If you're a typical parent, I bet you're continually chiding your children for chewing up your home internet bandwidth allowance, watching videos on YouTube.

Much of Christchurch is without essential services after yesterday's earthquake with gas, power, water and phone infrastructure all affected.

It was the kind of flash mob that only the internet can generate.

AT&T Inc.'s CEO Randall Stephenson, expressed frustration with the way applications are sold to smart phone users, saying customers should be able to buy an application once and have it work across many different devices.

Apple's secrecy has encouraged much speculation about the company's plans.

There's a growing murmur that it may have lost its mojo in the one area it had unquestionably conquered - search.

Egyptians, blocked from the internet, are being offered a way by Google and Twitter to "tweet" by using a voice connection.

Major changes are on the way for public sector information technology.

Gartner estimates that smartphone users will download a shopping 17.7 billion apps - worth US$15bn - this year.

Google has announced an online global science fair allowing any student with a web connection and a Google account to enter a competition with a NZ$64,800 prize.

Microsoft has signaled its tablet intent today at the Consumer Electronics Show, announcing an ARM processor-friendly Windows.

A quick skim through some front page news stories over the past year provides incontrovertible proof of technology's grip on our lives.

Forget about Google's struggle with Facebook for eyeballs and programmers. Pay no attention to its fight with Apple over smartphones, or to any other tech rivalry.

Google has apologised to New Zealanders after its Street View cars were caught out collecting data sent over some Wi-Fi networks.

While he isn't exactly in TVNZ's good books, it appears that Paul Henry is a big Kiwi favourite online.

A survey of 502 Kiwis found that 42 per cent said they usually decided on their travel plans around this time of year.

Finally, mobiles are living up to their early promise.

Barely six months after the iPad was launched, Apple-watchers have something new to talk about: a successor to its first tablet computer.

Here's how two of the most influencial newspapers on either side of the Atlantic explain their role in publishing the leaks.