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

Daring to suggest that Apple Mac sales are on the rise seems to have touched a nerve.

I still find it ironic and amusing that some people react to Apple as the evil empire.

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.

You can browse the web, send emails, listen to music and watch films but the iPad is a powerful computer. What else can you do with it?

Macs are easy to use, so everyone says, and indeed, that's how I found them when a mate introduced me to them back at the beginning of 1988.

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

CreativeTech is an Apple-centric conference concept, and the very first one is taking place in September.

The Xbox 360 has shrunk, quietened down, beefed up its storage and gained some high-speed networking abilities.

While much attention has been heaped on the new Kinect add-on, worried gameheads were wondering what would become of them.

Microsoft has cleared up the rumours, misinformation, speculation and nagging questions that have plagued gamers for the last twelve months.

It seems the iPad came before the iPhone – one among a series of revelations from Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a recent lengthy interview.

Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7, is close to becoming more widely used than Vista, but still lags far behind XP.

Some features in Windows 7 are designed to help users get a lot more from the operating system.

People called Apple a flash in the pan - but Flash is on the way out and Microsoft just got passed by Apple in market capitalisation.

Apple has been embarrassed by publicity surrounding 11 suicide attempts at the vast Foxconn facility which produces iPad and other products.

Don McGlashan talks to MacPlanet about scoring film, making music on Macs and why there's no PC in the mix.