Auckland Council appoints TelstraClear to standardise its call centres
Posted on 3-Dec-2012 15:52 News, General
Council engaged TelstraClear as part of a wider programme of work to continue to unify its core systems and business processes. This wider programme of work will make Council more efficient; saving ratepayers $50.1 million, over the next 10-year period.
‘Big Data’ opens new-look National Library
Posted on 1-Dec-2012 08:24 News, General
A suitably immense subject is the opening public programme for the newly refurbished National Library building on Wellington’s Molesworth Street.
SpaceX Dragon Attached To Space Station In Spaceflight First
Posted on 26-May-2012 10:04 News, General
The International Space Station's Expedition 31 crew grappled and attached SpaceX's Dragon capsule to the space station Friday. This is the first time a commercial company has accomplished this type of space operation.
TED launches TEDBooks on Kindle
Posted on 27-Jan-2011 08:54 News, General
New nonfiction short books available now through Amazon Kindle Singles for Amazon Kindle devices, on iPads, iPod touches, iPhones, Macs, PCs, BlackBerrys, Windows Phones and Android-based devices.
Alcatel/Lucent merger completed
Posted on 1-Dec-2006 10:24 News, General, by Geekzone Staff
Two of the world's largest telecommunications companies finish joining up with each other.
Avoiding commercial breaks on TV
Posted on 10-Jan-2004 13:14 News, General
Perhaps you don't have a time-shift recorder, but almost everyone I know change TV channels during ads breaks.
PC Magazine's 20th Annual Awards for Technical Excellence
Posted on 6-Nov-2003 19:10 News, General
PC Magazine, a Ziff Davis Media publication, announced the finalists for the 20th annual Awards for Technical Excellence. The awards recognize the products and influencers that have advanced the state of technology and set new standards for technical innovation.
This is a small world - six degrees of separation applies to e-mail too
Posted on 11-Aug-2003 09:18 News, General
University of Columbia sociologists Peter Sheridan Dodds, Duncan Watts and their colleagues have published the first results of the Small World Project, which uses the Internet to test the six degrees of separation theory. The article links to a recorded video, where Watts explains the theory that originated in the 1960s and contends that people are connected through a chain of no more than six people.
