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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 67]
Is Windows 8.1 RT really that bad?
Saturday, 26 October 2013, 2:59 pm | Digitl
Most press reviewers and bloggers agree there's little wrong with the Microsoft Surface 2 hardware. Microsoft gets credit for bringing its tablet hardware up to date. More >>
IITP 2013: Microsoft on gaining customer trust
Friday, 25 October 2013, 11:48 am | Digitl
Companies worry about privacy for regulatory or compliance reasons. They should worry about it to keep their shareholders happy. More >>
New Zealand government plans tech start-up finance boost
Thursday, 24 October 2013, 4:21 pm | Digitl
Speaking at the IITP 2013 Conference in Tauranga IT and Communications Minister Amy Adams told delegates the government is planning to make an announcement about funding for what she describes as the 'incubator base'. More >>
IT Minister Amy Adams' other job
Thursday, 24 October 2013, 4:09 pm | Digitl
Speaking at the eIITP 2013 Conference in Tauranga IT and Communications minister Amy Adams said there are two separate parts to her job. She says: "There's the traditional minister role which is mainly dealing with the technology industry and ... More >>
Amy Adams defends TICS, copper intervention as she opens IIT
Thursday, 24 October 2013, 2:36 pm | Digitl
Communications and IT minister Amy Adams delivered a wide-ranging speech opening the 2013 IITP Conference in Tauranga. More >>
Microsoft Surface 2 day 1 update: Keyboard teething trouble
Tuesday, 22 October 2013, 8:03 pm | Digitl
Microsoft's second stab at making a tablet is a big step up from first time around. As I wrote earlier , it is hard to find fault with the beautifully engineered hardware. More >>
Microsoft Surface 2 and the working journalist, day one
Tuesday, 22 October 2013, 5:31 pm | Digitl
Doing real work is the only sensible way to review a device like the Surface 2. I my book readers are more interested in knowing how a device performs in real life, not on a test bench. More >>
Briefly: AAPT on the block again; Windows Phone growth
Tuesday, 22 October 2013, 11:12 am | Digitl
From the we've-been-here-before department comes a report in the Australian Financial Review saying Telecom NZ has put its Australian telecommunications company AAPT back on the market. Telecom NZ's 10 percent stake in Hutchison Telecommunications ... More >>
6 Microsoft Surface 2 launch surprises
Tuesday, 22 October 2013, 8:27 am | Digitl
Microsoft flagged most of the features in the new Surface 2 range well in advance, but there were still a few surprises when the wraps came off at last night's official New Zealand launch in Auckland. More >>
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 >>
