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Little firm is happy to be 'running with the big boys'

"But for the chosen few - including Hamilton-based NetValue - there is a much more elite membership, two levels above gold, called "high-potential managed independent software vendor" status.

"Only about 400 companies in the world are in the high-potential partner club and NetValue chief executive Graham Gayland says he is not aware of any other HPM ISV companies in the Southern Hemisphere."

Read the full article at the New Zealand Herald

Category: News
Filed: 2008-11-11 10:40:56 by Stephen

City firm in Microsoft link

Microsoft has entered into a partnership that will be worth millions of dollars to Hamilton software development company NetValue.

The software giant has chosen the four-year-old London St firm, which employs 40 staff, for its high-performance computing, life sciences and high potential managed independent software vendor partner programmes, as NetValue launches human genome mapping software called Slim Search today.

NetValue is the first New Zealand company to get such status.

Read the full article at the Waikato Times.

Category: News
Filed: 2008-11-11 10:31:59 by Stephen

Are your promotional emails SPAM?

In September of 2007, the government introduced The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act, 2007. This Act applies to any email, text, or instant message that markets or promotes products or services of a commercial nature.

Do your promotional emails comply with the law? Under the Act, individuals who SPAM can be fined up to $200,000, and organisations up to $500,000.

4 simple steps to ensure you comply:

Only send promotional emails to those people who have opted in to receive them.
Keep a record of those opted in, and how their consent was given.
In your email, provide accurate sender information (your identity and contact details).
Also in your email, provide a facility for the recipient to opt out (a way to unsubscribe from receiving further promotional messages).

www.antispam.govt.nz

Category: News
Filed: 2008-11-10 13:55:17 by Stephen

SPACE INVADERS SIGHTED IN HAMILTON!

Space Invaders first appeared in 1978. It was immediately popular. In fact, in its home country of Japan, it was the cause of a national coin shortage. After that, it literally invaded the world. By the end of the 1970s, everyone from Tokyo to Te Rapa was playing it.

In the thirty years since it first appeared, Space Invaders has become iconic. It has easily earned its place as the grandfather of modern computer gaming.

Crude and simple by today's standards (played a few minutes of Grand Theft Auto IV lately?), the look and sound of Space Invaders has nonetheless endured fondly in the memory - along with an associated smell of takeaways (in New Zealand, you most typically found Space Invaders in a fish & chip shop).

Did you know? The game's alien creatures were based on the game's creator's conception of H.G. Wells' aliens from "War of the Worlds".

And did you know? The first version of Space Invaders was not the upright arcade version you are probably familiar with, but was in fact a tabletop model. The T.T. Space Invaders game was a cocktail table-like machine, which allowed for two players (seated opposite each other).

Why all the nostalgia for the past? Because NetValue has one - a genuine Taito Corporation Space Invaders T.T. It's in their office. Guess what the staff at Netvalue do in their lunch breaks?

You might also notice, should you visit NetValue, that Space Invaders has also invaded their carpet!

Category: News
Filed: 2008-07-02 15:12:05 by Stephen

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