ICT Newsline - 4 November 2010

IITP Newsline	4 November 2010
Your weekly dose of ICT news and views

		This week: Paul Matthews: Newsline 2.0 is born! Juha Saarinen: Double vision Keith Lightfoot: A grep through the archives Ian Finch: Commissioning software: I paid for it so I own it, right? ICT around town: All the latest ICT-related events in your area
		This Week at IITP

Newsline 2.0 is born! by Paul Matthews, NZCS CEO I must admit to being pretty excited this week as we unveil the new look ICT Newsline - the essential weekly read for the New Zealand ICT community. As you can see we've substantially changed the look, feel, nature, content, and pretty much everything else about Newsline, moved it to weekly (generally on Thursdays), and we're very pleased to also announce our new editor is none other than veteran tech commentator Juha Saarinen. Continue Reading »

		Taku Waimārie Hoki!

Double vision by Juha Saarinen, Newsline editor A new month, and a new gig; this time with the very serious and august computer society, so none of the usual levity and frivolousness. I'm writing this wearing a shirt and tie in fact. If I was in an office, I'd wear trousers too. It'll be interesting to see how this newsletter pans out. I obviously need a vision for it, and hope to build one as I find my feet and have them roasted nice and crisp by readers' flames. Having a vision in the tech biz is in fact all important. You might have an idea, and people will go "hey, that's a nice one" or "jeez, that's really stupid" and forget about it pretty much instantly. Plus, you'll have to do the work yourself. Continue Reading » Contributed content is the opinion of the author only, and not necessarily the view of IITP.

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A grep through the archives by Keith Lightfoot Here's a thought: has anyone noticed that people don't talk on phones anymore? These days younger people have developed a whole new abbreviated text language (coupled with RSI speed thumbs) and prefer to send strings of often misunderstood half duplex messages describing tiny happenings in their day/night. Continue Reading » Commissioning software: I paid for it so I own it, right? by Ian Finch, Partner, James and Well Copyright is an intangible right which comes into effect automatically when any original copyright "work" is produced. "Works" traditionally fall into four main categories: literary, artistic, musical, and dramatic. Because it doesn't need to be registered, copyright is free. However, the rights don't come without a catch. Our current copyright legislation has a significant "fish hook" in the form of the commissioning provisions determining ownership. Continue Reading » Contributed content is the opinion of the author only, and not necessarily the view of IITP.

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