Mobile apps are being used successfully by retailers around the developed world to drive sales. In New Zealand, the uptake has been slower than

Google is faced with a potential battle with the European Commission which says it will be investigating whether the search engine has abused its

A recently-released app allows locals and tourists to identify and help protect New Zealand’s endangered kea. A GPS navigator within the ‘Wildlife Tracker’

Sir Ray Avery-founded company Vigil, which connects medical device wearers to their “carers” through health alerts sent to their smart devices, has received $5

The jury is out: New Zealand’s cyber crime is the perennial pain in your company’s butt which is only going to get worse. Our

Lasers, watches, secret spy gear – a piece of James Bond may soon be part of your arsenal on that fancy dinner out where

Will Kiwi five-year olds take to algorithm they way they absorb French, Spanish or Mandarin as a second language. New Zealand may be able

Andy Wilkinson opens the window into the soul of a startup -- the who, the why, the how and the in-between —not just the

University of Canterbury graduate Marcia Butterfield earlier this week released an app that lists the best cafes, bars, restaurants, shops and events within Auckland,

When Richard Conway, founder of Pure SEO, moved to New Zealand from the UK in 2008, he could not find a job because most

Coming up with a description for an image well is hard even for humans, so Google’s latest adventure in auto-captioning is ground-breaking in its

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei and Spark New Zealand have signed a partnership agreement which would allow the two to draw on each other to

Christchurch-based technology development company Swiftpoint Limited released its GT computer mouse for pre-order through Kickstarter.com last week after beating the likes of Sony, Phillips

What do you do after you have obtained a Chemistry degree from the University of California? You keep pursuing the idea of doing cool

Who doesn’t want to be like Iron Man? A slice of Tony Stark’s arsenal is coming in the form of Navdy – a car

VISA’s payWave technology has reached a record 3 million transactions per month in September, and compulsive buying is giving retailers something to look forward

Has Google Glass’ futuristic vision gone all blurry? The wearable technology made huge headlines when its development was announced, touted as the wearable tech

Small robots are being used as part of a €8.3 million ($NZ 12.6 million) artificial intelligence project funded by the European Commission, which hopes

What? Contact lenses that have microprocessors that can measure glucose levels?

As debate rages on about our collective cyber security (thanks Eddie!) and fear mongering appearing everywhere we look on the virtual world (Hi there,

Twitter has plans to dish up “Instant Timelines” to help new users navigate through the social media tool. A “While You Were Away” function

Man has successfully landed a probe on a comet. This historic achievement was made when the European Space Agency (ESA) reported that the Rosetta

Six weeks after the arrival of the shorter domain name “.nz”, thousands of companies and individuals have forked out for the new moniker. Sure

A cervical cancer-detecting device, first developed 20 years ago, and envisaged by its inventors as an alternative to the traditional Pap smear test, has

Internet of Things (IotT) may be the buzz phrase du jour, but when you look beneath the hype, connected machines and machine-to-machine technologies are

Finally a coder who not only has the intelligence for coding but has empathy and integrity. That’s the way of the future and Dev