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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.
If you want to support his work, you can make a donation to his PressPatron account.
Bill Bennett - Latest News [Page 13]
Facebook stumbles
Saturday, 19 March 2022, 11:19 am | Digitl
Facebook looked unstoppable. Then a series of home truths caught up with the tech giant. Now it faces its biggest test. More >>
Gartner falls for metaverse hype
Saturday, 19 March 2022, 11:16 am | Digitl
An ill-considered press release from Gartner gushes that one person in four will spend at least an hour a day in the metaverse by 2026. More >>
Industry's Orcon-2degrees merger fears
Saturday, 19 March 2022, 11:15 am | Digitl
It’s not enough to halt the merger, but submissions to the Commerce Commission point out regulatory challenges that may emerge after an Orcon-2degrees merger. Industry voices Orcon-2degrees merger fears Wispa warns a proposed merger between Orcon and ... More >>
Industry's Orcon-2degrees merger fears
Saturday, 19 March 2022, 11:13 am | Digitl
It’s not enough to halt the merger, but submissions to the Commerce Commission point out regulatory challenges that may emerge after an Orcon-2degrees merger. Industry voices Orcon-2degrees merger fears Wispa warns a proposed merger between Orcon and ... More >>
Mobile shines for Spark, tower division planned
Saturday, 19 March 2022, 11:11 am | Digitl
This week saw a buoyant set of first half results from Spark, Chorus and Sky. Spark plans TowerCo spin-off. Mobile shines for Spark, tower division planned Spark reported a five percent lift in revenue to $1.9 billion as it turned in a strong set of figures ... More >>
2degrees 5G goes live
Saturday, 19 March 2022, 11:08 am | Digitl
2degrees opens New Zealand’s third 5G network in main city CBDs. Further 2degrees 5G coverage will roll out over the rest of the year. 2degrees 5G network launches - a bigger picture emerges Monday was go live day for the 2degrees 5G network. For ... More >>
Benoit Felten on the UFB fibre upgrade
Saturday, 19 March 2022, 11:06 am | Digitl
In late 2021 New Zealand's fibre wholesale companies boosted standard speeds on their networks from 100mbps to 300mbps. In this guest post, Paris-based analyst Benoit Felton puts the move into perspective: More >>
Download Weekly: Cell towers on the block
Saturday, 19 March 2022, 11:04 am | Digitl
Vodafone says it is preparing to spin out its cell tower network, Spark announced similar plans a month ago. Why is this happening? More >>
Technics EAH-A800 noise cancelling over-ear headphones
Saturday, 19 March 2022, 11:01 am | Digitl
They are not cheap, but Technics EAH-A800 Bluetooth headphones offer superb sound quality, great noise cancelling and a long 50 hour battery life. More >>
Download Weekly - First copper cabinets decomissioned
Saturday, 19 March 2022, 10:58 am | Digitl
Chorus turned off the first batch of copper cabinets while the Commerce Commission cleared the Orcon-2degrees merger. More >>
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 >>
