"Disgraceful comments" by right-wing blogger Cameron Slater, which have led to death threats, meant he was asking for trouble, according to the Grey District Mayor.

Right-wing blog site Whaleoil has crashed after a sustained denial-of-service attack.

A Dunedin man who falsified his Facebook profile to contact a teenage boy for sex offending has been jailed for three years.

Will the internet giant evolve into the biggest retailer in the world? Katherine Rushton looks at what the future holds for the Seattle-based company.

Money lenders are peering into the Facebook and Twitter profiles of would-be borrowers to look for evidence of debts or dodgy spending habits.

After two months on the run from the police, one criminal decided to celebrate by sharing a wanted picture of himself on Facebook - before being arrested hours later.

With such polarised approaches there's really only one conclusion to be reliably made about the purpose of Twitter...

More than a third of single men use social media to spy on potential partners - some using what they find online to cancel the first date, a survey has found.

I'd wager that the PR hacks of the established political parties are looking at the media scrum surrounding Kim Dotcom's political party with envy, writes Pat Pilcher.

Its asking price has been slashed but the Trade Me auction for the personalised number plate MAORI is no less of a magnet for racial abuse than when it was first listed

Finance Minister Bill English says he wants Google, Apple and Starbucks and other multinationals to pay more tax and hopes the issue will be raised at economic talks this week.

'Dear John...' Deborah hill Cone writes a letter to Prime Minister John Key about her holiday in the Hokianga.

Like most other 21-year-olds living in 2014, I have an addiction: I can't go more than one day without the internet, writes Rose Matafeo.

If you've been out for dinner recently, you've probably seen it happen. You might even have done it yourself.

Kim Dotcom's political party will be unleashed soon and, like him or not, something fantastic is brewing for New Zealand. I for one am watching happily as it unfolds.

Kim Dotcom's new political party has had a bumpy start after a potential strategy document was leaked - leading to the rushed resignation of a journalist.

Vodafone has settled a case with the Commerce Commission and paid out almost $270,000 to 11,000 customers who signed up to a mobile broadband promotion.

How many more email outages, hacks and other screw ups need to happen before Telecom finally brings Xtra email back in-house?

Hackers are using Kiwis' email accounts to send out thousands of spam messages, and Telecom admits it still doesn't know the cause or scale of the problem.

Despite whatever else 2014 enters the history books for, it's likely to be remembered as the year that saw the birth of everyday wearable computing.