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The $10 billion industry
ICT has become the $10 billion industry in this year's TIN200 report into the sector.
For the first time, the top 200 technology-related companies have crossed the $10 billion a year revenue barrier, with huge growth in financial technology, digital media and the agritech sectors.
Brislen on Tech
How to find the people to build our brave new world.... Fuji Xerox faces an uphill struggle... And let's sleep on it: how woke is New Zealand (to the dangers of TXT messages)?
New broom at Fuji Xerox
Scandal struck Fuji Xerox has appointed a new CEO for the New Zealand end of its business.
New Zealand's most successful tech company?
It's probably New Zealand's most well-known tech export and after this year's Xerocon, the cloud accounting service Xero is riding high.
World's best practice IT departments deliver the goods
The best IT departments are more than twice as likely to finish a project on time and on budget as those who don't use world's best practice, a new report claims, but ROI remains an elusive beast.
Research and development (still) needs an overhaul
R&D spending simply isn't delivering what we'd hope to see. Government spending is on par with our competitors but private spending simply isn't there, which raises the question: what can we do to dri…
Fuji Xerox halts govt contract bids
Beleaguered printer company Fuji Xerox has agreed to a "voluntary suspension" from all its current government contracts following ongoing concerns about the company's accounting practices, which have …
The Folly of the Short Game in IT
In 2002 Sun Microsystems was considering purchasing Microsoft Office for its 35,000 staff. They worked out the per-seat cost (taking into accounts volume discounts) and instead decided it would be mo…
Connecting rural New Zealand to the wireless technology future
A guest blog from The Rural Connectivity Group - Vodafone, Spark and 2degrees, as part of the RBI2 bids blog series. Cross posted from InternetNZ.
This blog post is the third of a series and was wr…
Tech sector storms the economy
The tech sector continues to take the New Zealand economy by storm with international funding for early stage tech companies hitting a record high, according to the second annual Investor's Guide to t…
Solving the rural investment puzzle
Cross posted from InternetNZ - this is a guest post from Chorus as part of InternetNZ's RBI2 series and brings another view point to the discussion.
