YouTube seems to be making an earnest effort to work with the music industry, especially with players who might have the most reason to go after YouTube in court. Following on from a deal with Warner Music Group to distribute music videos, YouTube has now agreed to demands from a Japanese group to post new copyright warnings.

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Recent strong pre-Christmas sales of Sony’s PlayStation 2 have boosted the total number in New Zealand to over 400,000. 2006 census figures show there are 1.4 million homes in the country, so this means Sony has achieved huge saturation of the market, with almost 30% of households now owning a PlayStation 2.

Sony attributes the continuing success of the six-year-old PlayStation2 to the recent rise of "social gaming" aided by game series such as Singstar, Buzz and Eyetoy ...

Detailed 3D images of the Moon and Mars will soon be just a click away for web users, following a deal between search giant Google and US space agency Nasa.

The Space Agreement Act, signed on Monday, will put "the most useful of Nasa's information on the internet".

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Japanese electronics maker Matsushita has begun mass-production of a new lithium-ion battery it says is safe from the overheating problems that have plagued laptop computers this year. Matsushita, the parent company of Panasonic, says they will begin producing five million units of the new batteries per month.

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Germany's Siemens has set a speed record for electrical processing of data through a fiber-optic cable, it said Wednesday, opening the possibility of cheaper Internet and data networks. Siemens said it had processed data using exclusively electrical means at 107 gigabits per second - roughly two full DVDs per second - and sent it over a single optical fibre channel in a 100-mile U.S. network, the first time outside of a laboratory.

Social networks Bebo and MySpace were the two most searched for terms of 2006 using Google's search engine. The two rival sites allow users to create individual web pages, with photos, music and video.

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ISP Woosh has removed excess usage charges on both its wireless and wired (ADSL) broadband plans.

This means that Woosh customers will no longer be automatically charged for exceeding their broadband data allowance. Previously, customers on the Entry and Launch plans were charged at 6c per Megabyte (MB) once they exceeded the data allowance.

From now on, Woosh customers who are close to reaching their data allowance will have their connection speed reduced to dial-up. An email wil ...

Over 1.25 million New Zealanders having shopped online in the last 12 months compared to just 300,000 in 2001, new research shows.

Of these 1.25 million online shoppers, 80 percent of them have shopped online in the last three months, according to a report by Nielsen Media Research.

“Over four hundred thousand are regular online shoppers, having made at least six purchases in the last 12 months”, said Stuart Jamieson, executive director, Nielsen Media Research New Zealand. “This h ...

After months of speculatuion that Apple was planing to release a VoIP phone called the iPhone, Linksys has stolen the march, unveiling a line of VoIP phones and accessories for consumers using the iPhone registered trademark.

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Underground hackers are hawking zero-day exploits for Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system at $50,000 a pop, according to computer security researchers at Trend Micro. The Windows Vista exploit—which has not been independently verified—was just one of many zero-days available for sale at an auction-style marketplace infiltrated by the Tokyo-based anti-virus vendor.

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