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computing
- Farewell Clive Sinclair
- Reserve Bank gets NZ’s first privacy compliance notice
- Christie makes case for technology sovereignty
- Glassholes return with Facebook, Ray-Ban
- Computer revolution underway behind the scenes
- Cost of an enterprise data breach now US$4.2 million
- Tablets, Chromebooks have bumper year
- Cryptocurrency has a killer app
- Ransomware is online threat number one
- Security software: how to know if you need it
- Smart homes – For people who love to tinker
- Timely sold, as overseas buyers snap up NZ tech
- Pandemic tablet sales boom rolls over into 2021
- The west has to go it alone on security
- Apple M1: At least a generation ahead of Intel
- PC sales picked up in 2020 – still life in the format
- Bosses overestimate workers’ online security know how
- Bumper New Zealand PC sales in 2020
- Tablet shipments strong in 2020 resurgence
- Two months with an M1 MacBook Air
- Online criminals seize pandemic opportunity
- Aura: Ransomware hits 1-in-2 NZ businesses
- Scribble can change how you use iPad
- LibreOffice 7: First impressions of a solid update
- Controlling digital subscription spending
- Open source: Why you should care
- Algorithm bias behind UK exam mess
- Wi-Fi 6 — a better way to do wireless
- New Zealand’s bias challenging algorithm charter could save lives
- Intel chip dominance ends not with a bang but a whimper
- Ryzen: When a desktop makes more sense than a laptop
- Quantum 800 wireless headset: JBL targets gamers
- Above Avalon on Apple pulling away from competitors
- The PC: Reports of its death an exaggeration
- Privacy regulation: New Zealand wants more
- Eagle Technology spatial mapping on farm – NZ Herald
- Choosing the right work-from-home computer
- Apple’s timely pandemic shift to value
- Time to stop hating Microsoft
- Google pays tax on larger small fraction of total NZ income
- How the iPad made lockdown productive
- Android tablets – Best left on the shelf
- NZ device sales fall, would have collapsed but for Covid–19
- On Tindall’s green data centres opportunity
- IT spending set to fall 7 percent in 2020
- Surface Book 3, Surface Go 2: Microsoft hardware refresh
- HP works both ends of the PC street
- Windows 10 at five: Didn’t turn out as expected
- COBOL back from the dead… again
- Webcams: Laptop models are bad
- Apple MacBook Air 2020: Near perfect
- Skeuomorphism: A user interface Catch 22
- Microsoft Word stickiness
- The Y2K bug makes a comeback | RNZ
- Cloud computing more energy efficient than we thought
- The case against online voting
- Y2K bug has a 2020 echo
- AI winter is another turn of the hype cycle
- The great virtual private network con job
- Sales show Apple iPad doing something right
- After 10 years of iPad, Apple fans slam iPadOS
- Online crooks ransom Travelex
- Face recognition in public – EU mulls ban
- PC market good news not so hot
- Coming soon: Cheaper, greener, longer-lasting batteries
- ChromeOS: Google’s stumbling surveillance capitalism ecosystem
- Seven biggest tech moments of 2019
- Sign-in with Apple means privacy, security
- Self-driving car a let-down for Wozniak
- Hacking the Treasury, or not
- Microsoft reports strong third-quarter
- Schools moving to the cloud
- New iPad, Mac models; odd choices
- Unisys Security Index: Digital identity fear barrier
- Unisys Security Index: World worries on, New Zealand relaxes
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2018: first impressions
- A New Zealand chief technology officer
- European regulator wants to rein in tech
- Kiwibank wastes $90 million on software – Reseller News
- Public Wi-Fi plus cloud file sharing « The Diversity Blog
- Data analytics not popular with Kiwis
- New Zealanders wary of wearable biometrics: Unisys
- Unisys Security Index 2017: How New Zealand compares
- Talking VPNs on Radio NZ Nine-to-Noon
- Unisys: New Zealanders want IoT driving seat
- Nothing nebulous about Microsoft’s cloud transition
- We’re spending more on tech, not as much as Australians
- How to choose the right cloud storage plan
- NotPetya ransomware attack, New Zealand view
- Mandatory data breach reporting in Australia
- IBM remote work recall a red herring
- Xero joins Silicon Valley elite as TCV invests
- Don Christie says global IT giants all take, no give
- Staying safe online is about more than buying security
- Here’s the thing about Apple Pay and banks
- NZ IT spending to climb 2.3 percent in 2017
- MacBook Pro, Surface Book choice down to hands
- Understanding Apple’s MacBook Pro Touch Bar
- IBM says Macs cost less than PCs
- Frazer Scott: Microsoft digital transformation
- Infosys: incremental change, dealing with disruption
- Slow path to smart city: Huawei Connect
- Hybrid PC sales still need kickstart
- Main data theft threat is inside, overlooked
- Consider government open source, don’t mandate it
- What hasn’t been said about MYOB buying Greentree
- Oracle takes cloud shortcut, overpays for Netsuite
- Operating system upgrade dilemma
- Still early days at AWS Auckland cloud summit
- Overheads, warranties behind NZ PC price premium
- New Zealand PC buyers get worse deal than Poms
- New Zealand company wins data centre contract
- When Dick Smith Electronics lost the plot
- Spark buys South Island cloud gem: CCL
- Unlimited OneDrive storage promise broken
- Xero engine pulling New Zealand tech train
- Why ratepayers should worry about Auckland Council ERP
- Rod Drury on speed, capital raising, marketing complexity
- Speed, cost behind Xero move to PaaS, AWS
- Ten lessons from Open Source Open Society 2015
- Open is about more than transparency
- Catalyst offer competitive NZ open source cloud
- Me-too Dick Smith sees NZ sales fall
- Uber: The lost business opportunity
- Microsoft hosting NZ Office 365 in Australia
- 9Spokes cloud integration, dashboard
- Cloud latency, data centres and the lure of Australia
- How Microsoft Azure can win cloud computing
- IBM cloud stumbles
- Microsoft Azure: Cloud for the rest of us
- Dunedin as an innovation hub
- If you thought Novopay was a mess, wait for IRD
- PowerbyProxi in wireless charging pole position
- Productivity Commission prefers overseas cloud computing
- What does it take for government to buy NZ-made technology?
- IBM hardware sales stumble
- Explaining New Zealand’s Cloud Code
- Datacom shows entrepreneurial DNA
- Oracle hardware losses reduced
- Fronde says traditional IT locked into outdated models
- Windows XP – time to move on
- Amazon AWS unit pushes for NZ start-up business
- Vocus expands NZ footprint with Albany data centre
- How Xero’s capital raising was reported
- Auldhouse: Leaving Gen-i makes us nimble
- New Zealand, the view from Silicon Valley
- Free Microsoft Office 365 for non-profits
- Adobe Creative Cloud pricing
- Xero Personal dropped
- The Wellington effect | from the Moxie Sessions
- New Zealand’s export-quality cloud code
- SAP parachutes cloud into NZ
- Ten things we learned from NetHui 2013
- Data sovereignty in New Zealand
- Cloud computing not a passing fad
- Bitcoin barmy army
- Big data, stupid term
- Software defined networks
- Livescribe Sky Wi-Fi SmartPen a powerful tool
- SkyDrive, DropBox or both?
- Microsoft’s useful Word Web App make-over
- Office 2013: rent or buy?
- Not just “Everything’s broken and nobody’s upset”
- Wave bye bye
- When TradeMe beats Freecycle
- Frustrating Freecycle fails to deliver, struggles to take
- Data storage: Most of it is junk
- Auckland electricity still needs fixing
- Computer security primer
- Unravelling Gartner’s Hype Cycle
media
mobile
- iPhone 13 – Incremental is only half the story
- NY Times says smartphones may be too good
- Oppo stumbles as phone competition bites
- How long must you work to buy an iPhone 13 Pro?
- Two hidden messages behind iPhone 13 launch
- A meditation on Samsung’s new foldable phones
- Huawei’s “I don’t believe it’s not Android” HarmonyOS
- New Zealand phone market rebounds
- iPhone, Android: Which is best phone operating system?
- Choosing the right mobile phone for 2021
- Challenges as 2degrees hits revenue high, preps IPO
- Rural mobile closing the gap thanks to RCG
- Choice reduced as phone market narrows
- LG stops making mobile phones
- Phone sales stay ugly in second quarter
- Wireless charging: Inefficient, bad for the planet
- Toshiba calls it a day: Sayounara
- How long should you keep a phone?
- Tablet sales surge as pandemic bites
- Market reels as pandemic hits phone shipments
- Petal Search highlights barriers facing Huawei
- Huawei handset sales pass Samsung
- How the iPad made lockdown productive
- Phone sales tumble as pandemic bites
- This is not a Huawei P40 Pro review
- Phone market Q1 2020 – difficult year
- Mobile carrier thinking will be dominated by 5G
- iPhone SE 2020: A phone that’s right for lockdown times
- Galaxy Z Flip brings notification relief
- Foldable phones impressive, hold off on buying
- Android after Huawei: No winners
- Gartner: 5G sees phone sales grow 3% in 2020
- What New Zealand’s 2020 5G spectrum auction reveals
- Kudos Vodafone for launching 5G, now about that $10 surcharge
- Huawei Watch GT 2: A short take
- Sign-in with Apple means privacy, security
- Huawei blacklist – A guide for everyday users
- Galaxy Fold woes deepen for Samsung
- 2degrees almost unlimited mobile plan looks the deal
- AirPods 2: Apple’s clever wireless headphones get tidy tweak
- Questions remain as Moutter moves on
- New iPad, Mac models; odd choices
- Unravelling 5G mobile part 2: Unevenly distributed
- Unravelling 5G part 1: Don’t expect a big bang
- Huawei cyber security ABC talk part of bigger picture
- Huawei Mate X: Handset innovation at last
- World phone market Q4 2018 – Huawei last hurrah
- Huawei phones the least of your security problems
- Dense Air enters NZ cellular sector with spectrum buy
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2018: first impressions
- Targus Fitness Backpack review: Laptops and gym gear
- Still a place for non-phone cameras
- Huawei Mate 20 Pro with in-screen fingerprint reader
- HP Thunderbolt Dock 120W G2 review – Sound and vision
- iPhone XS Max review: Big is beautiful
- Oppo Find X review: Pricey pop-up camera phone
- Oppo’s wacky $2400 Lamborghini Android phone
- 5G backhaul: How to deliver promised performance
- Logitech Slim Combo iPad Pro keyboard review
- Premium phone price rise well ahead of inflation
- Galaxy Note 9 offers longer life, bigger screen
- 5G spectrum jockeying begins
- Samsung Galaxy Note 9 better be good
- Preparing New Zealand’s path to 5G
- Sluggish demand dents Samsung profit
- 5G mobile challenge for New Zealand carriers
- Best phones 2018: Handsets to consider
- Oppo R15 Pro review: Android chasing iPhone
- Samsung DeX Pad review: Galaxy phone desktop
- Surface Go: Tempting, but no iPad challenger
- Potential entrant means regulator keeps roaming power
- Lack of innovation hurts phone makers
- Apple, Android, phones and productivity
- 2018 iPad: More iPad, fewer dollars
- Why phone makers are obsessed with cameras
- Shipments tumble as NZ phone upgrades slow
- Time to take Apple iPad Pro seriously
- Mobile market competition issues ComCom should watch
- Phone prices rise as users move upmarket
- Nokia 3310 review – nostalgia phone long battery life
- Nokia 8 review: Classy midrange pure Android phone
- Notes on the Nokia phone comeback
- The 2017 mobile phone crop in perspective
- Norton Wi-Fi Privacy — Easy, flawed VPN
- Samsung Galaxy Note 8 launch
- How Oppo shakes New Zealand’s phone market
- How Microsoft killed Windows Phone
- Smart Keyboard Cover: Protecting the 12.9-inch iPad Pro
- Android: A practical guide for iPhone switchers
- The future-proof 10.5-inch iPad Pro, a work computer
- Huawei Nova Lite: NZ$400 Android alternative
- Mobile termination rate revision not pressing
- Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus review: Beautiful, feature-packed
- Ten things we’ve learnt about this year’s phones
- Huawei P10 review: A steady-as-you-go upgrade
- Unlimited mobile data plans reveal 4G limits
- 2degrees Data Clock sells bytes by the hour
- 2degrees mobile offers unmetered phone data trial
- Samsung after the fire: big screen Galaxy S8 phone debuts
- Galaxy Note 7 woes see Apple regain NZ phone crown
- Apple, Microsoft dominate NZ slate sales
- Apple back top, Chinese brands phone market winners
- Oppo phones coming to New Zealand
- Lenovo Miix 510: A Surface Pro 4 for less
- Smartwatches not ticking with customers
- Samsung brand suffers from Galaxy Note 7 woes
- No allergy worries with Apple Watch Series 2
- Google Pixel phone, Home speaker sideline New Zealand
- Samsung dials up exploding phone problem
- Class of 2016: The best ultraportable
- NZ phone market 2016Q2 — Apple stumbles, Huawei leaps
- Elite Thunderbolt 3 Dock – HP’s port connector
- Apple iPad Pro 9.7-inch Smart Keyboard Cover
- Miss Newton MessagePad? Here’s MyScript Stylus
- Goodbye BlackBerry qwerty keyboard phone
- Norton Wi-Fi Privacy review — hard work done for you
- This will be the year of 4.5G mobile
- Android competition on show at MWC
- Huawei Mate 8 pushes phone size, battery limits
- 4.5G trials see gigabit mobile speeds
- Huawei Matebook: A Surface for less
- Mobile World Congress 2016: This year’s devices
- iPhone sales growth flattens as market matures
- BrydgeAir iPad keyboard review – sturdy alternative
- Argumentum ad populum doesn’t work for tech
- Microsoft’s Betamax Windows Phone OS
- The time I should have had faith in the iPad Pro
- Today’s handset is much more than a phone
- Android hardware makers stare into profitless abyss
- Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+, Note 5 models
- Dell XPS 13 review: 2015’s best Ultrabook
- LG G4: A better Android flagship phone
- iPhone 6 Plus when even a MacBook Air is too big
- Huawei P8: Flagship phone, midrange price
- P8 phone highlights Huawei ambition
- Microsoft Surface 3: Worth buying, not cheap
- Apple 2015 MacBook: Between laptop and tablet
- BlackBerry Leap — as the undead phone brand returns
- Samsung Galaxy S6: It all hinges on price
- Dealing with the Android security risk
- Why people won’t try Windows Phone
- Smart watches a long way behind phones
- Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Note Edge
- Stalling tablet sales as Macs surge
- Feature phone – where there are few features
- Samsung goes for giant phone approach with Galaxy Tab S
- MBIE responds to NZ mobile spectrum question
- New Zealand carriers mobile spectrum holdings
- Motorola Moto X phone – A first look
- Review: Snugg leather iPad cover and flip stand
- Toshiba Chromebook lands in New Zealand at NZ$480
- Smartphone market share myths
- NZ mobile market flowers thanks to competition
- Why Westpac’s new online bank looks like iOS 7
- Westpac builds online banking for any device
- Why I don’t want a hybrid
- Lumia 920: Nokia’s business class phone
- Wireless charging Nokia Lumia 920
- Galaxy Note II: mine’s bigger than yours
- Tablets: all about Wi-Fi, not cellular
- ThinkPad: 20 years of business class laptops
- Ultrabooks flop
- Three weeks with the Lumia 800
- Samsung top phone brand in New Zealand
- Netbooks dead, blame tablets
- Ebook readers make me weep
- Palm T|X – in 2007 it looked like the future
- HTC Sensation, Huawei Ideos X5 compared
- Three weeks with the Huawei Ideos X5
- The best netbook for porn?
productivity
- Software’s mysterious productivity gap
- The less time spent on SEO, the better the Google rank
- The last time everyone was working from home
- Amazon Australia Store opens for New Zealand customers
- Eight technology must-haves for small businesses
- Dynamic Business: Farmers ‘learning to do more with less’ – NZ Herald
- Digital Boost, Productivity Commission and living standards
- Google docs drops geared-for-print
- Stanford Research explains and helps prevent Zoom fatigue – Tidbits
- A practical guide to writing on the iPad
- Callaghan legacy a missed opportunity – Rowan Simpson
- Remote work monitoring hurts performance
- Technology adoption: The Great Leap Forward
- Working from home surveillance arms race
- Microsoft Surface Duo a curiosity phone
- Genetics is a long game but speeds herd improvement
- DuckDuckGo is good enough… most of the time
- New Zealand’s game developers export photons not atoms
- Crossing the chasm: How tech products succeed
- Ditching laptop for iPad Pro
- Tech productivity meets Rugby World Cup streaming
- Tuning in to Chinese visitor technology needs
- Huawei P30 Pro review: More camera than phone
- iA Writer 5.2: Simple text editor, great writing tool
- Emirates in-flight wi-fi: More despair than OnAir
- Online threats scare us, we don’t do enough about them
- HP Thunderbolt Dock 120W G2 review – Sound and vision
- EliteBook x360 review: secure, tiny business convertible
- Logitech Slim Combo iPad Pro keyboard review
- Surface Go: Tempting, but no iPad challenger
- Apple, Android, phones and productivity
- How Google can seize Microsoft Office crown
- Windows no longer Microsoft’s main focus
- Time to take Apple iPad Pro seriously
- Dragon Professional for Mac V6: Near perfect dictation
- Fixing MacBook Pro: Apple’s to-do list
- The case for RSS — MacSparky
- Google opens door to New Zealand smart home
- The 2017 mobile phone crop in perspective
- Thurrott says Microsoft Surface dead last for reliability
- LibreOffice 5.4 works better with Office files
- Smart Keyboard Cover: Protecting the 12.9-inch iPad Pro
- Push notifications: A productivity killer
- Acorn 6: MacOS image editing for the rest of us
- Still living in a Notification hell – Om Malik
- PC sales slump, but not as bad as feared
- Samsung Galaxy Tab S3: Best Android tablet
- The future-proof 10.5-inch iPad Pro, a work computer
- Smart watch: The revolution that didn’t happen
- After ten years of mail pain Spark is done with Yahoo
- Passive Optical Lan means fibre to the desktop
- Windows 10S — Microsoft tries locking down again
- Apple, Microsoft dominate NZ slate sales
- Review: Norton Security Premium — polished protection
- Apple Watch a winner but not for me
- On switching Mac to Windows, or Windows to Mac
- Xero adds Apple Pay
- Microsoft double-dipping with Outlook.com ads
- Worrying about the social media footprint
- PC industry consolidates as shipments fall
- Windows 8 damaged Microsoft in ways 10 can’t fix
- New Zealand says no to smartwatch
- Class of 2016: The best ultraportable
- Consumer PC sales will never regain peak
- LibreOffice 5.2 — solid, unpolished alternative
- Thoughts on iPad-only the new desktop Linux
- Elite Thunderbolt 3 Dock – HP’s port connector
- Apple iPad Pro 9.7-inch Smart Keyboard Cover
- Norton Wi-Fi Privacy review — hard work done for you
- Evernote changes: End of the line for some
- 9.7-inch iPad Pro, a step beyond the 12.9-inch model
- Future of personal computing: Where Chromebook fits
- Future of personal computing: It isn’t a Windows laptop
- How the iPad Pro changed my computing needs
- Why I had to stop wearing the Apple Watch
- The time I should have had faith in the iPad Pro
- 2015 MacBook, MacBook Air, iPad Pro productivity
- PC makers hopes Windows 10, Skylake can revive sales
- New Zealand PC sales buck global trend
- How Microsoft stumbled with touch, then recovered
- Crapware still features on Windows devices
- Surface 3 keyboard frustrates laptop replacement
- NZ small business productivity, technology
- How to run or join a hackathon
- Macbook more interesting than Apple Watch
- Satya Nadella was the right choice for Microsoft CEO
- Mac writing apps November 2014
- HP split will change NZ PC market
- Working with Microsoft technology — 2014 edition
- Working with iPhone 6 Plus
- Apple Watch: All fun and games until someone loses an eye
- NZ$400 Surface 2 a bargain for Office fans
- Firefox now or no choice later
- iWorks or Office 365: Choosing a Mac, iOS suite
- Mac Word, Windows Word and Parallels desktop
- Gmail: Resistance is futile
- iPhone 5S – six months later
- Office 365 Personal underlines Office 365 Home’s value
- iPad Office: Important even if you are not a Microsoft fan
- Microsoft New Zealand’s BizSpark technology bazaar
- ChromeBooks: Where dumb, limiting, simple are good
- OneNote improves for web users
- Windows 8 is the new Windows Vista
- Desktop Android emerges as Windows rival
- Google Glass isn’t the answer to anything
- Microsoft Surface Pro 2 – Apple faces competition
- Microsoft Surface Pro 2 – is it worth the price?
- Free Microsoft Office 365 for non-profits
- Microsoft New Zealand leads the TechEd pack
- Dell Precision – beefy workstations
- Auckland’s TranscribeMe inks smartpen deal
- Three small computers – a strange, but true story
- Where small business accounting software fails
- Sometimes free is too high a price
- Windows 8 is a flop
- Can free Microsoft web apps replace Office 365?
- Windows iTunes is a disgrace
- Microsoft’s useful Word Web App make-over
- Minor Windows 8 annoyance on SSD
- Word 2013: A journalist’s personal journey
- Office 2013: rent or buy?
- LastPass fails on iPad
- My iPad, my accidental typewriter
- Apple Store – time we had one in New Zealand
- Browsers all flawed – Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer
- Microsoft Reader is dead
- Scan, stitch pages with Microsoft Image Composite Editor
- Browsers: Chrome 10, Firefox 4, Explorer 9
- One of our documents is missing
- The Mac still isn’t a typewriter
- Nine journalism apps I can’t live without
- Publish Google Docs to WordPress site
- Access 2007 trumps FileMaker Pro 10
- FileMaker, Microsoft Access not easy
- Digital sabbath – take a break after 7 days
- Remember the Milk with added smarts
- What happened to the internet fridge?
- Twitter enters hype cycle’s trough of disillusionment
- How I set up my personal email address
- Free software liberates
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 8: the good the bad and the ugly
- Ergonomic keyboard — here’s why you should look at one
- Desktop Linux fades
- Start-ups born global in Australia and New Zealand
review
- JBL Live 660NC — noise-cancelling headphones for less
- Envoy Pro SX — next generation portable storage from OWC
- Xero iPad app – small business accounting
- Dynabook Satellite Pro C50-H – Business laptop
- Nokia G20 review: Big battery, low-price Android
- Sony WF-1000XM4 noise cancelling ear buds review
- Collabora Office for iOS: Unfinished open source productivity suite
- Redmi Note 9T: Low price 5G handset
- Acronis True Image 2021 review – Complete back-up, security
- Thors Magnetic Charging Cable
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2 review: Impressive, pricey, useful
- IA Writer 5.6: Better than a word processor
- Huawei Matebook 13 compared to MacBook Air
- D-Link EXO Mesh DIR-X1560 Wi-fi 6 router
- Surface Go 2 — Microsoft’s latest more ultraportable than tablet
- Huawei Y6P review: Budget phone but no Google
- Samsung serving advertising on $2400 Galaxy Flip
- Galaxy Z Flip: Samsung’s folding phone
- Vissles Wireless Charger review
- Apple iPhone SE 2020: Best value mid-price option
- 2020 iPad Pro 12.9-inch review part two: Camera, lidar
- 2020 iPad Pro 12.9-inch review part one: More processor power
- Surface Laptop 3 15-inch review: Big screen Surface
- iPhone 11: It’s hard taking bad pictures
- You’ll have to pry my Airpods Pro from my cold, dead hands
- Deebot Ozmo 900: lovable robot vacuum cleaner
- Freebuds 3: Huawei pays homage to AirPods
- Nokia 7.2 – a good business phone
- D-Link Camera Kit review: Omna Wire-Free Indoor-Outdoor
- AF56W wireless headphones from Audiofly: Review
- iPad Mini review: Size is its charm
- AirPods 2: Apple’s clever wireless headphones get tidy tweak
- Huawei P30 Pro review: More camera than phone
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2018: first impressions
- Targus Fitness Backpack review: Laptops and gym gear
- Nokia 7.1 review: When money is an object
- HP Thunderbolt Dock 120W G2 review – Sound and vision
- iPhone XS Max review: Big is beautiful
- Oppo Find X review: Pricey pop-up camera phone
- EliteBook x360 review: secure, tiny business convertible
- Covr review: Mesh fails to fix Wi-fi woes
- Vodafone Ultra Hub Plus: while you wait for fibre
- Logitech Slim Combo iPad Pro keyboard review
- Dragon Anywhere review: Impressive iPhone dictation
- Acronis True Image 2019 review: Serious backup updated
- Oppo R15 Pro review: Android chasing iPhone
- Samsung DeX Pad review: Galaxy phone desktop
- Review: Nokia 6.1, 7 Plus phones showcase Android One
- Huawei P20 Pro review: Best Android phone, best camera
- 2018 iPad: More iPad, fewer dollars
- Oppo R11s: high-end Android, budget price
- Huawei Nova 2i review: Value, not excitement
- iA Writer 5 review: When you want words without fuss
- Huawei Mate 10: Punchy, long battery life
- Nokia 3310 review – nostalgia phone long battery life
- Vodafone TV — television in the cloud
- Nokia 8 review: Classy midrange pure Android phone
- Acronis True Image 2018 review — serious backup
- Norton Wi-Fi Privacy — Easy, flawed VPN
- LibreOffice 5.4 works better with Office files
- Smart Keyboard Cover: Protecting the 12.9-inch iPad Pro
- Duet Display uses iPad to extend Mac, PC
- Samsung Galaxy Tab S3: Best Android tablet
- The future-proof 10.5-inch iPad Pro, a work computer
- Sony MDR-1000X review: noise-cancelling headphones
- Huawei Nova Lite: NZ$400 Android alternative
- Edifier R1700BT review: Luxury Bluetooth sounds
- Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus review: Beautiful, feature-packed
- Huawei P10 review: A steady-as-you-go upgrade
- Review: Huawei Mate 9 Pro is best Android, for now
- Review: Lenovo ThinkPad E570 — an old school laptop
- Review: Norton Security Premium — polished protection
- Oppo R9s: Galaxy-like phone, half the price
- Lenovo Miix 510: A Surface Pro 4 for less
- Review Apple 2016 MacBook Pro (13-inch)
- Touch typing on the 2016 Apple MacBook Pro keyboard
- Microsoft Surface Book one year on
- Review: Sony Xperia XZ, Android contender
- One month with the Apple Watch Series 2 and WatchOS3
- No allergy worries with Apple Watch Series 2
- iPhone 7 Plus review — it’s all about the camera
- Galaxy Note 7 review: Samsung’s new champion
- Review: Dell Inspiron 13 5000 – affordable compromise
- Class of 2016: The best ultraportable
- Huawei P9 review: Premium phone, sharp price
- LibreOffice 5.2 — solid, unpolished alternative
- Elite Thunderbolt 3 Dock – HP’s port connector
- Review: HP Elitebook Folio G1 business class laptop
- Review: HP Spectre gets Windows laptop right
- Norton Wi-Fi Privacy review — hard work done for you
- Thumbs up for the Truly Ergonomic keyboard
- Apple 2016 MacBook one month review
- Review: 9.7-inch iPad Pro Smart Keyboard Cover
- Reviewing technology products: Science and anecdotes
- Sony Extra Bass SRS-XB3 adds bottom end oomph
- 9.7-inch iPad Pro review: A week on the move
- An Apple iPhone SE review written using the phone
- Canon EOS 1300D: A real camera for beginners
- Huawei Mate 8 pushes phone size, battery limits
- Dell XPS 13 Touch review
- BrydgeAir iPad keyboard review – sturdy alternative
- Surface Pro 4 – Microsoft’s premium Windows tablet
- Skinny Broadband review: Low-cost wireless alternative
- Huawei Watch: Big Android wearable
- Nexus 6P: Huawei and Google show Android potential
- HP Spectre x2: like a Surface Pro, priced wrong for NZ
- 2015 MacBook, MacBook Air, iPad Pro productivity
- Which mobile Apple: iPad Pro or 2015 MacBook?
- A month with the Apple iPhone 6S
- Sony Xperia Z5 review: Fast camera, two-day battery
- Apple Watch: It’s not about the functionality
- Logitech K480 Bluetooth keyboard works everywhere
- Ultimate Ears bluetooth speaker: UE Roll with it
- Dell XPS 13 review: 2015’s best Ultrabook
- LG G4: A better Android flagship phone
- Huawei Talkband B2: not your everyday wearable
- iPhone 6 Plus when even a MacBook Air is too big
- Huawei P8: Flagship phone, midrange price
- Microsoft Surface 3: Worth buying, not cheap
- MacBook: One USB-C port is enough
- Apple 2015 MacBook: Between laptop and tablet
- Xero iPad — the first month
- Microsoft Word 2016 for Mac after a month
- Lenmar ChugPlug MacBook power back-up
- Asus Transformer T300 Chi — Windows 2-in-1
- Six months with iPhone 6, 6 Plus
- BlackBerry Classic: Steampunk phone
- JBL OnBeat Micro: iPhone speaker review
- HP Stream 11: A laptop for under NZ$400
- Take Control of Apple Pages book review
- BlackBerry Passport — business phone you won’t buy
- Mac writing apps November 2014
- Working with iPhone 6 Plus
- Asus pushes upmarket with Zenbook UX301
- Byword: Mac writing tool that let’s you focus on words
- 48 hours with Microsoft’s flagship tablet, the Surface Pro 3
- Microsoft’s Nokia Lumia 930 first NZ look
- Vodafone Smart 4 mini
- Asus Transformer Pad TF103 review
- Apple Pages 5 word processor tested
- MacBook Air – the first year
- BlackBerry Z30 review: Likeable, unremarkable
- Working with the Livescribe 3 Smartpen
- iPhone 5S – six months later
- Samsung Galaxy Gear 2 — not quite a review
- Galaxy S5: Samsung smartest phone
- Snugg 13-inch MacBook Air case
- HP Chromebook 14, good value, well built
- Review: Snugg leather iPad cover and flip stand
- Logitech Ultra-thin Keyboard Cover for iPad Air review
- iPhone 5C – what you may have overlooked
- Blackberry Z10 – the good stuff you may have missed
- Acer’s stunning $400 C720 Chromebook
- I had trouble in getting to Windows-only
- Apple iWorks hits limits
- Logitech Webcam C930e for business video-conferencing
- Nokia Lumia 625, big orange phone at a good price
- Pages update means better, free OS X word processing
- Nokia Lumia 1020 rated as a business phone
- Nokia Lumia 1020 first impression: a call-making camera
- The best Mac apps for writers
- Xero for Dummies
- Remembering the Camputers Lynx
- Google’s Chromebook Pixel pushes boundaries
- Livescribe Sky Wi-Fi SmartPen a powerful tool
- The Jupiter Ace turns 30
- HTC One X review: Android’s latest champion
- Three weeks with the Lumia 800
- Touch Mouse — Microsoft’s different pointing device
- Where Livescribe’s SmartPen fails
- HTC Sensation, Huawei Ideos X5 compared
- Three weeks with the Huawei Ideos X5
- Canon Lide 210 scanner
- The Amstrad Story
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telecommunications
- Red flag for Chinese phones
- NZ broadband faces competitive reset
- Dealing with telecoms pain points
- Chorus fibre pricing decision answers one question, other questions remain
- 6GHZ band: Why you need it more than the telcos
- Ookla satellite figures don’t compute
- Telcos told to clean up post-copper marketing
- Spark expands uncapped fixed wireless broadband footprint
- Chorus: Connection speed doubles since 2019
- Hong Kong’s doxxing law spooks tech giants
- Consumer data right planned for next year
- Flip fibre versus uncapped fixed wireless broadband
- Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook review: Bargain computer
- Ericsson Mobile Report: The rise of fixed wireless
- Unlimited rural fixed wireless broadband trial
- Hyperfibre 8Gbps – 160 times first UFB speeds
- Starlink will be a lifeline for left-behind rural broadband users
- Sony WF-1000XM4 noise cancelling ear buds review
- Fly Air Orcon for business class broadband
- PSTN interconnect, number portability, co-location stay regulated
- The story behind Vodafone’s FibreX court ruling
- How satellite broadband can hurt New Zealand ISPs
- Fibre Max now one in six Chorus connections
- Gigabit fibre fixed after Measuring Broadband report
- Here’s why Facebook, Google build submarine cables
- Innovation studio showcases Spark wireless networks
- Sky takes wraps off broadband service
- Tutela’s March 2021 mobile snapshot: Everyone’s a winner
- Fixed wireless speed drops as broadband use surges
- 10-years of NZ Tech Podcast: Part 1
- New satellite breed could upset rural comms
- Fibre uptake hits two-thirds milestone
- N4L report shows schools face online threat rise
- macOS 11 Big Sur review: Homage to iPad
- How to pick the right mobile phone plan
- Flip reborn as affordable broadband brand
- Commerce Commission calls out mobile price confusion
- Five Eyes wants access to encrypted messages
- Google’s curious Pixel phone strategy
- UFB fibre unbundling fades into background
- Selling fixed wireless in the face of ignorance
- Spark dropping wireless data caps is not what it seems
- Data traffic hits new peak once a Fortnite
- Spark’s timid Covid-era 5G mobile launch
- Telcowatch shows steady mobile market through lockdown
- Urban copper – last days as switch-off looms
- How to choose hardware that can last for years
- When telcos don’t like regulated industry structure
- Vodafone, 2degrees shine in mobile experience report
- Australia way behind NZ says Huawei’s Gigabit Gap
- 2degrees, Vodafone infrastructure sharing agreement
- Bloomberg on patchy 5G networks
- Commerce Commission revisits mobile regulation
- A century for the Rural Connectivity Group
- United Kingdom plans anti-Huawei 5G alliance
- Rural broadband surge for Farmside
- Working from home: Networks for beginners
- UFB uptake closes on a million as 58 percent connect
- Rakon impatient shareholders can’t wait for 5G payoff
- Violent content, extremism in lawmaker sights
- New Zealand’s weird showing in ITU affordability rankings
- Sky has a broadband mountain to climb
- Aussie scientists hit fibre speeds of 44.2 terabits per second
- Lockdown: Fibre, copper delivered, wireless didn’t
- InternetNZ’s digital inclusion plan
- 5G tower attacks: It’s not protest, it’s sabotage
- Rural Connectivity Group adds 29 sites in lockdown
- Vocus buys Stuff Fibre in consolidation play
- Ultrafast Fibre overseas sale raises questions
- Covid-19 shows UFB a wise investment
- Five new regional digital hubs from provincial fund
- Vodafone’s disappearing 5G premium
- Rural broadband funding fails to excite farmers, users
- Rural broadband problem we’re not talking about
- Extending New Zealand fibre beyond UFB2
- Your fibre line goes both ways: Use all of it
- 5G cell towers in the front line
- Covid sees 2degrees cut workforce 10 percent
- Cell tower attacks: As we didn’t have enough to deal with
- New Zealand got lucky twice with fast broadband
- The chilling truth about the link between 5G and Covid-19
- Data Traffic – Every day is like Sunday
- How 5G will transform Auckland – NZ Herald
- Digital divide: Fibre companies move
- Chorus data traffic hits 2.84Tbps
- Voice calls surge as New Zealand enters lockdown
- Educational digital divide revealed as Covid-19 hits
- Covid–19: Fixed wireless broadband not up to the job
- Gamers behind biggest data surge since Rugby World Cup
- It’s official: Fibre overtakes copper in New Zealand
- Remote working back in fashion as pandemic fears spread
- Vodafone: Kinder, gentler mobile data plans
- Broadband: Australia watches NZ carnival over the hill
- What Spark thinks about its fixed wireless broadband
- Stop worrying about kids and phones
- Here’s why you shouldn’t worry about 5G health risks
- UK resists US pressure to ban Huawei 5G kit
- Telcowatch: Tracking NZ mobile market share
- Huawei UK 5G choice: “Nothing short of madness”
- Please leave some 3.5GHz spectrum for Wisps
- More fiction than science
- Before you get excited about 5G fixed wireless broadband…
- Spark dips toe as Vodafone 5G readies for take-off
- Extending New Zealand’s fibre network
- Fibre network done, now transformation
- Dial tone requiem
- What Hyperfibre says about fixed-line broadband
- The limits of Spark’s 600GB fixed wireless promise
- If tech giants paid NZ’s Telecommunications Development Levy
- Unbundling fibre: Be careful what you wish for
- Sky-Vodafone decision challenging
- Sky bats on front foot with Sport Now
- RNZ goes inside the anti-5G movement
- AGL walking from Vocus speaks volumes about telco sector
- Vodafone hikes overseas roaming costs 40 percent
- How ten years of 2degrees changed the mobile market
- Vocus Group back in play with private equity bid
- Huawei blacklist – A guide for everyday users
- Telecommunications still most complained about industry
- Fibre regulation: Commerce Commission looks past 2022
- Infratil can unlock hidden Vodafone value
- Digital divide targeted in government blueprint
- Spark brings first eSim to New Zealand
- 2degrees almost unlimited mobile plan looks the deal
- Huawei’s embarrassing HCSEC security report card
- Huawei New Zealand: A decade of mobile networks
- New Zealand’s fibre unbundling feedback howl
- Unravelling 5G mobile part 2: Unevenly distributed
- Unravelling 5G part 1: Don’t expect a big bang
- Vodafone mulls moving call centre jobs
- Chorus network connections hit 100Mbps average
- Mobile World Congress: 5G, folding phones, Huawei politics
- Chorus trials more-than-you-can-eat 10Gbps ahead of demand
- Huawei Android handsets in the firing line
- Huawei: what no-one wants to tell you
- Dense Air enters NZ cellular sector with spectrum buy
- Chorus hits half million fibre connection milestone
- Huawei ban: Arguments for and against
- VDSL doesn’t get the love it deserves
- Telecommunications Bill resets UFB price cap
- Covr review: Mesh fails to fix Wi-fi woes
- Vodafone Ultra Hub Plus: while you wait for fibre
- 5G backhaul: How to deliver promised performance
- Football deal highlights Spark Sky TV threat
- 5G spectrum jockeying begins
- Service quality needs Commerce Commission scrutiny
- Spark to start New Zealand 5G network build by 2020
- Preparing New Zealand’s path to 5G
- 5G mobile challenge for New Zealand carriers
- Vodafone wireless broadband offer: Reality check
- What the Fortnite update tells us about NZ broadband
- Closing New Zealand’s rural digital divide
- Slingshot offers unlimited gigabit fibre for under a ton
- Spark doubles down on wireless broadband
- New Zealand broadband data hits peak
- Mobile market competition issues ComCom should watch
- Stuff Pix media strategy a new direction
- Sky TV fights piracy battle that’s already been won
- UFB killer app: Speed and more speed
- Vodafone VoIP transition to start this month
- What Vocus NZ sale means for broadband competition
- Active wholesale as Chorus tackles wireless challenge
- TDL shows flat telecommunications growth
- Vocus New Zealand on the block as Aussies bail
- Vodafone TV — television in the cloud
- MVNOs missing – Commerce Commission studies
- Less fone, more tech as Vodafone gets brand make-over
- ISP mail: Vodafone plans to drop service
- Government broadband investment fills the gaps
- Sky TV boss blames pirates, evidence says otherwise
- Fact-checking Southern Cross Next cable is fastest to USA
- Spark adds Cambridge, Turangi to 4.5G network
- Chorus backhaul starts with 2degrees
- Why New Zealand outplayed Australia on the NBN
- New Zealanders naïve about wi-fi safety: Symantec
- Australians want NZ-style gigabit residential internet
- Vodafone Australia mulls Wisp alliance, NZ implications
- Rural health professionals see fibre pay-off
- Enable Networks connects 50,000 to fibre
- NZ IoT networks jostle for potential billions
- Fixed broadband: “Nothing more than backhaul”
- Television – broadband end game in sight
- Behind Spark’s slow-burn 4.5G network plan
- Whatever ailed Vodafone broadband … seems to be fixed
- Commerce Commission investigates Vodafone FibreX
- Mobile termination rate revision not pressing
- RBI2 bidders at Rural Connectivity Symposium
- Telecommunications monitoring report: Are you being served?
- Terabyte looms as Vocus users download 430GB a month
- Stewart Sherriff 2degrees tips into profit after seven years
- After ten years of mail pain Spark is done with Yahoo
- Passive Optical Lan means fibre to the desktop
- Unlimited mobile data plans reveal 4G limits
- 2degrees Data Clock sells bytes by the hour
- Freedom Mobile – Spark’s unlimited response
- Your guide to Rural Broadband Initiative extension bids
- 2degrees mobile offers unmetered phone data trial
- Net neutrality in New Zealand
- Commerce Commission pushes for congestion-free copper
- Call for truth in broadband advertising
- Kacific satellite goes where other broadband can’t
- Fixed wireless broadband laggard in independent test
- Spark, Netflix a well-timed marketing promotion
- Spark New Zealand’s high risk broadband strategy
- Chorus first half: Copper boosts, wireless bites
- Commerce Commission Vodafone-Sky ruling
- Northpower in 10Gbps world first test run
- VDSL: enduring charm of fast copper broadband
- Hawaiki submarine cable on track for mid-2018 launch
- 50Mbps now New Zealand’s fibre normal
- Spark, Chorus streamline fibre install
- NZ passes Australia in ITU global ICT development index
- Ultrafast Broadband reforms changed telco competition
- Copper criticism as Vodafone joins wireless broadband party
- Spark, Vodafone, Chorus and the battle for fibre
- Wireless — a drop in the data ocean
- VDSL broadband missing in action
- Rural Broadband Initiative part two announced
- Vodafone’s clever free mobile data promise
- Free non-standard UFB install scheme extended
- Cell towers build boosts Spark, Vodafone mobile footprint
- Akamai report fails to do justice to NZ broadband speeds
- Orcon Xbox deal lures gigabit gamers
- Spark plugs digital divide with low-cost fixed wireless
- Bigpipe to offer gigabit fibre
- Behind 2degrees’ Ministry for Primary Industries win
- Greetings from behind the Great Firewall of China
- Skinny Broadband sweetens fixed wireless internet deal
- Trustpower misleads with untrusty broadband ads
- Backhaul competition in regulator’s spotlight
- Fire Service, Motorola, Spark team for firefighter mask radio
- Long-reach VDSL2 has potential for rural NZ broadband
- Stuff Fibre a strange move for struggling Fairfax
- Hanging on to the landline
- Chorus says 100GB is the new normal
- Chorus fibre install complaints in perspective
- Goodbye BlackBerry qwerty keyboard phone
- Sky-Vodafone $3.5 billion merger planned
- New Zealand wireless rural broadband hits key milestone
- Vodafone buyers may find 2degrees tempting too
- Spark, Huawei crack 1Gbps with Christchurch 4.5G
- New cables may revive overseas datacentre interest
- What Hawaiki cable green light means for New Zealand
- Spark fixed wireless broadband – a second front
- Spark winner in NZ mobile spectrum owner shift
- Spark spectrum buy tilts broadband power balance
- This will be the year of 4.5G mobile
- Let’s fix date to close copper network
- 4.5G trials see gigabit mobile speeds
- New Zealand among fastest fibre adopters
- Mobile World Congress 2016: This year’s devices
- Copper price crimps Chorus profit, dividend returns
- UFB customer numbers jump as build hits 60%
- Carrier-grade KotahiNet bring IoT LoRaWAN to NZ
- More thoughts on Skinny Broadband
- Trans-Pacific submarine cable phoney war
- Skinny Broadband bypasses copper tax
- Skinny Broadband review: Low-cost wireless alternative
- Skinny 4G fixed wireless broadband modem value
- Spark, Vodafone, Chorus pay telephone tax
- How NZ reacted to Commerce Commission copper line hike
- Spark, Vodafone on different transformation paths
- Rural fixed wireless broadband gets competitive
- UFB at halfway point — is everybody happy?
- Trans-Tasman consolidation as Vibe buys RackCentral
- Behind Vodafone’s Worldxchange acquisition
- Spark follows copper broadband money trail
- Spark Fibre Landline may solve old folk telephone woes
- Global mode action: You Canute be serious
- Broadband as part of the bigger infrastructure picture
- New Zealand a digital evolution stand-out
- Unlimited fibre broadband plans compared
- Looming customer service cuts at Vodafone
- Tasman Global Access addresses internet gravity centre shift
- Internet NZ, price rises, greed and cartels
- Copper network — time for switch-off talks
- New Zealand broadband market in 2014
- What lies behind NZ broadband prices?
- Chorus copper price ruling
- One rule for telecoms investors, another for Air NZ
- Why Gigatown is not a waste of money
- Chorus warns Australia on structural separation
- Fibre-only MyRepublic aims to lead UFB push
- NZ telcos wince as they foot rural bill
- Touch Voicemail iPhone app makes smartphones smarter
- Another cable won’t lower NZ internet costs
- A better plan for 2degrees
- Can’t start a fire without a Spark
- Vocus, FX Networks: Consolidation goes regional
- CallPlus buys Orcon — deal makes sense
- Sky and Orcon: Not a marriage made in heaven
- A trans-Pacific cable hurrah
- Cellphone cancer demon banished
- Carriers jockey for mobile pole position as competition ramps
- 300 Mbps as Telecom demos carrier aggregation
- UFB cost blowout hits Enable Networks
- Auckland Transport offers stingy Wi-Fi
- If 2degrees can’t afford 700 MHz, it can’t afford Orcon
- New Zealand carriers mobile spectrum holdings
- Mobile broadband costs killing New Zealand competitiveness
- Whangarei: New Zealand’s first fibre city
- Telecom’s Cook Islands sale part of bigger picture
- What does Vodafone know about Ultrafast Broadband anyway?
- Commerce Commission, UCLL pricing and referees
- New Zealand UFB compared to Google fibre
- NZ lags fixed mobile substitution
- Telecom adds gigabit Wi-fi to hotspot network
- Here is why Telecom NZ paid $83m for 4G spectrum
- Chorus after Ernst & Young copper report
- Telecom NZ AAPT sale – the big picture
- Android hits 81% smartphone market share, Windows grows
- Vodafone innovation chief: It’s not about devices
- NZ mobile market flowers thanks to competition
- Apple, Microsoft sue Google, Android phone makers
- Making sense of the 700 MHz spectrum auction
- Amy Adams defends TICS, copper intervention
- Vodafone marks enterprise turf with TelstraClear
- Himatangi Beach covered as RBI reaches halfway point
- Vodafone TV adds secret sauce to home fibre
- French expert says NZ Government drove too hard on UFB
- WiGig: what is it and when will we see it?
- Kordia profit climbs post-Orcon
- NetHui 2013: Quinn Norton internet vision
- English football holds UFB key
- Tasman Global Access on trans-Pacific latency
- Questioning Rod Drury’s Pacific Fibre reboot
- Brilliant Chorus VDSL gambit
- Mobile data expensive in New Zealand
- Copper networks face price discrimination
- Ask not for whom the telco levy tolls….
- Trans-Tasman mobile roaming regulation coming
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