Prime Minister John Key is refusing to rule out dramatic intervention such as injecting taxpayer cash into network company Chorus.

Infrastructure company Chorus has raised the spectre of a "default event" if the Government doesn't intervene in the stoush over a cut to internet prices.

To accept the idea of being under constant observation is to accept imprisonment - ironically by the Land of the Free, writes Chris Barton.

The "grumpiest" telecommunications debate in more than a decade could be all but settled next week.

A "carrot" rather than a stick should be used to encourage people to move to ultra-fast broadband and keeping slower internet prices higher is the wrong way to get them to switch.

Chorus would get "windfall gains" and have an incentive to "go slow" building the ultra-fast broadband network if the Govt intervenes in the copper internet market, says Vector.

Prime Minister John Key stands by his comments that network company Chorus could "go broke" if a Commerce Commission recommendation to cut internet prices is adopted.

Technology such as smartphones has led to spending more time working and increasingly taking work home, a survey has shown.

Technology such as smart phones has led to spending more time working and increasingly taking work home, a survey has shown.

Youth market alone won't get budget brand to where it wants to be, says head of Skinny mobile.

Smartphones have become the number one target for hackers trying to cheat New Zealanders, says a Kiwi academic who has been studying global trends.

What's his game? Is the PM misinformed? Or deliberately spreading misinformation? Chris Barton looks at the issues on the copper tax debate.

New Zealand wireless charging start-up PowerbyProxi has secured $4 million in funding from the venture capital arm of South Korean technology giant Samsung.