Depending on your age, gender and tolerance levels for whiny teenage singers with dodgy haircuts, the diminutive Canadian pop and R&B phenomenon is either a heart-melting object of infatuation or a viral contagion infecting the web.
It does nothing to speed up typing; as one user said, it's as if someone is constantly interrupting you to finish your sentences, and always getting it wrong.
Telecom shares fell 6 per cent after it missed out on being named for priority talks in the Government's $1.5b ultra-fast broadband plan.
Creators of cybernasties have evolved their game and are now turning to increasingly sophisticated and devious ways of hijacking computers.
Crown Fibre Holdings has prioritised three regional deals in its short list for the government funded roll-out of an ultra-fast broadband network.
The battle to win $1.8b of government money now features in TV advertisements - although I imagine many watching them will be left scratching their heads.
The police have handed the investigation on Google's Street View data gathering back to the Privacy Commissioner.
Allegations against Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, took an unexpected turn today.
A utopian vision of social networking: you remain in control of all your data, you own it, look after it and share with whoever you like.
The Computer Society is trying to make New Zealand $1.7 billion a year.
It's more difficult than ever to get marketing emails through.
The Mayor of London says shared spaces in a city must be planned well if they are to be effective.
If a new identity is the only way to escape your online past, maybe Facebook just isn't worth it.
Those unconvinced about the value of the web as a platform for ideas regard bloggers with suspicion, imagining them as self-promoting at best, narcissistic at worst,
Anna Chapman, the glamorous figure at the centre of the US-Russia spy scandal, has been threatened with legal action over a photo-shoot.
New research has revealed the names of the ten highest earning independent acts on video sharing site YouTube.
A non-profit website dedicated to letting people watch New Zealand-made movies and television programmes wants access to Television New Zealand's (TVNZ) archive - for free.
An internet safety group has backed John Key's view that the public reporting of suicide is now virtually beyond control, because young people routinely discuss cases on websites.
Vodafone internet users were cut off this afternoon after a power surge caused smoke to billow from a room at Auckland's SkyCity.