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Our ICT industry is pandemic-proof for now; can it remain that way?

Greg Fleming 06/09/2021

“Australia and New Zealand were early entrants to the digital transformation journey,” says Mario Allen Clement, senior market analyst for IDC.  That head-start enabled our...

Why did Apple just buy a classical music streaming service?

Greg Fleming 01/09/2021

Unless you’re a classical music boffin you’ve probably never heard of Amsterdam-based Primephonic – a classical music start-up which launched in 2018. It enabled users...

Is Kanye’s Donda Stem Player more than just a money-grab?

Greg Fleming 30/08/2021

Music writer Charles Holmes nailed it – “being a Kanye fan is akin to being a frog carrying a scorpion across the deepest body of...

Creators in the driver’s seat (as YouTube pays out >$43 billion)

Greg Fleming 25/08/2021

YouTube has announced that it has more than two million creators in its YouTube Partner Program and has paid more than $30 billion USD to...

Q&A with Hamish McKenzie (the Kiwi co-founder of Substack) on how writers can make good money again

Michael Botur 25/08/2021

Michael Moore joined Substack the other day. So did Dan Rather, Alison Roman, and even Edward Snowden. They join Andrew Sullivan has joined Substack as...

Meet Fruitometry – the Kiwi AI imaging startup helping NZ grow better kiwifruit

theBit 24/08/2021

In the early 2000s, software and electronics engineer Christopher Miller was developing world-leading imaging technology to help Emirates Team New Zealand win the America’s Cup. ...

Aussie crowdsource study targets Google’s secret search algorithm

Greg Fleming 24/08/2021

We use it everyday, depending on it for quick, accurate information – around 38 million queries a minute – but what do we really know...

What is Matter? And why it makes your smart home smarter

Greg Fleming 17/08/2021

There’s a perception that the Big Tech companies are in constant competition with one another – and most of the time that’s true – Apple...

VR, burgers and fungus: tomorrow’s techies are being nurtured up north

Michael Botur 15/08/2021

If you want to see how the tech workers of tomorrow are being trained, you’ll find it on a Thursday night in little old Whangarei....

NZ first nation to join Smart Cities programme

Lucy Mullinger 13/08/2021

New Zealand has become the first nation in the world to have all of its local Council’s join the Smart Cities Council (SCCANZ). This means...