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...
Kinetics News
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?
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?
[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?
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
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
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
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...
Three every day timesaving tips
Here's three quick time-saving tips - how many did you already know? [wow_colorme]1. Reading (or writing) long - how much time do you spend scrolling up and down long emails or documents as you make sure the content fits together?[/wow_colorme] Introducing...
What’s with Windows updates now?
Is MY Windows 10 still the latest and most stable question? It's not a question we can easily answer. Windows 10 has two different update cycles - security/reliability updates (aka patches) and feature updates. Security updates are incredibly important. They are the...









