Last week's telco talkfest that all the major providers, Spark, Vodafone, Chorus, Kordia, 2 Degrees, Vector, Vocus and others was

Apps such as Kik and Ask.fm can be used without parental controls, boosting privacy and potential risks.

Those in their 20s and 30s might want to be careful next time they go looking for love online - they might run into their parents.

Scrolling through Instagram, it is easy to get lost in the pretty pictures. But businesses are finding more than face value in the social media platform.

Watch out Netflix - notorious illegal download site Pirate Bay is moving into streaming.

One thing's for sure, the "Internet of Things" will be a security disaster this and coming years, writes Juha Saarinen.

Marissa Mayer is gearing up for yet another turnaround plan for Yahoo.

Kim Knight meets the New Zealand mothers whose carefully curated online snaps are earning them legions of followers - and in some cases, big bucks.

Mark Zuckerberg has today announced his plans to build artificial intelligence (AI).

Moana Cable has signed a contract for greater connectivity to the United States.

Have users learnt anything six months on from the most personally ruinous hack ever?

Nearly 200 experts, companies and civil society groups from more than 40 countries are asking governments around the world to support strong encryption.

An activist investor is urging the beleaguered tech giant to dump its management team.

A bride's late daughter is included in her wedding thanks to a friend and photographer.

In case you missed it: This was one of Life & Style's biggest stories from 2015.

Information about 191 million US registered voters was left exposed on the Internet.

A US Marine and his new wife captured hearts when their wedding photographer shared an image of the two of them praying together.

We haven't seen anything of this magnitude since the invention of the printing press.

According to Adobe Digital Trends report for 2016, mobile browsing will trump desktop by the end of 2016.

The biggest seller this Christmas apart from smartwatches will apparently be drones, I'm told.

For such a small country New Zealand does a lot of things well. Christmas isn't one of them. It's too bright, too hot, too ... not Christmasy.

A number of former senior national security officials are urging that the government embrace the move to strong encryption by tech companies.

Tis the season to be jolly, if you're Chorus at least, because the Commerce Commission just gave the company a huge Christmas present.

A conman stole the identities of victims of the Christchurch earthquake, the Pike River Mine explosion and the Carterton balloon disaster.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has given birth to twin girls and says she will only take a few weeks of maternity leave.

Juha Saarinen talks New Zealand telcos and the final decision on how much will they will pay towards the Telecommunications Development Levy.

Focus is a new content-blocking app from Mozilla that lets users block ads and third-party website plugins that send information about you.

Parents blame Google for ruining Christmas as children search for Santa and discover he's as real as a plastic pine tree.

Spark New Zealand will buy Computer Concepts Ltd (CCL) for $50 million as it continues to acquire IT services firms to beef up data-driven revenue.