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The new catalogue comes with an ever-ready battery and interactive interface....

Excitement is peaking ahead of the release of the iPhone 6 and possible introduction of the iWatch....

Top level New Zealanders are among the 150 million people hit by last year’s Adobe hack....

New Zealanders get their hands on what’s thought to be the most expensive video game ever....

Published every weekday, the Switchboard is your morning helping of hand-picked stories from the Switch team. The Jack Ma Way.    David Barboza at the New York Times has a nice profile of Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba -- the Chinese e-commerce giant set for an initial public offering later this year. "Alibaba, a company started out of Mr. Ma’s apartment in 1999, is now a technology colossus worth...

In some circles, Zephyr Teachout is well-known for being central to the creation of online politics, serving as the director of Internet organizing for Howard Dean's landmark 2004 presidential run. But Teachout has also been a law professor, a civic nonprofit leader, an author -- and is now gaining notice as a candidate to be the next governor of New York. On Tuesday, Teachout and running mate Tim...

With Apple likely to release at least one new version of its phone on Tuesday , many iPhone users are going to wonder if now is the time to upgrade--or whether they should hold out for something better. And if you have a device that runs on Android or Windows Phone, you might be following the launch, too, to see if a switch is worth it. Either way, here are a couple questions you can already start...

Late last week, two senators formally rolled out a plan that, if passed, would dramatically reshape the economics of television. The idea is to unbundle broadcast programming so that individual consumers could pick — and pay for directly — only the channels that they want to watch. Broadcasters oppose the idea because it would limit their ability to extract revenue from big, wealthy cable companies....

The most powerful Democrat in the House is urging regulators to oversee broadband providers more closely in an effort to preserve an open Internet. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wrote in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission Monday that Internet service providers should be reclassified under Title II of the Communications Act — a step toward stronger regulations that would allow the...

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