Apple suppliers in China will begin mass production of its largest iPhones ever next month, according to people familiar with the plans.

Google and Microsoft will incorporate a "kill switch" into the next versions of their smartphone operating systems as such security measures may be deterring theft.

Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg has admitted that the company made a string of blunders in underestimating the impact of mobile.

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos wants control of the smartphone home screen so he can put more of the firm's services in front of consumers.

Computer users have been warned to take urgent action to protect themselves from a cyber virus pandemic, with up to a million computers in 12 countries infected since 2011.

Feel like you can't live without your mobile? You're not alone. A new survey has found at least four in five Kiwis refuse to leave home without their smartphone in hand.

A marketing survey found about three quarters of men and women polled admitted to using their smartphones on the toilet.

Visa is to stop accepting signatures for its New Zealand-issued credit cards for most transactions from later this year in a bid to strengthen security.

Apple and Google have declared a cease-fire in their intellectual-property wars.

Remember that ad where Richie McCaw races around the shops in a suit, buying wedding presents and tapping his card on an eftpos terminal?

A mother who was driving with her 3-year-old child in the back was reading a text message before she lost control of the vehicle, which flipped and crashed into a ditch.

Using a mobile phone for more than half an hour a day over five years can triple the risk of developing certain types of brain cancer, a French study suggests.

I'm looking forward to seeing what gear the boffins at LG are about to unleash on an unsuspecting public.

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

With the arrival of smartphones, we have to accept everything we do and say is in the public domain, writes Kerre McIvor.

Embattled MP Maurice Williamson is facing fresh trouble after it emerged he failed to declare a top-of-the-range $899 smartphone.

Snapchat settled with the Federal Trade Commission over claims that its photo messages don't always disappear, in the latest hiccup for the fast-growing startup.

Apple and Samsung placed their trust in a retired IBM executive with patent litigation experience to give them a fair trial.

Google was sued for allegedly abusing its market power by forcing handheld device makers that use its Android operating system to also provide the search engine company's applications.

iPhone owners are the most likely to send a sexy text message or "sext", according to a new poll in the UK.

A gaffe at the NZ arm of Samsung has let slip commercially sensitive details about the launch of a new phone. The existence of the Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini had been secret until a reference turned up on the Samsung NZ website.