Is buying local misguided?
How much preference should government give to local suppliers when it comes to procurement?
Techie Isles
Darren Greenwood keeps his feet on New Zealand's shaky ground and his head up in the long white cloud.
Darren Greenwood
Darren Greenwood has been in journalism, not all of it IT, since the days of typewriters and long before the web spun its way around the world. Coming from Yorkshire, he can be blunt, and though having resided in New Zealand, as well as Australia, for quite some time, he insists he is not one of the 'sheeple!'
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Getting others to pay for your success
You have to hand it to low-cost mobile phone operator 2degrees. After hitting the market with its much cheaper prepay mobile phone calls, where phones and credit were typically sold from petrol stations and supermarkets, the fledgling operator has announced an expansion onto the High Street with its own branded stores.
China rides to the rescue?
New Zealand's much vaunted $1.5 billion broadband program could be going "off the rails", if the country's Labour opposition is to be believed, but Prime Minister John Key could have an unlikely saviour — the Chinese!
Should software be patentable?
Over the past few months, the New Zealand ICT community has been debating the issue of patents.
If we're short-sighted, give us glasses
An ICT industry leader, Geoff Lawrie, has attacked Kiwis for being blind to the potential of super-fast broadband.
Technology will keep the bastards honest
The Open Government NZ 2010 Un-Conference was held in Wellington last week.
Gillard or Abbott, there will be cuts
Regardless of whoever wins Australia's next election, the big spending Rudd days are over and austerity is in. Labor or Liberal, Gillard or Abbott; government IT bosses will have to get the knives out.
Cloud is taking our talent offshore
In cloud computing, the issue of outsourcing is as great as it is in call centres, tech support and similar spheres.
Spectrum isn't an ancient treasure
OK, as colonialists, maybe Europeans didn't treat the indigenous natives as well as we should have — and that applies to both sides of the Tasman.
Why can't Apple be like Harry Potter?
You might recall me recently moaning about vendors treating New Zealand as part of Australia. Well, some of them do treat us differently, but not in ways that we Kiwis would like.