*hyperLINK***hyperLINK***hyperLINK***hyperLINK***hyperLINK*
Here is the latest issue of Canterbury Software Inc's hyperLINK weekly e-newsletter. Keep reading hyperLINK if you want to be up with the play in the Canterbury tech sector. This newsletter is proudly sponsored by Telecom NZ, who provide financial and other support to ensure that hyperLINK continues to reach your inbox. Visit www.telecom.co.nz to learn how Telecom can further benefit your business. See the full version of hyperLINK 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. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JULY EVENTS JULY 16: Tech BBQ, 5.00pm, at Azure, 128 Oxford Terrace. Happy hour for the duration of the BBQ! JULY 21, 2004: Learn how to expand your business in the Middle East at this New Zealand Trade and Enterprise two-hour seminar. Find out which industry sectors offer the best business opportunities, discover how New Zealand can take advantage of business opportunities generated through our neutral foreign policy and hear first-hand experiences about safety and security in the region. JULY 23: Tech BBQ, 5.00pm, at Ultralab Research Centre, with a presentation by Paul Rahme, Point2Point View vice-president Japan and Asia Pacific. Point2Point View helps technology buyers in the UK and US identify important and relevant technologies from the thousands being brought to market every year by technology vendors. For more information check the events calendar: http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/events.htm ############### hyperLINK contents: Issue 50 July 15, 2004 + Feature: DataCol graduates from Canterbury Innovation Incubator + Tech Newsbytes from all around the world + CSI website happenings + Meanwhile, at the forum + Contact us, subscribe/unsubscribe etc ############### *FEATURE* DATACOL GRADUATES FROM CANTERBURY INNOVATION INCUBATOR Canterbury Innovation Incubator's first tenant has successfully emerged from a two-and-a-half year business development programme with an impressive track record and plans to break into the three foreign markets. Michael Herman reports. DataCol founder and managing director Grant Thomson arrived at the Canterbury Innovation Incubator (Cii) in 2001 with a handful of staff, a small team of meter-reading contractors and a big dream. Thirty months later, with the help of Stephen Hampson, Cii's chief executive, and a team of high-powered city businesspeople acting as mentors, Thomson's data management company has become the incubator's first success, featuring twice in the Deloittes Fast50 competition and with a firm grip on almost half of the New Zealand meter reading market. [more here http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/current.htm#feature1 ] ############### *TECH NEWSBYTES* July 13, 2004: Microsoft will release in August the much-awaited Service Pack 2 interim update to Windows. The update, which will make some fundamental changes in how Windows is configured and also provide tools to secure software and information, is more extensive than the regular software updates but falls short of a version overhaul. Microsoft is working on a new version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, which is expected to be released in 2006. [more here http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/current.htm#newsbyte1 ] July 12, 2004: IBM has unveiled a new range of business computers that use the company's Power 5 microprocessor and technology that allows each chip to run as many as 10 servers. IBM's new eServer line allows customers to use fewer servers to perform automation functions, which will appeal to customers who are seeking to squeeze more performance and capacity from a smaller number of computers, IBM said in a statement. [more here http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/current.htm#newsbyte2 ] July 8, 2004: The organisers of the Westpac New Zealand Hi Tech Awards are calling for entries for the event, which will be held in Wellington at the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, on November 13. Selwyn Feary, chair of this year's Awards committee, said the Awards theme this year is the "art of technology". [more here http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/current.htm#newsbyte3 ] ------------------------------ *CSI WEBSITE HAPPENINGS* GLOBAL TIES Canterbury Software Inc is proud of its members' global outlook. Many already provide products and services to Fortune 500 companies in the US and other leading companies around the world. Visitors to the Global Ties section of CSI's website can learn more at: http://www.canterburysoftware.org.nz/global.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 ... SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE hyperLINK email options: http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/news.htm Contact the editor, Michael Herman: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> via Canterbury Software email forum: Success through Connections Replies will go to the CSForum. Leave or rejoin the list: http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/forum.htm Searchable list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
