A 24-year-old Christchurch fisherman broke into the home of a woman he met months earlier on an internet dating site and sexually assaulted her, a court was told today.

A woman's Facebook whinge about wanting to leave work became an invitation to burgle for a "friend".

Every country with internet access has its favourite social network, and what's galling for Mark Zuckerberg is that it's not always his.

Google has announced an online global science fair allowing any student with a web connection and a Google account to enter a competition with a NZ$64,800 prize.

A company planning to provide New Zealand with a new connection to faster internet has secured important links with US investors.

McDonald's is being accused of homophobia after it blocked gay websites from its new free Wi-Fi service at its restaurants.

Facebook has sparked a fresh row with nursing mothers by deleting a page for a breastfeeding support group followed by thousands.

New Zealand is among 30 countries being targeted by child porn peddlers who are setting up links on business websites that click through to child abuse material.

China's exploding wealth has created a culture of secret mistresses and second wives.

BT was yesterday accused of undermining one of the founding principles of the internet - that of "net neutrality" - by creating a two-tier system which would allow content providers to charge for a faster video delivery service.

An enterprising Australian seller is hoping to reap a huge windfall from a set of books by NZ author Witi Ihimaera.

The Retail Assn in Australia wants GST tacked on to online sales.

Sarah Cruz-Taylor has 1047 Facebook friends and says she knows them all personally.

More than half of Kiwis have an online profile, half of those check it daily and one in 10 admits to being addicted to it.

Trade Me customers are the victims of the latest online scam by fraudsters operating out of Russia.

A quick skim through some front page news stories over the past year provides incontrovertible proof of technology's grip on our lives.

All the gifts Kiwis never wanted made their way on to Trade Me within hours of being received.

With the growing popularity of social networks, people are turning to services like AreYouInterested.com.

The American spy agency has created a panel to assess what damage may have been done by WikiLeaks.