Technology

Government agencies are going to have to tighten up the way they buy and use information communications technology (ICT), Internal Affairs Minister Nathan Guy says.

A list of 12 projects to develop a "Digital Dunedin" is part of the city's digital strategy, confirmed at the final full council meeting before the election yesterday.

People are being warned to be vigilant as government departments learn of phone and email scammers.

MySpace, which recently revamped itself to look more like Facebook, is now allowing users to sync their posts to Facebook, too.

Owners of the iPhone will be able to legally unlock their devices so they can run software applications that haven't been approved by Apple, according to new US government rules.

The United Arab Emirates has declared BlackBerry smartphones a potential threat to national security, saying the devices operate beyond the jurisdiction of national laws and are open to misuse.