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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.
If you want to support his work, you can make a donation to his PressPatron account.
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OneNote improves for web users
Monday, 3 February 2014, 9:32 am | Digitl
Microsoft's OneNote is great for note-taking, storing and organising snippets of information. There are great apps for smartphones and a Windows-only that comes as part of Microsoft Office. More >>
Lenovo wants to own hardware market
Monday, 3 February 2014, 9:28 am | Digitl
IBM may be exiting the hardware business. Dell and HP would like to move their focus from shifting boxes to selling software and services. More >>
Labour revenue shadow doesn't 'like' Facebook tax share
Wednesday, 29 January 2014, 12:20 pm | Digitl
It's hard not to sympathise with David Clark. The Labour spokesperson for revenue wants Facebook to pay its fair share of tax in New Zealand. More >>
What's the real story with Windows Phone?
Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 12:35 pm | Digitl
In December Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows published Windows Phone Turned the Corner in 2013 . Thurrott is an influential US blogger and his story was picked up by other media. More >>
Mobile mail now dominant - at least for reading messages
Monday, 27 January 2014, 10:40 am | Digitl
Mobile now accounts for the majority of mail. Analysis from Litmus shows 51 percent of mail messages were opened on a mobile device. Desktops account for just 31 percent while webmail is 18 percent. More >>
Vodafone bumps cable speed - TrueNet
Friday, 24 January 2014, 8:33 am | Digitl
TrueNet broadband speed tests show Vodafone boosted its cable service in December . The broadband testing company reports peak speeds, DNS response time and page download speeds all showed significant improvements during the month. More >>
Vodafone VDSL brings speed at no extra cost
Friday, 24 January 2014, 8:30 am | Digitl
Vodafone launched its VDSL service with the lure of offering much faster copper broadband speeds at the same price as existing ADSL services. The company says VDSL users will pay the same as existing copper broadband users for the first 12 months of a contract. More >>
Stand by for ISP disruption as MyRepublic enters NZ
Thursday, 23 January 2014, 9:50 am | Digitl
Former New Zealand Regional Fibre Group CEO Vaughan Baker is heading MyRepublic, a new UFB-only ISP that expects to start operating by the middle of the year. More >>
Did Telecom NZ pay too much for 4G spectrum?
Wednesday, 22 January 2014, 5:28 pm | Digitl
Telecom NZ paid NZ$83 million dollars for the last slice of 700 MHz spectrum. The company beat Vodafone to secure the final 2 x 5 MHz block left on the table from the first round of bidding. More >>
What does Moody’s downgrade of Chorus mean?
Wednesday, 22 January 2014, 8:03 am | Digitl
Yesterday Chorus announced Moody’s Investors Service cut the company’s credit rating. It is now sitting at Baa3. Previously it was a Baa2. Moody's also said Chorus has a negative outlook. More >>
Why you can't judge a Chromebook by the cover
Tuesday, 21 January 2014, 7:34 am | Digitl
Just as tablet makers like Apple pack 80 percent of PC functionality into a slim new format, Chromebook makers bundle a different, but just as essential, subset of PC features, in a familiar-looking hardware package. More >>
IBM's late cloud play aims for Amazon catch up
Monday, 20 January 2014, 9:53 am | Digitl
IBM made headlines over the weekend when it said it will spend US$1.2 billion to expand its cloud computing business. The plan includes adding 15 new data centres on five continents to the 13 it already has. Eventually there will be 40 data centres. More >>
Logitech Ultra-thin Keyboard Cover for iPad Air review
Monday, 20 January 2014, 8:45 am | Digitl
Smaller means third-party add-on makers like Logitech either have to rework existing keyboard cover designs, come up with something new or miss out on potential business. More >>
New Zealand broadband prices in global mid-range
Monday, 20 January 2014, 8:38 am | Digitl
Residential broadband prices in New Zealand sit around the middle of the latest Point Topic country scorecard . More >>
Forrester: Microsoft trumps Apple for mindshare
Thursday, 9 January 2014, 1:00 pm | Digitl
We understand research companies say outrageous things to get publicity. The latest from Forrester is a classic. Tracy Stokes writes Why Microsoft trumps Apple in the battle for consumer mindshare . More >>
Smartphone market share myths
Thursday, 9 January 2014, 10:57 am | Digitl
Samsung sells more smartphones than any other company. Reuters reports Samsung accounts for every third smartphone sold around the world in 2013. Gartner puts Apple's market share at around 12 percent. More >>
Desktop Android emerges as Windows rival
Tuesday, 7 January 2014, 10:26 am | Digitl
Computer makers like HP are toying with desktop Android, it's the biggest threat yet to Microsoft and a radical change of direction, will it fly? More >>
2013 impressive gadgets, a personal view
Monday, 6 January 2014, 8:58 am | Digitl
Software got cloudier in 2013. Smartphones got bigger, pixels on just about everything got smaller. New Zealand's mobile data networks got faster and service providers began selling fibre broadband services. More >>
Devices combining Windows and Android solve nothing
Monday, 6 January 2014, 8:33 am | Digitl
PC sales continue to struggle as users switch to smartphones and tablets. Microsoft's Windows 8 OS did little to stop the rot. More >>
Three non-obvious predictions for 2014
Sunday, 22 December 2013, 4:41 pm | Digitl
December saw a flurry of 2014 technology forecasts. I predict the same thing will happen next year. More >>
