Originally published on Mashable.

Pro tip: choosing “password” as your online password is not a good idea. In fact, unless you’re hoping to be an easy target for hackers, it’s the worst password you can possibly choose.

“Password” ranks first on password management application provider SplashData’s annual list of worst internet passwords, which are ordered by how common they are. (“Passw0rd”, with a numeral zero, assent much smarter, ranking 18th on the list). Continue reading →

Wellington supercomputing start-up GreenButton won three Microsoft New Zealand partner awards at a ceremony in Auckland last night. Continue reading →

Telecom New Zealand today announced it will offer iPhone 4S beginning Friday, November 11. iPhone 4S will be available starting at $0 for the 16GB model, $49 for the 32GB model and $249 for the 64GB model with a new two-year contract and data plan. Telecom will also offer iPhone 4 8GB and iPhone 3GS starting at $0 with a new two-year contract and data plan. Continue reading →

An article from TechRepublic, See original article here

If you haven’t noticed yet, there will be a serious issue in the availability of hard drives. This is because of the major flooding that has occurred in Thailand. While this natural disaster is incredibly unfortunate for the people of Thailand, we also will see the supply chain impacted significantly for hard drives and other sub-components. Some ship dates at one of the largest server and storage brands in the US now list estimated ship dates after March of 2012. Continue reading →

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Apple have announced that iPhone 4S will be available in New Zealand and 14 additional countries on Friday, 11 November. Customers will be able to pre-order iPhone 4S beginning on Friday, 4 November.

The updated iOS 5 includes Notification Center, a way to easily view and manage notifications in one place without interruption and iMessage, a new messaging service that lets users easily send text messages, photos and videos between all iOS 5 users. iOS 5 will also be available as a free software update for iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS customers. Continue reading →

A article from Geekzone see the origanl here

A first-ever New Zealand survey to measure I.T. improvement on an annual basis has been launched today by the Getting I.T. Right Initiative and IDC.

The Getting I.T. Right survey is a long-term annual survey designed to provide valuable information on the status of I.T. in New Zealand organisations, including I.T.’s involvement in organisations’ strategic planning and the level of alignment between organisations’ I.T. projects and business strategy. The initial survey’s results will provide a benchmark to measure year on year improvement in I.T. in New Zealand. Continue reading →

A article from TechRepublic see the origanl here

With more than 800 million active users, there’s no shortage of people looking for loopholes in the social network. The latest vulnerability has been discovered by Nathan Powers, who works for technology consultancy CDW. Powers has discovered a way for a user to send an executable file to another user who is not their friend. The risk, as Computerworld points out, is that “a hacker [could] send, for instance, a keylogging program to another user in a kind of spear-phishing attack.” Continue reading →

In the future, business people will not need to carry a laptop around with them to get their work done, Microsoft believes.

Instead, smart devices in connected rooms will change their settings according to the person using them, it has predicted. Continue reading →