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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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Copper price crimps Chorus profit, dividend returns
Friday, 4 March 2016, 8:27 am | Digitl
Chorus posted a lower profit for 2015. In a statement chief executive Mark Ratcliffe said the fall was due to the lower regulated copper price. More >>
Huawei reveals business class MateBook
Friday, 4 March 2016, 8:19 am | Digitl
Maybe not if you are Huawei, the world's biggest telecommunications hardware brand and the third largest phone maker. More >>
Mobile World Congress 2016: This year's devices
Thursday, 3 March 2016, 8:27 pm | Digitl
As the name says, the emphasis is on mobile technology. That's where you'll find today's action. Everyone from consumers to small businesses to corporations depends on devices you can carry. More >>
Mobile World Congress 2016: This year's devices
Thursday, 3 March 2016, 8:26 pm | Digitl
As the name says, the emphasis is on mobile technology. That's where you'll find today's action. Everyone from consumers to small businesses to corporations depends on devices you can carry. More >>
Huawei Matebook: A Surface for less
Thursday, 3 March 2016, 8:17 pm | Digitl
Microsoft’s Surface Pro has been the best Windows computer money can buy for over a year. Now it faces direct competition from an unexpected direction. More >>
2015: The year nothing big happened in technology
Thursday, 3 March 2016, 8:14 pm | Digitl
Most of the time it moves at a smooth pace. There is a constant stream of small, incremental updates, bug fixes and minor changes. Software version numbers tick over by decimal point or less. More >>
New Zealand among fastest fibre adopters
Thursday, 3 March 2016, 8:08 pm | Digitl
One in five New Zealand homes, schools and businesses on the UFB network has chosen fibre services. More >>
NZ Tech Podcast 271: Auckland IT blowout, UFB uptake, Holole
Thursday, 3 March 2016, 8:04 pm | Digitl
Join me, Paul Spain and Mark Iles to hear a first-hand report from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona including the focus on virtual reality and Gigabit plus 4.5G vs 5G mobile networks. We also discuss Google Loon, UFB hitting an important milestone, ... More >>
UFB customer numbers jump as build hits 60%
Wednesday, 17 February 2016, 3:32 pm | Digitl
Will nobody stop this constant flood of good news coming from New Zealand telecommunications sector? More >>
Start-ups: Just tell us the interesting stories
Monday, 15 February 2016, 8:57 pm | Digitl
Judging by incoming mail, press releases and social media, technology start-ups think we care about their money-raising. More >>
Carrier-grade KotahiNet bring IoT wireless network to New Ze
Tuesday, 9 February 2016, 1:15 pm | Digitl
KotahiNet plans a New Zealand-wide network using LoRaWAN; a new wireless technology designed for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. More >>
New Zealand takes global silver for LTE speed
Monday, 8 February 2016, 8:03 pm | Digitl
New Zealand has the world's second fastest LTE phone downloads. Only Singapore has better mobile data speeds. Australia comes in at number eight in the list while the UK and USA are miles behind. More >>
I have seen the future of personal computing
Monday, 8 February 2016, 5:53 pm | Digitl
Only a handful of today’s computers matter 1 . None are Windows laptops. None are desktops. More >>
Future of personal computing: Where Chromebook fits
Monday, 8 February 2016, 5:42 pm | Digitl
Lim is right: Personal computing's future is cloudy. The trend is towards something we once called thin clients. I call them: thinner clients . More >>
Modern technology is not expensive
Monday, 8 February 2016, 5:37 pm | Digitl
When I began writing about computers in the 1980s a business microcomputer cost close to the annual average take home salary. In the 1990s most workers would need to toil for months to buy a basic PC. More >>
More thoughts on Skinny Broadband
Monday, 8 February 2016, 5:26 pm | Digitl
If you don’t need fibre speeds or large amounts of data my review found Skinny Broadband is a good low cost alternative . While it’s possible to get speeds of 40 Mbps, I could only get 25 Mbps at home. Coverage Readers ask how they can know ... More >>
Microsoft now all about cloud
Monday, 8 February 2016, 5:24 pm | Digitl
Surface Pro tablets did well. Microsoft has strong orders for the Surface Book. Yet the big story is elsewhere. Investors are more interested in the cloud progress: Azure grew 140 percent last year. More >>
iPhone sales growth flattens – a perspective
Monday, 8 February 2016, 5:22 pm | Digitl
Last week Apple confirmed iPhone sales grew at their lowest-ever rate during the last quarter of 2015. Apple went on to say sales could fall in the current quarter, ending in March. More >>
Android fails to revive BlackBerry
Monday, 8 February 2016, 5:19 pm | Digitl
BlackBerry 's Android model, the Priv , failed to revive the company's phone sales. According to Juniper Research , BlackBerry only sold 734,000 phones in the last quarter of 2015 — a total of 3.7 million for the full year. More >>
Dell XPS 13 Touch review: Give my regards to Broadwell
Monday, 8 February 2016, 5:16 pm | Digitl
Not everyone wants to move on from Windows laptops . Dell makes a case for staying with the touch-screen XPS 13 Touch. More >>
