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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 45]
Samsung Galaxy S6: It all hinges on price
Monday, 2 March 2015, 8:39 pm | Digitl
Recent Samsung Galaxy phone launches have been a mixed bag. There were smartphones that are too plastic and phones with cheesy-looking exteriors. More >>
BlackBerry Classic: Steampunk smartphone
Friday, 27 February 2015, 3:08 pm | Digitl
BlackBerry Classic takes design back to a time the brand was still a name to conjure with. BB fans will love it, everyone else will ignore it. More >>
Broadband as part of the bigger infrastructure picture
Friday, 27 February 2015, 2:47 pm | Digitl
New Zealand's government sponsored fibre Ultrafast Broadband and the Rural Broadband Initiative are just two major infrastructure projects transforming the nation. More >>
JBL OnBeat Micro: iPhone speaker review
Friday, 20 February 2015, 1:32 pm | Digitl
JBL’s OnBeat Micro, NZ$120 , is a black pint-size iPhone or iPod speaker dock with a Lightning connector. More >>
Me-too Dick Smith sees NZ sales fall
Friday, 20 February 2015, 12:37 pm | Digitl
Dick Smith Holdings blames market competition and weak consumer sentiment for poor New Zealand sales. Businessdesk reports the result in Dick Smith’s NZ 1H sales fall in competitive market. More >>
Catalyst offer competitive open source cloud in New Zealand
Friday, 20 February 2015, 12:14 pm | Digitl
New Zealand open-source champion Catalyst has taken on the multinationals launching a locally-hosted automated cloud service. More >>
Questions as Vocus lifts Southern Cross capacity
Friday, 20 February 2015, 12:06 pm | Digitl
In a press release Vocus says it aims to lift its Southern Cross capacity by 10 times . Sydney-based Vocus entered into an agreement to buy extra capacity on the undersea link between New Zealand, Australia and the US over a six-year period, beginning ... More >>
Uber: The lost opportunity
Friday, 23 January 2015, 8:49 am | Digitl
At Whatisitwellington Ian Apperley says the fuss over Uber operating in New Zealand is a fight between dinosaurs and exciting new business models: The War on Uber in New Zealand: Dinosaur business models meet new tech . More >>
Fast broadband: How does New Zealand shape up internationall
Friday, 23 January 2015, 8:41 am | Digitl
[caption id="attachment_20665" align="alignnone" width="660"] World’s fastest broadband - click to expand chart[/caption] More >>
Looming customer service cuts at Vodafone
Friday, 23 January 2015, 8:36 am | Digitl
The New Zealand Herald reports Vodafone plans to trim staff numbers across the board and cut the customer service department by up to 100 jobs. . The proposal, outlined in an internal document obtained by the Herald, is part of a restructuring expected ... More >>
Credit where credit is due on NZ tech regulation
Friday, 23 January 2015, 8:32 am | Digitl
From Andrew Cushen at InternetNZ writing in Flexibility of regulation for technology .: ...the government moving relatively quickly to respond to technical innovation in a sensible, considered matter, and that seeks to accommodate that innovation rather ... More >>
Wake up call from Trend Micro Internet Security for Mac 2015
Wednesday, 7 January 2015, 9:48 am | Digitl
They have a point. Malware writers go for big, easy targets. Windows is a big, easy target. OS X remains small by comparison. More >>
Apple productivity: 2015 edition
Wednesday, 7 January 2015, 9:44 am | Digitl
Apple is the only firm making its own version of all the productivity tools we use daily. More >>
NZ Herald's steampunk view of Xero
Wednesday, 7 January 2015, 9:37 am | Digitl
Read the headline on Hamish Fletcher 's High-flyer Xero crashes to worst spot and you might think the accounting software as a service company is in trouble. More >>
Vodafone's price rise
Wednesday, 7 January 2015, 9:26 am | Digitl
Vodafone will raise the price of most fixed line plans by $4 a month from next month. It says the price rise will affect about 300,000 customers. More >>
Kia Ora Netflix
Saturday, 13 December 2014, 7:57 am | Digitl
Netflix will launch in New Zealand in March. A press release from the online video service say it will soon begin operation in New Zealand and Australia. More >>
Microsoft disrupted
Saturday, 13 December 2014, 7:47 am | Digitl
Microsoft New Zealand chief marketing and operations officer Frazer Scott was a great person to interview for this week’s Microsoft after the iPhone for the NZ Herald. More >>
Chorus copper price ruling
Saturday, 13 December 2014, 7:44 am | Digitl
If telecommunications network wholesaler Chorus was an English Premier League football club, today's Commerce Commission revised copper access price ruling would be a nil-all draw. More >>
Microsoft hosting NZ Office 365 in Australia
Saturday, 13 December 2014, 7:24 am | Digitl
What are the implications for New Zealand as Microsoft opens Australian Azure data centres in Sydney and Melbourne? More >>
Behind the NZ broadband price rise
Friday, 12 December 2014, 7:30 pm | Digitl
New Zealand customers will pay more for broadband services delivered by the copper network. Spark, Vodafone and Callplus all say they will raise prices. Let’s look behind the headlines. More >>
