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• Telcos block sites in wake of NZ government plea

  Australia’s major telcos have temporarily blocked a number of sites hosting footage of Friday’s terror attack in Christchurch.

• New Zealand won't discriminate against Huawei: Jacinda Ardern

  New Zealand's prime minister has assured Chinese telecoms equipment group Huawei Technologies Co Ltd of even-handed treatment after the small U.S. ally blocked the sale of some Huawei equipment citing national security concerns.

• NSW govt nabs Pia Andrews as new exec director

  The NSW government has lured Pia Andrews back to Australia as the new executive director of digital government. Andrews is reporting to government chief information and digital officer, Greg Wells.

• What the other Four Eyes make of Australia’s encryption crackdown

  Australia will push “thwarting the encryption of terrorist messaging” at a meeting of the Five Eyes nations in Canada this week.

• World's first commercial drone pizza delivery

  ​The world’s first commercial delivery of food by drone has took place in New Zealand this morning.

• Sir Ray Avery: observation key to innovation

  ​New Zealand’s leading inventor, entrepreneur and "Readers Digest readers’ ‘Most Trusted Man’ 2011”, Sir Ray Avery, was in Sydney last week to give advice to app-makers, CIOs and startups.

• ​Most A/NZ organisations' lack of curiosity is hindering innovation: study

  The majority of Australian and New Zealand organisations lack curiosity, leading to a negative impact on technological innovation, a new study has found.

• Attention IT workers: New Zealand wants you

  There’s demand for IT jobs across the ditch and not enough workers to fill them.

• 10 new realities driving government ICT

  The government ICT landscape is evolving rapidly as budgets tighten, traditional approaches to ICT management are found wanting and technology innovation creates new options.

• In pictures: Datacom opens second NZ data centre

  Australia and New Zealand IT service provider, Datacom, has opened a second data centre in NZ called Kapua. Based in Hamilton, the Tier III facility covers 11,000 square metres of land and has the capacity to house over 920 racks across five data floors. Datacom also operates the Orbit data centre in Auckland.

• Digital to shake up Australian market: IBM

  Broadband is a transformative utility forcing companies to digitise their businesses, according to IBM Australia and New Zealand managing director, Andrew Stevens.

• Standards Australia unwraps e-waste standard for ANZ

  A new standard has been published for safe and environmentally sound handling of electronic waste in Australia and New Zealand.

• Study to assess barriers to teleworking

  Cisco and the University of Melbourne want to know why more Australian and New Zealand businesses and government bodies aren’t teleworking.

• Privacy commissioners seek greater power as breaches increase

  Privacy commissioners of Australia and New Zealand said they need more enforcement authority to combat data breaches and other privacy concerns.

• Australia leading in APAC cloud adoption: F5

  Australia leads other countries in the Asia Pacific on cloud adoption, according to F5 senior director, Mohan Veloo. But most companies are keeping their critical data on premise, he told Computerworld Australia at the F5 Agility Forum on the Sunshine Coast.