The Oxford English Dictionary has now included the social networking term 'tweet', as technology continues to change the way we speak.

The principals of two Dunedin high schools are worried the latest "babe of the day'' Facebook page could put pupils at risk from sexual predators.

Far from being alarmed, the Key Government seems set to make the work of the spies, both their own and the overseas variety, even easier, writes Brian Rudman.

The danger is that the techniques devised today by NSA data miners to track potential terrorists may tomorrow be employed by private sector, writes Gehan Gunasekara.

Information on trillions of emails, web chats and Skype conversations carried out by Americans has been harvested along with their phone records.

The Guardian reports the UK spied on its G20 partners in 2009 - tricking some delegates into using fake internet cafes so their email could be read.

In a landmark court decision, a blogger has been ordered to remove dozens of posts and comments from her website and issued with a restraining order against a lawyer she harassed on-line.

Developed in the secretive Google[x] lab, today Google launched a world-first in Christchurch: Sending internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons.

By the time you read this, I'll be gone. I will have ended it, I'll have popped my clogs, cashed in my chips. That's right, I have deleted my Facebook account.

The girlfriend of an Auckland schoolboy fatally injured in an attack after rugby practice has been subjected to vicious online bullying.

Privacy commissioners say the public should be wary about this but most people are not, writes John Roughan. They post much more personal information about themselves on internet sites.

Have you ever wanted to lock lips with someone on the internet? Burberry has teamed up with Google to create world-first technology allowing people to pash in cyberspace.

I became aware of the social networking site ask.fm in April when a mother of a girl in my daughter’s class copied me in on a letter she’d sent to the school principal.

The rise of social media has put "conversation without speech" at the centre of millions of lives, as Tom Chatfield explains.

A prominent Australian barrister has suggested US intel leaker Edward Snowden could seek refuge in 'pleasant' NZ, joining Kim Dotcom in resisting extradition.

Revelations of snooping into private data and communications on a massive scale by the Obama Administration has shed a little dayligh.

John Constable, of Constable Hurst Architects on collaborating with the Kingsland Business Society on a video about running a business in the area. He has created a hub for creative businesses at his building, 6 Kingsland Tce.

Privacy scholars refer to the dangers of aggregation of data and the potential this affords for profiling of individuals and for making of assumptions, writes Gehan Gunasekara.

A mum will lobby NZ companies to pull their ads from a Latvia-based social networking site after her 12-year-old daughter was asked to provide explicit photos.

The Kingsland Business Community commissioned a film to help promote the inner Auckland area as a place to work and run a business.

More Kiwis are shopping online than ever before, with more than half of New Zealand adults contributing to $3.7 billion of internet sales last year.

So-called perishable pictures are enticing teens to share inappropriate photos of themselves in the belief the images will vanish after being viewed.

The Google Maps team won’t stop until it has every last inch of the planet stored on its servers. Would we really be so lost without them? asks Tom Chivers.

Taking the time to examine your Facebook ads can make for a depressing self-analysis, says Jack Tame.

An email has been doing the rounds with a PDF claiming to be from the United States Lottery Board, in conjunction with President Barack Obama's campaign team, telling people they have won US$920,000.

New Zealand police have contacted the owners of a controversial social networking website which enables bullying and has been linked to overseas suicides.