The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has elected New Zealand lawyer Peter Dengate Thrush as its new chairman, replacing one of the Internet's "founding fathers", Vint Cerf.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has announced its plans to fast track the development of country-coded top level domains (ccTLDs) and local language scripting at the Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro.
The first stage of an upgrade of the submarine Southern Cross Cable linking New Zealand and Australia to the United States has added 260Gbps.
Total operating expenditure by the New Zealand Government on information and communication technology was AU$985.57 million (NZ$1.1 billion) and capital expenditure AU$537.59 million (NZ$600 million) in the 2006 financial year.
The social networking phenomenon Twitter has taken to the streets with New Zealand's first billboards displaying live tweets.
The next-generation Internet Protocol, IPv6, has been much discussed but long in coming around the world.
Termination of file-sharing internet users' accounts is coming up for New Zealanders again.
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Amazon's Kindle comes to the Pacific region but not to New Zealand. Why?
Cloud Computing not for New Zealand?
New Zealand's new Communications Minister Stephen Joyce has the gargantuan task of dragging New Zealand into the next broadband age, a labour which will take 10 years.
Craig Winkler, the founder and former chief executive of accounting software firm MYOB, has made his first major investment since MYOB was taken over in February this year.
The increasing popularity of IP telephony is a big worry for local telcos, but not all the pieces are in place for Australia to take full advantage.
Australian companies are showing a lot of interest in Voice over IP, yet not many projects are underway. We profile the companies that are ahead of the pack.
Businesses were abuzz about voice over Internet Protocol technology in 2003, announcing new deployments almost daily, but the reality is that the actual work is only just beginning.
Modem manufacturer D-Link had been distributing one of its ADSL modems to some of Telstra's largest wholesale customers without the carrier's interoperability certification for around four months.
The BlackBerry Storm looks smart, but its innovative SurePress touch-screen causes us a few concerns. We're also surprised and disappointed by the absence of Wi-Fi.
Everything's on display at CeBIT, but what's actually new?
Outlook has been copping some heat lately, largely for attracting virus writers, while Thunderbird has been getting all of the good press. We examine the two products, and other e-mail clients available today, so you can see if replacing Outlook really is an option.
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