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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
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
Niwa is hoping its new $12.7m computer will yield more accurate rainfall predictions.

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
Apple has gone nuts overnight, releasing a host of new machines, plus a couple of interesting new peripherals.

Mystery surrounds iPad release
The long wait is almost over for technophiles but mystery surrounds the release of the Apple iPad due to hit stores here this week.

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
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
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
'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'
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
Oracle's net income has jumped 25 per cent on strong sales and a bump from the acquisition of Sun Micro.