Many of us are guilty of it: texting or using Facebook while crossing the road, but should we slap those that do with a fine or possible jail time?

I decided to try a little experiment to see what would happen if I asked my cell phone provider if it would tell me if any government agencies had request access to my phone records, writes Felix Marwick.

Pushpay holdings sold Run The Red to Modica Group $4.5m, making Modica the biggest NZ owned messaging service.

COMMENT: Study of more than 3 million mobile records tracks how interaction across the generations and genders changes through life.

The US government dropped their demand to Apple to unlock a terrorist's phone, but now they want a different phone.

Even ignoring terrible PIN combinations such as "1234", or "7777", four-digit PIN codes are still incredibly weak, since there are only 10,000 unique possible PINs, writes Clinton Carpene.

Let's talk about ghosts. One of the most infuriating things in dating these days is when the person you're seeing just disappears.

If you have updated your iPhone with Apple's latest software, only to find your phone is behaving strangely, you're not alone.

If work is leaving you drained, try turning off your smartphone at lunchtime.

Social scientists claim narcissism has become a "modern epidemic", so what can we do about it?

REVIEW: Samsung's latest Galaxy s7 is supposed to be able to withstand submersion up to five feet for as long as 30 minutes.

If you are targeted by ransomware you'll have a matter of hours to make vital decisions or risk losing precious data.

Almost half of Kiwis in the workforce are checking social media pages on mobile phones at work, while a third think it is OK to use phones while driving.

World's third-largest phone maker expands its mobile vision with two-in-one tablet device, reports Bill Bennett.

Mobile cyber crime is on the rise and people using Android devices are most at risk.

Mark Zuckerberg surprised attendees at Samsung's latest conference by taking the stage and announcing VR as "the next social platform".

Samsung's released its new Galaxy S7 phone - see this promo video talking about its features.

A little-known Indian company is launching a smartphone set to be priced at under NZD$11.

Try these apps to keep you focused and help your running goals for the year.

The Motorola brand is being phased out by Lenovo. Once the market leader, Motorola even worked on a phone with Apple.

The secret to happiness is to turn off your smartphone email app according to psychologists, who warn that constant updates have become a "toxic source of stress".

'You think like turquoise or that periwinkle?' Dad's amusing exchange with a stranger about paint for his daughter's room takes the internet by storm.

Several apps purport to keep drunken technological interactions to a minimum may come in handy as the New Year rings in.

Ending your text message with a full stop will make you look insincere, according to a new study.

There's a reason that flashing someone in public is a sex crime. And flashing someone over a mobile phone isn't all that different, writes Britni de la Cretaz.

The Warehouse has launched it's very first prepay mobile plan in stores across New Zealand today.

Playing online games that 'train' the brain can help older people to perform significantly better at such everyday tasks.

I'm over those people at social gatherings who reach for their phone immediately to show you photos of their kids, cat, dog, etc etc, Joy writes.

The latest prescription of this sort comes from a Danish think tank called the Happiness Research Institute, which this week published a new report on the connection between Facebook use and basically every negative emotion a human can feel.

A woman who was taken on a date to a cheap coffee shop was asked for a refund for the coffee when she declined to go to his place.