Jannat Maqbool: My career in tech
The technology industry has grown exponentially in the last few decades, however, only 26 per cent of employees are females. With this in mind, Techwomen was developed in order to encourage...
Meet Pavan Vyas – the man behind the NZ Covid Tracer app
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....
Interview with National Crime Check CEO Martin Lazarevic
No, you don’t need to go to a police station to get a police check.
Australian company National Crime Check is now providing their services in New Zealand, these include expedited Ministry...
Annie Taunga – Behind the scenes at Weta Digital
The Lord of the Rings holds a special place in Annie Taunga’s heart; it was her first visual effects project and the first time she saw her name in credits.
The series...
Exclusive: Bitdefender antivirus is so good ‘even our competitors use us’
Bitdefender's Director of Threat Research Bogdan Botezatu explains the need to educate everyone on even the simplest cyberattacks, dealing with up to 550 new threats a minute and how a baby...
Intel’s Dino Strkljevic – giving gamers “more performance for their money”
Dino Strkljevic is Intel's Business Development Manager, for Australia and New Zealand. He’s also an avid and very successful gamer, and a self-described “OG extreme overclocker”.
He has held world records in...
Interview with IGEA CEO Ron Curry – on gaming’s gains during the pandemic
The gaming industry in New Zealand is worth an estimated half-a-billion dollars and is one of our fastest growing tech success stories. Indeed, 96 percent of local creators’ income comes from...
Exclusive: Lenovo’s new ‘Tiny-in-One’ is all for ‘future-proofing’
Lenovo's VP and GM of Visuals Business Stefan Engel breaks down the current state of the workplace environment, understanding the need of "elegance" in a device and the benefits of the company's latest ThinkCentre Tiny-in-One Gen 5.
Meet the curator of Steam’s New Zealand games collection
This week I opened Steam on my desktop to be greeted by a sight I’d never seen before: a celebration of PC games made in New Zealand, with discounts of up...
Digital Provenance – what it is and why it’s important to you…
Many will be familiar with the idea of provenance in art; the provenance is the documentation that authenticates a particular piece of art. Digital provenance is the same for digital objects.
With...