Written by David Knight, Client Executive, Fronde As a Frondie I have a renewed passion for social conversations. Why? Because the first question people ask in almost any social setting is, “and ...
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Hi-Tech Awards – what a night!
Written by Hannah Delaney 20/05/13First of all a big congratulations to Robert Bell, who took out the Hi-Tech Young Achiever Award for the second year in a row (if you are wanting to know his secret, please see Fronde's interview w...
Hi-Tech Young Achiever Finalist #4 – JAMES ROBERTSON
Written by Hannah Delaney 15/05/13James spends his days doing what most boys would only dream of - building Robots! Founder of Invert Robotics, these Robots are designed to climb and inspect places that are too dange...
Hi-Tech Young Achiever Finalist #3 – SAM DAVIES TALWAR
Written by Hannah Delaney 14/05/13Chief Executive of Koti Technologies, Sam has not only been helping to commercialise a ceramic coating system that could someday be part of the NASA spacecraft programme, h...
Hi-Tech Young Achiever Finalist #2 – GUY HORROCKS
Written by Hannah Delaney 13/05/13Co-founder the world's first iPhone app company, Polar Bear Farm, Guy got the attention of Apple and helped pioneer the jailbreak market a year before there even was a mobile app store! More recently ...
Hi-Tech Young Achiever Finalist #1 – ROBERT BELL
Written by Hannah Delaney 10/05/13What do young achievers look like in 2013? Well, they have won the Financial World Innovation Awards, received and declined multi-million dollar offers for their companies, built robots, and developed...
RealMe: Is it really for me?
Written by John Buchanan 03/05/13RealMe: Is it really for me? The question has been raised; are there any business opportunities associated with RealMe? If so, what are they? Before we delve into that, let’s take a look at what ...
Groundswell at AWS Summit in Sydney
Written by Fronde 02/05/13What a day in Sydney last Wednesday! Over 1600 queued to get into the Amazon Web Services client summit. It was a sellout event with Fronde a Gold Sponsor, and was well supported by local Frondies Jam...
Introducing the next generation of Hi-Tech Young Achievers
Written by Hannah Delaney 23/04/13What do young achievers look like in 2013? Well, they have won the Financial World Innovation Awards, received and declined multi-million dollar offers for their companies, built robots, and develop...
Come hear us at the Amazon Web Services Summit in Sydney
Written by James Valentine 22/04/13This Wednesday is the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Summit in Sydney! This will see business and technical people from across Australia converge to hear about the benefits and opportunities AWS can offer....
Technology Innovation Week – An opportunity to celebrate New Zealand’s successful technology sector
Written by Fronde 19/04/13New Zealand’s technology sector is continuing to grow export revenue and play an increasingly important part of our economy. In 2012, the Technology Investment Network’s TIN100 companies increas...
AWS Auckland Summit reaches over 50% capacity within 24 hours
Written by Hannah Delaney 12/04/13If you are wanting to come to the AWS Summit in Auckland, you had better register fast! Within 24 hours of registrations opening, over 50% of available spaces were snatched up, and it's expected that ...
Well done NZOUG!
Written by Paul Armstrong 20/03/13A quick post to congratulate the committee members of the New Zealand Oracle Users Group for putting on an excellent event at Ta Papa on March 18, 19. I would imagine that all attendees would a...
NZ Oracle Users Group and the Cloud
Written by Paul Armstrong 25/02/13On Monday the 18th March I will participate in a Panel session to discuss "The Future of Cloud in New Zealand". The Panel will be at the 2013 New Zealand Oracle Users Group (NZOUG) Conference in We...
Cloud & BI, Helping to Bridge the Business IT divide
Written by Paul Armstrong 28/05/12Accounting is arguably the second oldest profession in the world. Jokes aside, people have been working professionally in accounting for probably more than 7,000 years; when written language first...
The Hybrid Transformation
Written by Paul Armstrong 16/05/12Hybrid is a word that has recently come into its own. By itself hybrid increasingly refers to a car that runs on both fossil fuel and electricity, while in the world of computers hybrid refers to a s...
Fronde breathes in Google Atmosphere
Written by Damien Kelly 27/04/12Google Atmosphere on Tour was not your usual conference. Action packed with business leaders debating, discussing and rethinking the way we do business - but this was no ordinary (bore fest) confer...
Wouldn’t it be good to have a SimCity in the real world?
Written by Luke Kershaw 27/04/12Cast your mind back 23 years to 1989... It was the end of a rather forgettable decade of big hair, bad music and outrageous clothing. It heralded the beginning of the post–Cold War period and the...
Initial Impressions of Salesforce
Written by Megan Heyward 23/12/11Megan is one of our newest Frondies and offers her impressions of one of our oldest cloud offerings. I am new to Fronde and am excited to be here. Fronde has had tremendous growth over the ...
Living the Dreamforce
Written by Paul Armstrong 07/09/11I have just been lucky enough to spend the week in San Francisco at the annual Salesforce Dreamforce event. With 45,000 attendees this was the biggest IT event of its kind, ever; and when you're deep...
