Starlink's direct to cell technology now used for One NZ's IoT network. Spark broadband price rise has consequences. Tuatahi ...

Spark delays 3G shutdown to March 2026 as rivals stick to earlier timelines. Also in this issue: the shift from VPNs to Zero ...

Australian warship disrupts wireless networks, Spark warns cloud adoption is stalling, Chorus updates its outage map, and 2degrees teams with Datacom. Plus: Freeview adds HD, and telcos react to ...

Learn why many writers find the iPad is better than a laptop and find out how to get started using it as your creative, digital typewriter. Apple didn't design the original iPad for writing. It was a ...

In the 1980s I worked on a magazine feature about the paperless office of the future. We interviewed people who said it was close. Any day now. We never got there. Today the printer remains essential.

New Zealand media on Twitter directory: Journalists, producers, editors, presenters and anyone else working at the sharp end.

At the end of September, fibre companies had 880,000 premises connected to their networks. There were 581,000 copper connections. Fibre connections were up 31 per cent on the year earlier. Copper ...

Showing a mobile phone on TV3 back when there still was a TV3 and when phone makers could get away with tiny screens. This is Bill Bennett’s technology and telecommunications news, opinion and ...

Microsoft pitches the NZ$800 Surface 3 as a laptop alternative. While it will fit the bill for some folk, Surface still has a way to go before it’s a realistic laptop replacement for most users. Let’s ...

To most people open source means free software. Anyone can download this kind of software without paying a fee. It doesn’t break any laws. You have the original developer’s permission to use it. You ...

“Anyone saying that Android apps on ChromeOS are a good experience is delusional.” In Chrome OS has stalled out, Dave Ruddock says Google’s Chrome OS has failed to live up to its potential. Ruddock is ...

Spark and Vodafone sell fixed wireless broadband as an alternative to fibre. The service is far from rubbish. Yet it isn’t up to the demands New Zealanders will make of it while spending more time at ...