Our growing ability to access on-demand entertainment is all well and good, writes Greg Dixon, but what we really need is more time.

Today, Telecom becomes Spark. But as Hamish Fletcher reports, transforming the phone company is going to require much more than a name change.

TVNZ has joined Sky TV in banning Slingshot's latest ads promoting the ISP's 'Global Mode service.'

Westpac New Zealand says it is gearing up to release a world first banking app that will allow customers to view their account details in 3D.

Sky TV has banned Slingshot advertising, in a move the pay TV operator says protects consumers legitimately viewing TV shows and movies.

Sky TV chief executive John Fellet is not breaking into a sweat after Telecom's slow motion launch of subscription video on demand service (SVOD) Lightbox.

Telecom - soon to become Spark - has revealed more shows that will be available on its new Lightbox subscription video service, launching toward the end of August.

Telecom and Chorus are having their first big squabble since they split up, with the phone and internet company complaining to regulators over its former network.

The Government has thrown its backing - but not its money - behind a mobile phone recycling programme.

Free to air TV networks are holding urgent talks with Hollywood studios after revelations Slingshot is offering easy internet access to shows they have paid for.

Telecom's $20 million name change will happen on August 8 and within months Spark will replace the existing branding at 70 stores, 8000 retailers and on 3000 payphones.

Telecom will change its name to Spark on August 8 - and will have a new ticker code on the New Zealand and Australian stock exchanges from then.

Phone companies have revealed the extent of Govt agency spying on their networks, with more than 70 secret wire taps last year in New Zealand alone.

Telecom says more details of its online television service are "close" and will be unveiled before the company changes its name to Spark in August.

Telecom has suffered a massive technical fault today, with many of its systems - including its own corporate website - down for most of the day.

Talk on the outside says the fibre fast track process can only lead to one thing - the price going up and yet again favouring Chorus shareholders, writes Chris Barton.

Warehouse boss Mark Powell wasn't afraid to speak candidly about his pay packet with business journalists in Auckland last week.

Telecom Corp, the country's biggest telecommunications company, has trimmed the size of a banking facility, while pushing out its maturity date until 2017.

Telecom says it will ditch the name of its soon-to-launch internet television service, ShowmeTV, after two companies with similar brand names raised concerns.