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How to annoy (good) hackers
We’ve all heard the usual security spiel; make life hard for the hackers, layered security, complex passwords, blah, blah, blah… read more...
Machine learning gets real (for a select few)
Xero reckons it is walking the talk… read more...
How VR is transforming healthcare
Multiple applications for lifelike simulations… read more...
GitHub shifts from tool for nerds to business collaboration platform
GitHub might sound like a silly name but it has become a trusted tool for developers, and now other business people, to store and share information… read more...
Which vendors come short when measuring up the big boys of ERP?
Panorama Consulting’s ‘Clash of the Titans 2017’ report compares SAP, Oracle, Dynamics and Infor… read more...
Social media entrepreneurs drive audience numbers
Kiwi tech set to revolutionise live event ticket sales… read more...
No surprises in Sage’s big bets as it plays catch-up
Pitch rests on AI and the cloud… read more...
Collab about more than apps (and potentially less about hot-desks)
It’s clear office workspaces are changing. The days of the private office are behind us, replaced by open-plan offices where people are placed in corrals that often make us feel more like farm animals than workers… read more...
Smarter retail – the future is (almost) here
With retailers facing increasing labour costs, tighter margins and more demanding customers, the right technology can be the difference between failure and success… read more...
‘Don’t panic’ as AWS goes down
There’s a broader lesson in the downing of Amazon Web Services’ S3 service in North America and that is simply ‘don’t panic’… read more...
Word soup with new name, expansion for SAP PaaS
In SAP-land, everything good is called HANA. Except HANA Cloud Platform… read more...
Have your employees got the best tools for the job? Probably not
Less than half of respondents to a global study have the ‘latest technology’ to do their jobs… read more...
Gartner announces latest BI & Analytics contenders
Zoomdata among new arrivals looking to disrupt established players… read more...
New data breach notification law: What you need to know
After years of prevarication and dithering, Australian parliament passed laws compelling companies to disclose when they suffer a data breach… read more...
Fulcrum expands into Australia
New Zealand-based data startup Fulcrum launches on both sides of the Tasman, plans to tackle Asia and the US later this year… read more...
Smart glasses tipped for big things, despite probably still making you look stupid
Google Glass might be dead, but the segment in which it inspired a good deal of public opprobrium isn’t… read more...
BI & Analytics 2017: NZ to spend over $100m, Aus approaches a billion
Get chequebooks ready as BI and analytics continues growth spurt… read more...
M&A activity continues as Fusion5 and Myriad join forces
Australasian business solutions company Fusion5 merges with Myriad IT… read more...
Comms on a plane: Aircraft keep Ironman competitors on track
Communications systems key to keeping athletes safe sports… read more...
Deloitte + AWS + HANA: It’s all about analytics. And the cloud
Professional services firm Deloitte has formed an AWS cloud shop which it said has 2,500 practitioners globally… read more...
