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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 67]
Briefly: Red faces over Windows Blue; Xero adds docs
Monday, 21 October 2013, 4:54 pm | Digitl
While Windows 8.1 was in development the software's code name was Blue. Perhaps it should have been Red going by the faces of Microsoft execs. Over the weekend the company pulled the Windows RT 8.1 update from the Windows Store two days after it ... More >>
How New Zealand is taking to StorSimple
Monday, 21 October 2013, 8:45 am | Digitl
New Zealand's geographic isolation means local cloud users face a unique set of problems. Ideally cloud services operate as if they are hosted on a server in the next room. That's fine when the data centre hosting your services are a few clicks down the ... More >>
Top stories on digitl last week
Monday, 21 October 2013, 7:30 am | Digitl
If there's a unifying theme to last week's top stories, it's about the march of cloud-based services, mobility and the supporting infrastructure. In other words, the big themes of the last few years. More >>
Vocus chairman David Spence on Ultrafast Broadband
Saturday, 19 October 2013, 12:24 pm | Digitl
Vocus Communications chairman David Spence was in Auckland this week to open his company's new Albany data centre . More >>
Residential UFB plans, October 2013
Saturday, 19 October 2013, 11:46 am | Digitl
Crown Fibre Holdings reports 300,000 end users were able to connect to the network in June 2013. More >>
Vocus expands NZ footprint with Albany data centre
Friday, 18 October 2013, 4:29 pm | Digitl
A new 60 rack facility opened in Albany, north of Auckland, earlier brings Vocus Communications New Zealand data capacity to a total of 260 racks with space for a further 110. More >>
Briefly: Free Office for students; Sony's mirrorless Alpha;
Thursday, 17 October 2013, 8:40 am | Digitl
Big name computer companies like Microsoft and Apple have run educational discount schemes for more than a generation. They charge students and teachers less for their products hoping they'll be hooked on the tools long before they enter the paid workforce. ... More >>
Gen-i offers Knox secure BYOD, but only on Samsung mobiles
Wednesday, 16 October 2013, 2:27 pm | Digitl
Gen-i says it will be the first service provider in the world to distribute Samsung's Knox mobile security. More >>
Briefly:Telecom & Huawei; ANZ cloud politics
Wednesday, 16 October 2013, 10:44 am | Digitl
A joint innovation programme between Telecom NZ and Huawei will see the telecommunications equipment giant tailor technologies for New Zealand conditions. Huawei Wireless president David Wang says it could mean developing products for sale elsewhere. He ... More >>
HP goes ultra as business class laptops, workstations debut
Wednesday, 16 October 2013, 7:49 am | Digitl
Hewlett-Packard's spring 2013 mobile business computing refresh brings slimmer, lighter laptops along with the world's first workstation dressed in Ultrabook clothing. More >>
How Xero’s capital raising was reported
Tuesday, 15 October 2013, 8:31 am | Digitl
Yesterday's biggest New Zealand technology news story was Xero's NZ$180 million capital raising. More >>
Vodafone NZ marks global enterprise turf after TelstraClear
Monday, 14 October 2013, 3:26 pm | Digitl
When Vodafone New Zealand acquired TelstraClear last year there was much talk of how it was a good strategic fit. Even so there were also question marks over the $840 million price when many experts privately valued the business at closer to $500 ... More >>
NZ health IT spend growing faster than Australia
Monday, 14 October 2013, 8:27 am | Digitl
IDC Research reports Australia's healthcare industry spent A$2 billion on IT in 2012. Spending is growing at an annual rate of one percent. That number is slow because the infrastructure investments have already been made. More >>
NZ health IT spend growing faster than Australia
Monday, 14 October 2013, 8:24 am | Digitl
IDC Research reports Australia's healthcare industry spent A$2 billion 0n IT in 2012. Spending is growing at an annual rate of one percent. That number is slow because the infrastructure investments have already been made. More >>
Top stories last week on digitl
Monday, 14 October 2013, 7:51 am | Digitl
New Zealand's Ultrafast Broadband network has rarely been out of the news since digitl started. Last week it featured in two of the top five stories. Meanwhile interest grows in the 4G mobile and New Zealand's relative place in the global technology ... More >>
Himatangi Beach covered as RBI reaches halfway point
Saturday, 12 October 2013, 5:55 pm | Digitl
Vodafone says it has switched on its Himatangi Beach cell site. The new tower means 880 households in the area now have mobile phone coverage and wireless broadband. More >>
Briefly: Network for Learning; second level .nz names
Friday, 11 October 2013, 5:53 pm | Digitl
Network for Learning says 20 schools have begun moving to the company's managed network. It also demonstrated its portal which will open in earnest at the start of the next school year. The company was set up by the government to help schools ... More >>
Unisys Forward: Fabric beyond mainframes
Friday, 11 October 2013, 11:20 am | Digitl
Mainframe maker Unisys has woven a new enterprise computing system it describes as a "fabric-based architecture". More >>
PC sales still falling, not as far as expected
Friday, 11 October 2013, 8:29 am | Digitl
Figures from IDC Research and Gartner show PC demand slowed further in the third quarter of 2013, but there are a few chinks of light in the gloom. More >>
Briefly: Samsung Note 3, Gear arrives; iPhone 5s,5c
Friday, 11 October 2013, 8:05 am | Digitl
Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 and Gear smart watch are now on sale in New Zealand. If you just want the giant screen, stylus driven Note 3 phone you can get it from either Telecom NZ or Vodafone for $1200. For the next month, the $450 Gear watch, which ... More >>
