National's ambitious billion dollar-plus plan to bring faster Internet access to three-quarters of New Zealand homes and companies has been hailed by business and Internet groups but tagged extravagant and opportunistic by the Government.
United Future leader Peter Dunne says Labour, Act New Zealand and New Zealand First should stop attacking National's broadband plan and start coming up with their own answers.
New Zealand broadband users are right up with the most internet-addicted nations in the world, spending on average 22 hours per week online, according to a new survey.
TelstraClear and Orcon, a subsidiary of state-owned Kordia, have come out top in the first of a new series of quarterly broadband surveys released by the Commerce Commission.
Broadband customers are being urged to make a change of provider if they are unhappy.
Despite a plea by Telecom chief executive Paul Reynolds to take broadband off the election agenda, it looks likely to remain a contentious topic. Business Editor Dene Mackenzie reports.
Telecom, whose share price is hovering around a near 15-year low, yesterday announced the latest chapter in its separation and restructuring plans.
Some Wanaka residents are facing a wait of more than six months to get connected to broadband Internet by national service provider Telecom, with the telecommunications company blaming "unforeseen" seasonal spikes.
A quiet, immature "but computer-brilliant" loner who put New Zealand on the international cyber crime map has been approached by large overseas corporations keen to employ him.
Geology graduate and digital entrepreneur James Stewart is selling his left leg on the internet -- for a million dollars.
Debate is continuing in New Zealand about whether the deployment of fibre to all homes is affordable. While the talking continues, Qualcomm is pushing mobile broadband as an alternative. Dene Mackenzie reports.
The world of chatrooms and instant messaging is foreign to many adults, but a British advocate for children's cyber safety says they need to understand its importance to young people.
New Zealand children as young as 12 are actively seeking sexual contact with adults on the Internet with little idea of the ongoing consequences of their actions.
New Zealand's provision and use of broadband needs improvement to realise the full potential of the Internet, the NetSafe cyber safety conference in Queenstown heard this week.
The rising numbers of broadband fast internet users is encouraging, although large numbers of New Zealanders still rely on "last century" dial-up internet, says InternetNZ.
About 110 Macandrew Bay residents are the first in Otago to get a chance of having faster broadband access after the first of 67 new roadside cabinets for the region was switched on yesterday.
Eleven people, including a U.S. Secret Service informant, have been charged in connection with the hacking of nine major retailers and the theft and sale of more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers, the Justice Department announced today.
New Zealanders' internet downloads hit a record high during the Beijing Olympics, with peak viewing on Tuesday at the end of the men's triathlon.
Matt Harding has this silly dance he does, this running-in-place thing where he waves his arms around spastically.
The Dunedin City Council is vowing to press ahead with an ambitious community-owned fibre broadband network, regardless of government support, and is backed by irate city businesses.