billbennett (@billbennett) on T2

Business and technology journalist working in New Zealand. Started out writing about music, moved to more general news, then, in 1981, began writing about computers. Main areas of focus are telecommunications, business use and productivity.

Auckland, New Zealandhttps://billbennett.co.nz

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Joined April 2023 into #lifeboatT2 via @richard

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Ten years ago on my site there were discussions about trans-Pacific (New Zealand to the US) latency on submarine cables. billbennett.co.nz/tasman-global-access/...

Tasman Global Access on trans-Pacific latency

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The Tasman Global Access team calculates the average latency for traffic from New Zealand to the USA via Australia is around 83 milliseconds

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billbennett.co.nz/ia-presenter-launch/... Ironic that an alternative to Powerpoint should turn up at a time when I'm not doing many presentations.

iA Presenter: A different way to build a slide deck

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iA Presenter launches today. It is a new tool for building presentations or slide decks using Markdown and plain text. For now it is Mac-only.

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When I’m not working, I write electronic music. Here’s something I wrote this week: soundcloud.com/spiteful-horses/spiteful-horses-bricolage-29-05-23...

Bricolage

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Listen to Bricolage by Spiteful Horses #np on #SoundCloud

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Have installed Matomo to handle the analytics on my website instead of Google Analytics. It means my site billbennett.co.nz... will no longer enable other people to spy on you.

Bill Bennett

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Home of the Download Weekly, the New Zealand telecommunications newsletter – also covers personal productivity tools and local technology issues.

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Could not watch this morning's Champions League semi-final because I let my Spark Sport streaming account lapse after my team was knocked out of the tournament and I didn't want to pay $25 a month for the handful of remaining games which would have worked out at ~ $17 per match.

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If you are on a tight budget and looking for decent Bluetooth sounds, Sony’s NZ$89 WH-CH520 headphones are hard to walk past. billbennett.co.nz/sony-wh-ch520-review/... From last month on my site.

Sony WH-CH520 review: Low-cost Bluetooth headphones

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Decent sounding headphones from a known brand at a low price. While there are few features, you won’t find better headphones for under NZ$100