Tech news: VR update and "Netflix for live music"
Some cool applications for VR technology in art and filmmaking; Google wants you to share your location data with you friends; and a new concert subscription service is dubbed "Netflix for live… Audio
Tech news with Peter Griffin
Claims of misinformation over Spark's wireless broadband performance; Google's crackdown on fake news; and could political bias skew our internet search results - and even our elections? Audio
Putting the Shattered Mirror back together
A government-ordered review of Canada's news media has proposed bold changes to ease the problems they're facing - the same issues the media here are grappling with too. Mediawatch talks to a Canadian… Video, Audio
Putting the Shattered Mirror back together
A government-ordered review of Canada's news media has proposed bold changes to ease the problems they're facing - the same issues the media here are grappling with too. Mediawatch talks to a Canadian…
Video, AudioOECD tax policy director explains tax loopholes
Pascal Saint-Amans, Director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration at the OECD, says he's trying to "put sense back into the system". Audio
Govt cracking down on tax dodging multi nationals
The Government is moving to match OECD initiatives to collect more tax, at revenue source, from multi-nationals like Google and Apple. It's estimated they dodge around $300 million a year. Video, Audio
Tech news: Fake Twitter accounts & Android Instant Apps
Tech correspondent Peter Griffin with news that Google is testing out Android Instant Apps amid a downturn in the global app-based economy. Also how a proliferation of massive bot networks on Twitter… Audio
What did New Zealanders Google this year?
New Zealanders Googled some fairly expected terms this year, but mass interest in others was mysterious.
The Importance of Well Made Clothes
Courtney Sanders is a Melbourne-based Kiwi and co-founder of Well Made Clothes. She talks to Sonia Sly about setting up an online ethical clothing business and a movement towards slow fashion. Audio
PM says public should be more worried about Google than spy age
The Prime Minister says the public should be more worried about companies like Google or Facebook than anything New Zealand's spy agencies are doing. Audio
Google more of a worry than spy agencies - PM
The public should be more worried about Google and Facebook than New Zealand's spy agencies, Prime Minister John Key says.
Google take over your home...and your phone!
Technology news with Peter Griffin and Google launches its new Pixel phone and a digital home assistant called (you've guessed it!) Home. Now search is anywhere and everywhere. Plus Facebook is hoping… Audio
Google unveils first own-brand phone in bid to take on Apple
Google has launched itself into the mobile phone market with its own brand phone, featuring a 12 mega pixel camera and unlimited photo storage. Video, Audio
Julia Powles: surveillance and secrecy
Kim Hill talks to Dr Julia Powles, from the Faculty of Law and Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, where she works on technology law and policy. She is a former contributing editor and… Audio
New technology with Mark Pesce
New technology with Mark Pesce who is discussing the release of Google's Daydream VR - which turns android devices into VR headsets - and Sony's upcoming release of the Playstation VR (PSVR). Audio
Tech giants turn down safe sext condom emoji
Facebook and Google are being irresponsible by refusing to install a condom emoji, the Aids Foundation says.
PWC's Elly Ward says no sweetheart tax deals in NZ
New Zealand does not offer generous tax deals to attract big global firms such as Apple, with experts saying the system is based on taxing all income earned here. Audio
Skewing our news - and screwing the business?
More and more of us have news fed to us from Facebook or we get it via Google. While they're making it easy to find what we want, they also influence which news and views we get - and the ones we… Audio
Skewing our news - and screwing the business?
More and more of us have news fed to us from Facebook or we get it via Google. While they're making it easy to find what we want, they also influence which news and views we get - and the ones we…
AudioMediawatch for 17 July 2016
A huge international survey has confirmed most of us are now getting our news via Google and Facebook - despite neither company producing any news of their own. Journalism academics Nathan Schneider…
