Avid mobile phone users are less happy and suffer from higher anxiety, a new study shows.

A lovestruck Wellington man who launched a campaign to track down a mystery American woman admits he was "a little naive".

An overwhelming public response has helped a Wellington man track down a mystery American woman he met in Hong Kong last New Year's Eve.

A lovestruck man using social media to track down a mystery American woman he met in Hong Kong says he is overwhelmed by the public response.

"Find me," she said, before slipping away into the dawn of New Year's Day. A Kiwi is hoping Xmas magic and social media will reunite him with his mystery 'Katie'.

Tumblr is where the Internet's cool kids hang out. That's why Yahoo paid $1.1 billion to buy the blogging site in one of this year's most buzzed-about deals.

Eleven high school pupils who posted photos of themselves online smashing bottles and urinating in the yard of a Queenstown holiday home retreat could face serious charges.

The local innovator behind Realstew wants his communications platform to make WINZ redundant.

All Hopey wanted to do was show off his battle scar. He probably never imagined that by posting the photo online, he'd create what we know today as the selfie.

Man Booker prize-winner Eleanor Catton has criticised one of NZ's foremost literary figures on his comments on the Roast Busters scandal.

I didn't do it for charity. I didn't do it just for novelty. I really did it to irritate the girl I was seeing at the time.

Giovanni Tiso admits surprise at the outcome of his actions. He is the man who saw to it that Willie Jackson and John Tamihere were suspended from their radio show.

To mark 150 years, we're giving you a glimpse into our newsroom, with a live blog documenting a day at the Herald.

Justice Minister Judith Collins says sexual abuse has nothing to do with the way a woman dresses, and has slammed radio hosts for making this connection.

We are developing a world of halfwits, writes Bob Jones. Much worse than cellphones is computer addiction, which is turning many into zombies, living a lonely existence of marriage to a cyberspace world.

Sexual violence is an abhorrent crime. Offenders who sexually attack women, and men, should face the full consequences of their actions, writes Judith Collins.

John Key and Anne Tolley should stop looking for a speck in Peter Marshall's eye and take the inebriated log out of their own, writes Anglican vicar Michael Hewat.

The high school several Roast Busters members attended is checking its website.

Police and ministerial heads must roll over the Roast Busters horror.

Young women are striking back against the Roast Busters Facebook gang in a bid to support alleged victims and stand up to what they say is a lack of action against rape culture.

The fact that when the Roast Busters story hit the news my 15-year-old daughter took one look at the television and said "Oh yeah, those guys. Everyone's seen their page."

A 15-year-old girl who says she was a victim of the Roast Busters group made a complaint to police two years ago, contradicting the official line that they could not prosecute members of the gang because no one had complained.

Police have been called after at least one copycat Facebook group appeared following the Roast Busters underage sex scandal.

Radio hosts Willie Jackson and John Tamihere have been accused of "victim-blaming'' over their questioning of a young woman who is friends with a Roast Busters group victim.

Another vigilante group has sprung up on Facebook promising $4000 for footage of "Roast Busters" members "getting hidings."

Waitemata police have this afternoon spoken to two alleged members of the 'Roast Buster' group which boasted online about having sex with drunk teenage girls.

One of the founders of a group calling themselves the Roast Busters has apparently apologised online for his involvement in the group.