Devices for school: A buying guide for parents
Hardware Damian Funnell Hardware Damian Funnell

Devices for school: A buying guide for parents

For most of us, mince pies and Christmas carols appearing at the supermarket are the first reminders that Christmas is around the corner. For me, it’s the inevitable flood of inquiries from friends, customers and other acquaintances about what devices they should be buying for their kids for school next year.

Like me, many of these acquaintances stuff next year’s device into this year’s Christmas stocking to make that stocking a bit fuller and, I guess, to make the device feel a bit less like a grudge purchase.

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Are ‘business-grade’ fibre connections worth it?
Connectivity Damian Funnell Connectivity Damian Funnell

Are ‘business-grade’ fibre connections worth it?

Today New Zealand has some of the fastest, most reliable internet connections in the world, but when ultra-fast broadband (UFB) was launched in 2009 we had some of the worst internet connection speeds in the OECD.

So now, if you’re a small or medium business owner that’s choosing an internet connection, what should you do?

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