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Listed accounting software developer Xero says moves by the Inland Revenue Department to connect electronically with taxpayers will reduce compliance for business owners and save the IRD a fortune.
Chief executive Rod Drury said the IRD’s move to electronically connect with small businesses, including a Facebook connection, was “savvy”.
The IRD aims to work [...]

Google announcement means companies must update web content constantly to stay relevant
Today’s launch of Caffeine by Google – a new web indexing system – means companies will have to update their web and internet directory content regularly if they want to rank better.
Co-founder of Gopher.co.nz – New Zealand’s fastest growing online directory – BJ Sveistrup, [...]

FX Networks and Telecom Wholesale today confirmed their agreement for the exchange of local internet traffic at 19 of Telecom’s points of interconnection around the country. The agreement is the culmination of years of effort by Telecom, FX Networks and other industry players, to lay the groundwork for the most efficient routing of New Zealand’s [...]

Millions of people have seen the film Avatar in three dimensions and now 3-D televisions have landed in New Zealand. There are few 3-D shows, however, and it’s likely that the first opportunities for the third dimension will be sport and computer games. Gerard Campbell assesses 3-D gaming and James Croot reports on 3-D sport.
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Online accounting system company Xero (NZX: XRO) says it will report operating revenue of more than $3 million for the 2010 financial year — triple revenue for the 2009 financial year.
Paying customers exceeded 17,000 in more than 50 countries compared to 6000 in 25 countries at March 31, 2009, excluding the just released Xero Personal product, [...]

Datacraft New Zealand and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) have signed a three-year telecommunications services contract.
According to Datacraft, it represents the company’s most significant end to end telecommunications win since being awarded the one.govt telecommunications networking contract in 2009.
The vendor will provide NZTE with a high bandwidth WAN offering, mobile services, 0800 services, a [...]

The NZ World Internet Project Survey of over 1200 New Zealanders has revealed that 83% are now using the Internet, up from 79% in 2007.
More significantly, the proportion of internet users using broadband has risen to 82% by September 2009, up from 67% in 2007, with dial-up use declining.
The finding indicates there must be a lot of [...]

Federated Farmers is backing the Government’s plan for rural broadband but says more money is needed.
Cabinet has signed off the roll-out and work is expected to start on the infrastructure early next year.
The Government is providing $48 million towards the $300m cost and will put a levy on the industry to deliver the rest.
Telecom says [...]

Kiwis are ditching dial-up internet connections for broadband internet, according to a study.
The World Internet Project survey also reveals Asian New Zealanders have the highest level of internet usage in New Zealand.
Broadband usage leapt to 82 per cent by September from 67 per cent in 2007, as the number of Kiwis on slower dial-up connections [...]

The New Zealand government has finalised its plans for rural telecommunications with Cabinet signing off on plans to rollout high speed broadband in rural areas, and for the reform of the Telecommunications Service Obligations (TSO).
Communications and information technology minister, Steven Joyce, said: “As a result of this plan we are confirming today, 97 percent of [...]