Peter Griffin

A wearable can help someone recognise they are running on empty.

This week, Peter speaks with Roman Reyhani of the NZ Institute for Advanced Technology.

Its chef-led sales strategy has secured Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.

On this week’s episode, Peter speaks with Auckland University’s Frank Bloomfield.

On this week’s episode, Peter talks to Professor Susan Watson.

Odyssey has raised US$310m, valuing the startup at US$1.4b.

On this week’s episode, Peter talks to technologist Brandon Hutcheson.

The Ultrahuman offers a genuinely rich toolkit.

I feel like I’ve spent the year snapping foldable phones open and closed. The format accounts for only about 2% of global smartphone shipments. New models typically debut at more than $3,000. Still, with little innovation left to squeeze into the conventional smartphone, the industry seems hell-bent on making the foldable format stick.The Duo factorApple’s debut of the iPhone Duo this week was somewhat ridiculous given the insane entry-level price tag: $4,199, which makes it a device for the one

AI-driven price hikes for hardware mean it’s time to think smarter about replacing tech.

Apple’s budget laptop threatens to take another bite out of the Windows market.

Google has settled a class-action lawsuit in the US, agreeing to pay US$68 million (NZ$113.9m) to customers who claimed the search giant listened in on their phone conversations.The settlement was reached as Apple began making payments to US iPhone and iPad owners in a US$95m case. It also settled after being accused of using its Siri digital assistant to listen in on users.I can’t count the number of people who have related eerie ad coincidences to me. A friend was discussing a winter holiday g

Apple has always excelled at making new tech usable rather than being first with it.

AI feels gimmicky on smartphones, even if it is doing heavy lifting in the background.

Chinese smartphone maker Oppo is making an assertive play to shake up the $1.3 billion smartphone market in New Zealand, aiming to disrupt the long-standing duopoly of Samsung and Apple with a mix of tech innovation and brand-building efforts.In this week’s episode of The Business of Tech podcast, Oppo New Zealand managing director Morgan Halim shares insights on how the challenger brand, which claims around 10% of the local market, is reimagining what Kiwi consumers can expect from their device

Super-thin phones represent end-stage smartphone innovation.

NZTech touts the massive economic benefits of data centres, but the required renewables expansion to enable it is far from certain.

Epic Games scores a significant win over Apple and Google in an Australian court, while small ISPs roll out affordable broadband schemes and the government looks for a way to get us all paying road user charges.

AWS still plans to have its data centre region up and running this year despite significant delays as Big Tech has a bumper earnings season on the back of AI and cloud growth.

By now, you’ve probably participated in a video conference call that’s been recorded and automatically transcribed, with a meeting summary sent to you within seconds of the meeting ending.The likes of Teams, Otter, Zoom and Fireflies are using artificial intelligence to parse our language for insights and meaning, translating long, meandering meetings into useful summaries.But Christchurch startup Contented AI is taking this a step further, with its transcription app also mining conversations fo