Stories by: Stephen Bell

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NZ Fauna app fills 'crazy' lack of animal info 09 February, 2012 11:42:00

Exploring information about New Zealand fauna with his two-year-old son, Ryan Ghisi was surprised there was not already an iPad application about the country's unique wildlife "I thought it was crazy that no-one had done anything like that," he says. So he set out to develop one.
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Just rewards 21 April, 2010 08:10:00

Brett Hibbert has been working for Loyalty NZ, which runs the FlyBuys loyalty scheme, for five years, and as its head of IT and operations for the past 12 months. Before he moved into his present role, Hibbert's experience was in mainstream business, with an emphasis on merchandising. His knowledge and involvement in ICT evolved as he worked across Loyalty NZ.
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'Net engineer argues firewalls are a security distraction 30 May, 2008 09:25:25

Early and extensive deployment of firewalls gave internet users "a false sense of security" and compromised the ideal end-to-end transparency of the internet, says former Internet Engineering Task Force head Brian Carpenter.
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'Reputation' weapons help spurn Web 2.0 malware 04 April, 2008 09:25:37

Reputation-measurement is one of the newer ways of blocking malware in a world where threats have grown more elaborate and cunning, and Web 2.0 has grown the audience for rich media.
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Student exposes NZ govt Web site shortcomings 31 October, 2007 05:55:38

The winner of the New Zealand Computer Society's (NZCS) annual Wellington-based honors student research contest has claimed his award by uncovering shortcomings in accessibility of government Web sites for disabled and other disadvantaged users.
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Users buy Linux on reliability, says Novell boss 28 April, 2006 09:19:41

Novell President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Ron Hovsepian sees the acquisition of the JBoss application server by Red Hat as having "further validated our early adoption of JBoss."
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NCR tests own RFID platform 09 February, 2006 13:30:16

NCR will launch programs designed to process the enormous amounts of data associated with radio frequency identification (RFID).
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Veritas trials recovery from the browser 14 June, 2005 10:23:06

Storage software company Veritas Software is conducting a beta trial of a web browser-based data recovery tool designed to help users recover lost files themselves from backup copies.
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CMDB: managing a complex world 15 March, 2005 07:28:55

BMC Software claims the configuration management database (CMDB) is the next big thing, even the current big thing, in managing today's increasingly complex IT environment. And it's giving it away - in a manner of speaking. BMC's Atrium is available free of charge to users of the company's service level management and incident management (helpdesk) tools.
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Air is 'thick' with wireless networks - many crackable 14 February, 2005 14:06:17

The air in any central business district nowadays is thick with wireless signals and "wardriving" expeditions prove that a discouraging proportion of them are still unencrypted, says Nick von Dadleszen of Security-Assessment.com.
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Panel questions strategic value of outsourcing 29 September, 2004 12:27:56

Big-bang single-vendor IT outsourcing has been largely succeeded by a more selective attitude among businesses of outsourcing only those functions that can be more or less commoditised, with outsourcing to several vendors with specific expertise increasingly common. But a panel of users, vendors and analysts at the MediaConnect seminar in Australia's Hunter Valley last week has cast doubt on whether outsourcing has become truly "strategic".