4  NZ tests mobile e-commerce
Mobile e-commerce, which is still hardly in its infancy, will change the way we do business and our lifestyle, says the head of a company using New Zealand to test a mobile e-commerce terminal...
NZ Herald

4  Ihug, Walker Wireless in resale pact
Auckland Internet company Ihug has added another high-speed data offering to its arsenal through an agreement with Walker Wireless...
Stuff

4  Wooing Mr Microsoft the New Zealand way
Journalists don't just get to walk into a press conference with software emperor Bill Gates nowadays, Richard Pamatatau finds...
Stuff

Other

4  Publishing Without a Net
Big names in the magazine biz, including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Talk, don't have content-based sites on the Web. Are these heavyweights really luddites?...
Wired

4  Sharing the Streaming Burden
Vtrails' peer-to-peer technology distributes the processing of audio and video streams between a central server and client machines across the Internet...
Wired

4  Crime photos change eBay policy
An attempt to sell an autopsy picture and crime scene photographs of three slain boys has prompted online auction site eBay to change its policy on graphic photos...
CNet

4  Survival of the fittest: Net strategies that work
Two students approached a venture capitalist with a concept for a dot-com business. Intrigued by what he heard in the first few minutes of the students' pitch, the VC asked if they had a business plan. Did they?...
CNet

4  AltaVista lays off 225
The money-losing Web portal AltaVista said Friday that it has laid off 225 people, or 25 percent of its work force, as part of a series of steps to achieve profitability...
CNNfn

4  End near for eisa as $24m bid falters
Local internet service provider eisa is likely to be placed in voluntary administration today, after Austar's $24.4m takeover bid was thought to have failed on Friday...
AFR

4  Yanks still dominate Xmas etail market
While sales from online retailers are tipped to grow by more than 90% in the Asia-Pacific region during this year's Christmas shopping period, when it comes to etailing, the US remains way out in front...
NewsWire

4  Vodafone to sell towers - needs the funds
A day after declaring it did not need to go to the markets to raise capital, Vodafone Pacific intends to sell its mobile phone towers, which could raise up to $300 million...
Fairfax

4  Macquarie becomes online again
Macquarie Bank and its insider network have backed a start-up specialising in online video content, less than three months after the embarrassing restructure of the Macquarie-backed K*Grind...
AFR

Other

4  Web Looks To Be An Olympic Winner
The Sydney 2000 Olympic games could prove a huge opportunity and challenge for websites conveying news about events around the world in near-real time...
TechWeb

4  Microsoft MSN Overbilling Customers - MSNBC
Microsoft Corp.'s Internet service, MSN, is overbilling subscribers by hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to MSNBC.com, a news Web site jointly operated by the software giant and NBC television...
Yahoo

4  Cops Confiscate Student's Computer
Campus police at Oklahoma State University confiscated a student's computer over allegations from the recording industry that it was used to distribute copyright material...
AP

4  Caring for Internet security
It's been another bleak week for Internet security, what with high-profile hackings and reports of lax privacy. Experts blame the IT industry for ignoring the mounting crisis...
ZDNN