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Norton Report: Cybercrime Goes Mobile; Security Lags Behind
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:36:15 +1300 | Symantec
Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) today released its 2013 Norton Report that found a general lack of security awareness when it comes to using mobile devices. The report found that 27 percent of New Zealand survey respondents had experienced mobile cybercrime ...More >>
40 million Americans provided access to Cxbladder
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:22:52 +1300 | Pacific Edge
Pacific Edge (NZX:PEB), a cancer diagnostic company leading in the development and commercialisation of molecular diagnostic tests, has signed an agreement with FedMed, a national preferred provider network in the United States, to make Cxbladder available ...More >>
NZ is first to trial new Samsung mobile phone technology
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:54:09 +1300 | gen-i
Telecom’s ICT services division Gen-i today announced it has partnered with Samsung to successfully pilot and launch Samsung KNOX™ into the New Zealand market, reaffirming New Zealand’s role as an incubation hub for technology innovation.More >>
Microsoft Provides Extra Access to Technology for Students
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:51:43 +1300 | Microsoft New Zealand
Today Microsoft announces their Student Advantage programme, which will help ensure all students at New Zealand schools and academic institutions have access to the productivity tools used in most New Zealand workplaces, before they enter the workforce.More >>
EFTPOS New Zealand launches the latest EVOLUTION in payments
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:45:58 +1300 | EFTPOS New Zealand
EFTPOS New Zealand announced today the release of the latest VeriFone Evolution terminal range in New Zealand. These new payment devices see technology that we’ve come to rely on with our smartphones, such as high resolution colour touch screens.More >>
Student to trial blades to become fastest disabled sprinter
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:19:40 +1300 | University of Canterbury
A 19-year-old University of Canterbury (UC) commerce student, Liam Malone, who lost both legs at the age of two, will trial his new running-blades for the first time on Friday (October 18).More >>
Transport Technology Innovations Needed For Decarbonization
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:22:26 +1300 | World Energy Council
World Energy Congress, Daegu, Korea, 14 October 2013: With the total number of cars in the world expected to double to around 2.6 billion vehicles by 2050, governments and the automotive industry must find ways to decarbonise the transportation sector ...More >>
Telco intercept bill tweaks leave in catch-all definitions
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:24:15 +1300 | BusinessDesk
Oct. 15 (BusinessDesk) - Last-minute tweaks to legislation setting out the obligations for telecommunications firms to provide government surveillance agencies access to their networks has left in catch-all definitions that threaten to impose increased ...More >>
Talented ex-pat directs web work back home
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:54:22 +1300 | Avatar Ltd
There was a silver lining for Christchurch web company Avatar after one of its most talented employees decided it was time for some OE. More >>
SkyPath innovates with America’s Cup technology
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:32:12 +1300 | SkyPath
SkyPath is capitalising on New Zealand’s marine expertise by proposing the use of composite materials and manufacturing technology developed for the America’s Cup.More >>
Waimakariri District Council chooses Mango software
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:13:55 +1300 | Mango
Leading compliance software company, Mango, has been chosen by Waimakariri District Council to improve its building consent practices. The Council’s Building Unit carries out the district’s building consent, inspection and compliance and is one ...More >>
‘Get Home Safe’ launches much-anticipated Android version
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:54:31 +1300 | Get Home Safe
New Zealand start-up company ‘Get Home Safe’ today (Wednesday October 15) launched a much-anticipated Android version of the guardian angel App that raises a pre-set alarm if the user doesn’t get home safe.More >>
New Healthline symptom checker app offers online alternative
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:37:55 +1300 | Healthline
The thousands of people in the Auckland region who call Healthline every year now have another way to access expert health advice and information with the launch of the free Healthline symptom checker app.More >>
Xero cracks $20 a share after capital raising
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:31:47 +1300 | BusinessDesk
Xero cracks $20 a share after capital raising, now worth more than SkyCity, Sky TV More >>
The chilling effect of TICs
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:53:47 +1300 | Clare Curran
The second reading of TICs is tomorrow. It seems likely the Govt will try to rush through the committee stages and third reading this week.If so, this is an extraordinary abuse of process, because there is almost no time to consider the impact of the Minister’s ...More >>
Failing companies the most open to new ideas
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:31:24 +1300 | sticK
“The most exciting places to work are those big companies that are failing. More >>
Mobile banking reaches Kiwi businesses
Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:49:02 +1300 | Kiwibank
Kiwi businesses can now do the banking they need most while out of the office thanks to a new mobile banking application recently launched by Kiwibank Business Banking. More >>
UPDATE2: Xero shares soar after capital raising
Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:32:22 +1300 | BusinessDesk
Oct. 14 (BusinessDesk) – Rod Drury, founder of Xero, says the cloud-based accounting company $180 million capital raising from key US shareholders sends a strong signal to rivals that there are no constraints on the funds it needs to win global market ...More >>
Drury says Xero fund raising sends strong signal to rivals
Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:46:51 +1300 | BusinessDesk
Oct. 14 (BusinessDesk) – Rod Drury, founder of Xero, says the cloud-based accounting company $180 million capital raising from key US shareholders sends a strong signal to rivals that there are no constraints on the funds it needs to win global market ...More >>
Xero raises $180M selling shares at premium to Matrix, Thiel
Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:09:49 +1300 | BusinessDesk
Oct. 14 (BusinessDesk) – Xero, the cloud-based accounting company whose shares have more than doubled this year, raised $180 million selling shares to Matrix Capital Management, Peter Thiel-backed Valar Ventures and other investors to ensure it can ...More >>
