NetGuide is a monthly New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 technology magazine.

It was launched in September 1996 by an independent Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

-based publisher, then owned by Australian Consolidated Press

Australian Consolidated Press

ACP Magazines , a subsidiary of the Nine Entertainment Co., is an Australian media company. It publishes the Australian Women's Weekly and the Australian edition of Woman's Day....

 (ACP) 2003 to 2008 and now is owned by TechDay (previously Action Media). Originally entirely internet-focused, it developed to cover wider computer and technology issues.

The magazine claims to be New Zealand's biggest-selling technology. The magazine competes with IDG

IDG

International Data Group is a technology media, research, event management, and venture capital organization.IDG evolved from International Data Corporation which was formed in 1964 in Newtonville, Massachusetts, by Patrick Joseph McGovern and a friend, Fred Kirch...

's New Zealand PC World

PC World (magazine)

PC World is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG. It offers advice on various aspects of PCs and related items, the Internet, and other personal-technology products and services...

http://www.pcworld.co.nz/

The magazine also runs the annual People’s Choice NetGuide Web Awards.

Australian edition

The magazine launched a version for the Australian market, Australian NetGuide, in 1996 and was closed in 2009. It competed with NineMSN

NineMSN

ninemsn is an Australian 50/50 joint venture between Microsoft and Nine Entertainment Co.. It effectively acts as the website for both the Nine Network and MSN, and is one of Australia's most popular websites...

's apc

Australian Personal Computer

APC is a computer magazine in Australia. It is published monthly and comes with a cover-mounted DVD of software...

http://www.apcstart.com/site/ and IDG's Australian PC World

PC World (magazine)

PC World is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG. It offers advice on various aspects of PCs and related items, the Internet, and other personal-technology products and services...

title http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/