Tech blogger Juha Saarinen has used iOS 8 since the early betas and says its not that different from iOS 7 in terms of use, just more refined.

Mojang founder Markus Persson has put his sanity first in selling Minecraft for $2.5b to Microsoft, saying he never expected it to be such a big hit.

Unlike video games that had spectacular success and then fizzled Minecraft is a create-it-yourself platform that has staying power.

Nanotechnology will experience huge growth in the coming years and affect most areas of our lives, says an expert in the field, Auckland University senior lecturer Michelle Dickinson.

Michelle Dickinson says the field of nanotechnology is going to experience huge growth in the coming years, and will affect most areas of our lives.

A Microsoft employee travelling to speak at New Zealand’s largest IT conference died on the way to the event after a mid-flight heart attack.

A team of Auckland University students this month won first place in the innovation category of the Microsoft Imagine Cup for their meeting app, Estimeet.

A team of Auckland University students have won first place in the innovation category, a $50,000 cheque and the experience of a lifetime at Microsoft's Imagine Cup World Finals.

A group of aspiring student technologists from the University of Auckland has won $50,000 at Microsoft's Imagine Cup in Seattle over the weekend.

Microsoft's CEO unveiled his first vision statement, saying that more engineering and organisational changes are needed as he attempts to turn around the software maker.

Oracle won a US appeals court bid to revive claims that Google copied its Java programming language to develop Android.

One of New Zealand's fastest-growing software startups has been scooped up by technology giant Microsoft.

As new Microsoft boss Satya Nadella looks for ways to revive the company, part of the problem will be the huge scale of the business.

Stories carried overnight by international media say US and UK spies have spent years trawling online games for terrorists and informants.

Microsoft is wagering US$7.2b on the idea that owning Nokia's phone business will help the software giant grab a bigger slice of the mobile computing market.

Less than a year after Microsoft entered the tablet computer market with the Surface, the cracks are starting to show.

Four of New Zealand's brightest young technologists are in Russia hoping to take out a prestigious student competition with an anti-skin cancer smartphone app.

The world's largest and most popular internet sites are in secret discussions to create a system that could wipe child abuse images from the web.

Microsoft have been listening to the public and have launched a fix pack branded Windows 8.1, and Pat Pilcher puts the update through its paces.

Troy Rawhiti-Forbes shares his view of today's unveiling of the new Xbox.