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Bill Bennett
Freelance journalist.
Auckland-based Bill Bennett writes technology and business stories that are directly relevant to New Zealand readers.
His emphasis is on telecommunications, but he also covers other aspects of technology and business. You can find his features in the New Zealand Herald and hear him regularly on RNZ Nine to Noon and the NZ Tech Podcast.
Bennett's The Download Weekly newsletter is published every Friday. You can sign up for it here.
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Bill Bennett - Latest News [Page 13]
Bumper year ahead for NZ IT sector
Tuesday, 25 January 2022, 1:01 pm | Digitl
Gartner says New Zealand spending on technology products and services will grow 7.4 percent this year. The company’s latest forecast says the market will total NZ$15.3 billion in 2022. More >>
Standard mobile handsets at evolutionary dead end
Monday, 24 January 2022, 12:10 pm | Digitl
Samsung’s Galaxy S21 FE 5G press release leads with the phone’s case design. More >>
hy Alexa, Amazon's smart speaker, is not winning friends
Monday, 24 January 2022, 11:59 am | Digitl
If you got an Amazon Echo smart speaker this Christmas, there’s a good chance you lost interest in the device and the Alexa voice technology before the holidays ended. More >>
Selling broadband and energy together
Monday, 24 January 2022, 11:55 am | Digitl
Connections between telecommunications and the energy sector are not new. They could soon become more important. More >>
Traditional PC sales boom as market resets
Monday, 24 January 2022, 11:43 am | Digitl
After a decade of falling sales, the Covid pandemic has seen traditional PC sales reach the highest level in that time. More >>
Ten years of Markdown and iA Writer
Monday, 24 January 2022, 11:40 am | Digitl
It may not work for everyone, but switching Microsoft Word for a Markdown editor boosted my productivity. More >>
Typora markdown editor review
Monday, 24 January 2022, 11:14 am | Digitl
Typora is a great Markdown editor that brings distraction-free writing to Windows and Linux. More >>
Phone sales peaked five years ago
Monday, 24 January 2022, 10:46 am | Digitl
In 2016 the industry shipped a shade under 1.5 billion phones. By 2020 that had slipped to under 1.3 billion. More >>
Google ends free legacy G Suite accounts
Monday, 24 January 2022, 10:42 am | Digitl
Google says customers with legacy free edition G Suite accounts will soon need to pay for Workspace apps. That is bad news for many people. More >>
Unemployable but doing fine
Thursday, 6 January 2022, 6:25 pm | Digitl
Many of us work in the part of the economy where there are no jobs, just clients and projects. We market our services, try to find interesting opportunities and finance our larger interests with the revenue. We’ve been out of the hierarchy for so long ... More >>
RCG flips switch on Chatham Islands 4G network
Thursday, 6 January 2022, 5:45 pm | Digitl
Chatham Islanders, one of the most remote communities in New Zealand, is now connected to the rest of the world. RCG flips switch on Chatham Islands 4G mobile network A new 7.5 metre satellite dish and five mobile towers mean Chatham Islanders now ... More >>
Supply chain woes see printer sales down 20 percent
Thursday, 6 January 2022, 5:42 pm | Digitl
IDC reports manufacturing constraints and logistical issues are behind a 20.4 percent drop in printer sales in the third quarter of 2021. More >>
The year we filled in the telecommunications gaps
Thursday, 6 January 2022, 3:06 pm | Digitl
In the first part of this week's technology segment on RNZ's Nine to Noon show I talk with Kathryn Ryan about some of the big trends in tech this year, starting with plugging gaps in broadband coverage, the work done by the Rural Connectivity Group ... More >>
Sky cost cutting delivers, Vodafone drops TV
Thursday, 6 January 2022, 3:02 pm | Digitl
Vodafone is pulling the plug on its short-lived Vodafone TV service [/caption] Sky cost cutting delivers profit upgrade Sky doubled its profit guidance for the 2022 financial year. More >>
ComCom finalises fibre regulations
Thursday, 6 January 2022, 2:54 pm | Digitl
Some concessions, but Chorus has not got the final regulatory ruling it wanted from the Commerce Commission. ComCom finalises fibre regulations Chorus will be able to earn a maximum revenues of $690 million next year under new rules set by the Commerce ... More >>
How the Orcon-2degrees merger affects market competition
Thursday, 6 January 2022, 2:50 pm | Digitl
Simple answer is ‘less than you might think in the short term, but watch this space’. More >>
Download 2.0 – Enable move sees Christchurch join 300mbps pa
Sunday, 28 November 2021, 12:13 pm | Digitl
More New Zealanders will get a fast fibre upgrade as Enable joins Chorus in moving base speeds to 300mbps. Christchurch users to get fibre speed bump Enable, the fibre company serving Christchurch, is following Chorus and upgrading customers to ... More >>
Download 2.0 – Vodafone Wi-Fi Calling hits early milestone
Sunday, 28 November 2021, 12:08 pm | Digitl
It took less than three months for Vodafone Wi-Fi calling to hit 10,000 users. Vodafone Wi-Fi Calling hits early milestone Vodafone says it has 10,000 customers using its Wi-Fi Calling service. It took less than three months to reach that milestone; ... More >>
National Cyber Security Centre reports growing online crime
Sunday, 28 November 2021, 12:00 pm | Digitl
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="740"] Lisa Fong (National Cyber Security Centre)[/caption] Criminal cyber attacks targeting Aotearoa New Zealand skyrocketed in numbers over the last year and continued to grow ... More >>
Who should buy a Surface Pro 8?
Sunday, 28 November 2021, 11:55 am | Digitl
Microsoft’s updated Surface Pro 8 is for people who need Windows packaged in the slimmest, lightest device. Make that well-heeled people, it’s not cheap. More >>
