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Fibre: Finish the Job
How much simpler, cost-efficient and effective would the services and support you deliver to New Zealand households be if you could assume fibre availability the way you assume roads, electricity and …
TIN report highlights thriving tech sector
When TIN (Technology Investment Network) founder Greg Shanahan first began publishing the list of earnings for the top New Zealand companies in 2005 he sent out 70 surveys. This year he sent out over …
Govt trials AI for multi-agency interactions
Navigating their way through multiple government agencies can be tough going for many businesses, so the Government is trialling an AI tool designed to make it easier.
The Ministry of Business, Inn…
R&D spend under the spotlight
The latest New Zealand's R&D performance report shows that investment in innovation continues to be weighted towards the manufacturing and primary sectors, that business expenditure on R&D is low (but…
Micromobility has arrived
Lime has released 900 electric scooters onto the streets of Christchurch and Auckland this week, making New Zealand the first country in the Asia Pacific in which the company has launched its urban tr…
Is NZ's funding of research future-focused?
There's lots happening on the research side of things, with results of the $249M research investment through the Endeavour Fund announced recently and R&D Tax Credit scheme details released this week.…
Brislen on Tech
News that almost all of the sub-contractors employed by the contractors employed by Chorus to build the Ultra Fast Broadband (UFB) network are exploiting their workers in one form or another has tarni…
New tech media models
Media was arguably the first sector to be massively disrupted by the internet, and tech media has been no exception. But, for those of us addicted to our daily fix of tech news, it's not all been doom…
New R&D regime to increase spending, but is it enough?
The new research and development tax regime has been announced with a few tweaks following the consultation period.
The threshold of $100,000 spending per annum on R&D has been lowered to $50,000 m…
International connections
A map of international telecommunication cables across the globe shows a disparity between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. News service ZDNet lists only 17 subsea cables across the globe and wh…
Blockchain more transformative than internet - researcher
New Zealand should look to become a blockchain and financial technology hub, argues a team of legal and financial experts in a report based on research funded by the New Zealand Law Foundation's Infor…
90 million reasons to unsubscribe
Fifty million Facebook users have, apparently, woken to the news that their profiles have been breached and they have to change their passwords.
Brislen on Tech
A few weeks ago we talked about the EU and its plan to introduce new copyright laws in the shape of Article 11 and Article 13. I suggested the EU would be stupid to do so because they don't understand…
Top marks for broadband, still room for improvement
Here's a good news story. The Ultra Fast Broadband build is 74.8% complete. It is 7% ahead of schedule. To date, uptake is 44.1%. Currently 70% of New Zealanders can access fibre.
No AirPower for Apple at this point
A year after buying New Zealand wireless charging company PowerbyProxi, Apple is apparently no closer to launching a consumer product on the market, despite announcing it would in 2018.
Tech disrupts electricity sector, maybe
Technology transforms every sector and you might think that electricity would be at the forefront of disruption, but the Government's Electricity Price Review released this week shows the sector has m…
Apple launch snooze fest oh hello, what's this?
It is a ritual as old as time itself (well, certainly for the past 11 years at least). The pilgrimage to the well of all things - the annual Apple announcement about some new gear.
Telcos mark Te wiki o te reo Māori
Rorohiko pōnaho, tātaitai, and pēne are three words learned today thanks to a new app, Kupu, launched for Te wiki o te reo Māori or Māori language week. Translated into English these words mean l…
What is a DEDIMAG anyway?
What is DEDIMAG and how does it fit in with the government's CTO project?
NZ mobile sites stuck in slow lane
It takes on average 15 seconds to load a mobile page in New Zealand, when it should take three. That's according to Google NZ Country Director Caroline Rainsford, who spoke at the PwC Herald talks on …
