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PlayStation 4 fastest selling video games console of the decade in New Zealand
Posted on 5-Dec-2014 00:01 News, Gaming
This achievement comes in advance of PlayStation celebrating its 20th anniversary in the New Zealand market in 2015.

MSA programme helping address New Zealand shortage of skilled IT professionals
Posted on 4-Dec-2014 21:41 News, Computing
Microsoft Student Accelerator programme gets into gear for summer; tertiary IT students rev up for 10 weeks of on-the-job training at leading Kiwi companies.

Linus Torvalds to answer Q&A during LCA 2015 Auckland
Posted on 4-Dec-2014 20:40 News, Open Source
Linux Project Coordinator Linus Torvalds to return to LCA (linux.conf.au) conference to participate in Q&A session after 12 years.

HP unveils EliteBook Folio 1020, thinnest and lightest business-class notebooks
Posted on 2-Dec-2014 18:43 News, Notebooks
The HP EliteBook 1020 and the HP EliteBook 1020 Special Edition (SE) are ultra-thin at 15. 7 mm, and the SE takes advantage of HP's exclusive blend of magnesium-lithium alloy and reusable carbon fibre to achieve a weight of only one kg.

Commerce Commission decision on copper causes Spark to start price review
Posted on 2-Dec-2014 18:38 News, Broadband
Spark New Zealand said today it was undertaking an urgent review of all broadband and fixed voice customer pricing following the announcement by the Commerce Commission of proposed new wholesale rates that Chorus charges retail service providers, including Spark.

APE brings the World Closer to New Zealand with CloudFlare
Posted on 1-Dec-2014 20:28 News, Broadband
CloudFlare has partnered with the Auckland Peering Exchange (APE).

New Zealand Police rolls out Cisco Unified Communications
Posted on 1-Dec-2014 11:21 News, VoIP
Dimension Data worked to deploy more than 7,500 phones configured to help free up resources and integrate multiple channels.

Spark Digital to drive InterCity Wi-Fi rollout
Posted on 1-Dec-2014 11:20 News, Wi-Fi
Bus service InterCity has selected Spark Digital as its partner to launch Wi-Fi across the entire fleet.

Kiwi software development community excited about Microsoft taking .NET open source
Posted on 28-Nov-2014 22:23 News, Computing
.NET server stack to be open source and cross-platform, plus new free Visual Studio offering and preview of next release developer tools for mobile and cloud-first app development.

New Zealand First Lego League Championships to happen in Auckland
Posted on 28-Nov-2014 13:31 News, Computing
On 29 of November ACG Strathallan Karaka will host the 6th Annual FIRST LEGO League New Zealand Championship.

Bitdefender 'The Box' to protect Internet of Things at home
Posted on 26-Nov-2014 11:40 News, Security
Bitdefender has stepped into the future of online protection with the launch of The Box offering seamless online 'Protection from Everything'.

New Zealand Jobs Expo landing in Australia to try and bring some talents to the country
Posted on 26-Nov-2014 11:33 News, Computing
Economic development agency Grow Wellington and the Institute of IT Professionals are heading to Sydney's New Zealand Jobs Expo to pitch

KuangChi Science to launch the 'Traveller' from New Zealand
Posted on 24-Nov-2014 20:58 News, Computing
KuangChi Science is collaborating with Airways New Zealand and Pengxin International to launch a "near space ship" called Traveller in New Zealand.

Sophisticated cyber-espionage malware uncovered by Symantec
Posted on 24-Nov-2014 15:08 News, Security
Sophisticated cyber-espionage malware uncovered by Symantec

Huawei to replace existing Spark 3G network equipment with latest technology
Posted on 21-Nov-2014 20:24 News, 4G
Work is also commencing to use Huawei technology to upgrade Spark's 3G network nationwide, replacing the existing equipment with a cutting edge SRAN (Single Radio Access Network) platform.

Southern Cross cable signs largest customers until 2030
Posted on 19-Nov-2014 13:46 News, Broadband
Southern Cross Cable's CEO, Anthony Briscoe has announced that the undersea cable connecting New Zealand to the rest of the world will be fully functional for at least another 15 years.

Netflix to launch in Australia and New Zealand March 2015
Posted on 19-Nov-2014 11:08 News, Consumer Electronics
Internet-connected users in Australia and New Zealand will be able to subscribe to Netflix and instantly watch a curated selection of popular movies and TV shows in high-definition or even 4K where available.

Coding kids win at 2014 Orion Health Codeworx
Posted on 18-Nov-2014 18:20 News, Computing
Several innovative high school students recently received awards in Codeworx, a coding competition organised by eHealth provider, Orion Health.

Kiwi tech start-up Transfercar revs up the US rental car industry
Posted on 18-Nov-2014 18:14 News, SaaS
New Zealand-based free rental car company makes waves in America while its popularity hits record levels at home.

Amazon Web Services Announces AWS Lambda
Posted on 14-Nov-2014 11:27 News, SaaS
New compute service runs developers' code in response to events, and makes it even faster and easier for developers to build dynamic applications on the AWS Cloud.

Contactless technology to star in Spotify and Spark partnership
Posted on 13-Nov-2014 13:33 News, NFC
Thousands of festival-goers heading to summer music events Rhythm & Vines and Rhythm & Alps will have access to the world's best festival tech on their wrists, thanks to event partners Spark and Spotify.

Nanogirl wins science communication award
Posted on 13-Nov-2014 10:49 News, STEM
Michelle Dickinson, one of the country's most recognisable scientists, has been awarded one of the year's top honours for her work in making science accessible to a wide range of New Zealanders.

Amazon Web Services Announces Amazon Aurora
Posted on 13-Nov-2014 10:18 News, SaaS
Amazon Web Services, Inc. announced Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible database engine for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.

Dimension Data adds New Zealand centre to global cloud solution
Posted on 13-Nov-2014 09:44 News, SaaS
ICT service and solutions provider Dimension Data is adding to its global, enterprise-class cloud platform with a new local data centre located in Kapua, Hamilton.

Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform
Posted on 13-Nov-2014 08:59 News, Computing
Also announced new development capabilities with Visual Studio 2015, .NET 2015 and Visual Studio Online.

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