I spent almost five hours on hold trying to find out why my Slingshot internet connection was so bad.

Chorus could reduce its funding gap for the ultra-fast broadband project from $1 billion to $200 million.

David Cameron has urged Danish PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt to auction the controversial selfie she took at Nelson Mandela's memorial for charity.

Well, this was supposed to be the quirky, light-hearted year-ender column, full of whimsical reflections on the big business events of 2013.

The Roast Busters scandal has stretched support services for rape and sexual violence complainants as a wave of abuse victims seek help.

Editorial: Three years ago the Herald on Sunday uncovered an egregious abuse of telemarketing called in that industry "slamming".

Auckland Libraries has added thousands of new, free electronic texts to its collection.

Slingshot marketers used login codes to access a Telecom database to improperly switch over customers without their consent.

Internet and phone company Slingshot has been fined $250,000 after it admitted transferring competitors' customers to its business without authority.

A full report on how internet price cuts will affect Chorus' ability to complete its leg of the ultra-fast broadband scheme will be released next week.

Online restaurant guide Zomato is ramping up its growth in NZ as it goes head-to-head with more established competitors such as MenuMania, Localist and Yelp.

Some NZ computer users have paid $500 ransom demands after finding their machines encrypted and a ransom note demanding cash.

Kim Dotcom is likely to be under fresh surveillance and to have had phone calls with his lawyer intercepted, the judge hearing the extradition case has found.

Internet company Slingshot has accepted Commerce Commission findings that 27 customers were transferred to it without authorisation.

Only about half of New Zealand kids aged 5 to 10 know the danger of speaking to online friends and a fifth of those would like to meet them in real life.

There are two distinct tiers of value for smartphones and tablets in enterprises.

A novel approach to reading has kids blogging and commenting online about what should happen next in books - and authors follow the instructions.

A Napier retailer warns a man claiming to be from "Google business" is offering a preferential listing for $295 - which must be paid via paypal. Ignore calls like this.

Chorus' share price has plunged by 50 per cent over the past year - now one of its big shareholders, BNY Mellon, has cut its holding from 7.45pc to 6.3pc. Photo / NZ Herald

Chorus' ultra-fast broadband contracts could be changed to ensure the project is not at risk.

In a world in which social media sites are full of photographs depicting clichéd "happy family" scenes, it's refreshing to see some honest moments.

Govt not expecting to invest any more than the $1.35b already committed to UFB, despite an independent probe indicating the Chorus' leg of the project is at risk if changes aren't made.

The Electoral Commission today referred Labour leader David Cunliffe to the police for a tweet he sent on Twitter last Saturday, the day of the Christchurch East byelection.

Tumblr is where the Internet's cool kids hang out. That's why Yahoo paid $1.1 billion to buy the blogging site in one of this year's most buzzed-about deals.

GCSB head Ian Fletcher yesterday acknowledged there was no protection of New Zealanders' data stored in servers overseas from spy agencies.

Twitter has suspended an account featuring images of child rape after an online campaign from Charlotte Dawson.