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• Dateline Nelson: Innovation upstream at NZ King Salmon

  IT manager Simon Gutschlag takes the perspectives of a biologist, an environmentalist and a technology evangelist at New Zealand King Salmon.

• In Pictures: Top tech turkeys of 2014

  Just be thankful you aren’t associated with any of these people.

• Mission Critical ICT at St John NZ

  In his first week on the job, Martin Catterall joined the St John Clinical Control Centre staff who handle 111 emergency calls. The experience reaffirmed his decision to take on the inaugural CIO role for New Zealand’s most trusted charity.
  
  

• Doing business with Ed Hyde of Qrious

  The CEO of the data analytics company talks about making the leap from telecommunications to the arena of ‘smart data’.
  

• Gen-i signs agreement with Telstra

  NZ trans-Tasman businesses to access expanded services in Australia: Gen-i CEO Tim Miles

• In Pictures: The HTC One M8 smartphone

  HTC One M8 is finally here! Everyone try and act surprised!

• Vodafone NZ provides support for Philippines

  Sends engineers to set up an emergency mobile phone network and provides retrospective credit for calls made to the country during the supertyphoon period.

• IN PICTURES: Wi-Fi’s latest speed boost: 802.11ac client radios

  Here’s an alphabetic sampling of products; prices as of October 10, 2013, based on data from Google Shopping and Amazon.

• Ingram Micro to provide third-party logistics for Telecom New Zealand

  Leading distributor, Ingram Micro, has signed an agreement with Telecom New Zealand, the country's largest telecommunications and IT service provider, to provide third-party logistics and supply chain optimisation services.

• Jordan Carter is appointed InternetNZ CEO

  Jordan Carter is appointed chief executive at InternetNZ, a role he has held in acting capacity following the resignation of Vikram Kumar.

• CIO priorities reflect NBN opportunities in ANZ: Gartner

  Organisations are looking to make the most of opportunities associated with the National Broadband Network (NBN), with Gartner Executive Program’s annual CIO agenda survey showing that networking, voice and data communications are a higher technology priority in Australia and New Zealand than globally.

• A year of transformational and unpredictable change

  The coming 12 months is set to be a year of transformational and unpredictable change for New Zealand ICT, reports IDC.
  "The future of the telecommunications sector hangs in the balance, awaiting critical policy and commercial decisions that will begin a long-term deconstruction and reconstruction of the industry. All ICT markets will be impacted. At the same time, the current wave of disruptive technologies - mobile computing, cloud services and social networking - will mature from early adopter status," says Ullrich Loeffler, IDC New Zealand country manager.

• PABX fraud on the rise

  Fraudsters are targeting unsecured PABXs in New Zealand and getting away with hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, it is said.
  Leaving your PABX unsecured is like leaving your PIN numbers or bank account details and access codes pinned to your front door, says the Telecommunications Industry Group (TIG).

• Kordia abandons trans-Tasman cable plan

  Kordia’s plans to build a trans-Tasman cable have been shelved following Pacific Fibre’s announcement that it is partnering with Pacnet on a new international cable connecting New Zealand, Australia and the US.
  “There’s only room for one cable across the Tasman and our project was always a trans-Tasman project,” Kordia CEO Geoff Hunt says. “Once they’ve (Pacific Fibre) got to a position where they can launch the project there wouldn’t be a business case to launch a second cable,” Hunt says.

• Taxpayers should put up $5 billion for broadband: Vodafone CEO

  Taxpayers should foot the bill for the government’s Ultra Fast Broadband network, according to Vodafone CEO Russell Stanners.
  Speaking at the Telecommunications and ICT Summit in Auckland, Stanners suggested that the government should increase its investment from $1.5 billion to $5 billion in the UFB. He compared the proposed fibre network to the roading network and pointed out that while $30 million of public money (for example user road charges, fuel taxes, rates) will be spent on the roading network in the next ten years, only $1.5 billion of taxpayer money will be spent on the Ultra Fast Broadband network.