Why did Apple just buy a classical music streaming service?
Unless you’re a classical music boffin you’ve probably never heard of Amsterdam-based Primephonic - a classical music start-up which launched in 2018.
It enabled users access to hi-res classical downloads in a...
What is Matter? And why it makes your smart home smarter
There’s a perception that the Big Tech companies are in constant competition with one another - and most of the time that’s true - Apple taking a shot at Facebook in...
The high-tech stocktake New Zealand Police didn’t want you to see
The high-tech stocktake New Zealand Police didn’t want you to see
New Zealand policing is playing catch-up with a fast-moving tech world, but privacy campaigners are concerned over the pace of the...
We’re witnessing the beginning of the end of Facebook
Yes, you read that right - it may take a decade or so - but I’m calling it.
Facebook - the social media platform du jour for many, the one that helped...
Jobhop: “Tinder for jobs” employment app reaches v2.0
Occasionally described as “The Tinder of jobs” or “The Uber of employment”, Jobhop is an app that lets users “hop on” and “hop off” paid work, one hour at a time...
Is Facebook even worse than we imagined?
Even those of us who follow the travails of Facebook closely were rocked earlier this month by the revelations uncovered by ex-Facebook employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen.
Her testimony, and the internal...
AWS comes to NZ – is it really good news?
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
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...
Aussie crowdsource study targets Google’s secret search algorithm
We use it everyday, depending on it for quick, accurate information - around 38 million queries a minute - but what do we really know about the inner workings of Google’s...
Ollie Hill has worked at HP for 20 years…now he’s in charge (and he...
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...














