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Businessmen Sam Morgan, Stephen Tindall and Rod Drury are part of “an early stage” venture to build a submarine fibre cable between Australia, New Zealand and the United States, with five times the capacity of the existing Southern Cross system.
The group went public today under the name Pacific Fibre and it wants to talk to [...]

By Frances Manwaring, CEO of Virtual Expos New Zealand, on The Business Times, Singapore
VIRTUAL reality is one of the enduring images of science fiction: Think of epic action-hero battles, complete with martial arts moves and superhuman agility, or holograms that transport the human protagonists to another time and place.
At a time when technology is changing [...]

Cutting-edge learning technology developed by New Zealand companies will be on show at the International Conference on Teaching and Learning Technology (iCTLT) 2010 in Singapore from March 4-6, 2010. New Zealand Trade & Enterprise, the New Zealand Government’s national economic development agency, has announced that seven companies will participate at the show to demonstrate world-class e-learning, teaching and [...]

New Zealand Trade and Enterprise wants to appoint a preferred supplier of Riverbed Steelhead WAN optimisation controllers (WOCs), and associated deployment services, for three years.
It is calling for organisations capable of supporting its worldwide offices. It has nine in New Zealand and 39 offices offshore, with server hub sites in Singapore, Los Angeles and London.
The [...]

Prime Minister John Key was full of praise when he attended the celebratory launch of Mako Networks’ PCI DSS Merchant Solution, a world first in PCI (payment card industry) DSS compliant solutions.
In an animated speech, Key said he gets “excited about companies like Mako” and the possibilities they bring. He said New Zealand will never [...]

Innovative New Zealanders keen to set up their own business will have a chance to turn their dreams into reality in a competition being run as part of the Planet 2010 Communications and Technology Conference in Auckland next month.
The Telecommunications Industry Group (TIG) is offering 10 start-up companies the chance to pitch their business ideas [...]

Boosting the global uptake of High Temperature Superconductors (HTS), a revolutionary technology transforming a wide range of industries, is the goal of an influential line-up of international industrial heavyweights gathering in Wellington next week.
At the 18th International Superconductivity Industry Summit (ISIS), which runs from February 9 to 11 at Te Papa, New Zealand’s emerging HTS [...]

New Zealand Information and Communications Technology Group (NZICT) today announced that Mike Hill, Dell’s New Zealand country manager, has been elected to its board.
Hill has led Dell’s New Zealand operation since August 2009, heading up a team focused on providing the full range of Dell’s solutions and services to businesses across the country.
He has extensive [...]

Canadian company Axia NetMedia may be the mystery international firm bidding to provide ultrafast Axia NetMediato three-quarters of New Zealand homes and businesses.
The company won a tender in 2008 to deploy fibre to 95 per cent of Singapore’s 1.5 million homes and businesses by 2012, supported by an S$750 million (NZ$755m) government grant, and has [...]

Fonterra’s online trading platform globalDairyTrade is gearing up to double its original volume when it adds skim milk powder (SMP) to the mix next month – less than two years after it began.
Early this morning, the platform’s 20th monthly trading event concluded with the average price for whole milk powder (WMP) down 1.6% ($US53 per [...]