's initiative to develop extreme low-energy servers, it has chosen to lead with server cartridges featuring the Intel Atom processor codenamed "Centerton" for its initial production system.
Unisys unveils new suite of mobility solutions
Posted on 12-Jun-2012 15:25 News, Computing
The explosion in use of consumer devices is causing businesses and government agencies to rethink the way they serve a new generation of increasingly mobile employees and customers
Businesses boost productivity with HP Print Apps
Posted on 12-Jun-2012 12:45 News, Computing
In partnership with Shoeboxed, the Scan Receipt and Biz Card applications easily solve day-to-day office tasks and provide businesses with greater efficiencies to streamline productivity at no additional cost with HP’s web-connected printers.