Telecom announces Gen-i Australia changes
Posted on 13-Mar-2013 12:47 News, Computing
Total staff numbers at Gen-i Australia will fall from approximately 180 to about 60 employees. In addition to redundancy costs, it is anticipated there will be other restructuring costs associated with this action.
Rugged Panasonic Toughpad tablet now runs Windows 8 Pro
Posted on 13-Mar-2013 09:51 News, Windows
Local Panasonic Toughbook distributor Comworth is announcing availability of the Toughpad FZ-G1, a 10.1-inch device loaded with Windows 8 Pro and an Intel Core i5 processor in a fully-rugged package.
Xero hires ex Googler as Chief Revenue Officer
Posted on 8-Mar-2013 13:23 News, SaaS
Stuart McLean moves to Xero from Google in Sydney where he has been Head of Enterprise Australia New Zealand, driving cloud applications business for products.
Trade Me to sell Treat Me
Posted on 6-Mar-2013 12:51 News, Web media
Trade Me intends to sell its group-buying website Treat Me via a management buy-out led by the current head of Treat Me, James MacAvoy.
EMC introduces flash-optimised server and storage products
Posted on 6-Mar-2013 10:18 News, Computing
EMC Corporation has announced the EMC Xtrem Family of Flash-optimised server and storage products and introduced a new line of EMC XtremSF PCIe-based Flash cards that accelerate application performance.
Vodafone New Zealand introduces 4G services to consumer
Posted on 28-Feb-2013 09:17 News, 4G
Commercial 4G from Vodafone is available now in Auckland, expanding to other areas soon, including Christchurch in May and Wellington by September 2013.
Rackspace to acquire ObjectRocket for NoSQL database as a service
Posted on 28-Feb-2013 09:01 News, SaaS
ObjectRocket’s platform is specifically architected to provide an easy-to-use, consistently fast and scalable MongoDB environment. The platform also offers best-in-class features, which include high availability with each instance residing on multiple redundant pieces of infrastructure, while databases are replicated and optionally exist in multiple geo-diverse data centers.
Samsung scoops GSMA Awards at Mobile World Congress 2013
Posted on 27-Feb-2013 16:46 News, Mobile
Samsung has won recognition from the GSM Association for the second year running in both the category of Device Manufacturer of the Year and Best Smartphone in the Global Mobile Awards
New Zealand Xero Partner Award 2012 Winners announced
Posted on 27-Feb-2013 08:47 News, SaaS
The Xero Partner Awards were celebrated on the evening of the Xerocon NZ 2013 conference held on Friday 22 February, which attracted 800 attendees from the accounting, bookkeeping and software development industries.
EMC introduces new Hadoop distribution Pivotal HD
Posted on 27-Feb-2013 08:38 News, Computing
EMC’s new Pivotal HD is an Apache Hadoop distribution that natively integrates the EMC Greenplum massively parallel processing (MPP) database technology with the Apache Hadoop framework.
Dell introduces WiGig Wireless Docking Station
Posted on 26-Feb-2013 10:04 News, Wi-Fi
Designed for use in offices, meeting rooms and classrooms, the Dell Wireless Dock offers quick and easy connectivity to displays, projectors, networks, speakers and other peripherals.
