WhatsApp, the world's most popular instant messaging platform, has begun encrypting all its data by default.

New York has unveiled the most ambitious plan yet for the payphone of the future offering WiFi connections, free calls and more.

Matt Heath writes: Who knows why people post mean stuff? Maybe their life is crap or maybe they're psychotic - but before you start crying you need to check credentials.

More Kiwis are choosing to stream movies online rather than head down to the local DVD shop - but many may be watching them illegally.

Tech blogger Juha Saarinen raises questions about the chief censor eyeing Slingshot over access to unclassified material.

I have been getting professional inspiration and a better understanding of where the new disrupters will come from that will pose challenges for law, policy and business.

We love market disruption: it's what makes things better, more affordable, and forces inferiority out, writes Lee Suckling.

Slingshot has every right to offer customers back-door access to international websites, says an internet advocacy group.

Heavy demand by homeowners desperate to access details about newly released property revaluations has now brought down the Quotable Value website.

Kiwis are among tens of thousands of householders worldwide whose privacy has been breached on a website featuring intercepted live feeds.

So fans of the actor's witty puns, intellectual musings and calls to humanitarian arms will be disappointed to learn that he's decided to temporarily quit the network.

Talkback host Danny Watson is taking his show to the bottom of the world. The Newstalk ZB personality will broadcast live from Antarctica for three days next week.

Creditors have accepted a 20c-in-the-dollar proposal from one of Orcon’s former owners but a court has yet to approve the deal.

NZ’s chief censor is mulling charges against Slingshot and Orcon, which both give customers access to websites with movies that could be either unclassified or banned.

David Kirk, chairman of Trade Me Group and Kathmandu Holdings, is seeking to raise A$25 million to A$40 million ($44.5 million) in an initial public offer on the ASX of Bailador Technology Investments, an Australian and New Zealand tech fund.

Society has always been fascinated by sex, and the internet gives us insight into previously unheard of sexual practices, portraying them as standard conduct, writes Lee Suckling.

ComCom clears merger of online travel agencies Expedia and Wotif.com after assessing concerns the tie-up would increase commission rates.

A 14-year-old boy suspected of planning a series of bombings in Vienna was reported yesterday to have been offered US$25,000 by Isis to carry out the attacks and claims that two other youths recruited in the same way remain at large.

Tech is part of everyone's life in Japan, but doesn't appear to have supplanted their livelihood, even for menial tasks.

Alibaba's Jack Ma is on the prowl for entertainment it can sell to Chinese consumers through its set-top boxes.

Sky TV unveiled plans to upgrade its set-top boxes and roll out a new web-based ondemand video service at its annual meeting today.

Sky TV has signed a conditional contract to renew its five-year deal with the NZRU.

Tinder: tacky, or just a super-efficient way to meet a match in this new age of need-it-now-ness? wonders relationship expert Jill Goldson.

Zoella is a beauty and fashion vlogger - the latest creation spat out by the YouTube machine to instruct young girls how to paint on the perfect smoky eye or red lip.

Technology companies helping bring content to life reigned supreme at the University of Auckland Business School Entrepreneurs' Challenge.

Job ads for call centre staff in Auckland attracted the biggest number of applicants, according to online employment sites.

Overwhelmed by the online world? Fear not: help is at hand with Rhodri Marsden's guide to Netiquette.

Bono has apologised for the way U2's new album Songs Of Innocence ended up in people's iTunes libraries ahead of the release of the CD version.