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New Zealand's schools to get open source for less
News The number of schools in New Zealand using open source software is likely to increase following a deal struck between the country's Ministry of Education and software provider Novell. Last week's deal allows 2,600 state schools in New Zealand to...
[July 18, 2005, 17:45]
New Zealand Justice Ministry wants open source
News The New Zealand Ministry of Justice believes that open-source software is a more stable, supportable and cost-effective choice compared to proprietary solutions. In a Ministry of Justice report, which can be found on the New Zealand Open Source...
[December 13, 2007, 11:05]
New Zealand cancels Microsoft talks
News The New Zealand State Services Commission announced on Tuesday that it had been unable to reach an agreement with Microsoft for a new whole-of-government contract. The existing agreement begun in 2000 allowed New Zealand's public-sector agencies to...
[May 27, 2009, 14:48]
New Zealand issues 4G spectrum
News New Zealand has made a push towards 4G network services, with its government confirming the initial frequency allocation from the old analogue TV spectrum. These decisions will enable New Zealand to realise the productivity and economic benefits of...
[December 22, 2009, 8:41]
New Zealand OOXML rejection 'not final'
News New Zealand has rejected Microsoft's proposal to fast track its Office Open XML document format as an ISO standard, but it may change its vote if certain concerns are addressed. Grant Thomas, chief operating officer for Standards New Zealand, said...
[September 3, 2007, 8:54]
High-profile New Zealand websites hacked
News Hackers appearing to hail from Turkey have struck a number of high-profile New Zealand sites belonging to companies such as Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Xerox and F-Secure. A Microsoft New Zealand spokesperson referred media queries about the attack to...
[April 21, 2009, 14:35]
Police swoop on New Zealand botmaster
News New Zealand Police this week swooped on an alleged botnet ringleader in New Zealand, who the FBI claims had illegal control over one million computers. The New Zealand suspect, who goes by the name of "Akill", came under fire after an information...
[November 30, 2007, 7:59]
Telecom New Zealand apologises for email woe
News Telecom New Zealand is planning a NZ$1m (£354,253) donation to charity and a week's free internet access for its customers, in order to make amends for recent outages in its email service. New Zealand's incumbent telco has just named the former...
[August 28, 2007, 11:58]
EDS outsources IT work to New Zealand
News EDS, which provides a range of IT services, said on Monday that it would add 360 jobs to its current New Zealand staff of 2,300 because of a grant of roughly $840,000 (£523,245) from the government of New Zealand.
[March 11, 2003, 14:46]
Linux replaces Microsoft at Air New Zealand
News Air New Zealand is replacing 150 Compaq NT servers with two IBM mainframes running Linux, saving the company a potential NZ$600,000 (£180,000) in licence fees alone, according to a report in The New Zealand Herald.
[August 14, 2002, 14:29]
China accused of cyberattacks on New Zealand
News The New Zealand secret service has suggested the Chinese government was behind attacks on the country's networks. New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark yesterday assured reporters that no classified information had been compromised but confirmed...
[September 13, 2007, 10:07]
Microsoft investigates Web attack
News Microsoft's security record took a battering Monday when its New Zealand Web site was defaced group of cyber hooligans called "prime suspectz", leaving the world's largest software firm red-faced. The company says it is investigating the breach and...
[January 23, 2001, 15:18]
Linux wins approval from the taxman
News Linux is proving increasingly popular with governments across the world, with New Zealand's Inland Revenue becoming the latest government department to test the open source operating system. The New Zealand Inland Revenue is following in the...
[October 24, 2005, 18:10]
International cyberattack drill tests nations' responses
News He added that Cyber Storm II had been a "beneficial" exercise for New Zealand in determining who needed to be contacted in the event of a cyberattack. The exercise, which began on 10 March, 2008, was designed to test the readiness of the US, the UK...
[April 10, 2008, 11:22]
Kiwi kids most at risk from Internet dangers
News New Zealand's teenage girls feel more threatened by Net predators than surfing kids in the UK and America, a new study reveals Thursday. One quarter of teenage girls in New Zealand feel threatened by Net predators, compared with one in five youths...
[March 9, 2001, 7:20]
Police investigate child porn computer game
News Police in New Zealand are searching for the distributors of a child's computer game sold with links to child porn sites. According to reports in The New Zealand Herald, the pirated CD-ROM game was available in the run-up to Christmas at markets...
[January 2, 2001, 12:30]
Geeks push for second-level domain
News Professional Internet engineers and technicians in New Zealand are fighting to get their own second-level domain, geek.nz. The proposal is being taken seriously by the New Zealand Office of the Domain Name Commissioner, who has called for a two...
[December 10, 2002, 8:23]
SCO takes softly, softly approach downunder
News The SCO Group is initially soft-pedalling threats of lawsuits against Australian and New Zealand companies who use Linux, as it starts marketing licences to secure revenue for use of the open source software.
[January 20, 2004, 9:40]
Yahoo dumps Google in Asia Pacific
News Yahoo has dumped Google's algorithmic search technology for its Australian and New Zealand portals in favour of an in-house search engine, Yahoo Search Technologies. The company's US parent completed its transition to YST last month, and Cliff...
[March 11, 2004, 14:00]
Microsoft sued over upgrade programme
News A New Zealand company has filed a complaint against Microsoft, alleging that a subscription-like software-licensing programme violates that country's laws. Microsoft, though, says the programme violates no New Zealand law and is similar to...
[April 9, 2002, 9:15]
