A new Twitter feed devoted to information on suicide prevention in New Zealand has been launched.

A survey of 971 New Zealanders aged 50 plus has revealed high levels of confidence in shopping online, and high usage of popular social networking sites Facebook and YouTube.

Hamilton Police are crediting a positive attitude of organisers and a large, highly visible presence for a quieter than normal Friday night on the illegal street racer circuit.

On the gaming industry calendar few occasions match the digital opulence of the annual geek banquet, E3. Running for three days, wrapping up on June 4th, E3 gives the industry’s heavy hitters a unique chance to show off their biggest and boldest offerings of the coming year.

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26 May 2009 - Social networking sites were hailed a great new job search tool, but it seems candidates are yet to agree.

In a survey of over 150 New Zealand job seekers by specialist recruiter Hays, almost one in two said social networking sites do not help their career development.

A recent survey, conducted by the One Poll site, examined our relationships and friendships, in particular the number of friends we have and how many of them we can truly rely on and the findings fly in the face of recent trends exemplified by the growth and

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This week, news broke of a new and fatal swine flu on the Mexico-U.S. border.  Surgical masks are being distributed throughout Mexico City in an attempt to slow down transmission of this illness.

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16 April 2009 - Over 100,000 people have viewed video 'raves' about New Zealand on YouTube through the mobile studio Tourism New Zealand has been using to collect comments from international visitors.

Where have they gone? Disappeared, in the main at least. Why are we so angry, so impatient and why do we ignore even the most common of courtesies, why can’t we muster up a simple please or thank you?

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12 December 2008 - New Zealand is believed to be leading the world in tourism marketing by using visitors to spread the word to friends and family through social networking.