Who knew New Zealand had a space programme? In truth, with the exception of Auckland company Rocket Lab's launch of a rocket 100km into the sky last November, we can't claim to have tried visiting the inky void.

Depending on your age, gender and tolerance levels for whiny teenage singers with dodgy haircuts, the diminutive Canadian pop and R&B phenomenon is either a heart-melting object of infatuation or a viral contagion infecting the web.

It does nothing to speed up typing; as one user said, it's as if someone is constantly interrupting you to finish your sentences, and always getting it wrong.

An uprising by the software geeks who create iPhone apps has forced Steve Jobs, the company's chief executive, into a rare and humiliating public climbdown.

Creative Tech, the biggest Apple-centric show ever to hit New Zealand, takes place this weekend in the heart of Auckland.

The police have handed the investigation on Google's Street View data gathering back to the Privacy Commissioner.

If a new identity is the only way to escape your online past, maybe Facebook just isn't worth it.

Eric Schmidt warns that the amount of personal data people leave online could force them to change their names to escape their cyber pasts.

Apple and Playboy are rather unlikely bedfellows.

Google's Android mobile phone system is set to pip Research in Motion to second place in the global market by the end of this year.

Local software company Pingar has begun an ambitious push into the Chinese language computer search engine business.

The test of a company can often be how it responds in the face of adversity, so it will be fascinating to watch Apple over the coming days and weeks.

Some of the translations of Prime Minister John Key's video diary messages are less than perfect.

Apple's iOS4 lock-down may cost it in the smartphone market, the same way its 'no clone' policy hit it in the 1990s.

Power failure could have been to blame for the sudden collapse of one of the world's most popular websites, the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.

If some highly reliable sources are to be believed, Google is gearing up to take on Facebook with 'Google Me'.

Social networking with built-in GPS was meant to be the next big thing. The possibilities are endless - so why isn't everyone signing up?

Good relationships are crucial to your working future, writes Robyn Webb.

Police are investigating claims that Google illegally gathered personal email and wireless internet data during its "Street View" operation in NZ.