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Apple's latest gadets; The MacBook Air, The i-Watch, a new research app, and what this all means for Microsoft Audio
Tech News - with Paul Brislen
Digital payments, Wireless charging, Samsung vs Apple, And some of the more entertaining devices coming out: virtual reality for games, privacy glasses that stop facial recognition software from… Audio
Tech News with Paul Brislen
Today: Radiation, Bit rot and Lenovo putting rootkit software on its laptops. Audio
Tech News with Paul Brislen
Today we're talking telescopic contact lenses, more on the role of computers in schools and Sky's launch of Neon. Audio
Tech News with Paul Brislen
The Internet of things. TVs, cars and air conditioners already plug into the Internet but what happens when they're joined by toasters, fridges, microwaves and, eventually, milk, toilet paper and rice… Audio
Online with Paul Brislen
The Cloud - Paul talks about what it is (marketing) and what it isn't (the answer to everything). BYODs (bring your own devices) at school and the controversy around parents paying for devices… Audio
Online with Paul Brislen
Including: The big Facebook outage last night, Apple's new i-Watch and it's record profit, the cost of rural broadband, Google's investment in SpaceX, and the impending launch of Windows 10 Audio
New Technology with Paul Brislen
Paul Brislen discusses how to watch overseas TV shows without illegally downloading - getting around geo-blocking. Audio
Plan to introduce Digital Bill of Rights
The Labour Party says it wants to introduce a new law to protect people from on-line government surveillance. Audio
NZ paying a third more for phone and internet deals
New Zealanders are paying almost a third more for some phone and internet deals than the average for developed countries Audio
More on united front on copper broadband
Returning to our lead story, and political parties have united to block the Government from over-ruling the Commerce Commission on copper broadband prices. Audio
"Fair price" of copper broadband and voice services
Telecommunications Commissioner Dr Stephen Gale discusses the Commerce Commission's final determination on the `fair price' of copper broadband and voice services. Its draft decision was that they… Audio
Evening Business for 3 October 2013
The internet entreprener Kim Dotcom and Orcon have launched a campaign to get rid of broadband data caps, and lower internet prices. Mr Dotcom says the real problem is the high prices being charged by… Audio
The "Axe the Copper tax" campaign
Paul Brislen, CEO of Telecommunications Users Association of NZ; Mark Ratcliffe chief executive of Chorus; and John Small from Covec which wrote a report for the Coalition for Fair Internet Pricing. Audio
Government's internet pricing regime $600million over
A newly formed coalition says the Government's proposed pricing regime for broadband over copper wires amounts to a 600 million dollar transfer of wealth from New Zealand consumers to the telephone… Audio
Football going online a sign of end of network TV - TUANZ
The shift of top English football from pay television to online delivery on phones and laptops is being seen as a sign of the looming end of network TV. Audio
Telco lobby group says proposed legislation unnecessary
A lobby group says there is no need for a planned law change that would punish telecommunications companies which fail to co-operate with spy agencies. Audio
TUANZ says Telecom is well over-staffed
The scope of Telecom's potential job cuts has come as no surprise to people in the sector, with the head of the Telecommunications User's Association describing the company as over-staffed. Audio
New Technology with Paul Brislen
The fibre network rollout and how that's going; Technology in schools and the digital divide - why rural New Zealand is getting left behind. Audio