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New guidelines for prepaid phone card industry in New Zealand
Posted on 17-Dec-2012 11:33 News, Mobile

The Commerce Commission has issued new guidelines for the prepaid phone card industry following customer complaints that some cards did not deliver the number of calling minutes advertised.

New Zealand Superannuation Fund buys New Zealand Post shares on Datacom Group
Posted on 17-Dec-2012 09:09 News, Computing

New Zealand Post has been a shareholder in Datacom since 1990 and until the approval of this one-off transaction has held 35% of Datacom’s ordinary shares.

New Zealand rejects international telecommunications treaty changes
Posted on 14-Dec-2012 20:13 News, Broadband

New Zealand has rejected a push to bring the internet under stronger state control, Communications and Information Technology Minister Amy Adams has announced.

Symantec New Zealand introduces integrated backup and deduplication appliances
Posted on 13-Dec-2012 14:11 News, Computing

NetBackup 5200 and Backup Exec 3600 appliances protect information across both virtual and physical systems.

Kiwi retailers recognising benefits of contactless payments
Posted on 13-Dec-2012 11:33 News, Consumer Electronics

Mastercard says consumer-led demand for contactless technology driving uptake among popular New Zealand retailers.

Olive introduces an All-In-One open music player
Posted on 13-Dec-2012 01:00 News, Consumer Electronics

High-end manufacturer opens market with all-in-one high definition music player

Panasonic New Zealand and Trade Me launch Trade Me television App
Posted on 12-Dec-2012 16:20 News, General

Panasonic New Zealand today announced the arrival of a new Smart Viera Trade Me television screen App, expecting it will change the online shopping culture.

Multicore World conference back for a second time in Wellington
Posted on 12-Dec-2012 13:57 News, Computing

The conference will discuss cutting edge technologies already under development, in which multicore machines are capable of incredible tasks as long as the software is written to take advantage of their capabilities.

Study reveal Big Data gap and growth trend from now to 2020
Posted on 12-Dec-2012 11:25 News, Computing

New IDC Digital Universe study, “Big Data, Bigger Digital Shadows, and Biggest Growth in the Far East” (sponsored by EMC) finds that only a tiny fraction of the world’s Big Data potential is being realised, though the amount of useful data is expanding.

BlackBerry Messenger 7 with voice now available for BlackBerry devices
Posted on 11-Dec-2012 20:36 News, BlackBerry

The new feature allows customers to make free voice calls to their BBM contacts around the world over a Wi-Fi connection.

Xero launches features for US users
Posted on 11-Dec-2012 10:52 News, SaaS

Online accounting company has announced a set of new features including 1099 and GAAP compliance additions for the U.S. market.

Pandora Internet Radio launches in Australia and New Zealand
Posted on 11-Dec-2012 10:38 News, Consumer Electronics

Pandora is now live in Australia and New Zealand with a personalised radio service that can now be accessed via smartphone apps for iOS and Android devices, in addition to the Web-based player.

BNZ, Vodafone and TelstraClear in long term contract
Posted on 11-Dec-2012 09:56 News, FinTech

A contract signed on Friday between Andrew Thorburn, BNZ’s Managing Director and Chief Executive, and Russell Stanners, Vodafone Chief Executive, will see the relationship between the companies reach 16 years.

Start-up HunchBuzz enables businesses to cut R&D costs by crowdsourcing innovation
Posted on 7-Dec-2012 14:12 News, SaaS

New open innovation crowdsourcing platform HunchBuzz, inspires strategic business innovation by capturing and managing the best customer and employee insights, ideas and feedback.

Akamai and AT&T join forces to provide CDN services
Posted on 7-Dec-2012 12:03 News, Computing

Deal includes expansion of AT&T's suite of CDN services, network infrastructure agreement.

2degrees appoints new Chief Technology Officer
Posted on 6-Dec-2012 14:28 News, Mobile

2degrees today announced the appointment of Mike Davies as its new Chief Technology Officer.

Telecom to start 4G LTE trial
Posted on 6-Dec-2012 13:42 News, 4G

The Auckland trial will take place in parts of the North Shore on the 2600MHz spectrum and will be conducted by Huawei Technologies. Alcatel-Lucent will run the trial in the Lower Hutt area of Wellington, also on the 2600MHz spectrum.

Auckland Council appoints HP-led consortia to standardise its desktop systems
Posted on 5-Dec-2012 19:11 News, Computing

After a competitive tender process, Auckland Council said it has appointed a consortia led by Hewlett-Packard to assist in a programme to standardise its desktop computing systems.

Yahoo!7 to power the new flybuys Australia Toolbar
Posted on 5-Dec-2012 11:14 News, Computing

The flybuys toolbar, which is a first loyalty toolbar launch for Australia, mirrors similar successful Yahoo! toolbars in the UK. It will be rolled out to flybuy members over the coming weeks.

Quickflix and Freeview partner to develop mix of broadcast and on-demand TV
Posted on 4-Dec-2012 12:20 News, Web media

Quickflix will launch its streaming movie and TV series to the estimated 500,000 New Zealand households with compatible MyFreeview|HD digital TV recorders and connected Freeview|HD TVs in early 2013.

Telstra to boost cloud services with four new data centres in Australia
Posted on 4-Dec-2012 08:27 News, Computing

Telstra has expanded its leading cloud computing services with the establishment of four new data centres in Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory to cater for the evolving needs of its business, enterprise and government customers.

Gen-i to invest in new Wellington and Auckland data centres
Posted on 3-Dec-2012 16:44 News, Computing

Gen-i has announced the company will build new greenfield data centres in Wellington and Auckland. This follows Gen-i’s recent investment in a new Christchurch data centre, currently being developed in partnership with Christchurch International Airport.

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.

Edward Minnel wins Kordia IT Superhero Award
Posted on 3-Dec-2012 13:49 News, Computing

Edward Minnell may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound but to Wanganui primary school students and teachers he really is a true Superhero.

QuickFlix and Dish TV in partnership for Android tV adpater in New Zealand
Posted on 3-Dec-2012 13:28 News, Consumer Electronics

Quickflix have today announced a new partnership with Dish TV dongle, or TV stick, which will bring the new streaming entertainment revolution to existing household TVs with an affordable, portable new device.


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