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Is the metaverse really the future of work?

According to Mark Zuckerberg, the "metaverse" – which the Meta founder describes as "an embodied internet, where instead of just viewing content – you are in it" – will radically change our live…

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Griffin on Tech: hurray for universal transport payments - why has this taken 13 years?

Peter Griffin. 21 October 2022, 12:52 pm

Here's some good news to end the week - we will soon have one contactless payment system we can use to tap on and off across all modes of public transport everywhere.

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Sweet deal for telcos as 5G spectrum rights are dished out 

Peter Griffin. 20 October 2022, 1:02 pm

The Government has foregone an auction process to allocate precious spectrum for 5G mobile services, instead allocating the three major telcos parcels of spectrum with 20-year usage rights.

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How Microsoft will build resilience into its new data centre region

Peter Griffin. 18 October 2022, 9:30 am

Microsoft's new data centre region under construction in Auckland will feature Azure Availability Zone, offering zonal and regional redundancy to combat major outages.

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Griffin on Tech: A key win in the war on disinformation

Peter Griffin. 14 October 2022, 2:10 pm

Alex Jones, one of the world's most odious and successful purveyors of disinformation, will be spending this weekend pondering what a US$1 billion defamation judgement against him means.

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The dark web down under: The rise of NZ’s ‘Tor Market’ for illegal drugs

Chris Wilkins and Marta Rychert. 14 October 2022, 12:33 am

On the face of it, New Zealand may seem an unlikely location for a rising international darknet drug market. Yet these factors may be exactly what has driven this market innovation.

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Satellite imagery marketplace aims to help with emissions reductions

Peter Griffin. 11 October 2022, 10:34 am

a new satellite imagery marketplace makes it easy for New Zealand organisations to find and buy imagery and data that can give them insights into Aotearoa.

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Griffin on Tech: Where’s our share of the Big Tech fines?

Peter Griffin. 07 October 2022, 2:11 pm

Google is paying hundreds of millions in fines for inappropriate location tracking of users. Where's our share of the proceeds?

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API hygiene: Lessons from the Optus data breach

Peter Griffin. 04 October 2022, 11:50 am

Australian mobile network operator Optus said yesterday it had narrowed the number of customers worst affected by a major breach of its systems to 2.1 million people.

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Griffin on Tech: A vote for an open internet

Peter Griffin. 30 September 2022, 12:32 pm

This week's election of a new head of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) should have drawn little interest beyond the geeky world of telecommunications and networking...

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Sky details its long-awaited set-top box upgrades

Peter Griffin. 27 September 2022, 3:26 pm

Pay TV provider Sky has two new devices coming to market that will bring its services up to the standard avid TV streamers now expect.

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Griffin on Tech: We have a digital strategy. Now what?

Peter Griffin. 16 September 2022, 1:13 pm

It isn't hugely ambitious, but the Digital Strategy is a start. It gives anyone interested in the digital sector a reference point to understand what is going on to bolster trust, inclusion and growth…

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Many farmers don’t see value in digital technologies

Peter Griffin. 06 September 2022, 1:48 pm

When it comes to using digital technologies to become more efficient producers, 41% of growers and farmers don't see much value in using digital technologies to run their businesses.

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Griffin on Tech: Zuckerberg still doesn’t get it

Peter Griffin. 26 August 2022, 1:39 pm

Joe Rogan meets Mark Zuckerberg, on a podcast, talking for over three hours. Can you think of anything worse?

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The metaverse isn’t here yet, but it already has a long history

Tom Boellstorff. 24 August 2022, 10:07 pm

There's a lot of hype about the Metaverse, but the movement to build an expansive virtual world has a long history and one we should learn from.

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Govt: online safe code won't deflect regulation

Peter Griffin. 23 August 2022, 12:45 pm

NetSafe's heavily criticised online safety code also appears to have also raised concerns in the Government.

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Griffin on Tech: Open sesame on algorithms

Peter Griffin. 19 August 2022, 2:08 pm

China is requiring its tech companies to supply details about the algorithms they use. We should do the same.

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Australia kills its COVIDSafe app. What went wrong?

By Stan Karanasios and Alemayehu Molla. 18 August 2022, 11:31 am

What the the lessons from Australia's failed COVIDSafe app? Independent experts explain what went wrong and what we can learn from it.

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How much public cloud do we want?

Peter Griffin. 12 August 2022, 2:22 pm

We will soon be spoilt for choice with NZ-based public cloud providers. But it will pay to keep some of our data to ourselves.

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Tech companies team up for common cybersecurity data standard

Peter Griffin. 11 August 2022, 1:24 pm

Tech companies are building a common data standard to cut through the confusion when cybersecurity threats rear their heads.

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