NZ Tech Podcast
Gadget and Technology News and Opinions (with a New Zealand flavour)

Episode 121: Telecom 4G LTE, Facebook Home, HP loses $96m NZ

This week we discuss Facebook Home, Telecom’s 4G LTE news, HP’s massive loss in NZ, HP Moonshot server, new products from Panasonic including bone conduction headphones and the devices for the digital TV switchover.

We’re giving away three handsets as part of our audience survey:

• Google Nexus 4 (Kindly provided by 2degrees Mobile)
• HTC Windows Phone 8X (Kindly provided by Vodafone NZ)
• Nokia Lumia 920 (Kindly provided by Telecom NZ)

We’d value your assistance in completing our survey, please visit our Survey page here.

This episode hosted by Paul Spain (@paulspain) with guests Bill Bennett (@billbennettnz) and Paul Brislen (@paulbrislen).

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Episode 120: The big smartphone giveaway, Telco news both good and bad

This week we discuss our big smartphone giveaway, TelstraClear disappears, HD Voice, Telecom UFB announcement and large job cuts, finalists announced for the Hi-Tech Awards and sad news regarding 2degrees CEO Eric Hertz.

We’re giving away three handsets as part of our audience survey:

• Google Nexus 4 (Kindly provided by 2degrees Mobile)
• HTC Windows Phone 8X (Kindly provided by Vodafone NZ)
• Nokia Lumia 920 (Kindly provided by Telecom NZ)

We’d value your assistance in completing our survey, please visit our Survey page here.

This episode hosted by Paul Spain (@paulspain) with guest Sim Ahmed of Idealog/StopPress (@simantics).

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Episode 89: iPhone 5, 2degrees buyout, Windows 8 tablet prices, Honda IMA Civic

Following Apple’s iPhone 5 announcement we discuss the details along with other mobile related stories including rumours of a possible 2degrees Mobile buyout. Honda’s IMA Civic Sedan is in the spotlight as we delve further into car technology with Israel Wotton. And we review the initial pricing for Windows 8 tablets thanks to new details from Acer.

You can follow our host and guests via Twitter, Facebook or Google+. This week we featured Paul Spain (@paulspain) along with guest Nate Dunn (@nate) and Israel Wotton.

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Episode 81: Game of Codes, UFB, Mars landing, 2degrees hits 1 million

Local topics this week include 2degrees growth, Pacific Fibre’s shutdown, Snap and Telecom NZ Ultra Fast Broadband and event Game of Codes. The big international topic is the landing of Curiosity on Mars (photos) – we also chat about what happened to Microsoft’s Metro design language and draw a winner for the Nokia Lumia 610.

You can follow our host and guests via Twitter, Facebook or Google+. This week we featured Paul Spain (@paulspain) along with Shane O’Connell (@Soconnellnz) and Sam Hogg (@samhogg).

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Episode 56: UFB pricing, 2degrees update, Windows 8 on ARM, Android on TouchPad

This episode the NZ Tech Podcast we discuss Ultra Fast Broadband and new prices detailed via our website, 2degrees market share increase, a visit to Orcon, Microsoft India hacking, Google Wallet issues, Sony Vita, Windows 8 on Arm, Samsung Tablet/phone bundle and Andoid on HP TouchPad.

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NZ Tech Podcast: Episode 26

This week we talk about Mac OS X Lion issues, Blackberry Playbook, HP Touchpad, fake Flash Player for Mac, Patent problems, Google+, the Jawbone JamBox and 2degrees hotspot.

We also interview Roland Ng from HP (in Silicon Valley) about WebOS.

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