US Government stories
Another exciting week has wrapped up here at NZET, Here's a summary of the news stories that were biggest in NZ this week.
Concerns about Chinese involvement in a second trans-Tasman submarine fibre cable spark debate over potential espionage risks versus economic necessity.
Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, faces a Senate antitrust panel this week as scrutiny mounts over the search giant's dominance.
The creation of a new .xxx domain, dedicated exclusively to websites containing pornographic content is likely to be announced today.
The US is set to lessen its grip on the Internet with a new agreement set to transfer much control from the government to ICANN in the coming days.
Twitter blogged yesterday that an attack took place over 'just a few moments' before it was noticed by Twitter staff and shut it down.