New Zealand

Ski MOUNT DOOM or take top coffee to the beach? Your choice

eXpat Files Swapping the City of London for New Zealand – work/life balance at last

On-Prem18 Jan 2015 | 21

BORGED! Expat moves from New Zealand to Norway to be acquired by Cisco

eXpat Files From global heights to a local help desk

On-Prem30 Nov 2014 | 18

Netflix tags March 2015 for ANZ launch

Oz TV barons: 'Yep, we own that show. And that one. And this one'

Legal19 Nov 2014 | 3

Meet OneRNG: a fully-open entropy generator for a paranoid age

Kiwis to seek random investors for crowd-funded randomiser

Security17 Nov 2014 | 30

Nude celeb pics wrongly blamed for DDOS at New Zealand's largest ISP

Actual culprit appears to be silly router configurations and Euro-nasties

Security08 Sep 2014 | 7

NZ Justice Minister scalped as hacker leaks emails

Grab your popcorn: Subterfuge and slur disrupts election run up

Security01 Sep 2014 | 22

Kiwi Rocket Lab to build SUPER-CHEAP sat launchers (anyone know 30 rocket scientists?)

Promises 100 launches a year for payloads up to 110kg

Science29 Jul 2014 | 32

Kiwi ISP 'Slingshot' stones geo-blocked content

The last time someone tried this it ended badly, quickly

Networks08 Jul 2014 | 11

That's no plane wreck, that's a Google Wi-Fi balloon

Unplanned splashdown scrambles New Zealand emergency services

Networks20 Jun 2014 | 23

Kiwis get cracking with gigabit residential broadband

Copper not 'good enough' says UF CEO

Networks10 Jun 2014 | 24

Monkey steals iPod touch, loses interest in minutes

Simian thought to have disposed of iThing in a moat

Bootnotes20 Mar 2014 | 42

NZ bloke's drunken poker bet ends in 99-letter name

Mr Full Metal Havok <snip> Frostnova

Bootnotes12 Mar 2014 | 63

Kim Dotcom extradition hearings delayed

Megachap blames new conspiracy about Kiwi elections for legal layover

Legal25 Feb 2014 | 8

Kiwi inventor's court win rains on Apple's parade

'driPhone' trademark ruled legal in New Zealand

Legal17 Dec 2013 | 29

Kiwi 'ccountancy cloud collects colossal cash casket

Xero wins another $NZD180m in funding

Software13 Oct 2013 | 3

Kiwi cable signs TE SubCom for build

Hawaiki a step closer to reality

Networks23 Sep 2013 | 1

Kiwis (finally) confirm software ban under new patent law

Lone stand or first domino?

Legal28 Aug 2013 | 23

Kiwis rally against 'snoops' charter' law

PM Key calls protesters 'misinformed' and 'politically aligned'

Legal28 Jul 2013 | 20

Dotcom, NZ PM clash over spy laws

'Why are you turning red, prime minister?'

Legal03 Jul 2013 | 12

Kiwi telco Two Degrees to roll out 4G in 2014

BNZ backs Huawei kit buy

Networks18 Jun 2013 | 3

TUANZ: don't risk mobile competition

New Zealand plots spectrum future

Networks16 May 2013 | 1

New Zealand to bar software patents, again

New legislation closes loophole, makes it plain Kiwis won't patent code

Legal09 May 2013 | 32

FTTN cabinet survives Kiwi car crash

Update Malcolm Turnbull's FTTN NBN plan now proven to be physically robust

Legal08 May 2013 | 13

Kiwis consider new spy laws in wake of Dotcom debacle

Will let GCSB spy on citizens

Legal07 May 2013 | 14

NZ plans interception law refresh

Dotcom bust leads to spooks' charter

Legal16 Apr 2013 | 28

Kiwi boffins bid up Earth-like planet prediction

A HUNDRED beeellion!

Science04 Apr 2013 | 18

Microsoft exec selling his Surface tablet

Not dumping, upgrading

Personal Tech11 Mar 2013 | 36

Ericsson plans NZ fibre facility

Duct-building in Porirua

On-Prem22 Feb 2013 |

Kiwi cops to buy 6,500 iPhones, 3,900 iPads

Smartphones and fondleslabs will do the work of 345 officers

Legal15 Feb 2013 | 39

Kiwi Coroner says Coca-Cola helped kill woman

Cardiac arrhythmia followed nine litres a day habit

Bootnotes12 Feb 2013 | 73

New Zealand court hands out second peppercorn downloading penalty

Kiwi freetards have no taste whatever

Legal11 Feb 2013 | 48

First ‘three strikes’ decision handed down in NZ

Insufficient evidence costs RIANZ its big win as court imposes tiny fine

Legal31 Jan 2013 | 37

Kiwi archaeologists cook up a record of Earth’s magnetism

What’s that in your hangi?

Science09 Dec 2012 | 14

Court ruling means Kim Dotcom can sue NZ spooks

Illegal surveillance on trial

Legal06 Dec 2012 | 40

'Mount Doom' rumbling ominously

Did someone toss a ring into the Kiwi volcano used as LoTR movies' Mordor?

Science19 Nov 2012 | 32

Kim Dotcom's Mega pops up AGAIN, now in New Zealand

Kiwi-hosted site to be 'powered by legality'

Networks12 Nov 2012 | 16

Accidental discounts land Apple in NZ's Disputes Tribunal

El Reg has seen the screen shots and the story stacks up ... mostly

On-Prem05 Nov 2012 | 33

Kim Dotcom offers free internet with own submarine cable

Revives collapsed Pacific Fibre plan for New Zealand to USA link

Networks04 Nov 2012 | 33

Vodafone NZ finishes chewing, finally swallows TelstraClear

A snap at NZ$840m

On-Prem31 Oct 2012 |

Kiwi three strikes piracy case collapses

Accused had never seen, and had no idea how to use, file-sharing software

Legal19 Oct 2012 | 16

NZ blogger names source for data leak tipoff

Kiwi self-serve privacy outrage continues

Security15 Oct 2012 | 4

NZ government network leaking data like a sieve

Updated: Ministry apologises, launches investigation

Security14 Oct 2012 | 15

New Zealand issues Hobbit money

Previousss coins have horrible exchange rate

Bootnotes09 Oct 2012 | 49

New questions raised over Kim Dotcom snooping

Reports ‘ping’ Kiwi spy agency for spying on Dotcom's Modern Warfare sessions

Legal05 Oct 2012 | 37

New Zealand Prime Minister apologizes for Dotcom spying

Dotcom says police missed explosive clues

Legal27 Sep 2012 | 45

NZ bloke gets eel stuck up jacksie

'This has to be a first', admits hospital insider

Bootnotes26 Sep 2012 | 84

Kiwi cops forgot Kim Dotcom's visa

Court documents reveal cockup, not conspiracy, led to unlawful arrest

Legal26 Sep 2012 | 33

NZ spooks acted unlawfully in Megaupload wiretap

Court informed of wrongdoing as PM orders inquiry

Legal24 Sep 2012 | 30

NZ software giants join patent bill protest

Updated: govt says "no" Petitioning against patent trolls

Software10 Sep 2012 | 1

NZ beaks give climate skeptics the bird

Warming records weren’t cooked

Science09 Sep 2012 | 18

Microsoft NZ exposes TechEd delegates' passwords

Registration emails included passwords as plaintext

Security30 Aug 2012 | 5

New Zealand softens software patent ban

Amendment welcomed by vendors, laywers

On-Prem29 Aug 2012 | 26

Greens launch anti-TPP Internationale

Oz, Canada, New Zealand strike cross-border coalition against ACTA-like trade pact

Legal21 Aug 2012 | 10

US appeal dismissed in Dotcom case

BREAKING New Zealand judge upholds disclosure order

Legal16 Aug 2012 | 58

Video shows armed assault on Kim Dotcom family home

Two helicopters, armed police and dogs used in arrest

Legal08 Aug 2012 | 102

Kiwi pooches turn into ROACH MUNCHING DOPE FIENDS

Red-eye, munchies, freezing to death

Bootnotes12 Jul 2012 | 18