TelstraClear has effectively killed plans for an industry code between New Zealand ISPs and copyright holders to sit under the controversial S92 copyright legislation amendment.
A NZ government-funded survey has raised questions about the productivity gains to be made from providing fast internet access.
Industrial action by the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union (EPMU) in New Zealand has seen over a hundred engineers on Auckland's North Shore walk out of their jobs in a lightning strike.
New Zealand's controversial amendment to its Copyright Act, known as Section 92A, will be scrapped in its current form, NZ Commerce Minister Simon Power announced today.
What global financial crisis? New Zealand's information and communications technology industry continued to grow at the same pace in the 2008 financial year as the year before, according to the country's official statistics organ.
Termination of file-sharing internet users' accounts is coming up for New Zealanders again.
Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.
It's official: Australia is an easy target for Russian crime gangs some are even turning Aussie lonely hearts into money mules. But are those "victims" actually guilty?
Does the improved credit card security offered by chip and PIN-embedded credit cards mean a future of greater personal liability?
Telecom New Zealand last week stopped Web sites all over the world from hosting a satirical version of one of its recent television ads.
Craig Winkler, the founder and former chief executive of accounting software firm MYOB, has made his first major investment since MYOB was taken over in February this year.
On any list of businesses that can't afford downtime or system failure, power companies have to be close to the top. So when New Zealand electricity and gas generator and retailer Genesis Energy experienced a series of flaws in its backup and recovery systems, it had to act.
There are as always exceptions, but most ICT vendors are simply not doing the right thing by the thousands of SME customers in Australia and New Zealand.
Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of the technology operation of Westpac Banking Corporation and its subsidiary St George in the last of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.
For the first time, Kaz chief Mike Foster tells the full story about how the Peter Kazacos' baby was treated within Telstra, and how the deal with Fujitsu went down.
Vodafone users will be able to send multi-media messages across the Tasman in September following a deal with Ericsson.
Designed for truly mobile computing, there are two types of tablet PCs -- convertible and slate. In this guide, we show you what's available in Australia and whitepapers for making a business case to purchase Tablet PCs.
A new m-commerce service has moved to exploit existing bar-code scanning and mobile handset technology, with one of Sydney's premier venues poised to use it to process paying patrons for a forthcoming series of concerts.
Far from being a mature technology, SMS is still in the "cave-painting" stages, according to Giri Ramachandran, head of alliances and market development for Telstra.
An Australian company will today announce the distribution of a platform for enterprises to SMS-enable applications without needing to know complicated telephony protocols.
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