Thursday, 29 July 2021, 11:31 am
Company-X software quality assurance tester Jes Elliott
won the Reseller News Women in ICT Rising Star
Award.
Elliott received the
award at a celebration lunch at the Hilton Auckland on July
8.
Elliott was one of a trio of outstanding Company-X
team members who were finalists in the Awards. She was a
finalist alongside senior software architect Rachel Primrose
and software developer Sara Bahr.
“Such awesome
recognition of the talent in our Company-X women,” said
Company-X co-founder and director David Hallett, “A
fantastic win for the rising star Jes!”
“Looking
at the impressive women and companies who were finalists in
68% of respondents to Netsafe’s
report ‘The State of the Online Nation’ believe the
internet has become more
dangerous.
With online bullying
costing New Zealand $440million annually, Kerikeri Software
business KidsSafetyNet is on a mission to reduce that cost
and the harm it causes particularly for children. A recent
Netsafe report “The State of the Online Nation” revealed
that 52% of respondents have personally faced an online
safety challenge and more than half believe that the
internet will be “even more dangerous” by 2026. Keeping
everyone in the family safe online is getting harder each
year as more digital devices find a place in our
Thursday, 29 July 2021, 12:39 pm
The New Zealand Food & Grocery Council welcomes the
Commerce Commission’s draft report on its market study
into the grocery sector.
“This is a most thorough
report that delves very deeply into all the market and
competition issues concerning consumers, retailers and
suppliers,” says Chief Executive Katherine
Rich.
“The Commission has left no stone unturned and
has compiled a meticulous and accurate reflection of the
grocery market.
“The report shows there are big
problems in the market, and consumers would get better
prices, wider ranges, and better quality if there was
increased competition.
“It accurately reflects the
Thursday, 29 July 2021, 1:33 pm
The Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast DHB region is
continuing to rapidly scale up its COVID-19 vaccination
programme to make it as easy as possible for more people to
be vaccinated in the way that best suits them.
This
includes offering a range of vaccination options, including
Community Vaccination Centres, Māori providers, general
practice, community pharmacy, and pop-up events for Pacific
and Disabled communities.
In the past fortnight 21 new
clinics have opened across the region through general
practice and pharmacy, taking the total number of active
clinics to 34. In the coming weeks more clinics will open,
Thursday, 29 July 2021, 1:31 pm
Are
we paying too much for our groceries? Hmm. Is the Pope a
Catholic? Given that the two Australian supermarket chains
that dominate our grocery industry routinely rack up profits
in the order of $22 billion annually, that’s a no-brainer.
Yet as with New Zealand’s other socio-economic problems
created by our 1980s reforms, the practical solutions seem
pretty thin on the ground. As with banking, electricity
generation/retail pricing, the fledgling telecommunications
sector etc those hallowed “free market forces never really
had a dog’s chance of functioning adequately in a country
as small as New Zealand. Markets simply converged. What we