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Belkin to buy Linksys router maker from Cisco
Posted on 25-Jan-2013 14:28 News, Broadband

Belkin, a private company based in Playa Vista, Calif., with operations and sales in more than 100 countries, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Cisco’s Home Networking Business Unit.

Opera on mobile phones experience record growth in December 2012
Posted on 25-Jan-2013 09:31 News, Mobile

More than 208 million users surfed with Opera Mini in December, which, when combined with the Opera Mobile numbers, brings the total number of Opera mobile users to 229 million.

New Zealand Transport Agency uses Bluetooth tracking to measure travel time
Posted on 24-Jan-2013 21:09 News, Bluetooth

The government agency is using a system developed by Blip Systems to track active Bluetooth devices on the road to measure travel time.

InternetNZ appoints Jordan Carter as Acting Chief Executive
Posted on 24-Jan-2013 12:53 News, Broadband

Mr Carter will lead the organisation while a new Chief Executive is recruited. His appointment commences on Monday 28 January 2013.

Apple reports record results with 47.8 million iPhone devices sold in financial 1Q2013
Posted on 24-Jan-2013 11:28 News, Apple

Company reports an average weekly revenue of US$ 4.2 billion in the quarter compared to US$ 3.3 billion in the year-ago quarter.

BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 now available for download
Posted on 23-Jan-2013 19:15 News, BlackBerry

BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 re-invents RIM’s EMM by bringing together device management, security and mobile applications management for BlackBerry devices as well as providing a single console for managing BlackBerry, Android and iOS devices.

Microsoft Surface Pro to be available in February in the USA, Canada
Posted on 23-Jan-2013 10:46 News, Windows

Announces Surface Windows 8 Pro availability, market expansion and new accessories for Surface Windows RT.

Amazon Web Services introduces High Memory Cluster instances
Posted on 23-Jan-2013 10:21 News, SaaS

New Amazon EC2 instance family provides large amounts of RAM and CPU for memory-intensive Windows and Linux applications.

Australian domain registrar Instra Corp powers mega.co.nz
Posted on 18-Jan-2013 22:23 News, Broadband

As Mega prepares to launch their new cloud storage service on January 19, 2013, Instra Corporation – a global domain name registrar – is primed to provide expert product, billing and technical support services to mega.co.nz users.

VIA announces APC Rock and Paper – the Cardboard Computer
Posted on 18-Jan-2013 07:37 News, Android

The APC Paper with its unique recycled cardboard case, is a US$99 computer for people wanting to connect to the Internet without the need for specific Windows applications.

Nokia to layoff IT 300 employes, transfer 820 to partners
Posted on 18-Jan-2013 07:19 News, Mobile

These are the last anticipated reductions as part of Nokia's focused strategy announcement of June 2012. Majority of affected employees are based in Finland.

Lenovo introduces the Lenovo Thinkpad X1311 Chromebook
Posted on 18-Jan-2013 07:01 News, Notebooks

The new mobile devices is aimed at classroom environments. Like all Chromebooks, the ThinkPad Chromebook delivers a simple computing experience with built-in security and automatic updates.

EMC extends online file sharing with solutions for on-premise and cloud storage (with video)
Posted on 17-Jan-2013 12:45 News, SaaS

EMC has announced an enterprise online file sharing service from Syncplicity with on-premise storage options.


Wellington’s Snapper up for International Technology of the Year Awards in London
Posted on 16-Jan-2013 18:47 News, eWallet

Touch2pay with Snapper Mobile has been selected in the Technology of the Year Award at the MasterCard Transport Ticketing Awards that will be announced in London on January 29th.

Inventor of the Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee to deliver public lecture in Wellington
Posted on 16-Jan-2013 14:36 News, Broadband

Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s lecture will focus on the social, economic and innovation opportunities of the Internet. Through the story of his invention of the World Wide Web, he will explain why the Internet needs openness to deliver these opportunities.

Sony Xperia Z lands in New Zealand in March 2013
Posted on 16-Jan-2013 10:56 News, Android

Smartphone brings full HD 5” display, new Sony design with water and dust resistance.

Oracle delivers Oracle Infrastructure as a Service on premise with capacity on demand
Posted on 16-Jan-2013 09:54 News, Computing

Oracle IaaS enables organizations to deploy fully integrated Engineered Systems, including Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle SPARC SuperCluster, Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine and Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance in their data centers.

ANZ and FIS complete core bank system migration
Posted on 16-Jan-2013 09:19 News, Computing

Over the course of the migration weekend, AU$46 billion of funds were moved, along with nearly three million customer records accounting for current deposit accounts, credit card and loan accounts.

Cray signs US$23 million contract with Germany's Meteorological Service DWD
Posted on 16-Jan-2013 09:06 News, Computing

Company will to provide two Cray XC30 supercomputers and two Cray Sonexion 1600 storage systems to the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD).

Telecom email problems due to cable cut between Australia and Singapore
Posted on 15-Jan-2013 13:01 News, Broadband

A cut in a deep-sea cable between Australia and Singapore is causing email problems for Telecom users.

Security company announces existing Cisco Linksys routers vulnerable to exploit (with video)
Posted on 15-Jan-2013 12:49 News, Security

Vulnerability affects millions of routers used around the Internet at homes, small offices.

Gen-i wins Ricoh business
Posted on 15-Jan-2013 10:14 News, 3G

At the same time, Ricoh has extended its relationship with Gen-i by renewing its voice, internet and mobile data services for another two years and has selected Gen-i for the provision of data centre hosting services.

Samsung brings TVNZ Ondemand to big screen
Posted on 15-Jan-2013 09:59 News, DVB and HD

If you’d like to watch TVNZ Ondemand TV on your big screen, Samsung New Zealand and TVNZ have the answer.

New Chrome beta introduces speech recognition
Posted on 15-Jan-2013 09:53 News, Web media

Using your voice to search on your computer or phone is handy, but there’s so much more you can do with voice commands.

Gartner says declining PC shipments in fourth quarter of 2012 signal shift of PC market
Posted on 15-Jan-2013 09:37 News, Consumer Electronics

The launch of Microsoft’s Windows 8 did not have a significant impact on PC shipments in the fourth quarter. Analysts said some PC vendors offered somewhat lackluster form factors in their Windows 8 offerings and missed the excitement of touch.


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