Stories by: David Watson

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Layoffs at Symantec NZ alleged 20 November, 2007 16:50:19

Symantec is refusing to comment directly on claims in The Australian newspaper that it has "announced layoffs to its 600-strong workforce in Australia and New Zealand."
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Mobile malware writers 'think outside the square' 30 August, 2004 15:28:41

Just days after the alleged first Windows CE Trojan horse was identified, a Trojan for rival mobile operating system, Symbian, was discovered.
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EMC’s small-firm SAN package has potential: analysts 09 June, 2004 12:08:15

Analysts are giving the thumbs-up to EMC and Dell’s new CLARiiON AX100 package, aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, but say EMC needs to expand its channel presence to get the most out of the product.
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Microsoft offering free OS for 'cold' servers 07 June, 2004 07:01:46

In what could be a sign of things to come, Microsoft is offering a small sweetener to its Software Assurance licensing programme.
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NZ - Aust join hands on therapy 24 May, 2004 08:03:29

While the bridging of the Tasman is in the news with calls for a single border, the effects of closer relations can already be seen in a call for IT services to a planned joint New Zealand-Australian regulatory body.
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Storage should be invisible: McData man 27 February, 2004 14:03:53

Tom Clark is McData’s evangelist for storage area networks, but he welcomes the day when terms like fibre channel and iSCSI disappear from common use.
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Rising dollar hits Tech Pac NZ 18 December, 2003 07:06:46

A rising dollar might be good for buyers but IT distributor Tech Pacific's New Zealand business says it's hitting the company's turnover.
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Telecom NZ to merge Australian operations 10 December, 2003 12:01:48

Telecom New Zealand is to consolidate its Australian operations, folding TNZA, its business services division, into AAPT.
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Destruction the only sure data deletion answer 25 October, 2002 11:00:57

Despite marketing claims to the contrary, the only sure way to eliminate data from a hard disk is to destroy the disk.
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Infrastructure protection service up and running 02 August, 2002 10:54:07

The Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection, the New Zealand Government's high-level alert service for owners of vital infrastructure, is now fully up and running.
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Gartner: VoIP becoming more viable 12 December, 2001 11:14:48

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is a far more viable technology that it was two years ago, according to Gartner analyst Geoff Johnson.