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Kiwi kids – and adults – are suffering from eye damage from excessive use of devices according to a Kiwi optometrist who is urging more care.

Datacom leads as HDS ANZ Partner of the Year at a glitzy awards night, signifying a robust year for tech partnerships.

The Kiwi technology export sector have recorded record sales growth of $609 million last year, adding nearly 2500 new jobs along the way.

Dell is continuing to ramp up its channel business, with 'sweeping new programs and investments' to accelerate the channel business in 2016.

All go for smartphones as shipments hit second highest level for a single quarter. So who were the movers and shakers?.

Huawei New Zealand garners 15% share of the Kiwi smartphone market, with New Zealand now among the top performing markets for the Chinese vendor.

Dick Smith's Kiwi operations have had their best quarterly sales performance in years, but it's not enough to stop a downward revision for NPAT.

BI, analytics and cloud top the list of priorities for IT spending for local CIOs, while digital transformation is foremost in many CIOs minds.

Financial controls and automation provider BlackLine is on the hunt for local partners on the back of 'surging demand' for its offerings.

Mobile malware, online extortion and changing security postures abound in 2016, with Trend Micro also predicting a fatality due to device failure.

The ANZ market is again among the star performers for Veeam, as the vendor clocks up 28% year on year revenue growth across APAC.

Alcatel-Lucent is eyeing up a bigger chunk of the NZ outsourced network operations market after signing a new deal with Chorus and opening a Kiwi NOC.

As purses loosen, a new survey of Australian and New Zealand CIOs highlights areas of investment for 2016, with BI and analytics leading the way.

Telemedicine arrives at the Chatham Islands offering residents urgent and specialist care without leaving home - potentially reducing costly airlifts.

Microsoft is ramping up investment in its Australian Azure operations - and partner resources - on the back of 'significant' uptake.

Total IT spending in NZ to surpass $11.7 billion in 2016, as Gartner talks up the 'algorithm economy' and urges new security spend focus.

Kiwi SMB's are happy with the pace of technological change, but say they're hampered by cost, government regulation and lack of skilled IT staff.

Tomizone's new chief executive, Geoff Wanless is eyeing up opportunities presented by internet of things to drive Tomizone growth moving forward.

Veeam launches managed backup portal for service providers saying the new offering accelerates cloud revenue opportunities for partners.

HP is shutting down its Helion public cloud platform, bowing out of the market which had seen it going head to head with AWS, Microsoft and Google.