2013-02-19 09:48:24 // Sim Ahmed
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Telecom, Vodafone and Telstra in Australia, have signed a memorandum of understanding to co-invest in the construction of a submarine internet cable between Auckland and Sydney, according to a statement from the joint venture.
2013-02-07 08:52:16 // Idealog
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New Zealanders have significantly increased the amount of data they consume in the last year, with the maturing of online habits and the introduction of new streaming services like Spotify and Quickflix. However, a survey by Canstar Blue shows more than half of us say we're paying far too much for these bits, bytes, and packets of light.
2011-12-14 10:48:02 // Kate Beecroft
Internet service providers PlaNet, Actrix and Inspire have topped Consumer NZ's customer service survey, with all three rating over 96 percent.
2011-12-13 12:59:07 // Idealog
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Ziln is bringing on-demand TV to Sony televisions, marking an expansion into a "full screen lounge room experience".
2011-12-12 09:48:14 // Siobhan Leathley
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TelstraClear head Allan Freeth says telcos must move toward providing tailored services as the data explosion gains momentum.
2011-12-09 16:00:28 // Idealog
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Facebook has captured the hearts (and time) of Kiwis – but MySpace has disappeared off our radars completely.
2011-12-08 08:44:46 // Kate Beecroft
TelstraClear’s weekend of unmetered broadband was an abject failure according to some (InternetNZ and many other irate customers) but a success by others.
2011-11-29 09:58:28 // Idealog
It's a good time to be a TelstraClear user this weekend – the telco is switching off its meters from 6pm on Friday December 2 until midnight on Sunday.
2011-11-22 09:55:44 // Idealog
One Taranaki law firm is branching out to launch what it believes is a first in the New Zealand legal services industry.
2011-11-18 09:52:28 // Ben Fahy
We're all familiar by now with stats about rising online revenue, and Q3 2011 ticked that box again, with New Zealand experiencing one of its biggest year-on-year increases in online ad revenue since 2008, growing 27 percent.
2011-11-14 13:42:20 // Idealog
An internet infrastructure mapping network and and two wireless broadband projects have scored close to $50,000 in funding from InternetNZ thanks to its Community Projects Funding Round.
2011-11-02 09:03:27 // Esther Goh
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Networking is a necessary evil of the working world, and an "inefficient" one at that, according to Kiwi entrepreneur Chirag Ahuja.
2011-10-21 13:39:21 // Idealog
TelstraClear is holding onto its top spot as the telco offering the fastest webpage downloads, according to September test results issued by the Telecommunications Users Association and TrueNet.
2011-10-21 10:41:22 // Cath Winks
Blind WeekThe Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind has launched a new online collection tool for its Blind Week appeal (October 25-31), making it the first charity in New Zealand to do so.
2011-10-18 10:10:32 // Idealog
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The interwebs is a veritable playground for the digitally-inclined, many of whom were tapped by the Australia and New Zealand Internet Awards last night for standout online initiatives that make our virtual and real lives a little bit better.
2011-10-12 11:26:58 // Esther Goh
Ahead of an upcoming election debate on IT next week, InternetNZ has issued a discussion document calling for a "shared, common vision" for New Zealand's digital future.
2011-10-10 15:46:15 // Esther Goh
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How long does it take for John Paulson to earn my annual income?
Less time than it takes to get to work in the morning, apparently.
2011-10-06 11:27:15 // Esther Goh
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In a first for New Zealand, Farmers has launched a groundbreaking fully interactive product catalogue, which it says customers have embraced wholeheartedly.
2011-10-03 09:57:24 // Brigid Gallagher
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GeoCities is being 'excavated' and preserved, revisualised as a city map with neighbourhoods and property sites.
2011-09-30 10:45:45 // Esther Goh
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While we generally start off the morning on the right foot, a new study has used millions of tweets from around the world to determine that our collective moods deteriorate over the course of a day, using software that Kiwis helped to develop.
2011-09-22 14:35:25 // Ben Fahy
Kiwi app Snapr's photo sharing game, Capture the Flag, has captured the attention of some major Kiwi brands. Will it capture consumers?
2011-09-22 09:34:06 // Sarah Robson
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A Kiwi web application has hit the big time, with one of the most widely read CMS blogs naming Contegro as a new entrant on its Top 30 content management systems list.
2011-09-19 16:56:23 // Esther Goh
Kiwi users have historically paid higher prices for broadband than our Aussie counterparts, and although costs continue to decline, we're still stuck playing catchup.
2011-09-16 10:39:47 // Idealog
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Heidi Klum has apparently replaced Cameron Diaz as the most dangerous celebrity to search for online; those looking for the supermodel's latest photos and other media have nearly a one in 10 chance of landing on a malicious website.
2011-09-14 11:41:48 // Idealog
Putting consumers back in control is the driving force behind a new investment auction website that enables people to find, compare and invest in different term deposits from banks and non-bank institutions.
2011-09-13 13:48:38 // Brad McEvoy
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We need a service that automatically synchronises data across all of your devices, and also houses that data in the web where it can be accessed anytime
2011-09-12 10:18:28 // Idealog
From microsites to virtual memorial walls, the media is marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with all that digital technology has to offer.
2011-09-08 11:15:35 // Idealog
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Joining the wi-fi fray in Auckland are CallPlus and Slingshot, which this week announced they would be providing free internet in central Auckland for the duration of the Rugby World Cup.
2011-09-06 10:39:29 // Idealog
A group of four Northland schools is the first in the country to log onto the government's ultrafast broadband initiative, with a fifth set to be connected in the weeks ahead.
2011-09-02 09:35:18 // Esther Goh
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A group of key players in the local cloud computing industry wants to develop a voluntary code of practice.
2011-08-30 16:32:22 // StopPress Team
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Internet users from around New Zealand, over 278,000 of them in fact, have been busy singling out their favourite websites as part of the 2011 People’s Choice NetGuide Web Awards.
2011-08-25 14:24:01 // Idealog
Not content with merely helping consumers get the best deal on electricity with Powerswitch, Consumer NZ has launched a telecommunications comparison website to cut through the maze of packages on offer.
2011-08-24 10:47:04 // Ben Fahy
Online spending always seems to be on the up every time the IAB releases its quarterly year-on-year ad revenue reports and figures released for Q2 are no exception.
2011-08-22 11:22:13 // Idealog
Vodafone has signed a 10-year deal with Pacific Fibre to supply international bandwidth on its undersea cable system linking the US to Australia and New Zealand.
2011-08-12 12:35:21 // Esther Goh
Vodafone has been fined more than $400,000 for misleading customers about charges related to its Vodafone Live! mobile phone internet service in what a judge says amounted to "extraordinary" mismanagement.
2011-08-09 11:00:30 // Idealog
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The fastest browser for real-world users is Google Chrome – way ahead of Safari and Internet Explorer.
2011-08-05 10:04:23 // Esther Goh
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Why would anybody go to the effort of releasing a fake study that supposedly proves IE users have lower IQs than those of us who favour Firefox, Safari and Chrome?
2011-08-03 12:00:37 // Idealog
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While six Kiwi upstarts are pushing ahead with their bid to build a fibre-optic internet cable linking New Zealand, Australia and the US, a coalition of 29 American universities is throwing its weight behind a not dissimilar plan to build ultra-high-speed computer networks in their communities.
2011-08-02 10:35:32 // Esther Goh
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Mobile devices and social media are the key drivers behind online retail growth, with expenditure in this area now accounting for 5.1 percent of all retail sales.
2011-07-28 11:11:25 // Esther Goh
The Commerce Commission has released its final determination of unbundled bitstream access (UBA) pricing, which would result in a small decrease in Telecom's wholesale prices.
2011-07-28 09:36:19 // Esther Goh
NZ broadband speeds are continuing to creep up—but we've still got a long way to go to catch up with the rest of the world.
2011-07-27 09:47:27 // Idealog
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Bringing Australian ISP iiNet onboard as a second foundation customer brings Pacific Fibre another step closer to delivering its international internet cable linking New Zealand to the US.
2011-07-22 12:10:15 // Idealog
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A Northland-based UFB provider has released pricing for its new fibre plans which it says are "unrivalled" anywhere else in the country.
2011-07-21 17:14:01 // Idealog
New copyright laws will target file-sharing through P2P and not streaming sites like YouTube, the government has clarified.
2011-07-20 11:44:24 // Esther Goh
The landline is dead. Or at least it will be in the near future, and Orcon CEO Scott Bartlett says its new Genius device, on sale today, marks the beginning of the end.
2011-07-19 09:41:26 // Idealog
Pacific Fibre has inked a deal with US-based cable company TE SubCom to build an undersea international internet link by 2014.
2011-07-18 14:40:32 // Idealog
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Thinking local is paying off for Google in Africa: local content, local products, local marketing initiatives.
2011-07-15 09:17:41 // Idealog
Increased competition has improved broadband quality, with TelstraClear's cable service consistently providing the best performance, a report released by the Commerce Commission yesterday shows.
2011-07-15 08:00:00 // StopPress Team
As everyone knows, the internet is a wonderful thing to waste time on and social media is often singled out as the biggest cause of this timewastery.
2011-06-29 16:45:12 // Idealog
We may be in a period of “space exploration”, with CIOs and their staff as the “astronauts” leading the way into a new digital age. But we don’t have the skills and resources yet to deal with all this data. And just how private is our information, anyway?
2011-06-28 09:00:00 // Esther Goh
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'A trip through Twitter's lazyweb' tracks all the vital stats on the slacker's version of research.
2011-06-27 09:26:18 // Esther Goh
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Constant connectivity is a greedy beast. The wired world sucks up more energy than you might think.
2011-06-17 11:39:25 // Esther Goh
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The fifth annual Barcamp is for developers, designers and anyone who cares about the future of the net
