22 Dec 2022

New technology with Bill Bennett

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 22 December 2022
Elon Musk Twitter page seen on mobile with his poll to step down as head of Twitter in this photo illustration, on 19 December 2022, in Brussels, Belgium (Photo illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto) (Photo by Jonathan Raa / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)

Photo: Jonathan Raa / NurPhoto via AFP

Technology journalist Bill Bennett takes a look at some of the biggest technology stories of the year : The sale of Twitter to Elon Musk, Meta, Amazon and other big tech companies laying off thousands of people.

Bill says the international stories are downbeat, the local ones are much more positive.

They include 2degrees merging with Vocus, and the second stage of the UFB fibre project completed this month, meaning 87 per cent of the population can get fibre broadband.