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Get rural broadband funding right or risk making New Zealand’s agricultural hinterland a "digital ghetto".More

Its official – the entry of 2degrees has resulted in a more competitive mobile market.More

Visceral Games, the studio behind the popular Dead Space franchise, has announced that a demo will be available for its upcoming title Dante’s Inferno.More

Rupert Murdoch has suggested that, due to tightening economic times, News Corp will remove its news content from Google searches, making the media giant’s online content available only to paying subscribers.More

What to do about Jurors who ‘Google’ is just one of the issues under discussion in an upcoming seminar hosted by InternetNZ, the Law Commission and the Ministry of Justice.More

Christmas will be a show of lights in both Auckland and Wellington this year, with Telecom announcing plans to bring their Telecom Tree’s to both cities.More

Symantec observed a 17% increase from the previous month in all phishing attacks, and 30% of phishing URLs were generated using phishing toolkits.More

Microsoft Windows users can expect another raft of important security updates this week.More

Some iPhone users in Australia have been on the receiving end of the first in-the-wild virus for Apple’s iPhone, which changes the phone’s background photo to one of 1980s singer Rick Astley, a technique commonly known as Rick rolling.More

The Internet has not caused a downturn in socialising, a new study claims.More

Google Wave, the online communication and collaboration tool, has become a target for scammers.More

The XT Network is considered a key plank in Telecom’s transformation plan, so how has it performed? Today’s Q1 briefing was the first chance to find out.More

For the second time in a week a man has been jailed for 20 months after trading child sexual abuse images on the Internet.More

The entire Beatles catalogue is to be released soon on a limited edition USB device.More

Apple has announced that more than 100,000 apps are currently available on its iTunes App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch.More

Infinity Ward has confirmed that the maximum number of players in the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 will stand at 18 – a drop from the previous game’s maximum of 32.More

Mobile company 2degrees is set to integrate a 3G spectrum across its new network just 12 weeks after launching its brand to the market.More

Rural ISP Farmside has been ranked 18th in the Deloitte Fast 50 and has won the fastest growing technology, media and telecommunications business for the Canterbury and Upper South Island region.More

Telecom is set to spread some Christmas cheer to its home broadband customers as the silly season pricing war starts to heat up.More

Sony Computer Entertainment New Zealand has confirmed that the PlayStation 3’s PlayTV peripheral will not see local distribution before the end of 2009.More

I’ve just been dropped off by boat with three other fellow survivors onto a pier on the outskirts of New Orleans.More

Sony Computer Entertainment New Zealand and TVNZ have announced a special competition to coincide with the upcoming release of Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time.More

The second man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, is the headlining act at a conference organised by the country’s telcos in March next year.More

The Western Roamer (WR) is a regular visitor to Europe, the US and Australia.More

Telecom is trialling new technology to turbo-charge broadband speeds, but it could be a while before users can take advantage of it.More

Top billing in Telecom’s 2009 Mobile Music Awards went to local artist Tiki Taane, who took home the award for Highest Selling Ringtone and Caller Tune (NZ) with his single ‘Always On My Mind’.More

Toll-free local calling for all New Zealanders – including those who live in rural and remote areas – will remain despite an upheaval in the way it is funded.More

The C905 is a portable Webcam optimised for use with laptops and netbooks for those on the go. More

Digital SLR enthusiasts have a serious new contender for their attention in the Sony A550. More