Fletcher Aluminium has set up a new factory for the rebuilding of Christchurch.

Surprise results in latest Nielsen market share stats.

Apple's Mac Store faces challenges, but has helped a Wellington game developer drive sales. He revealed numbers to NBR.

As Microsoft launches Bing against Google, the search giant has struck back, straight at Steve Ballmer's heart, announcing a full-blown PC operating system, called Chrome OS, to appear mid-2010.

The move recasts the rivalry between the two companies.

Acer has become the first top-tier PC maker to confirm it will release a laptop running on Google’s Android operating system rather than Microsoft Windows.

Previewing an Acer Aspire One running Google’s OS at the Computex trade show in Taipei, Acer's global president of IT products, Jim Wong, told a press conference that Android offers "incredibly fast wireless connection to the Internet."

Acer is the world’s second largest notebook maker.

Shocking long-time observers, Microsoft has confirmed rumours that its Internet Explorer web browser will be removable from Windows 7.

Earlier this week, a screen shot (below) leaked to developer blog sites, appearing to show a setup screen in Windows 7 that let a user uninstall IE 8. Previous beta versions of Windows 7 had not featured such a “kill switch”.