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Facebook in fight for facts
Jack Tame: Spying hardly shocks in land of the free
Edward Snowden had a life that superficially sounded nothing short of idyllic and for some reason, he threw it away with…
Army internet sex ring busted
A group of Australian army officers in an internet sex scandal circulated videos and photos of naked women, challenging…
Blogger told to stop
In a landmark court decision, a blogger has been ordered to remove dozens of posts and comments from her website and issued…
Scam Watch - June 16
An email claiming to have been sent to McDonald's customers invites people to enter a fake competition to win Honda CR-Vs…
Project Loon launches
Developed in the secretive Google[x] lab, today Google launched a world-first in Christchurch: Sending internet-beaming…
Greg Dixon: About Facebook
By the time you read this, I'll be gone. I will have ended it, I'll have popped my clogs, cashed in my chips. That's right…
Slain rugby boy's girlfriend bullied
The girlfriend of an Auckland schoolboy fatally injured in an attack after rugby practice has been subjected to vicious…
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John Roughan: Security trumps privacy online
Privacy commissioners say the public should be wary about this but most people are not, writes John…
New technology so you can kiss in cyberspace (+video)
Have you ever wanted to lock lips with someone on the internet? Burberry has teamed up with Google to create world-first…
#facebookintroduceshashtags
Facebook is introducing hashtags, the number signs used on Twitter, Instagram and other services to identify topics being…
Shelley Bridgeman: Is ask.fm dangerous?
I became aware of the social networking site ask.fm in April when a mother of a girl in my daughter’s class copied me in…
How language is transformed by the way we type
The rise of social media has put "conversation without speech" at the centre of millions of lives, as…
NSA head: 'Dozens of attacks thwarted'
The head of the NSA has defended secret US surveillance amid a global uproar, saying 'what we are doing to protect Americans…
Spy 'shy with strong convictions'
The whereabouts of a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about US surveillance programmes remained unknown…
Google in $1.3b mapping buy
Google is buying online mapping service Waze in a US$1.03 billion ($1.3 billion) deal that keeps a potentially valuable…
Claim leaker could shelter in NZ
A prominent Australian barrister has suggested US intel leaker Edward Snowden could seek refuge in 'pleasant' NZ, joining…
Rogue spy may lead US a merry dance
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The United States is braced for a drawn-out effort to capture Edward Snowden.
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ISS crew return to earth
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A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-man international crew has landed safely on the steppes of Kazakhstan…
Telecommunications
Review: BlackBerry Z10
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RIM, the inventor of the original smartphone has had a hard road to travel. Having been on the sidelines…
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New jobs on the rise in Wellington - Seek
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In the face of recent comments made about Wellington being a "dying" city, the number of vacancies in…
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