New Zealand this week had its country ratings upgraded by Dun and Bradstreet. MYOB Business Monitor said the slow spread of the economic recovery has been mixed across the regions. So where does New Zealand's economy sit about a month out from the Government's much-lauded Budget? Business editor Dene Mackenzie investigates.
Finance Minister Bill English has identified $1.8 billion of lower-quality Government spending that will be redirected over the next three years into high-priority areas such as health and education.
It would be a fair guess that the four men behind The Pirate Bay file-sharing website were surprised they ended up with a prison sentence after being found guilty of breaking copyright laws.
The Windows 7 operating system is due to arrive officially in New Zealand by Christmas which, according to Microsoft New Zealand's Ben Green, means in the last three months of the year.
Symantec, Opera and Microsoft caught the attention of Mack-Line last week with some announcements that on one hand perplexed and on the other delighted.
It had to happen, and politicians around the world should take note of a phenomenon that might take on in a place other than Sweden.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back online and not be invited to join obscure social network sites - be blinking warned.
People around me complained loud and long last week about the slowness of the internet.
Last year, Mack-line enthusiastically embraced Chrome, Google's free browser system which was so different from anything else around, right then, that it needed to be used.
Cloud computing is a term that comes and goes, but it has become a term that seems destined to stay within the vocabulary of technology users and writers.
Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD) is the name of a next-generation optical disc format.
The new HP Mini 110 is a small notebook by any bloke's standards. However, looks are deceiving.
When the eyes of the Otago Daily Times' illustrations editor light up at the thought of a new cellphone, you know you are on to something.
It was hard work continuing to avoid the Gen-i manager who sent a HTC Touch Pro2 phone for review. He wanted it back.
Last-minute online Christmas shoppers are being warned to take extra care when receiving email offers that sound tempting.
Sadly, people still believe they can help that relative of a despot in Nigeria who needs their help to access millions, perhaps billions, of dollars.
The fashion industry recently got a bit of a shakeup when bloggers crashed the front row of several shows in Europe.
Apple iPads will be released internationally at the end of March, but there was no word yesterday on whether the devices would run on any of the New Zealand mobile networks.
The lack of mobile phone coverage from Telecom's XT network continued to frustrate thousands of people yesterday as services remained interrupted in Queenstown, Invercargill, Timaru and parts of Dunedin.
Internet security remains an issue and although Mack-line has written about the need to be careful, a story breaking late last week has prompted a new warning.
