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Brothers of invention
From software to electric bikes, serial entrepreneurs Shaun and Grant Ryan are proving that big ideas run in the family. Karyn Scherer reports.
Will Ping change the way we share music?
While most online music ventures let us listen for free, Ping revolves around something that for many has become an anachronism - paying for it.
Looks are everything as Twitter chases profits
Despite scoring 370,000 new users every day, making money out of its customers has proved a real challenge for Twitter.
Eye on the sky: Awarua Station
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.
Bieber fever invades the web
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.
Google's predictive text attempt leaves users lost for words
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.
Apple's app store U-turn signals a win for Adobe
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: All you need to know
Creative Tech, the biggest Apple-centric show ever to hit New Zealand, takes place this weekend in the heart of Auckland.
Police: Google committed no crime with Wi-Fi data grab
The police have handed the investigation on Google's Street View data gathering back to the Privacy Commissioner.
What's in a name? Too much to throw away
If a new identity is the only way to escape your online past, maybe Facebook just isn't worth it.
Revealed: The YouTube rich list
New research has revealed the names of the ten highest earning independent acts on video sharing site YouTube.
Google boss warns over personal data we share online
Eric Schmidt warns that the amount of personal data people leave online could force them to change their names to escape their cyber pasts.
Playboy releases iPad app - but no nudity
Apple and Playboy are rather unlikely bedfellows.
Google's Android on course to topple Blackberry
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.
Software firm searches for China success
Local software company Pingar has begun an ambitious push into the Chinese language computer search engine business.
Apple apologises for iPhone problems 'we're not perfect'
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has apologised to iPhone 4 buyers about its reception issues and offered free cases to help rectify the problem.
iPhone row threatens to take a bite out of Apple
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.
How a Google mix-up on YouTube left PM's real message
Some of the translations of Prime Minister John Key's video diary messages are less than perfect.
Could Apple's first mistake come back to haunt it?
Apple's iOS4 lock-down may cost it in the smartphone market, the same way its 'no clone' policy hit it in the 1990s.