What Spotify’s live audio app Greenroom is really like…

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Spotify joined the live audio game last week with Greenroom.  It’s done via a reskinned Locker Room app that Spotify bought in March for an estimated $50 million USD. It now joins Twitter...
Meet Mitchell Pham

Meet Mitchell Pham: The man responsible for helping the government “understand digital”

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Mitchell Pham is chair of the Orwellian-sounding Digital Council for Aotearoa. Appointed in December 2019, the 49 year old tech entrepreneur leads a now six-strong group of ‘well-connected experts’. One founding member,...

Ollie Hill has worked at HP for 20 years…now he’s in charge (and he...

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Most international tech companies exist in the abstract; big, sleek organizations removed from the New Zealand community. Yet Oliver Hill, the Country Manager of HP New Zealand, has a vision for...

VR, burgers and fungus: tomorrow’s techies are being nurtured up north

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If you want to see how the tech workers of tomorrow are being trained, you’ll find it on a Thursday night in little old Whangarei. As I enter Questionable Research Labs in...
Sharsies vs Hatch fees comparison

Sharesies vs Hatch fees comparison (…for US shares)

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Sharesies and Hatch offer Kiwis largely the same service: the ability to invest in US companies from their smartphones and laptops. The biggest difference between the two companies - apart from...
Kaseya ransomware attack: 8 things you need to know

Kaseya ransomware attack: 8 things you need to know

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This Kaseya ransomware attack is different. Instead of a single company or organisation being the victim of a ransomware attack (think Waikato DHB ransomware attack) any/all organisations using the Kaseya VSA...

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...

Is Kanye’s Donda Stem Player more than just a money-grab?

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Music writer Charles Holmes nailed it - “being a Kanye fan is akin to being a frog carrying a scorpion across the deepest body of water. If the venom doesn’t get...

How the FBI & NZ police used fake encryption app, ANoM, to sting global...

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It’s like something from a movie. The FBI, frustrated by criminals’ use of encryption services, decides to set up its own. That app, called Anom, was this week responsible for the...

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...