This week's top five stories on digitl

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Column: Bill Bennett

This week's top five stories on digitl

This week's top five stories in descending order of popularity.

by Bill Bennett
September 14, 2013
http://www.digitl.co.nz/771/top-five/

NZ developers mull Android, struggle to support multiple OSes. Before launching a new development suite, Embarcadero Technologies, tested the waters with a global market research survey. Breaking out the New Zealand numbers show our developers face the same problems as everyone else, but there are interesting differences.

Empty shelves at Apple NZ iPhone store. Apple got the usual headlines when it announced new iPhone models – no surprises there. It turns out New Zealand isn't at the front of the queue for the new kit, something that has interesting implications for the local Apple store.

Relatively-speaking Microsoft New Zealand gets a better TechEd crowd that its overseas counterparts. The reasons aren't obvious but as Microsoft New Zealand leads the TechEd pack reveals, the statistics reflect well on the local company and its ability to communicate with key customer groups

PayClip, a snap-on device from BNZ quickly turns everyday smartphones into mobile card readers. Small businesses are the target market. You can expect to see this device in taxis and out outdoor markets soon.

Sheldon Grizzle, The Company Lab founder visiting Auckland to promote Gigatown

Looking beyond Chorus’ Gigatown promotion. Can fibre revitalise an economy? Chorus brought Chattanooga's Sheldon Grizzle to New Zealand to explain how one run-down post-industrial city in the US came back from a near death experience on the back of a fast broadband network.

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