Peter Griffin

You’ve seen the headlines by now – New Zealand businesses are working harder but producing less than their overseas counterparts, which is crimping...

YouTube is probably the best of the digital platforms to emerge during the Web 2.0 era. It certainly has the most utility in terms of education and entertainment and has fewer insidious elements than the likes of Facebook and Twitter.

In 2022, the Government signed a historic agreement granting Māori a share of radio spectrum suitable for 5G mobile services and a 20% share of all future commercial radio spectrum rights.It took decades of work by many figures in Māoridom to get to that point, following a Waitangi Tribunal ruling in 1986 that Māori had a legitimate claim to radio spectrum resources for broadcasting to help preserve te reo Māori.One of the people who helped get the deal with the Government over the line was Anto

CentrePort is set to host the country’s first commercial private 5G network later this year, in a bid to improve connectivity across Wellington’s busy port.

It's been a tumultuous first year for New Zealand's first artificial intelligence-focused company to list on the NZ Exchange (NZX).Following on from a r...

The coalition Government will unveil its maiden budget on Thursday, and the country has already been softened up to expect little in the way of significant new funding beyond what has already been announced in areas such as corrections, education,…

Industry body, the NZ Tech Alliance yesterday published a report highlighting an inconvenient truth for Aotearoa. We aren’t doing nearly enough to cut our greenhouse gas emissions to meet our 2050 net zero target. In fact, the Independent Climate…

Last week’s revelations about a 2021 breach of New Zealand’s parliamentary computers by state-sponsored Chinese hackers appear to be serving some larger Five Eyes public relations strategy to put pressure on China. Because the announcement of a…

They may generate around $7 billion in revenue annually between them, but Jarden’s financial analysis reveals how hard going it is for the three telcos at the heart of our digital economy.The investment firm’s analyst said last week that 2degrees,…

Next Article » « Back to Home Australia’s National Broadband Network is in trouble, shedding 500 staff to cut costs and with declining subscriber numbers as telcos tout rival 5G wireless broadband services. For years, the differences between the NBN…

Next Article » « Back to Home What a week it was for the tech community. It started with many of them fearing they may not be able to make this week’s payroll after the US Government moved to freeze the assets of the Silicon Valley Bank, a mid-sized…

Next Article » « Back to Home I guess it had to happen. China has begun cracking down on start-ups offering users running virtual private networks access to OpenAI’s vastly popular ChatGPT generative AI service. ChatGPT isn’t officially available in…

Next Article » « Back to Home The Government has foregone an auction process to allocate precious spectrum for 5G mobile services, instead allocating the three major telcos parcels of spectrum with 20-year usage rights. “With the expiry of short-term…

Given the hype that preceded 5G’s debut here in December 2019, you’d expect us all to be raving about blistering download speeds and innovative video applications by now. But the period dominated by the covid-19 pandemic turned out to be one of more…

Next Article » « Back to Home With the final publication of the Digital Strategy for Aotearoa, New Zealand finally has an overarching document outlining our aspirations for our place in the digital world and the actions we will take as a nation to…

Next Article » « Back to Home China’s Cyberspace Administration last week published general details of algorithms used by 30 of the country’s largest tech companies. The information appeared in Mandarin on a government website and didn’t give any…

Next Article » « Back to Home While our three mobile network operators are all currently operating limited 5G network coverage, some are already working on a new flavour of 5G that uses very high frequencies for more efficient data transfer. Spark…

Next Article » « Back to Home Vodafone and Spark have sold their networks of mobile towers delivering billions in cash to the companies and mirroring a trend in telecoms infrastructure happening around the world. Vodafone said yesterday it had stuck…

Next Article » « Back to Home It's a few years now since Huawei was blocked by our Government from building 5G mobile networks here. That was particularly problematic for mobile network operator 2Degrees, which had been able to enter the mobile…

Peter Griffin is a freelance science and technology writer. He was the founding director of the Science Media Centre and founding editor of Sciblogs.co.nz OPINION: Like most Wellingtonians, I was glad to see the protestors moved on from the grounds…