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Large Hadron Collider switched back on

Sat, 21st Nov

Scientists switched on the world's largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time since the US$10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago.

Lily Allen: Piracy's okay as long as the pirates make money

Sat, 21st Nov

Lily Allen has backtracked in the fight against music piracy - she is happy for fans to circulate illegal copies of her albums, as long as they don't give them away for free.
Silicon Valley ebook company buys NZ's BookHabit

Fri, 20th Nov

Silicon Valley-based "ebook" company Smashwords has bought Wellington's BookHabit, a distribution platform for independent authors and publishers.
PS3 video service launches in Europe

Fri, 20th Nov

Sony is finally launching its video delivery service for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable in Europe.

Weta Workshop heads to China for art exhibit

Fri, 20th Nov

Hundreds of items of science fiction art and collectibles created by Weta Workshop will begin their journey to China tonight for a fundraising exhibition set to be visited by up to a million people.
New Zealand joins the space race with ATEA-1 rocket

Fri, 20th Nov

A Kiwi company has not only built its own rocket, but designed the fuel to blast it 120km straight up.
Google's Chrome OS to be ready 2010

Fri, 20th Nov

Consumers will have to wait to find out if Google's new operating system can deliver...

EBay completes sale of Skype for US$2 billion

Fri, 20th Nov

EBay has completed its sale of Skype for about US$2 billion to an investor group that included the founders of the Internet phone service.
Mario endures even as games come and go

Thu, 19th Nov

You might call him the Mickey Mouse of video games.
Uncharted 2 leads Video Game Award nominations

Thu, 19th Nov

Uncharted 2 has seized a leading eight nominations for this year's Video Game Awards.
Cat's brain 'simulated' with massive supercomputer

Wed, 18th Nov

It's 100 times slower than a real cat and took 144 terabytes of memory, but it's a step forward, say scientists.
YouTube launches tool to assist newsrooms

Wed, 18th Nov

YouTube is trying to help shrinking newsrooms expand their video coverage.
UK: Millions of mobile customer records sold

Wed, 18th Nov

Rogue employees at a major mobile phone company illegally sold millions of customer records to rival firms, Britain's information watchdog said Tuesday.
Iggy re-records 'The Passenger' with a little help from NZ fans

Tue, 17th Nov

A Kiwi telecommunications company has managed to swing itself an unlikely alliance with the godfather of punk, Iggy Pop.
Big response to Govt's broadband partnership offering

Tue, 17th Nov

A string of groups have expressed interest in partnering the Government in its broadband roll-out
Gadget reviews: Lips on Xbox and an indestructible phone

Tue, 17th Nov

Emma Brannam has fun reviewing Xbox's Lips and attempting to destroy an indestructible phone.
Michael Laws slams Modern Warfare 2 and chief censor

Mon, 16th Nov

RadioLive host Michael Laws has slammed the release of record-breaking videogame Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and made a homophobic attack on the Chief Censor.
Twitter in space: Tweeters to report live on space shuttle launch

Mon, 16th Nov

Fingers will be flying when space shuttle Atlantis blasts off: About 100 of NASA's geekiest fans will be on hand, pecking away at iPhones, BlackBerrys, laptops and other Twittering gadgets.
Dell smart phone to debut in China, Brazil

Mon, 16th Nov

Dell is officially jumping into the "smart" phone market this month in a deal with China's biggest wireless carrier, China Mobile Ltd.

Hi-tech farm helps industry balance profits with environment

Thu, 19th Nov

A $6.5 million dollar agriculture research farm is opening in the Waikato tomorrow, committed to unearthing smart farming that is cleaner, greener and more efficient.
Modern Warfare 2 grosses $550m in 5 days

Thu, 19th Nov

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is blasting its way into entertainment history - after hauling in the biggest-ever first-day sales total last week, it continues break records.
Trojan computer virus arrests made

Thu, 19th Nov

A couple suspected of helping spread some of the internet's most aggressive computer viruses has been arrested in the English city of Manchester.
Just Cause 2 'grappling hook' featurette

Wed, 18th Nov

The development team behind the action-packed Just Cause 2 explains why Rico’s all-new integrated grappling hook is the must-have Agency accessory.
MySpace to acquire imeem?

Wed, 18th Nov

Online social hub MySpace is in talks to acquire struggling free music streaming site imeem.
NASA publishes article debunking 2012 theories

Tue, 17th Nov

NASA scientists are sick of being asked if the world is going to end in 2012.
Unfriend is US dictionary's 2009 word of the year

Tue, 17th Nov

Finalists for 2009 also included sexting
Twitter to scrap controversial suggested user list

Tue, 17th Nov

Social-media site Twitter plans to scrap its hand-picked list of "suggested users" to follow after controversy erupted over the selection of people on the list, a company executive said Monday.
NZ authors, publishers cut out of Google Books deal

Tue, 17th Nov

New Zealand has been left out of a deal to digitise books with internet search and content provider Google, due to complications over copyright issues.
Xbox Live offers social networking & movies on demand

Mon, 16th Nov

Xbox 360 New Zealand have confirmed Facebook, Twitter and Xbox Movies on Demand will be available on Xbox Live from November 17.
Google makes concessions on digital book deal

Mon, 16th Nov

Internet search leader Google will ease its control over millions of copyright-protected books earmarked for its digital library if a court approves a revised lawsuit settlement that addresses objections of antitrust regulators.