As I wrote last year, it’s been great to have a simple way to travel overseas and use your voice and data plan there for an added $5 a day on Vodafone in many countries.

Police are concerned drivers are getting complacent about using mobile phones after the number caught using them has doubled since 2010.

Few of us would have the disposable cash to drown a phone on principle but, dammit, haven't we wanted to?

Bristlr isn't just a bearded face: The app is introducing some innovations that could add critical social context back to online dating.

Gave your kids smartphones for the holidays? You might want to reconsider their bedtime.

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?

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.

New Zealand's mobile phone sector is performing well on an international basis, with competitive pricing and good mobile coverage, according to a report by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research.

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.

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.

Apple has promised that its Pay service can revolutionise the way we shop, replacing a credit card swipe with a tap of the phone.

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.