Dene Mackenzie's blog

Once again social media have been used to highlight how irrelevant many of the privacy laws around the world have become.

The ongoing battle for search engine supremacy continued last week with Microsoft's Bing search engine to lean more heavily on Facebook to make its results more meaningful than Google's.

Excuse me for thinking the world of technology has gone slightly crazy in the past week or two.

A question posed to Mackline this week should have been easy to answer. Alas, it was not something that could be solved.

By the time this column gets printed, you would like to think Sony had fixed the massive data hack that compromised the personal information of PlayStation gamers.

Trapped as I was on a plane heading to Auckland, I found myself cut off from the web. Not really a hardship, as I turned to an actual magazine to read. Yes, one with paper pages that you turned without double tapping your screen.

Teachers caught the interest of Mackline recently with a theme of dissent with completely different outcomes.

Google is dipping its toes back into social networking at the same time as it has settled with United States regulators investigating privacy problems that appeared in the rolling-out of Buzz.

Microsoft last week released IE9 with a hiss and a roar.

Two reports out last week offered some insights into the way we use the internet.