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Sky to launch internet TV service with Orcon
Internet provider Orcon is building a network to support Sky's launch of its new online television service iSky.

<i>Debbie Mayo-Smith</i>: It's the message that matters, not the postman
How do we generate more new business cheaply and easily? That's the magic pill businesses are looking for. Some might feel social media is the answer.

Facebook's dotcom adventure may yet fail spectacularly
Facebook's valuation, vacillating in recent months between $23bn and $33bn, is highly speculative and almost certainly too high.

Property: Common sales tactic backfires - research
A common tactic used to lure buyers is causing longer sales cycles and more misery for owners, new research suggests.

Parliament video site hacked by Iskorpitx
Turkish hacker Iskorpitx has taken out Parliament's video on demand website InTheHouse.

Brothers of invention
From software to electric bikes, serial entrepreneurs Shaun and Grant Ryan are proving that big ideas run in the family. Karyn Scherer reports.

Kiwis target for Facebook fraudsters
Internet fraudsters are using Facebook to steal Kiwis' bank and credit card account numbers and identities.

Library ponders twitter's historical value
The chief executive of the British Library yesterday confessed to having asked herself recently: "Should a world-class library preserve Stephen Fry's tweets?"

Shoot 'em ups are good for you, say researchers
Action games turn us into faster and better decision-makers.

Thieves steal funds raised in Britain for Lion Man
Lion Man Craig Busch will not let scammers put him off trying to regain Whangarei's Zion Wildlife Gardens or open another big-cat park.

Eye on the sky: Awarua Station
Who knew New Zealand had a space programme? In truth, with the exception of Auckland company Rocket Lab's launch of a rocket 100km into the sky last November, we can't claim to have tried visiting the inky void.

Business without walls: Voco
Michael Foley is director of a business that believes so firmly in broadband infrastructure that it has done away with the other kind - as a "company without walls", it has no premises.

Found in translation: Tras@ction
When Brian Mackie brought his translation service from Britain to New Zealand in 2003, fast internet access was essential and shouldn't have been a problem.

Big dig to start by year's end
As Crown Fibre Holdings weighs up 14 short-listed bids for a share of the ultra-fast broadband (UFB) network, it said yesterday it was ready to negotiate with contenders in three regions.

Online wine: La Vinotheque
Broadband, as hundreds of thousands of New Zealand users already know, provides fast access to the internet and email.