One of the perks of being a tech journalist living in a small country at the very ends of the earth is that I occasionally get to hop aboard a plane and travel to somewhere to write about gadgets.

Some believe social networking and search - Facebook, Twitter and Google in particular - are putting our personal information at far too much risk.

Simon Hendery offers some suggestions for IT items that will bring business benefits to the user in 2010.

NZ's highest flying executive, Chris Liddell, talks to the Herald about stepping down as chief financial officer at Microsoft.

Next time you're planning on telephoning or emailing ... consider sending an SMS message instead.

Rookie search engines Bing and WolframAlpha join forces in the quest for greater market share.

Apple may be planning to sell its devices on the cheap, provided users sit through compulsory adverts.

Windows 7 users should not get complacent about viruses, warns security specialist SophosLabs.

Hundreds descended on events in Auckland and Wellington this morning to mark the world's first launch of Microsoft's Windows 7.

Microsoft is set to release Windows 7 next month after copping a whole lot of flack over the last few years over the Windows Vista operating system.

Microsoft has launched the latest version of its mobile OS and annouced large line up of Windows Phones.

Hackers have set their sights on Google's Gmail email service after revelations of widespread attacks on Microsoft's Hotmail yesterday.

Hackers have posted thousands of Hotmail, msn and Windows Live users' passwords online.