Innovation doesn't always go to plan, here are some of the biggest blunders the tech world gave us in 2016.

Police have reached the site where a light plane has crashed near Gisborne today.

The European Union has approved Microsoft's $36.5 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, after the software giant agreed to fair competition safeguards.

A virtual health system set up by Waikato District Health Board will compete with another one designed by GPs and patients.

An Australian teen watched in horror as Bali security delivered brutal street justice to the boy who allegedly tried to steal her mobile.

Irate customer told she had to buy more items to get her iPhone for the advertised price.

Android users are more honest than iPhone users, researchers have found, in a study revealing what our choice of smartphones say about us.

Pushpay Holdings, the mobile payments app developer, says it will acquire a church app business from Bluebridge Digital for US$3.1 million.

Is your iPhone 6S randomly shutting down? Apple may owe you a new battery.

A sample swab from the surface of a phone can accurately predict a person's lifestyle choices, a study suggests.

COMMENT: Your cellphone is packed with pictures, apps and words of your choice but dirt on the outside could let slip your secrets.

Tinder is adding the option to chose and identify between 37 different genders.

A pregnant Western Sydney mother has suffered second degree burns from her iPhone 7. Melanie Tan Pelaez had her iPhone 7 plugged

What you need to know about the earthquake and tsunami and what people in the above coastal areas should do.

Visit any major urban centre today and you are likely to be confronted with hundreds of people walking with their heads down as they fiddle with phones.

Some of the new dating apps out there might be worthwhile. But here are a few I've come across that seem unnecessary or downright silly.

The New Zealand Telecommunications industry is blacklisting all Samsung Galaxy Note 7 mobile phones from November 18.

Many industries that rely on the web have been challenged by the rise of mobile devices.

A fashion app is letting you style yourself from the comfort of your own home.

Snapchat will seek to raise as much as US$4 billion in its planned initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter.

Apple reported another quarter of falling iPhone sales Tuesday.

Apple's fourth-quarter results were bolstered by early demand for the iPhone 7, helping slow the pace of a sales slump for the company.

COMMENT: Pokémon Go still generates significant revenues, but it's in rapid decline and labelled a fad.

An Australian surf instructor has claimed his new iPhone 7 exploded into flames inside his car.

Kodak has unveiled a smartphone with a high-powered camera aimed at photography fanatics.

It's not just about the hardware. Google's first smartphone is riddled with secret features that could make you fall in love with the Pixel.

After the S7 ban on flights, Samsung is setting booths at airports to offer customers another Samsung phone in exchange for their faulty Notes.

Airline passengers are no longer allowed to bring the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on a plane.

Vodafone customers who return their Samsung Note 7s will receive a $100 credit to compensate them for the "stress and inconvenience".

Staff at a Brisbane Apple store have been fired after they were caught stealing and rating customers' pictures as part of a photo-sharing