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Entrepreneurs announce $900m fast broadband plan
A proposed optic fibre cable linking NZ, Australia and the USA would unleash billions of dollars of economic potential by connecting NZ businesses to global markets by 2013.

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

Blippy the latest social media entrant
This is still Year One of the internet Age, and social media is an infant.

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

Facebook fears after sex offender logged on to kill
Questions have been raised about the monitoring of the online activity of sex offenders, after a murder in Britain.

Internet-addict couple starve baby to death
A South Korean couple who were addicted to the internet let their three-month-old baby starve to death while raising a virtual daughter online.

Welcome to Google, Kansas
A city in America's Midwest has taken the battle to be chosen as a test site for Google's new ultrafast broadband network to extremes

<i>Rebecca Barry:</i> Dipping a toe in shallow end of humanity
Chat Roulette is like the latest street drug: accessible, alluring but peddled by untrustworthy characters.

$15,000 penalty for web downloads
Anyone caught breaching copyright by downloading films and music from the internet will face large penalties under new legislation.

Sex sells - but is sex.com worth $20m?
The latest twist in the on-going saga of the web's costliest address as its cash-strapped owner is forced to sell.

How Facebook can ruin your life
People will post just about anything on social networking sites. And the information could be used against them, even in court.

Welcome to FarmVille: Population 80 million
How did virtual chickens, tractors and acres of soya beans become the world's biggest video game?

Netting designer garb
Designer labels including Kate Sylvester, Karen Walker and Huffer are being hocked off on Trade Me at heavily reduced prices.

Is your love-making streets ahead of the rest?
A new website that allows users to find out where and when people are having sex has just been launched.