China has vowed to keep a tight grip on the internet, saying in a white paper it will continue to block anything considered subversive or threatening to "national unity."
Google later this year will open an app store for its Chrome browser, allowing developers to expose and sell applications such as multimedia magazine content and 3-D games for the latest generation of Web browsers.
When blogger Isaac Mao recently announced online an upcoming talk by a Beijing writer whose work is banned by the government, police showed up at his door at night to "convince" him to cancel the event. He agreed to, but just to be sure, authorities turned off the electricity of the planned meeting space and barred the doors.
A deal between three telcos to share their unbundled exchanges is seen as enabling the companies to speed up the expansion of their broadband network.
Countries around the world are pledging to get tough with companies that market beer and liquor on social media networks such as Facebook, warning that such promotions threaten to entice a new generation into harmful drinking patterns.
An online privacy group has found that an overwhelming majority of web browsers have unique signatures - creating identifiable "fingerprints" that can be used to track you as you surf the internet.
Portraits of early pioneers on display at the Otago Settlers Museum will be preserved online later this year, following a substantial donation from the Otago Settlers Association.
Telecom New Zealand has seconded its Chorus chief executive Mark Ratcliffe to lead its bid to participate in ultra fast broadband.
The people at Google knew the latest version of their Chrome browser rendered pages fast, but how fast?
EBay Incorporated yesterday said it expects to remain a "significant" shareholder after spinning off its internet communications service Skype.
The entertainment industry has won round one in a legal battle against file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, with guilty verdicts and one-year prison sentences handed down to four men accused of running and financing the popular site.
Logging on in Lawrence has never been easier with the town's cafes and restaurants being fitted out with computers so more visitors can enter cyberspace.
The industry group that supports Wi-Fi is adopting a new technology that should boost data speeds more than 10 times at short distances.
We've all come to rely on the internet, but few realise how fragile it is. Peter Svensson, of Associated Press, says an issue identified more than 12 years ago is still stranding people offline today.
The fashion industry recently got a bit of a shakeup when bloggers crashed the front row of several shows in Europe.
Plans for a new ultra high-speed fibre broadband network straddling Otago and Southland, costing tens of millions of dollars, have been unveiled.
Vodafone has formed an alliance with Canadian company Axia to bid for the Government's planned ultra-fast broadband project.
The Rosebank Primary School in Balclutha has assured parents there are no safety issues about electromagnetic radiation levels emitted by the school's Wi-Fi computer network, installed last...
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.
A group of leading businessmen has unveiled a $900 million plan that would link New Zealand, Australia and the United States with 13,000km of fibre cable, delivering faster broadband to New Zealanders.
