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By Stephen Bell Wellington, Thursday, 20 December, 2007
The NZ Defence Force and Ministry of Social Development are taking a novel joint-bidding approach to refreshing their organisations’ desktop and notebook computers.
Xero loses sales exec, gains others
UK and local appointments made
By David Watson Auckland, Monday, 17 December, 2007 – Computerworld NZ
Online accounting start-up Xero has lost another senior executive.
Earlier this year, former chief financial officer Paul Gardner left, and now Anthony Bishop, who was recruited in April from global business intelligence software vendor SAS to become Xero’s worldwide head of sales, has left to pursue other opportunities.
If Java Web Frameworks is of interest then you should definitely attend Wellington’s Java User Group meeting this month, as Thilo Frotscher will be talking on this topic. Thilo is a Software Architect whom specialises in Enterprise Java, Web Services and XML. Thilo works as a freelancer he spends most of the year contributing to the projects of his clients, as an Architect, Senior Developer and Consultant. Thilo is a frequent speaker an international technical conferences and has written numerous articles for software development magazines.
MSD in negotiations with Gen-i and Vodafone.
By Computerworld staff Auckland | Friday, 7 December, 2007
The Ministry of Social Development has ditched TelstraClear and is in contract negotiations with Gen-i and Vodafone for its telecommunications services.
The new telecommunications service contract will provide for all data, voice and mobility communications connectivity throughout the ministry, says Tim Occleshaw, the ministry’s CIO.
by Ken Lewis 
World leading New Zealand research has turned conventional thinking about computer use on its head, revealing that most of us spend as little as 2.4 hours a day actively engaged with our machines and nearly half of that is spent on emails or surfing the net.
By Rob O’Neill Auckland
Services provider Axon hasn’t made an acquisition in 15 years, but chief executive Scott Green says that is about to change.
The company has finalised a three-year “vision” that includes some key buys, including one aimed at providing Axon with the ability to deliver “telco-like” services. Meanwhile across town, at rival Gen-i, plans are afoot to boost capacity by making use of Telecom’s partnership with Indian outsourcer Tech Mahindra.
PS3 used to conduct over 1.4 billion MD5 calculations a second, says Kiwi researcher
By Ulrika Hedquist Auckland
Nick Breese, a senior security consultant at Auckland-based Security-assessment.com, has come up with a way to drastically increase the processing capability of cracking passwords. By implementing common ciphers and hash functions using vector computing, Breese has pushed the current upper limit of 10–15 million cycles per second — in Intel-based architecture — up to 1.4 billion cycles per second. read more »
10 ways to get back in the game after a layoff: Check out this interesting article on how to get back into the employment game after a layoff. Do you have any extra tips you can add? Let us know!
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Report: Staff willing to fund own IT equipment for work: An interesting survey result! Would you be willing to fund part of the technology for your work if you got to choose it? Tell us what you think!...
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