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- Security software: how to know if you need it
- Smart homes: For people who love to tinker
- And Timely makes four, as overseas buyers snap up NZ tech firms
- Pandemic tablet sales boom rolls over into 2021
- UK spy chief: “For better cybersecurity, the west has to go it alone”
- 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 PC sales in 2020 as NZers worked, studied at home
- 10-years of NZ Tech Podcast: The Past, Present, Future of Tech – Part 2 – NZ Tech Podcast
- 2020 a good year for tablet sales
- 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
- Biased algorithm behind UK exam mess
- NZ Tech Podcast: New kit, Huawei chip woes, TCF report
- 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
- When a desktop computer 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 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
- Why Microsoft’s ritzy Surface Laptop 3 costs a fortune
- The great virtual private network con job
- Apple iPad must be doing something right
- After 10 years of iPad, Apple fans slam iPadOS
- Online crooks ransom Travelex
- EU mulls five-year ban on face recognition in public areas
- 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
- China to introduce face scans for mobile users – BBC News
- Sign-in with Apple means privacy, security
- Self-driving car a let-down for Wozniak
- Gartner: Enterprise switches to open internet
- Hacking the Treasury, or not
- Microsoft reports strong third-quarter
- Schools moving to the cloud
- New iPad, Mac models; odd choices
- Apple’s profits sour and deep fakes get deeper
- Unisys Security Index: Digital identity fear barrier
- Unisys Security Index: World worries on, New Zealand relaxes
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2018: A journalist’s first impressions
- Why New Zealand needs a 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
- New Zealanders cool on data analytics
- 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
- Crypto-currencies, tulips, market bubbles
- How to choose the right cloud storage plan
- When cloud becomes normal infrastructure
- 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
- IBM says Macs cost less than PCs
- Frazer Scott: Microsoft technology, digital transformation
- Jucy’s Tristin King on ugly choices and being more like Apple
- Technology, for better or worse, top of mind with NZ bosses
- Incremental change, dealing with disruption
- Huawei: Wolf packs lead digital era industries
- Slow path to smart city: Huawei Connect
- Huawei: Let a thousand clouds blossom
- Datacom surges to a billion dollar business
- Main data theft threat is inside, overlooked
- Consider government open source, don’t mandate it
- New Zealand companies and government tenders
- What hasn’t been said about MYOB buying Greentree
- Tablet sales continue to fall, Windows is coming
- Oracle takes cloud shortcut, overpays for Netsuite
- Where Open Source fits in New Zealand
- 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
- Falling PC sales: From bad to worse
- Microsoft readies 22% NZ enterprise cloud price hike
- Delighted data centre contract awarded to a New Zealand company
- TradeMe faces margin pressure as business matures
- When Dick Smith Electronics lost the plot
- Spark buys South Island cloud gem: CCL
- Microsoft breaks unlimited OneDrive promise
- Michael Dell explains his US$67 billion EMC bet
- Dell and EMC: Twilight of the gods
- Harvey Norman shoppers ‘may have a case’
- IBM reinvention: New business lines falter as old ones die
- Xero engine pulling NZ 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
- Where open data meets open government…
- Github: when to choose closed or open source
- Decision makers ignore technology impact
- Open is about more than transparency
- How big data helps Skinny manage its customer base
- Tackling data sovereignty
- Catalyst offer competitive open source cloud in New Zealand
- 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
- Let them (NZ government workers) use Chromebooks
- Clare Curran attacks tech price gougers
- Google Drive for Work, more than unlimited storage
- PowerbyProxi in pole position as wireless charging takes off
- Ministries, DHBs spend $2 million plus on XP extended support
- Oracle ends year on bum note
- Xero milestone: $100 million
- The siren song of private clouds
- Picking a cloud accounting service
- Productivity Commission prefers overseas cloud computing
- What cloud service companies don’t tell you about hardware
- What does it take for government to buy NZ-made technology?
- Ask Bill: Which Chromebook?
- SAP revenue falls as cloud picks up steam
- IBM hardware sales stumble
- Explaining New Zealand’s Cloud Code
- Xero upbeat as losses double
- Commercialising New Zealand science
- My Epic Christchurch experience
- Datacom shows entrepreneurial DNA
- MYOB aims to rekindle flame with cloud, price
- Westpac’s premature Google Glass app
- Can cloud computing revive IT dinosaurs?
- IBM late cloud play aims for Amazon catch up
- Three non-obvious predictions for 2014
- Oracle hardware losses reduced
- Fronde says traditional IT locked into outdated models
- Google-only day seven: Living on a cloud
- App stores, it’s not about the numbers
- Transport and logistics to lead internet of things charge
- iWorks iCloud, Office Web Apps collaboration
- Time to move on from Windows XP
- Amazon AWS unit pushes for NZ start-up business
- IITP2013: Ed Robinson taking NZ tech business global
- Brendan Lynch on gaining customer trust in the cloud era
- Vocus expands NZ footprint with Albany data centre
- How Xero’s capital raising was reported
- Unisys Forward: Fabric beyond mainframes
- Auldhouse: Leaving Gen-i makes us nimble
- Big demand for Vocus AWS service
- New Zealand, the view from Silicon Valley
- Born global best for NZ start-ups
- Free Microsoft Office 365 for non-profits
- MYOB cloud uptake 50%
- BNZ launches PayClip phone card reader
- Adobe Creative Cloud pricing
- Christchurch’s Interpret rides geospatial wave
- The Wellington effect | from the Moxie Sessions
- Cloud computing devices: the new thinner clients
- New Zealand’s export-quality cloud code
- SAP parachutes cloud into NZ
- Ten things we learned from NetHui 2013
- Data sovereignty in New Zealand
- Ballmer must go for Microsoft to stay relevant
- How’s the hardware thing going Oracle?
- Stop talking about e-mail
- Cloud computing not a passing fad
- Bitcoin barmy army
- Gracewood spells it out on enterprise usability
- Technology price gouging in New Zealand
- Telecom NZ does not need Yahoo
- Big data, stupid term
- The odds of a Dell buyout
- How Google Drive compares with SkyDrive, Dropbox
- 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?
- Sadly, not just “Everything’s broken and nobody’s upset”
- After a year with Xero
- Zettabytes of data: Most is still rubbish
- Is your business future proof?
- When TradeMe beats Freecycle
- Frustrating Freecycle fails to deliver, struggles to take
- Data storage: Most of it is junk
- Auckland electricity still needs fixing
- What is Open Source?
- Unravelling Gartner’s Hype Cycle
media
- Digital Boost launch, could AI shorten the work week | RNZ
- Why New Zealand’s booming games industry needs help
- iOS users vote no to Facebook app tracking
- Facebook’s whingey ad-tracking response
- Spy boss warnings, ransomware surge – Hear me on RNZ Nine-to-Noon
- A look at Facebook’s vulnerability
- Australia’s muddle-headed media law
- Exam algo bias, fighting back against boss snooping | RNZ
- Quibi: Blink and you might miss it
- 400 advertisers boycott Facebook over hate speech
- Google, Facebook pay less tax in New Zealand than Australia
- Turns out I’m almost certainly a bot
- Lack of local technology news damages industry
- Benedict Evans on the virtual reality winter
- Facebook, Google to share revenue with Australian media
- Why you need your own domain name
- Using journalism’s tools to save it
- 8K TV: Why you’d be daft to buy one
- The ebook revolution that didn’t happen
- NZ chief science advisor 5G site not up to the job
- Online subscriptions: the second digital divide
- Zuckerberg undermines Facebook privacy plan
- New Zealand, France to halt social media terror promotion
- Sky TV deserves My Box video piracy win
- Still a place for non-phone cameras
- Hard copy books: Still big everywhere, bigger in NZ
- Football deal highlights Spark Sky TV threat
- Dealing with the pay wall economy
- Framing Facebook: It’s not about technology
- Less news in Facebook News Feed revamp
- Sky TV fights piracy battle that’s already been won
- The case for RSS — MacSparky
- Duck Duck Go versus Google juggernaut
- HTC faces backlash over keyboard pop-up ads
- Concerns about smart speakers are real
- Indieweb for journalists
- New Zealand’s broadband television end game in sight
- Journalists too mean to tech companies
- Throw Yahoo mail overboard now
- Facebook not the media messiah
- New Zealand Herald digital — newspaper without paper
- Media should unfriend Facebook
- How New Zealanders get raw deal from international media
- Dick Smith spam abuse begins
- Talking UFB on RNZ Nine to Noon
- Premier League Pass: Miss you already
- Ad-blocking trend highlights online publishing dilemma
- Global Mode: No winners, only losers
- Farewell Randal Jackson
- Duck Duck Go undercooked in New Zealand
- Apple Music: What New Zealanders will pay
- Netflix, Quickflix, Lightbox, Neon: An interim market
- Kia Ora Netflix
- New Zealand technology journalism: the twilight years
- Journalism doing fine — mass-media business models ailing
- Sky TV highlights its monopoly by silencing competitor
- Apple iPod Touch: Cheaper, more colours
- Google gouges as Chromebox hits NZ
- Google Plus turning negative
- How did my legal digital music project go?
- An ethical amount of tech shares for a journalist
- 3D printing: Hype or truly transformative?
- When I worked on the NBR Rich List
- In praise of Wiki New Zealand
- NetHui 2013: The real trouble with journalism
- My digital music goes straight
- Subscriptions, not paywalls
- Dymocks exits ebook publishing after 15 months
- Tech experts’ predictions from 1999
- Why I use WordPress.com not WordPress.org
- Auckland SkyTower: The price is height
- Leanpub – a wonderful eBook publishing model
- Why printed books will never die
- Fairfax to go digital-only
- Mobile news readers
- Reputation management, online advertising: not a good mix
- Two ways to get attention: advertising, publicity
- 10 best Twitter practices for Twitter for journalists
- Hot cross bun inflation
- Harold Evans’ ‘inescapable reciprocity’
- 20 public relations tips every journalist should read
- NZ media live blogging
- The law of incorrect tweets
- Dealing with journalists when you want publicity
- When live-blogging works
- Testing if readers will buy online news
- False power of exclusive press release
- Dealing with grumpy editors
- The Guardian’s steampunk newspaper website
- Predictable press releases
- BBC contribution to online journalism
- When journalists quote
- No copyright in newspaper headlines
- Ad-blocking hurts
- Print publishing business model primer
- How smart PR people think
- Online writing means losing bad habits
- How to write like an old-time journalist
- Platform is a fancy way of saying ‘thing’
- Checking Wired’s reality check
- When ignorance is clever
- What does this mean for the channel?
- Fairfax’s bloated, overweight Stuff
- The Australian stops tweets from iiNet trial
- Publishing business: Advertising sales revenue
- Publishing business models: Where the money comes from
- Fresh perspective on online newspapers
- Kindle: Fairfax, News Corp say no to Amazon ebooks
- Twitter enters hype cycle’s trough of disillusionment
- One way the newspaper paywall could work: Sport
- Fairfax to follow Murdoch, charge for online news
- This content is classified: from The Bulletin 1999
- More on Twitter journalism
- Why people read less online than with print
- Twitter journalism but sound-to-noise ratio an issue
- Reader donations for print
- Micropayments for online reading
- What music can teach journalists
- New Zealand technology press users’ guide: updated
- Ten tips to make sure your press release fails
- New Zealand’s technology press
- Without fear or favour | The Australian
- How to get publicity for your business
- PC World New Zealand
- Journalist bloggers
- Music industry blames net for falling music sales
mobile
- 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
- Phones – less choice than you might think
- 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 sales
- 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 makers face difficult year
- Smartwatch sales grow, Apple dominates
- 5G to dominate mobile carrier thinking
- iPhone SE 2020: A phone that’s right for lockdown times
- Galaxy Z Flip brings notification relief
- Foldable phones impressive, useful, but hold off on buying
- Android after Huawei: No winners
- Gartner: 5G arrival 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
- Apple hit hardest as phone sales fall
- Galaxy Fold woes deepen for Samsung
- iPad Mini review: Size is its charm
- 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
- Changing face of worldwide phone market
- Mobile World Congress: 5G, folding phones, Huawei politics
- Huawei’s brand is the least of your phone problems
- Spectrum buy catapultes Dense Air into NZ cellular
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2018: A journalist’s first impressions
- Targus Fitness Backpack review: Laptops and gym gear
- Still a place for non-phone cameras
- Huawei Mate 20 Pro classy 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
- Dragon Anywhere review: Impressive iPhone dictation
- Premium phone price rise well ahead of inflation
- Galaxy Note 9 offers longer life, bigger screen
- 5G spectrum jockeying begins
- Spark to start New Zealand 5G network build by 2020
- 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
- Oppo R11s: high-end Android, budget price
- Time to take Apple’s 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
- Less fone, more tech as Vodafone gets brand make-over
- 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
- Protecting the 12.9-inch iPad Pro: Covers, sleeves
- 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
- Spark, 2degrees 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
- Samsung woes see Apple regain NZ phone crown
- Apple, Microsoft dominate NZ slate sales
- Android won’t save Nokia or Blackberry
- Apple back at top, but Chinese brands phone market winners
- Oppo phones coming to New Zealand
- Lenovo Miix 510: A Surface Pro 4 for less
- Understanding Apple’s MacBook Pro Touch Bar
- Surface Book underlines the hybrid problem
- Smartwatches not ticking with customers
- Samsung brand suffers from Galaxy Note 7 woes
- No allergy worries with Apple Watch Series 2
- BlackBerry phone business ends not with a bang but a whimper
- Google Pixel phone, Home speaker sideline New Zealand
- Samsung, Apple, Huawei tighten phone market grip
- Phone glory years behind us
- Samsung dials up exploding phone problem
- Class of 2016: The best ultraportable
- Huawei P9 review: Premium phone, sharp price
- Hybrid PC sales still need kickstart
- NZ phone market 2016Q2 — Apple stumbles, Huawei leaps
- Review: HP Elite Thunderbolt 3 Dock
- Samsung leads in phone sales but Apple, Huawei still winners
- Smartwatches a geek ghetto
- New Zealand number six nation for mobile connectivity
- 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
- How the iPhone meteor killed dinosaur PCs
- Spark winner as NZ mobile spectrum ownership shifts
- Subdued reaction to Apple iPhone SE launch
- This will be the year of 4.5G
- 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
- Huawei reveals business class MateBook
- Android Priv fails to revive BlackBerry
- iPhone sales growth flattens as market matures
- BrydgeAir iPad keyboard review – sturdy alternative
- Argumentum ad populum doesn’t work for tech
- Nexus 6P: Android thoughts
- Nexus 6P: Huawei and Google show Android potential
- Microsoft’s Betamax phone operating system
- The time I should have had faith in the iPad Pro
- Today’s handset is much more than a phone
- Sony Xperia Z5 review: Fast camera, two-day battery
- An Android phone is not going to revive BlackBerry
- Android hardware makers stare into profitless abyss
- Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+, Note 5 models
- P8 launches with Huawei screen repair promise
- Dell XPS 13 review: 2015’s best Ultrabook
- No Android phone is worth NZ$1000
- LG G4: A better Android flagship phone
- When even a MacBook Air is too big
- Huawei steps out on super-smart path to 5G — NZ Herald
- 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
- Asus Transformer T300 Chi — Windows 2-in-1
- Showing BlackBerry Classic on Firstline
- BlackBerry — the undead phone brand
- Samsung Galaxy S6: It all hinges on price
- BlackBerry Classic: Steampunk phone
- How to decide between Apple iPhone 6, 6 Plus
- Dealing with the Android security risk
- Why people won’t try Windows Phone
- Survey: Mobile tech spurs new productivity definition
- Apple’s modest New Zealand iPhone 6 mark-up
- A challenge of smartphones, a desperation of smart watches
- Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Note Edge
- Apple, Microsoft — two tablet visions
- Stalling tablet sales
- Feature phones
- Android brand problem a Google headache
- BlackBerry’s weird Passport
- Nokia Lumia 930 – Microsoft’s flagship phone
- 2degrees fires up Auckland 4G, North Shore has to wait
- Blackberry: I thought I heard a heartbeat
- Samsung goes for giant phone approach with Galaxy Tab S
- Toshiba readies low price Windows 8 tablets
- Stumbling towards the ideal screen size
- MBIE responds to NZ mobile spectrum question
- New Zealand carriers mobile spectrum holdings
- Motorola Moto X: A first look at the anti-Galaxy Android
- Wearable computers not ready yet
- Samsung didn’t copy Apple’s greatest feature
- Westpac NZ claims world first finger scan banking
- Samsung sees Knox as key to enterprise Android
- Review: Snugg leather iPad cover and flip stand
- Apple, Samsung monopolise phone profits
- Toshiba Chromebook lands in New Zealand at NZ$480
- Smartphone market share myths
- Government to sell left over 700 MHz spectrum
- NZ mobile market flowers thanks to competition
- Gen-i offers Knox secure BYOD on Samsung mobiles
- Why Westpac’s new online bank looks like iOS 7
- Westpac builds online banking for any device
- BlackBerry pitches BBM
- Big screen BlackBerry Z30 means another roll of the dice
- Why I don’t want a hybrid
- Three weeks with the BlackBerry Z10
- BlackBerry Secure Work Space on Android, iOS
- MacBook Air or Microsoft Surface Pro?
- BlackBerry Z10 hits New Zealand
- Five odd aspects of Microsoft’s iPhone Office 365
- Which mobile OS – iOS, Android, Windows Phone or Blackberry?
- Coming to grips with the Blackberry Z10
- Samsung Galaxy S4 or Nokia Lumia 920?
- Five technologies small business should use everyday
- HP ElitePad 900 hints at future tablets
- HP ElitePad 900 display backward compatibility
- Data use fueling mobile growth
- Korean telcos: Beware the curse of 4G Internet
- Windows Phone Store has 130K apps
- Nokia result shows mountain to climb
- Cisco: Mobile data appetite doubled in size in 2012
- Nokia Lumia 920: Flying business class
- Travelling with Lumia 920
- Wireless charging Nokia Lumia 920
- Blackberry 10: RIM’s last chance
- Fixing Windows Phone 8
- Would you switch bank for a phone app?
- Nokia’s Lumia 920 through a journalist’s lens
- Lumia 920: An Office in your pocket
- Galaxy Note II: mine’s bigger than yours
- Passing peak-BYOD
- Telecom marks turf with Windows Phone 8 launch
- Why BYOD won’t be a problem for long
- One computer in four a tablet
- Windows Phone 8, is it compelling enough?
- Tablets: all about Wi-Fi, not cellular
- ThinkPad: 20 years of business class laptops
- Ultrabooks flop
- HTC One X review: Android’s latest champion
- Three ways Windows Phone 7.5 beats Android
- One problem reviewing phones… frustration
- Three weeks with the Lumia 800
- Blackberry deathwatch
- Samsung top phone brand in New Zealand
- Netbooks dead, blame tablets
- Ebook readers make me weep
- From 2007: My take on the Palm T|X
- HTC Sensation, Huawei Ideos X5 compared
- Three weeks with the Huawei Ideos X5
- Paper business cards still popular
- The best netbook for porn?
productivity
- 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
- Rowan Simpson on Callaghan’s legacy
- Remote work monitoring hurts performance
- 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
- 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
- We’re scared of online threats, don’t do enough about it
- HP Thunderbolt Dock 120W G2 review – Sound and vision
- EliteBook x360 review: secure, tiny business convertible
- Logitech Slim Combo iPad Pro keyboard review
- Dragon Anywhere review: Impressive iPhone dictation
- Surface Go: Tempting, but no iPad challenger
- PC shipments up: Recovery or dead cat bounce?
- Apple, Android, phones and productivity
- How Google can seize Microsoft Office crown
- Windows no longer Microsoft’s main focus
- Time to take Apple’s 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 Microsoft Office files
- Protecting the 12.9-inch iPad Pro: Covers, sleeves
- Push notifications: A productivity killer
- Acorn 6: MacOS image editing for the rest of us
- Still living in a Notification hell – Om Malik
- Duet Display uses iPad to extend Mac, PC
- PC sales could be worse
- 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
- Understanding Apple’s MacBook Pro Touch Bar
- Xero adds Apple Pay
- UFB fuels Xero Hawke’s Bay move
- Microsoft double-dipping with Outlook.com ads
- IBM says Macs cost less than PCs
- 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
- Windows 10 one year on
- Class of 2016: The best ultraportable
- Hybrid PC sales still need kickstart
- Why consumer PC sales will never rebound
- Review: LibreOffice 5.2 — solid, unpolished alternative
- Thoughts on iPad-only the new desktop Linux
- Review: HP Elite Thunderbolt 3 Dock
- Brands plan survival tactics as personal computer sales tumble
- Smartwatches a geek ghetto
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- Talking UFB on RNZ Nine to Noon
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- New Zealand among fastest fibre adopters
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- Copper price crimps Chorus profit, dividend returns
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- Huawei steps out on super-smart path to 5G — NZ Herald
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- Fishy numbers say NZ entry-level broadband among most expensive
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- NZ telcos wince as they foot rural bill
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- Another cable won’t lower NZ internet costs
- NZ broadband beats Australia again
- A better plan for 2degrees
- New Zealand’s Fastest ISPs 2014
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- Telecom becomes Spark on August 8
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- Vocus, FX Networks: Telecomms consolidation goes regional
- Vodafone NZ testing Nokia small cell technology
- 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’s stingy Wi-Fi
- If 2degrees can’t afford 700 MHz spectrum, it can’t afford Orcon
- New Zealand carriers mobile spectrum holdings
- Mobile broadband costs killing New Zealand competitiveness
- Unfinished business in NZ 700 MHz band
- Rolleston: New Zealand’s fibre town
- Whangarei: New Zealand’s first fibre city
- Telecom NZ’s Cook Islands sale all part of the bigger picture
- What does Vodafone know about Ultrafast Broadband anyway?
- Commerce Commission, UCLL pricing and referees
- When should we rip out the copper network?
- New Zealand UFB compared to Google fibre
- Fibre uptake builds as project reaches 25% milestone
- NZ lags fixed mobile substitution
- Telecom adds gigabit Wi-fi to hotspot network
- BlackBerry OS updated with security, FM radio
- Akamai reports NZ broadband speed up 36 percent
- Here is why Telecom NZ paid $83m for 4G spectrum
- Ovum calls for copper broadband network shutdown
- Chorus after Ernst & Young report
- Telecom NZ happy as Slingshot fined for customer slamming
- Telecom NZ AAPT sale – the big picture
- Chorus: The worst case scenario
- 2degrees on spectrum and mobile competition
- Telecom NZ reports fibre broadband sale spike
- Chorus takes copper price review to High Court
- Government humbled as Chorus copper price debacle deepens
- Lync will disrupt in 2014: Frost & Sullivan
- Telecom NZ hotspot network points to Wi-Fi future
- Government to sell left over 700 MHz spectrum
- Alcatel-Lucent questions FTTP goal, NZ next?
- Hawaiki goes the extra 4000 km
- UFB subscription rate ticks up as big ISPs ramp sales
- Android hits 81% smartphone market share, Windows grows
- Vodafone innovation chief: It’s not about devices
- Telecom NZ 4G starts with 40,000 sim cards
- NZ mobile market flowers thanks to competition
- How Vodafone improves call quality with HD Voice
- Chorus shareholders hate Commerce Commission ruling on wholesale copper access prices
- Commerce Commission bumps copper access price $2
- Apple, Microsoft sue Google, Android phone makers
- Making sense of the 700 MHz spectrum auction
- New Zealand’s 700 MHz auction starts today
- Amy Adams defends TICS, copper intervention
- Vocus chairman David Spence on Ultrafast Broadband
- Vodafone marks enterprise turf with TelstraClear
- Himatangi Beach covered as RBI reaches halfway point
- Competition sees Vodafone bump 4G speeds
- NZ mobile phone sales: The end of the golden weather
- Did New Zealand spend $1.5 billion on a network for Sky TV?
- Lincoln University: Lync is our telephone system
- New Zealand moves up tech development index
- Telecom NZ 4G next month, no extra charge
- Kim Dotcom says NZ internet is third world
- Snap extends UFB footprint
- Vodafone TV adds secret sauce to home fibre
- Why Telecom NZ doesn’t oppose government copper intervention
- Hawaiki signs cable-laying contract
- French expert says NZ Government drove too hard a bargain on UFB
- Government tips $15 m into submarine cable
- Big demand for Vocus AWS service
- New Chorus van; 256 GB compact flash; Dell; Box Notes
- Chorus and UFB a political football
- WiGig: what is it and when will we see it?
- Looking beyond Chorus Gigatown promotion
- Kordia profit climbs post-Orcon
- Lance Wiggs parlays Pacific Fibre experience into Punakaiki
- Simon Moutter interview part 2: A level playing field on GCSB
- Simon Moutter: Telecom operating at speed of life
- TPG sing as Hawaiki edges closer
- Chorus to offer faster residential UFB within year
- Vodafone UFB soft-launched
- Southern Cross complete trans-Pacific cable upgrade
- Hawaiki deal revives trans-Pacific cable excitement
- NetHui 2013: Quinn Norton’s chaotic, swirling 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
- Telecom NZ boosts phone booth wi-fi hotspots
- New Zealand’s expensive mobile data
- New Zealand’s Telecommunications Intercept Bill and Huawei
- NZ fibre uptake: not bad
- Hurting copper does not help fibre network
- Vodafone NZ: about your 4G business model
- New Zealand shows Australia how to do FTTP
- Don’t expect NZ digital spectrum windfall
- Telecom, Vodafone promise Auckland-Sydney cable
- Ultrafast broadband woes
- Government shouldn’t price discriminate against copper
- VDSL price, New Zealand’s missed broadband opportunity
- Ask not for whom the telco levy tolls….
- Trans-Tasman mobile roaming regulation coming
- New Zealand’s submarine cable debate
- 2degrees astroturfing
- Never mind the quality, feel the bandwidth
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- Content is barbarism
- Why you should have your own website
- iA Writer 5.2: Simple text editor, great writing tool
- iA Writer 5 review: When you want words without fuss
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- Trolling, dumb-arsed headline questions
- What I want from blogging tools
- Plain English is radical
- E-books harder to read, hard to comprehend
- Word processor software still geared to print
- How to blog like an old school journalist: Wordcamp
- RSS — for when you can’t miss news
- Finding stories in spreadsheets
- My books listed on Google Books
- When brands choose funny typography
- Maybe I’m not, not doing SEO
- Passive voice useful for web headlines
- How bad press releases are a public relations own goal
- Capital letters and product names
- Verb of attribution
- Ten best social media practices for journalists
- Text editor tribute at 10,000 Words
- Does giving up on SEO mean ignoring Google Webmaster Tools
- Greetings and salutations: How to address mail
- Why I don’t like the term ICT
- BBC contribution to online journalism
- A thesaurus with short words
- Narcissistic capitals
- Less is more with back-to-basics text processing
- Why corporate writing is crap, please stop it
- When journalists quote
- Not issues: problems, stuff-ups, failures
- Word 2010: distraction free word processor
- Distraction free writing with Q10
- Get straight to the point when writing online
- Five tips for writing great technology case studies
- How to write a great technology case study
- Wasteline test your writing
- Writing for the web in 300 words
- What to do when an interviewee talks like a robot
- Technology writing for beginners
- Pin facts down with concrete nouns
- Microsoft Word’s missing feature
- Good morning, g’day, kia ora, how are you?
- Better academic writing means better thinking
- Online writing means losing bad habits
- Full stops beat commas
- Why I like short words
- Jargon doesn’t make you look smarter
- If it sounds like writing, rewrite
- Livescribe SmartPen – paperless journalist’s dream
- Johnny Moore tyranny of the explicit
- Said will do
- Forget company history in business writing
- Passion is a cliché – give it a rest, say something new
- Navigating Americanisms and British English
- Google Docs for journalists and writing professionals
- Hartman’s Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation
- Using acronyms
- When Australian Net Guide had a sealed section
- Is Auckland a super city?
- Apostrophe errors undermine your writing
- Write with rhythm
- Snappy writing works best online
- Where you should use capital letters
- Go easy on adjectives
- Active voice
- Clear and simple writing is best
- Inverted pyramid writing
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- Companies are singular not plural
- Wanted: a distraction free Microsoft Word 2007
- Why geeks love text and so could you
- Mail messages starting with “good morning”
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