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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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Residential 100/50Mbps fibre plans compared August 2013
Thursday, 29 August 2013, 4:43 pm | Bill Bennett
Chorus plans to offer a 200Mbps residential fibre service in the near future and a 1Gbps service later. Until then data speed fans will have to make do with the 100/50Mbps plans being offered to homes on the ultrafast broadband network. More >>
Windows 8.1 ready, 2degrees new boss, 7 inch Toughpad
Thursday, 29 August 2013, 4:09 pm | Bill Bennett
Microsoft has confirmed Windows 8.1 is finished or as the company puts it: ‘has been released to manufacturing’. While this means the company’s hardware partners can start tinkering with the software, it won’t be officially available to the ... More >>
Curran slams copper tax, Samsung W8 PCs, Wynyard on track
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 5:32 pm | Bill Bennett
Labour communications spokesperson Clare Curran criticised Chorus asking government for a $100 million bailout to rollout the UFB network while posting a healthy $171 million net profit for 2013. More >>
HP, SAP join for big data clouds
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 5:28 pm | Bill Bennett
Two of enterprise computing’s heavyweights, HP and SAP have entered the big data ring as a tag team. The deal will see both companies sell SAP’s in-memory Hana engine as a cloud service to customers who want to get big data projects off the ... More >>
Chorus posts profit, flags flat 2014
Monday, 26 August 2013, 1:01 pm | Bill Bennett
Regulatory pressure and higher than expected ultrafast broadband (UFB) build costs didn’t stop telecommunications network operator Chorus from turning in a small gain in its first year as a standalone business. However, the company warned next ... More >>
Ballmer quits Microsoft, telcos support Tics, GCSB warnings
Monday, 26 August 2013, 12:57 pm | Bill Bennett
Steven Ballmer's resignation from Microsoft broke over the weekend. Officially the man says he will step down within the next twelve months. Some reports say Microsoft’s board pushed Ballmer to resign because of the failed move into hardware devices like ... More >>
Wiggs parlays Pacific Fibre experience into Punakaiki Fund
Monday, 26 August 2013, 12:45 pm | Bill Bennett
Lance Wiggs and Chris Humphreys have launched the Punakaiki fund to invest in New Zealand internet, technology and design companies. Speaking at the Punakaiki Fund launch in Auckland earlier today, Lance Wiggs says the frustration he felt when raising ... More >>
Christchurch’s Interpret rides geospatial wave
Wednesday, 21 August 2013, 5:42 pm | Bill Bennett
Steve Abley says GIS (geographic information systems) has taken off in New Zealand to the point where he has set up a new Christchurch-based business to meet growing demand for GIS analysis. The new company was launched at this week’s New Zealand ... More >>
Hawaiki edges closer with Australian deal
Tuesday, 20 August 2013, 3:59 pm | Bill Bennett
Hawaiki’s plan to build a 14,000km trans-Pacific submarine cable linking New Zealand to the USA edges closer, thanks to a multi-million dollar deal signed in Australia. More >>
Tech journo Bill Bennett partners with Geekzone and Scoop
Monday, 15 July 2013, 2:38 pm | Digitl
Creates Digitl, the leading new source of technology news, analysis and comment to inspire New Zealanders More >>
NetHui 2013:Quinn Norton’s chaotic, swirling internet vision
Friday, 12 July 2013, 11:33 am | Bill Bennett
Keynote speaker Quinn Norton connects what is happening in today’s society as a result of the internet revolution and what happened 400 or so years ago when the printing press arrived. More >>
NetHui 2013: GCSB bill too important to rush
Friday, 12 July 2013, 11:13 am | Bill Bennett
Legislation proposing to extend the powers of the Government Communications Security Bureau is too important to rush through Parliament without more debate. That’s the consensus of the panel discussing state surveillance and the GCSB at NetHui 2013. More >>
First steps on New Zealand’s five year net plan
Monday, 8 July 2013, 10:43 am | Bill Bennett
Speaking at the InTAC workshop on planning New Zealand’s online future APNic chief scientist Geoff Huston set the short-term target of getting a couple of basic improvements in place to help build a foundation for more ambitious goal. More >>
Bill Bennett : Charging The Nokia Lumia 920 Without Wires
Friday, 28 December 2012, 12:23 pm | Bill Bennett
There’s a lot to be said for getting wires out of the way of digital devices – for one thing it makes them mobile. A smartphone wouldn’t be much use if you needed to jack it in every time you make a call or check Facebook. And let’s not forget ... More >>
A Windows 8 Office In Your Pocket? - Nokia Lumia 920
Friday, 7 December 2012, 2:52 pm | Bill Bennett
A Windows 8 Office In Your Pocket? - Nokia Lumia 920 A review by Bill Bennett for Scoop Techlab More >>
