Massey University’s ecentre celebrates successful ten years
Posted on 9-Aug-2011 16:15 News, Education
In February 2001, ecentre was established by visionary academics Dr Chris Kirk, Professor Ian Watson, Dr Brian Chrystall, along with former North Shore City Mayor George Wood, Allan Morton, and Claire Campbell. A loan from the Tindall Foundation was instrumental in making the vision of an innovation centre a reality.
Telstra to launch first commercial 4G LTE device in Australia
Posted on 8-Aug-2011 23:19 News, 3G
Businesses in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane will be the first to experience 4G/LTE mobile broadband after Telstra announced it would commence selling Australia’s first commercial LTE device later this month.
New Zealand Remix and Mashup competition is back
Posted on 5-Aug-2011 10:03 News, Web media
The competition challenges people to build something completely new, by reusing existing New Zealand digital content and data. Back for a second year, with $50,000 in cash and other prizes.
BNZ first NZ bank on Android
Posted on 3-Aug-2011 10:11 News, FinTech
BNZ has become the first New Zealand bank to launch an internet banking application designed specifically for Android smartphone users, and one of the first in Australasia to build, from the ground up, a native internet banking application for Android.
BlackBerry PlayBook now available in New Zealand
Posted on 2-Aug-2011 15:12 News, BlackBerry
The portable tablet is available in three Wi-Fi models – with 16 GB, 32 GB or 64 GB of memory storage – from retailers Noel Leeming, JB Hi-Fi, Harvey Norman as well as Telecom New Zealand and Vodafone.
Adobe releases preview of new HTML5 web motion and interaction design tool
Posted on 1-Aug-2011 18:42 News, Web media
Adobe Edge is the latest development in the company’s HTML5 and Web standards strategy which also includes commitment to innovate open source platforms like Webkit, contributing to Web frameworks like jQuery and extending existing tools like Adobe Dreamweaver and Flash.
Wellington to host marathon startup weekend
Posted on 1-Aug-2011 14:30 News, Web media
WebFund, BizDojo and CreativeHQ – the leading players in Wellington's early-stage innovation space – are teaming up in a “Wellington, Inc.” approach to help entrepreneurs develop new businesses in a marathon 54-hour weekend event.
Loyalty New Zealand implements Oracle Business Intelligence 11g
Posted on 28-Jul-2011 10:08 News, Computing
Deployment to assist in delivering a more dynamic and comprehensive range of customer services and campaign reporting capabilities to the organizations participating in its Fly Buys loyalty program.
Symantec.cloud appointments in ANZ
Posted on 26-Jul-2011 14:44 News, SaaS
Symantec.cloud (formerly MessageLabs) announced new Corporate Sales Manager and Corporate Sales Director ANZ.