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Updated Privacy Laws coming to NZ

Updated Privacy Laws coming to NZ

Overshadowed by overseas privacy law changes like GDPR, our own NZ Privacy legislation has flown a little under the radar. But rest assured, changes are coming here as well. The last change in NZ Law was 1993, and it was world-leading at the time. Then in 2011, the...

Te Whangai – Growing People by Growing Plants

Te Whangai – Growing People by Growing Plants

We are incredibly proud to have helped  The Te Whangai Trust.  They are an amazing organisation. There’s a whole group of society that miss out on the opportunities many of us take for-granted.   While many under-privileged members of our community can access various...

Using the Cloud to compete globally from New Zealand

Using the Cloud to compete globally from New Zealand

As a small kiwi business working in a global context, The Conference Company (TCC) faced some unique challenges. They compete around the world to host some of the most pre-eminent events against impressive competition from much larger operations. TCC has to present...

Can you keep me safe?

Can you keep me safe?

We’ve shared a few security stories lately, and we know its hair raising stuff. The reality is that any organisation is a target for these hackers. It’s no longer about cyber-vandalism, these attacks are outright theft. The thieves are operating from highly organised...

Will this really ‘break’ the internet?

Will this really ‘break’ the internet?

[header2 text="What is news?" align="left" color="#336A40" margintop=""] There's nothing worse than accidentally clicking on a daft click-bait link that re-directs you to a dodgy, untrustworthy website.  They are all too common, with news you can't trust, and...

What are @Mentions in Office?

What are @Mentions in Office?

How many times,. when you are working on documents with someone else, do you want to ask them a question? "Why did you add (or remove) this section?", "How does this calculation work?" and so on. So, you stop what you are doing, send them an email or make a phone...

Tech like it’s 1999

Tech like it’s 1999

This week, we've seen some pretty interesting tech announcements - I confess the foldable phones really interest me.   While these are crazily expensive now, volume will bring the price down.  But what's really interesting is imagining this tech in other applications...

Three Cyber-Insurance questions you need to consider

Three Cyber-Insurance questions you need to consider

ith all necessary attention on cyber-security and fraud, we've had a couple of people asking us about insurance solutions.  This makes sense, insurance is all about mitigating risk.  Of course, insurance doesn't give you a license to be careless - you still need to...

Code Red?  Hacker alert

Code Red? Hacker alert

  One of our clients recently found themselves dealing with one of the most brazen hack attempts I've heard to date. They'd heard from one of their customers that they (the customer) had taken a phone call purporting to be from our client, to say they'd changed...