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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 56]
Surface pro 3: less iPad more MacBook Air
Saturday, 24 May 2014, 1:35 pm | Digitl
Microsoft launched the Surface Pro 3 at an event in New York overnight New Zealand time. More >>
Telco levy shows competition creeping up
Saturday, 24 May 2014, 1:29 pm | Digitl
Nothing illustrates the shifting shape of New Zealand's telecommunications sector better than the Commerce Commission's latest stab at deciding who gets to pay what for the 2013 Telecommunications Development Levy. More >>
New Zealand's data security cultural cringe
Saturday, 24 May 2014, 1:21 pm | Digitl
A Unisys Security Index report shows New Zealanders have less faith in security when organisations store data in the country than when they store it overseas. More >>
NZ tech comes of age Xero tops Forbes list
Saturday, 24 May 2014, 11:45 am | Digitl
Forbes magazine named New Zealand's software-as-a-service champion Xero as the world's most innovative growth company. More >>
Dark days at HP with 16000 jobs on the line
Saturday, 24 May 2014, 11:40 am | Digitl
While Hewlett-Packard boss Meg Whitman is sticking to her line that the company's recovery remains on track, there's little sign of a turnaround in the company's second quarter result . More >>
BlackBerry Z30: End of the line?
Saturday, 24 May 2014, 11:38 am | Digitl
Things aren't going well for BlackBerry. Phones aren't selling. Carriers and consumers have lost interest in the brand. Even the corporations who loved BlackBerry's defences against mobile dark arts now look elsewhere for protection. More >>
Surface Pros, iPads, keyboards and tablets
Saturday, 24 May 2014, 11:27 am | Digitl
Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 launch has triggered discussion about the nature of tablets, laptops and what ever spaces exist between these categories. More >>
Auckland Transport's stingy Wi-Fi
Saturday, 24 May 2014, 10:26 am | Digitl
Two cheers for Auckland Transports plan for Wi-Fi on trains, at stations, bus terminals and ferry wharves. More >>
What cloud service companies don't tell you about hardware
Tuesday, 20 May 2014, 7:01 pm | Digitl
Some cloud company sales pitches imply the device you use is unimportant. Others fail to make any mention of the hardware needed. There's rarely discussion of the CPU, memory or graphics requirements. More >>
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 >>
