New Zealanders will finally be able to buy a mobile phone based on Google's Android operating system in June, with Vodafone revealing this morning it had secured a local exclusive to sell HTC's upcoming Magic handset.
Pricing for the eagerly awaited Apple iPhone 3GS has finally surfaced from Vodafone New Zealand with the least amount upfront being NZ$399 for the 16GB model, if you sign up for a two-year contract at NZ$130 a month on an iPhone-specific plan.
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.
Telecom New Zealand faced union protests in Auckland today in relation to its re-shuffle of engineering contractors.
Vodafone New Zealand has launched a new "dollar-a-day" mobile broadband service, but the carrier's Australian office has told users not to hold their breath for a similar deal here.
After the global financial crisis placed green IT on the back-burner, is it about to become sexy again due to the likes of New Zealand's new emissions trading scheme?
Do you ever get the urge to be naughty, especially if you are never found out? Do you ever fancy committing a crime and not have to worry about having your name splashed all over the papers?
The times are ripe for the big fish to swallow the little fish and IT is no exception. In the past week Oracle and Fujitsu have purchased Sun and Supply Chain Consultants respectively -- in this episode of Patch Monday we delve into the details.
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.
Feeding Snow Leopard with juicy Office 2008 discs caused a few problems for our New Zealand correspondent.
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.
If Pacnet's offer for AAPT is genuine and on the terms laid out in the Reuters story, then Telecom New Zealand chief executive Paul Reynolds ought to agree to the offer as quickly as he can.
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.
Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's technology operation in the third of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.
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.
In front of 95,000 people and a prime time television audience, John Polson, creative director for the Intel-Tropfest short-film festival, donned a figurative candy-striped suit to became technology's spruiker for a few moments at Sydney's Domain last Sunday. He read out the Intel prize (a PC package) for best cinematograhper with whiz-bang enthusiasm... but the crowd wasn't having a bar of it.
Australians are set to be the first consumers able to purchase Kodak's world-first digital camera with an integrated OLED screen, according to a company announcement.
Microsoft's software licensing program is not proving popular - about two-thirds of its biggest customers are yet to sign up, and some are exploring alternatives.
Fed up with paying through the nose for programs? Need to repopulate a system with applications following a disaster? You need our guide to free and low-cost software.
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