Viacom, parent of MTV, Comedy Central, sued Google and its online video subsidiary YouTube for $1 billion Tuesday, the first big lawsuit against YouTube for copyright infringement. In addition to damages, Viacom said it wants an injunction prohibiting Google and YouTube from further infringement...

The battle for online payments in NZ is on. Or is it? We have a plethora of wannabe players, but nobody seems to get it. There's an easy way for wannabe payments players to enter the market. Pay us money. Is anyone up to the challenge?

Greater numbers of teachers are having affairs with students. Is it really a problem?

"The cure seems worse than the condition. The New Zealand Government should not be authorising an armed security officer from a foreign country to discharge a gun in the confined space of a pressurised aircraft cabin that will quite possibly be full of New Zealand citizens," Mr Locke says.

Egypt is battling with bloggers and freedom of speech. They are attempting to silence bloggers by imprisoning them. Earlier this month, Abdel-Karim Suleiman, a 22-year-old former law student at al-Azhar Islamic university...

Helen Clark is visiting President Bush, but many of the questions that should be asked are being quietly swept under the carpet. Kiwi songwriter Luigi Cappel has written a song as another way of asking the questions and it is getting a lot of play...

Love Calculator is still around and working, even after TV3 and Juha exposes. Google and Vodafone (and Telecom) it's time for you to shut this down.

UH-OH ... BUSH got Iglesias axed. From the Times ... "The White House was deeply involved in the decision late last year to dismiss federal prosecutors, including some who had been criticized by Republican lawmakers, administration officials said Monday...

When it comes to Republican political shenanigans, Karl Rove is often the most likely suspect. The political mastermind of the Bush presidency, The political mastermind of the Bush presidency, Rove has exercised a singular amount of control from his West Wing office through his network...

The White House suggested two years ago that the Justice Department fire all 93 U.S. attorneys, a proposal that eventually resulted in the dismissals of eight prosecutors last year, according to e-mails and internal documents that the administration will provide to Congress today....

Last October, President Bush spoke with Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales to pass along concerns by Republicans that some prosecutors were not aggressively addressing voter fraud, the White House said Monday. Senator Pete V. Domenici, Republican of New Mexico, was among the politicians who compl

Top U.S. law enforcement official Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez engineered a Pearl Harbor Day for eight Republican appointed federal prosecutors. From one end of the country to the other, previously well regarded prosecutors were summarily fired (allowed to resign) on December 7, 2006. Chief of

The basic rules of good journalism are fairly simple: tell the story right, tell it well and, in the words of the late New Yorker editor, Harold Ross, 'if you can't be funny, be interesting.'

The NZ Herald reports on the last minute lobbying regarding the Borrows amendment on the Section 59 bill. Chester accurately makes the point that the debate shouldn't be about whether smacking worked, but about whether or not parents who smack should be criminally liable.

The Maori Party MPs will be supporting Sue Bradford's bill to repeal Section 59 of the crimes act as it stands.