Meet Pavan Vyas – the man behind the NZ Covid Tracer app

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Pavan Vyas is our quiet tech superstar. He arrived in New Zealand as an immigrant in the mid-90s, found he had a knack for coding and took computing at Auckland University....

NZ agritech ready and waiting to take on the world

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The annual Fieldays - is more than just an excuse for John Campbell and the TVNZ Breakfast team to don Swanndris and talk to salt-of-the-earth woodchoppers. It’s also a reminder that New...

Shopify’s Shaun Broughton – on innovating in a pandemic, the future of shopping and...

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For the uninitiated, Shopify isn’t a consumer-facing app you can shop through - although Shopify does have one of those Shop (but more about that below) - but an immensely-powerful commerce...

AWS comes to NZ – is it really good news?

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Maybe it was Covid-fatigue or that strange emotion Kiwis seem to get when Big Tech deigns to notice us - but the announcement last week that Amazon Web Services was going...

1/4 of New Zealand’s SMEs have been a victim of a cyberattack

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While cyber attacks on large corporations, like the recent ransomware attack on the Waikato DHB, make the headlines, smaller businesses are also in the sights of hackers. Almost a quarter of New...

Creators in the driver’s seat (as YouTube pays out >$43 billion)

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YouTube has announced that it has more than two million creators in its YouTube Partner Program and has paid more than $30 billion USD to creators, artists and media companies. "YPP continues...

Interview with Clubhouse’s Aarthi Ramamurthy – “We believe in empowering people”

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Video might have killed the radio star but last year audio made a big and unexpected comeback with the arrival of Clubhouse. Clubhouse founders Paul Davison and Rohan Seth originally designed a...

Interview with A/NZ Zoom head Michael Chetner – “putting people at the forefront of...

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The pandemic and the overnight move to hybrid working has meant enormous growth for Zoom - whether it be for business, education, entertainment or just catching up with family and friends...

Our ICT industry is pandemic-proof for now; can it remain that way?

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“Australia and New Zealand were early entrants to the digital transformation journey,” says Mario Allen Clement, senior market analyst for IDC.  That head-start enabled our ICT industry to pivot quickly when Covid...
Dell Concept Luna

Dell Concept Luna still lives, and it continues to impress

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Dell's fully modular laptop pops up again, with Concept Luna promising simpler repairs and upgrades with sustainability in mind.