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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.
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Bill Bennett - Latest News [Page 53]
Working with the Livescribe 3 Smartpen
Tuesday, 20 May 2014, 6:56 pm | Digitl
Smartpens are larger than standard ball-points. They are bulky because they include computers and an infra-red camera to track the pen's progress over specially printed paper. More >>
Stumbling towards the ideal screen size
Tuesday, 20 May 2014, 6:51 pm | Digitl
Here's a story I wrote for NZ Business earlier this year on the evolution in device screen sizes. The story doesn't carry my byline. ...Kantar Worldpanel, another research company, points out, there’s a practical limit to smartphone size. Kantar says ... More >>
Microsoft boosts Azure's enterprise street cred with SAP
Tuesday, 20 May 2014, 6:43 pm | Digitl
Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP is dreary. Yet it's the essential plumbing that keeps most large businesses ticking along by managing financials, tracking inventories and managing manufacturing. More >>
Google gouges as Chromebox hits NZ
Tuesday, 20 May 2014, 6:41 pm | Digitl
Google's Australian-written "New Zealand" blog gushes about the company's Chromebox for meetings which is officially on sale from today. More >>
Battery Diag, useful, pretty MacBook tool
Sunday, 18 May 2014, 1:36 pm | Digitl
Ironically, because the Apple MacBook Air has a longer battery life than earlier laptops, there's more need to watch how much juice is still in the tank. More >>
What does it take for government to buy NZ-made technology?
Sunday, 18 May 2014, 1:30 pm | Digitl
Don Christie, co-chairman of information technology industry group NZRise, said Inland Revenue's decision to shortlist Accenture and CapGemini signalled it was "business as usual" for government procurement despite two years of "agitation and ... More >>
Google+ heading for irrelevance
Saturday, 17 May 2014, 6:28 pm | Digitl
According to my site logs, which may not be the last word in accuracy, Google+ didn't refer a single visitor yesterday. More >>
Google Plus turning negative
Saturday, 17 May 2014, 6:14 pm | Digitl
Jack Schofield charts the background to Google+'s failure to make it into the social networking Premier League and looks at how things might go in the future. He writes: G+ started out as a slow, bloated website, it attempted to gain users by compulsion ... More >>
How Microsoft changed mobile editing with iPad Office
Saturday, 17 May 2014, 6:10 pm | Digitl
Before Microsoft delivered an iPad version of Word my cross-device writing tool of choice was Information Architect's iA Writer . More >>
Google Australia's dishonest criticism of EU right to be for
Friday, 16 May 2014, 10:34 am | Digitl
Chris Keall at the NBR writes Google Australia-NZ takes dim view of EU right to be forgotten ruling . More >>
MBIE responds to NZ mobile spectrum question
Friday, 16 May 2014, 10:27 am | Digitl
Len Starling policy and planning manager at the Radio Spectrum Management division of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment responds to How much spectrum do NZ mobile carriers have? More >>
Samsung phone leak a mistake - NZ Herald
Thursday, 15 May 2014, 6:16 pm | Digitl
The existence of the Samsung smartphone had been secret until a reference turned up on the Samsung New Zealand website revealing its launch next month. News spread quickly throughout the tech world with pundits wondering if it was a botch-up or ... More >>
Twitter not dying, not healthy either
Thursday, 15 May 2014, 6:14 pm | Digitl
It could be right. However, despite falling use and missed financial targets there's still plenty of life in the terse online chatter service. More >>
If 2degrees can't afford 700 MHz spectrum, it can't afford O
Thursday, 15 May 2014, 6:13 pm | Digitl
If 2degrees couldn't find the $22 million to buy the third chunk of 700 MHz spectrum, it can't afford Orcon. More >>
Google Sheets, Excel and doing numbers online
Thursday, 15 May 2014, 6:09 pm | Digitl
At Box Free IT Alexy Mitko asks: Is Google Sheets good enough to replace Excel? More >>
Ask Bill: Which Chromebook should I buy?
Thursday, 15 May 2014, 6:06 pm | Digitl
Kelvin Yong writes: Earlier the year, you reviewed a few Chromebooks and I've followed them. However I'm a bit confused which is a good one to get for. Seeing that on today's news Google and Intel are working together to bring out new Chromebook with i3 processor, ... More >>
Six months with iPhone 5S
Thursday, 15 May 2014, 6:02 pm | Digitl
After an extended review loan, the gold iPhone 5S is winging its way back to Apple. Here are my thoughts after six months with the Apple iPhone 5S: More >>
Gmail: Resistance is futile
Thursday, 15 May 2014, 6:01 pm | Digitl
There's nothing private about email. Benjamin Mako Hill hosts his own email. You might think that would keep him free of Google's privacy invading clutches. Yet as he points out , more than half his mail comes from or gos through a Google account. ... More >>
Pressure on IBM as hardware sales stumble
Monday, 28 April 2014, 12:30 pm | Digitl
IBM blamed weak hardware sales for the poor start to its year. The company turned in the lowest first quarter revenue for five years. Sales were US $22.5 billion . More >>
SAP revenue falls as cloud move picks up steam
Monday, 28 April 2014, 12:27 pm | Digitl
Enterprise software giant SAP reported first quarter results that, like IBM , fell short of market expectations. However, the company says much of the revenue shortfall is down to currency, not poor sales. More >>
