Like Microsoft before it, Google decided it would let other companies build the hardware for the software it developed.

Is a compromise possible between Govt agencies and phone makers over encryption and law enforcement access?

Google and Apple have moved a third-party Instagram app from their online stores after reports surfaced the app was stealing usernames and passwords.

It's the ultimate tool for the very laziest of armchair travellers of New Zealand - a 3D-view of some of the country's most famous tramping tracks.

Mozilla is warning web users that the push to squeeze ever more internet consumption into apps risks undermining a neutral, public internet.

As if the streaming-music world wasn't complicated enough, Google has announced a new product called YouTube Music.

As if the streaming-music world wasn't complicated enough, Google announced a new product called YouTube Music.

Google can continue to scan books without paying authors after a court rules it was 'fair use'.

Which company has topped the list of local business searches on Google?

When Google was young, the technology company did one thing well. It helped people on desktop computers search the Internet.

Last year a European court ordered the online search giant to bow to people's interest in obscurity.

Google has ridiculed demands by European Union antitrust regulators to change the way it displays search results as "peculiar and problematic".

Jojo Stewart has managed to edge out the boys in the male-dominated field of computer science.

Will we have to start taking Google's search results with a grain of salt?

As Google becomes Alphabet, its founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, are going to become full-time capital allocators.

A U.S. appeals court struggled over the rules to block electronic transmissions that violate U.S. property rights.

It's a bold move, typical of Google, which may be connected to the internet and which earns vast amounts of money, but isn't really part of anyone's life, writes Juha Saarinen.

Google is introducing a new feature to its Maps application that allows users to see where they have been on any given day, month or year.

As Google and Apple start making car apps, automakers must decide whether to hold them off or open the door to the tech giants.

We don't have Pitbulls or Mattel hoverboards yet, but Japanese car company Lexus recently unveiled a prototype for a real, rideable hoverboard.

Spotted a typo just as you hit send, or just sent the email to the wrong person altogether? Here's how to take it back.

Tech giants are racing to find the next "I need it" home gadget.

This week's Apple conference marked the first time female executives had been on-stage since 2010.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin says he sees little reason to release the accident reports involving self-driving cars.

Google says one of its least expensive innovations - virtual reality headgear made of cardboard - has become a huge hit.

Systems that drive autonomous vehicles benefit from never getting tired or distracted by texts.

Google, Facebook and other big internet companies will be forced to hand over encrypted conversations of suspected terrorists and criminals under plans to bolster surveillance powers.

The United States space programme is famous for what it invented and also for how much it spent putting men on the moon.

Twitter's ad team will do about anything to win clients yet ad agencies still devote most of their budgets to Facebook and Google.