I’ve written in the past about the good things that New Zealand Trade & Enterprise, the Government’s enterprise development body, does for New Zealand business. They have a large variety of programmes, all aimed at helping New Zealand business…
Conference venue (charging the conference organiser heaps no doubt) – 1 hour broadband $5 Hotel (charging the conference organiser $150/night for me to stay) – 1 hour broadband $10 Esquires cafe – 1 flat white (admittedly not fantastic but…
Very sobering reading from Bernard Hickey, saying that; New Zealand’s housing market is so overvalued and wages are growing so slowly that we at interest.co.nz expect median house prices will not rise back above their November 2007 peaks until…
Announced today that the Government will set up a new advisory group to represent the various interested parties in ICT in this country. IT Minister David Cunliffe said Creating a digital future for New Zealanders requires collaboration from a…
I’m up in Auckland for the next two days at a conference. It’s being held at an up-market, seemingly business-savvy and central city hotel. It’s an IT conference and so obviously the hotel realises a bunch of tech connected…
A press release yesterday announced a new small business ISP soon to come from Telecom. The new ISP, according to the release, will provide hosting, domain name registration, web design and SaaS applications. Over on his blog, Lance has…
Print media is so out of touch with reality… News this morning that Fairfax media hired casual staff in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch to remove pages 5 and 6, 45 and 46 from about 200,000 copies of the Sunday…
(cross posting from Mike Riversdale: Enterprise 2.0 New Zealand style blog) A massive 92% of Kiwi’s have no idea how (or choose not) use the RSS technology as reported by Russell Brown* Why is that? (If you’re unfamiliar with…
Not software related but definitely hi-tech and a NZ success story in the making. News this morning that Windflow Technology reports an improved six month position. They’re still running at a loss but less so than in previous periods.…