Government signals big changes for TVNZ
The Government is moving to set up TVNZ 7 as a public service broadcaster, leaving TV One and the other TVNZ channels to focus on making money. 
© 2010 Stuff.co.nz 1:33pm Biker rally goes ahead despite gang threats
A motorcycle rally that includes Hells Angels bikers is going ahead in Nelson despite threats of violence from members of a rival gang.
© 2010 RadioNZ 1:24pm Top Bush adviser declares pride in waterboarding
A senior adviser to former American president George Bush says he's proud of the harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding that were used to get information from suspected terrorists.
© 2010 RadioNZ 1:24pm  Buyers line up for hovercraft
Nelson's Rudy Heeman was to spend today glued to his computer in anticipation of a flurry of last-minute bids for his flying hovercraft.
© 2010 Stuff.co.nz 1:14pm Seven Questions with Cisco CEO John Chambers
Cisco CEO John Chambers talks virtualization, cloud, and the "Cisco Tax," in this installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series.
© 2010 ComputerWorld US 1:14pm Hide Your Desktop Icons
One of the things I love about Stardock's icon-organizing Fences program is the way it can quickly hide all your desktop icons. Just double-click any empty area and poof: They're gone. A second double-click brings them back again.
© 2010 ComputerWorld US 1:14pm Intel, AMD six-core chips mark an evolution for the desktop
The unveiling of six-core desktop processors by AMD and Intel mark a step in the evolution of chip technology, not a revolutionary move, mostly due to the lack of software that can take advantage of the advances.
© 2010 ComputerWorld US 1:14pm  Twitter wants to know where you are
Twitter on has turned on its new geolocation feature that allows you to tell the Twitterverse where you are when you tweet.
© 2010 ComputerWorld US 1:14pm FCC's national broadband plan: What's in it?
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission plans to release a national broadband plan next week that will lay out an ambitious set of goals for broadband deployment and adoption.
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US sharply rebukes Israel over new settlements
The American Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has sharply criticised Israel's decision to build new settlements in occupied east Jerusalem.
© 2010 RadioNZ 1:24pm Controversial cave concert gets go-ahead
A controversial dub and reggae concert in a cave at Dunedin's Long Beach has been granted resource consent by the Dunedin City Council.
© 2010 RadioNZ 1:24pm Spill spurs wishful thinking
Licking the grass and soaking it up with tea towels were two ideas Tokomaru residents had for cleaning up the wine that was split after a train derailed near the Horowhenua village.
© 2010 Stuff.co.nz 1:14pm Dreams turn to nightmares for homeowners
A Christchurch developer who let the purchasers of a property move into what is claimed to be a potential death trap with their five children needs to be stopped, the buyers say.
© 2010 Stuff.co.nz 1:14pm A nice $4m Lotto surprise
Here's a lesson in never throwing out those dockets and receipts crumpled in the bottom of your handbag without checking first: It could be a big winning ticket, as a Nelson woman discovered this week.
© 2010 Stuff.co.nz 1:14pm  Anticipation grows as Apple takes orders for iPad
Apple started taking orders for the iPad tablet Friday, with early adopters rushing to order one of the most hotly anticipated products in recent memory.
© 2010 ComputerWorld US 1:14pm Mozilla pitches Firefox 3.6 upgrade offer to users
Mozilla has begun offering Firefox 3.6 to users running older versions of the open-source browser.
© 2010 ComputerWorld US 1:14pm Promising prospect: Quiet Read
Back in early 2005, I covered URLwell, a clever menu-bar program that made it easy to store URLs you want to check out at a later time. Unfortunately, URLwell was last updated less than a month after I wrote that review, but I recently discovered a candidate for replacement: Quiet Read, which adds a few useful features of its own.
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