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Let your phone do the shopping

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Interesting take on the use of mobile phones to pay for our groceries at checkout. This would negate the need for check out staff and gives shoppers more flexibility about their food choices.

I’m looking forward to this technology being available in New Zealand soon. Imagine how much time we would save by not having to line up at those long supermarket queues!

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Top priorities for CIOs this year

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

What’s on the minds of CIOs in New Zealand this year? Cost reduction, of course.

According to the IDC report, here are the top concerns by CIOs this year, sorted by order of importance:

  • Migrating to new technology platforms
  • IT alignment with business direction
  • Developing effective IT business cases 
  • Keeping abreast of new technology
  • Management of change/migration
  • Reskilling IT staff/staff development
  • Organising and utilising data/business intelligence
  • Telecommunications and IT convergence
  • Managing the network/data communications

 

Source:

http://cio.co.nz/cio.nsf/news/B58B6DF51B8D38C5CC25771E007670FD

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