From ride-hailing to photo sharing, here are a few up-and-coming apps and startups to watch in 2015. Which will be the breakout hit of the new year?

Have smartphones become so integral to modern life that they've altered the shape and function of the human brain?

Vodafone and Spark chiefs Russell Stanners and Simon Moutter have put aside competition to partner up and build the transtasman telecommunications cable along with Telstra.

If you're lying on the beach this summer and spot the person on the towel next to you staring intently at their smartphone, they may be running an international business, not just Facebooking.

The Starship mobile phone appeal has hit the million phone mark and raised more than $2.3 million for the Starship National Air Ambulance Service.

Mobile phone users are increasingly turning to messaging apps and shunning traditional calling and texting.

The New Zealand Defence Force has released a free "Force Fit" mobile app, which delivers training expertise it has amassed over many years.

Just as vinyl sales are booming in the age of Spotify, so the iPhone 6 must now compete with the flip-phone, its unlikely rival for the title of 2014's coolest handset.

The rise of mobile devices means keeping children safe online has become more difficult, experts say.

Finger print identification, a standard feature on new iPhones will soon be common place, a visiting biometrics expert says.

People are becoming more comfortable with the new way of paying for small items, with a trebling in the use of contactless card transactions over the past year.

Tinder: tacky, or just a super-efficient way to meet a match in this new age of need-it-now-ness? wonders relationship expert Jill Goldson.

A picture may say a thousand words but a picture and a tune together - well, that says at least a thousand more.

A Detroit man has offered to sell his house for an iPhone 6, in a swap that speaks volumes about the mixed fortunes of America.

The same person at Apple was in charge of catching problems before the iOS 8 and the 2012 maps blunder were released.

Tech blogger Juha Saarinen finally got his hands on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus over the weekend, here are his initial thoughts on the new devices.

Apple hits back at complaints that iPhone 6 Pluses are at risk of bending, saying they won't buckle under normal everyday use.

Scrolling around Charlie Williams's new app, Cuddlr - proudly billed as the "Tinder for cuddling" - you get the sense that maybe Williams hasn't spent a whole lot of time online.

Apple's iOS 8 operating system causes apps to crash 67 per cent more than last year's version.

Apple pulls the plug on its iOS 8 software update after it stopped people from making phone calls. So how can Apple users actually fix their phones?

On the fence about Apple's latest smartphone? You're not alone: reports of bendy casings have taken the shine off the iPhone 6. Here are six reasons to updgrade and six reasons not to.

Apps such as Tinder and Grindr have created a 'hook-up' culture, but sometimes you may not want sex, or even a relationship - sometimes you just want a cuddle.

Long lines of shoppers greeted the debut of the latest iPhones around the world as Kiwi iPhone fans count down the days for their chance.