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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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Behind Vodafone's Worldxchange acquisition
Thursday, 11 June 2015, 5:40 pm | Digitl
Vodafone's official press release sheds little light on the reason the company acquired Worldxchange. More >>
P8 phone highlights Huawei ambition
Sunday, 7 June 2015, 3:30 pm | Digitl
Phone makers are not modest by nature. Their product launches are often a mix of razzamatazz, extravagant claims and a laundry list of features. More >>
Xero engine pulling NZ tech train
Thursday, 4 June 2015, 5:56 pm | Digitl
New Zealand could soon be home to a global technology giant. It's time to get ready. More >>
Surface 3: Keyboard frustrates laptop replacement ambition
Monday, 18 May 2015, 7:50 pm | Digitl
Microsoft pitches the NZ$800 Surface 3 as a laptop alternative. While it will fit the bill for some folk, Surface still has a way to go before it’s a realistic laptop replacement for most users. More >>
Rod Drury on speed, capital raising, marketing complexity
Monday, 18 May 2015, 3:27 pm | Digitl
First a correction [1] to the quote in Speed, cost behind Xero move to PaaS, AWS : @envycollect @billbennettnz It's not the big that eat the small. It's the fast that eat the slow — Rod Drury (@roddrury) May 15, 2015 Next a few interesting ideas ... More >>
Microsoft Surface 3: Worth buying, not cheap
Monday, 18 May 2015, 2:45 pm | Digitl
It has a new Atom chip, real Windows 8.1, great screen, decent battery life and a one year, one person subscription to Office 365 . Power for day-to-day needs Intel’s Atom mobile device chip and a full version of Windows 8.1 are more than enough to ... More >>
Spark Fibre Landline may solve old folk telephone woes
Thursday, 14 May 2015, 6:51 pm | Digitl
From today Spark fibre customers wanting a voice telephone service no longer need to buy a separate copper line as well as fibre. And people living in fibre-only places can now get the closest thing to an old-school telephone. More >>
Spark follows broadband money trail
Thursday, 14 May 2015, 6:48 pm | Digitl
Spark’s pie chart tells the story: Half the money a customer pays for broadband goes to Chorus. More >>
GridAKL-Huawei partnership highlights shifting focus
Thursday, 14 May 2015, 6:39 pm | Digitl
There was a time when an ambitious New Zealand innovation project would have looked to the UK, US or Japan for an international partner. More >>
Amazon, Apple: A tale of two tech giants
Monday, 4 May 2015, 7:37 pm | Digitl
Last week Amazon Web Services announced an operating profit of US$265 million for the quarter. It was the first time Amazon broke out the figures for its cloud business. More >>
NZ small business productivity, technology
Monday, 4 May 2015, 7:31 pm | Digitl
Westpac’s 2015 Grow New Zealand survey reports nearly one-third of New Zealand small and medium-sized enterprises say digital technology had no impact on their business over the past five years and 27 percent don’t expect it to in the next ... More >>
MacBook: One USB-C port is enough
Monday, 4 May 2015, 7:29 pm | Digitl
Critics point to a lack of ports in the 2015 Apple MacBook as a mistake. More >>
Apple 2015 MacBook: Between laptop and tablet
Tuesday, 28 April 2015, 2:27 pm | Digitl
Earlier this month I took the MacBook on the road for a reporting job. Here’s what I learnt: More >>
Small business says technology has no business impact
Thursday, 23 April 2015, 10:42 am | Digitl
"Nearly one third of New Zealand small and medium-sized enterprises say digital technology has had no impact on their business over the past five years and 27 percent don’t expect it to in the next five years." — 2015 Westpac Grow New Zealand ... More >>
Ross Patterson: NZ private sector fibre beats Australia's
Thursday, 23 April 2015, 10:40 am | Digitl
CommsDay reports on comments by former telecommunications commissioner Ross Patterson: New Zealand’s private sector-led approach to its fast broadband deployment is far more likely to achieve a successful outcome than Australia’s publicly funded NBN ... More >>
Open Source Open Society 2016: Sign me up
Tuesday, 21 April 2015, 9:24 am | Digitl
As a journalist I spend a lot of time in conferences. There’s often a sense of déjà vu. The same faces, topics and speakers show up time after time. Even the same food. It’s not unusual to recognise recycled PowerPoint slides or even an ... More >>
Ten lessons from Open Source Open Society 2015
Monday, 20 April 2015, 10:47 am | Digitl
Few conferences range as wide as the Open Source Open Society 2015 event held in Wellington last week. The material was surprisingly accessible to non-specialists considering this was a two-day event that filled the Michael Fowler Centre with software ... More >>
How open source grew up
Sunday, 19 April 2015, 3:48 pm | Digitl
In the late 1990s and early 2000s I worked for Australian Linux Today . At that time open source was a vibrant, yet immature, market. More >>
Where open data meets open government...
Saturday, 18 April 2015, 6:49 pm | Digitl
Technology is the easy part of building an open society. Deal with the human side of the problem is much tougher. More >>
How to run or join a hackathon
Friday, 17 April 2015, 5:14 pm | Digitl
A breakout session at Open Source Open Society 2015 lead by GovHackNZ organiser Mike Riversdale gave participants a quick taste of what to expect from a hackathon. More >>
