National MP John Carter has criticised Slingshot for the way it convinced his 86-year-old mother to transfer a home home line to their service.

New Zealand's government isn't trying to undermine Telecom by bolstering rural broadband services, Communications Minister Steven Joyce says.

Telecom's stock price hit an all-time low yesterday after it told the market that its share of the Government's new rural broadband initiative would cost it $168 million over three years.

Tomorrow will mark the 25th anniversary of the registration of the very first domain name - Symbolics.com.

Plans for a new high-speed link are expected to lead to lower internet prices and unlimited downloads for home connections.

Many believe that social networking sites like Facebook aren't doing enough to protect their young users from web predators.

From next month, Facebook users will be able to see where their friends are.

Questions have been raised about the monitoring of the online activity of sex offenders, after a murder in Britain.

Vodafone says it is "fully focused" on ensuring the patchy service does not happen again.