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![KiwiSkills gets back to the basics](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
KiwiSkills gets back to the basics
The Computer Society is trying to make New Zealand $1.7 billion a year.
![Love it or hate it, Mac sales are rising](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Love it or hate it, Mac sales are rising
Daring to suggest that Apple Mac sales are on the rise seems to have touched a nerve.
![<i>Anthony Doesburg</i>: Wet or dry? Super computer has the forecast](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
<i>Anthony Doesburg</i>: Wet or dry? Super computer has the forecast
Niwa is hoping its new $12.7m computer will yield more accurate rainfall predictions.
![Software firm searches for China success](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Software firm searches for China success
Local software company Pingar has begun an ambitious push into the Chinese language computer search engine business.
![New iMacs, Mac Pros, monitors - plus two new devices](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
New iMacs, Mac Pros, monitors - plus two new devices
Apple has gone nuts overnight, releasing a host of new machines, plus a couple of interesting new peripherals.
![iPad hits NZ this week](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
iPad hits NZ this week
The Apple iPad will finally go on sale in NZ on Friday with recommended retail prices of $799 to $1349 , the company has announced.
![Mac training in a box](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Mac training in a box
Macs are easy to use, so everyone says, and indeed, that's how I found them when a mate introduced me to them back at the beginning of 1988.
![Software patent guidelines on IPONZ agenda](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Software patent guidelines on IPONZ agenda
Guidelines rather than a law change will be used to allow inventions that contain embedded software to be patented, Simon Power says.
![Apple customers fall victim to app scam hacker](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Apple customers fall victim to app scam hacker
'If the iTunes account hacking part is true, then Apple really needs to step in and fix this,' wrote one.
![Hands on with the MacBook Pro 'baby'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Hands on with the MacBook Pro 'baby'
The baby of the MacBook Pro family isn't specced too far away from the plasticky MacBook low-end consumer machine.
![Oracle's income jumps on bump from Sun Micro](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Oracle's income jumps on bump from Sun Micro
Oracle's net income has jumped 25 per cent on strong sales and a bump from the acquisition of Sun Micro.
![Apple's iOS4 is out - and it's free](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Apple's iOS4 is out - and it's free
Apple's mobile operating system, iOS4, is now available through iTunes for iPhone and iPod Touch - iPad users will have to wait.