Orcon has come up tops in the latest survey of Kiwi internet speeds. The state-owned internet provider boasted an average download speed of 5.2 megabits per second in the survey of 12,000 computers, the New Zealand Herald reported.

A recent study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has found malware has become so prevalent that 25 percent of computers in the United States are now infected.

The interception of Internet traffic to snoop on phone calls or track surfers' behavior is a hot topic -- but what's keeping members of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee up at night is the interception of traffic to and from sites that

Even though Congress has growled loudly enough to get Internet service providers to back off their plans to sell information about their customers’ Web surfing to advertising companies, one prominent legal expert argues that the law governing the issue

What do they offer? DSL and ADSL: Digital Subscriber Line or Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line systems work with a terrestrial phone line. ADSL is faster for downloads and more powerful than DSL.