Study eases brain cancer fear
New Zealand researchers have found "no consistent increase" in brain cancer during a period of rapidly increasing cellphone use.
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Chorus paces rise in sharemarket index
New Zealand shares rose yesterday, paced by Chorus as its first-half earnings met with market expectations. Xero rose to a four-month high as a seller exited the stock.
New boss as Telstra eyes north
Australia's largest telco, Telstra, is also pursuing an Asian expansion strategy, and on Friday appointed the man in charge of that expansion to run the entire company.
Spies 'hacked SIM card maker'
British and American spy agencies allegedly hacked into a Dutch company that make SIM cards to obtain encryption keys.
Digital addiction a growing trend
A new consumer behaviour survey backs other research that there is a growth of "digital dependency" in New Zealand, according to a leading academic.
Spark profit tipped to drop
Broker Forsyth Barr is tipping a drop in profit at Spark when the NZX's biggest listed company reports its half-year result tomorrow.
No compensation for Spark users
Yesterday's five-hour long service outage meant smart phones were useless for customers in many parts of the North Island.
Welcome to the internet of everything
Parallel to the exponential growth in technology is the growth of the internet of everything, or put simply, the connectivity of all devices to the internet.
Google gets serious in taking on the telcos
First it conquered search. Then it was online video and advertising. Now Google is turning its attention toward telecommunications.
Spark in joint venture with Vocus
Vocus Communications, the Australian fibre network and data centre company, has agreed with Spark New Zealand to form a new construction joint venture, Connect 8.
The Diary: Heidi Klum wants Auckland to judge her undies
An episode for the upcoming season of Germany's Next Top Model will be filmed in Auckland next week.
'Say it again, Sam' - and create a winner
As writers, actors and directors jostle for favour following the Oscar and Bafta award nominations, scientists have discovered the true measure of a film's worth is not how many gongs it wins, but how many times later film-makers reference it.
Irate users target Vodafone
Hundreds of New Zealand Vodafone customers have condemned a proposal by the telecommunications company to cut local customer services jobs and outsource some of the work to the Philippines.
Vodafone scraps 100 customer care jobs
The Herald has obtained an internal Vodafone document detailing plans to scrap around 100 customer care staff and increase outsourcing to the Philippines.
Juha Saarinen: Roaming overseas
As I wrote last year, it’s been great to have a simple way to travel overseas and use your voice and data plan there for an added $5 a day on Vodafone in many countries.
Vodafone price hike 'shaky ground'
Vodafone is on "shaky ground" in raising its fibre internet prices along with copper-line broadband charges, says InternetNZ.
Telcos set to hike prices next month
The country's three biggest internet companies are planning to charge customers more from next month and the general manager at one of them doesn't think broadband will ever be as cheap as it was....
Telcos bury hatchet for cable
Vodafone and Spark chiefs Russell Stanners and Simon Moutter have put aside competition to partner up and build the transtasman telecommunications cable along with Telstra.
Internet outage hits thousands
Some Aucklanders were without broadband for up to 12 hours after a fault with Chorus cut the internet connection.
Aucklanders' internet down for 12 hours
An issue with broadband electronics was behind the outage that caused 15,000 Auckland households to lose internet overnight.
Spark hikes its prices
Spark says it has 'no choice' but to hike retail prices for its home phone and broadband plans, a move that will kick in from February.