*hyperLINK***hyperLINK***hyperLINK***hyperLINK***hyperLINK* Here is this week's hyperLINK, your window on the local, national and international IT sector, brought to you by Canterbury Software Inc and editor Carol Webb. It includes news on the next CSI Tech BBQ and other CSI events, as part of promoting success through connections for IT products, services and people.
See the full version at http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/current.htm Sign-up options at http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/news.htm + Please forward this newsletter. You can freely re-use the feature stories, provided you acknowledge the credited feature story writer and hyperLINK as source. ############### FRIDAY TECH BBQ OCTOBER 3: At Cii (Canterbury Innovation Incubator, 200 Armagh St, following the October Elevator Cafe which starts at 5.30. OCTOBER 10: XO CLUB, upstairs above Azure Bar at 128 Oxford St (The Strip), from 5.30pm. Savour the ambience and terrific wine list with well-priced drinks and some nibbles on offer. For further information (and to see who got snapped by the CSI paparazzi at recent events) go to the Tech BBQ page at http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/bbq.htm ELEVATOR CAFE Come along tomorrow to the CSI's October Elevator Cafe - you may learn a thing or two about presenting a product or service, you may find a potential business partner, and you'll certainly find out about the broad range of opportunities Canterbury's software companies are involved with. It's happening at 5.30pm at the Canterbury Innovation Incubator (200 Armagh St). It's free to all, and will be followed by the Tech BBQ afterwards (6pm-ish, BYO). ############### hyperLINK contents: Issue 22, October 2 2003 + Sales channels key to world-beating strategy + Sarbanes-Oxely and the software market + Tech Newsbytes from all around + Incredibly useful website of the week + Online with CSI + Hot topics at the forum + Contact us, subscribe/unsubscribe etc ############### *FEATURE* SALES CHANNELS KEY TO WORLD-BEATING STRATEGY By CAROL WEBB Commtest Instruments chairman and CEO Jack Henderson says the Christchurch company he founded almost 15 years ago has what it takes to be the best in the world in the industrial machinery vibration analysis sector. [more here http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/current.htm#feature1 ] ------------------------------ *FEATURE* SARBANES-OXELY AND THE SOFTWARE MARKET Hint: biggest thing since Y2K) Corporate USA is undergoing a big shakeup thanks to a piece of legislation known as Sarbanes-Oxely. Like the Y2K phenomenon, it means big opportunities for companies with the right software and the right approach, writes CSI member and US market specialist MARK RIPMA of Menlo Park Research, Inc in this hyperLINK exclusive article. Viewable by CSI members only http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/resourcesindustryinfo.htm. (Not a member? Join here http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/join.htm) ------------------------------ *NEWSBYTES* WELLINGTON WI-FI: Wellington owners of laptop computers and PDAs now have over 100 Wi-Fi "hotspots" where they can log on to the internet via wireless broadband connections � courtesy of fibre optic network operator CityLink. Managing director Neil de Wit says that by the end of next month, its CafeNet Wi-Fi service will be available the length of Lambton Quay and in the city's railway station as well as dozens of other high-traffic locations. The privately-owned community-based business, originally set up by Wellington City Council in 1995, has begun trialling Wi-Fi capable mobile phones on the network. - InfoTech http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2673520a1896,00.html GOVERNMENT GOING �E�: Government departments are working on more than 100 unfinished e-government initiatives, according to a survey conducted by the State Services Commission. The SSC's e-government unit surveyed 36 public sector agencies to help pool information about plans to put services online. The agencies provided details of 150 separate initiatives, of which about a quarter have been delivered. Among plans unveiled during the past two months is a decision to trial Internet voting in a constituency in "middle New Zealand" in the 2008 general election and to routinely publish court judgments on the Net for free public access. - Stuff http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/print/0,1478,2673507a28,00.html HELPING HAND: Marketing software developer Touchpoint has received a $168,000 co-investment from Technology New Zealand to internationalise its software suite as part of its export drive. The company will focus on developing product scalability to enable it to compete in big markets like the UK. The grant was made through Technology New Zealand's Technology for Business Growth (TBG) scheme. Touchpoint�s web-based software is a suite of tools that allows companies to communicate directly with their customers via any combination of email, the web, call centre, fax and SMS text messaging. It includes database, campaign management and automation tools, publishing, communications and sales promotion modules, complete with e-commerce functionality. - Scoop www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0309/S00103.htm STORAGE SOARS: IT market forecaster IDC is predicting continuing significant increases in new storage capacity in New Zealand. It says new capacity expected to ship will increase annually by almost 49.3%. - Scoop www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0309/S00092.htm IBM CUTS IN AUST: More than 150 IBM Global Services Australian staff are facing redundancy after the company embarked on a "redeployment" programme last week, and union officials are predicting more job losses to come. Sources close to the company told Australian IT that 90 staff in Melbourne and 30 each in Brisbane and Adelaide were told they had four weeks to find another job within IBM, or face redundancy. The redundancies are at least partly related to changes in Telstra's relationship with IBM Global Services. - Australian IT SUN BREAKTHROUGH: Sun Microsystems says it has discovered a way to connect a computer's chips face-to-face rather than linking them through the web of fine wiring laid down on a circuit board, a technology breakthrough that could speed up data movement by as much as 100 times while reducing power usage, according to a Sun spokesman. It could eventually bring an end to the use of printed circuit boards. - Mercury News http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/6847572.htm ------------------------------ *EXPORT FOCUS* CONTRACT MANUFACTURING AGREEMENT This checklist covers the issues and risks parties would need to consider before developing a contract manufacturing agreement. http://www.marketnewzealand.com/common/files/auerbach-contract.pdf +From a series of checklists prepared by Trade NZ to help companies work through the export planning process. NEXT WEEK: DUE DILIGENCE ------------------------------ *WEBSITE OF THE WEEK* PLANETLAB The Internet�s decades-old infrastructure may sport some smart interfaces and applications, but it�s still an aging package of technologies. Now, a grass-roots group of nearly 100 leading computer scientists, backed by Intel and other heavyweight industrial sponsors, is working on replacing the Internet with something faster, more secure, and vastly smarter. Welcome to PlanetLab. http://www.planet-lab.org + Tell the editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) about any sites you'd like to share with hyperLINK's readers ------------------------------ *CSI WEBSITE HAPPENINGS* JOBS ..JOBS � JOBS � Who said it�s hard to find out where the IT talent and IT jobs are in Christchurch? CSI provides free listings on its website for job hunters and staff seekers and has joined with Christchurch-based RealContacts to provide the ability to find jobs or staff via word of mouth using extended social networks. Go to the Jobs page to join the CSI network on RealContacts and to see jobs posted to the CSI website. You will be able to see jobs posted to the CSI network by other RealContacts members, as well as start building your own network to help the process of finding jobs or staff. http://www.canterburysoftware.org.nz/jobs.htm ------------------------------ *MEANWHILE, AT THE FORUM* The Forum is your online community, where you can: + air your problems and concerns about marketing your software internationally + get rapid and effective suggestions from others like you, who've already done it + raise and discuss subjects of general concern to members Go to http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/forum.htm ------------------------------ CONTACT US ... 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