Potential bidders in the sex.com domain auction won't be allowed in the room without a certified cheque for US$1 million.

New Zealand's government isn't trying to undermine Telecom by bolstering rural broadband services, Communications Minister Steven Joyce says.

Telecom's stock price hit an all-time low yesterday after it told the market that its share of the Government's new rural broadband initiative would cost it $168 million over three years.

Tomorrow will mark the 25th anniversary of the registration of the very first domain name - Symbolics.com.

Plans for a new high-speed link are expected to lead to lower internet prices and unlimited downloads for home connections.

A proposed optic fibre cable linking NZ, Australia and the USA would unleash billions of dollars of economic potential by connecting NZ businesses to global markets by 2013.

This is still Year One of the internet Age, and social media is an infant.

From next month, Facebook users will be able to see where their friends are.

Questions have been raised about the monitoring of the online activity of sex offenders, after a murder in Britain.

A South Korean couple who were addicted to the internet let their three-month-old baby starve to death while raising a virtual daughter online.

A city in America's Midwest has taken the battle to be chosen as a test site for Google's new ultrafast broadband network to extremes