Stories by Jo Bennett

E-tales: beyond pizza — grub for serious gamers

New comms minister gets a life

Satellite TV brings hot science to schools

Top-flight biology students in rural and less well-endowed schools can now tap into the latest research to help them with their scholarship exams, via an innovative interactive satellite TV project.

Labour’s last-minute policy update: ICT apprenticeships to bump up skills

With just two days to go before the election, Labour has come up with an updated ICT policy. Although much of it repeats earlier promises of a fast broadband network that will reach most New Zealanders it also focuses on skills development — with the aid of an ICT apprenticeship scheme.

E-tales: Be afraid… be very afraid

Do you know who I am?

E-tales - modesty stripper

Geek election

Beca shows the way with Facebook-era comms

Engineering company Beca is embracing the newest communications technologies to stay in touch with subsidiaries around the world and with young engineers on their “overseas experience” who might return once, as CIO Robin Johansen puts it, their “homing pigeon instinct” kicks in.

E-tales: Wonky Vodafone

Boys will be boys

E-tales: Nerds get more sex — potentially

Toxic recycling

E-tales: Office culture goes really green

Office culture goes really green

E-tales: LHC and pizza2go

WOW — art meets science

Japanese ‘disrupter’ labels Kiwi broadband ‘retarded’

How low can you go when it comes to telecomms pricing? Much, much lower than you think, judging by figures put forward by serial telco entrepreneur Dr Sachio Semmoto, the keynote speaker at Auckland’s recent TUANZ II conference, who calls New Zealand’s broadband markets “retarded”.

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