New Zealand gaming studio Grinding Gear Games bucked the Kickstarter trend and instead brought its crowdfunding in-house, raising more than US$2.5 million towards developing its first game, Path of Exile. More …
"We don't use the expression IRL (in real life). We say "away from keyboard"[AFK]. We think the internet is for real," says Peter Sunde, explaining to a judicial hearing how for him and his fellow co-founders of filesharing ... More …
Vikram Kumar, former head of online watchdog InternetNZ, has been appointed the new CEO of Kim Dotcom's Mega. More …
There are important lessons to learn whenever a social media platform or an app developer slips up on privacy. More …
A cacophony of coding awaits the gaggle of geeks attending the second ever Codemania conference in April. More …
New Zealanders have significantly increased the amount of data they consume in the last year, with the maturing of online habits and the introduction of new streaming services like Spotify and Quickflix. However, a survey by Canstar Blue shows more ... More …
Kim Dotcom's Mega cloud filesharing service has been criticized heavily by internet security experts for how it's encrypting user files, but the Kiwi service is hitting back with a €10,000 (NZ$16,000) bounty for vulnerabilities found ... More …
The confluence of data and creativity—and figuring out how to combine the 'math and magic' to best effect—seems destined to be one of the marketing world’s biggest challenges in coming years. And Anthony Gardiner has checked both ... More …
Navman Wireless, the fleet management company once a part of Kiwi-founded GPS company Navman, has been sold to American sci-tech conglomerate Danaher. More …
RIANZ says it's happy with the relatively small infringement fee doled out to file sharer, it's. Tech Liberty NZ says more needs to be done to prevent copyright laws from assuming guilt of account holders. More …
Many dismiss Reddit as merely a stream of animal photos with tired jokes written on them. This is mostly true, but if you dig beneath the pictures of cats hidden behind giant white text, you'll find an active community ... More …
Sam Morgan has put $1 million behind Christchurch technology company SLI Systems, which provides cloud-based search tools for large online retailers. More …
Bad news for flailing media companies, you'll soon be competing for subscription dollars with the third largest social network in the world - YouTube. More …
A lot has been said about Twitter's new micro-video service, Vine, which launched last week. It's been called a Instagram-esque clone, a gif wannabe, or just despised by cinematographers taught to hate jump cuts from an early age ... More …
Despite being written off by many as the least hip club in town, Google+ has secured itself the number two position on the social media food chain, according to UK research firm Trendstream. More …