How a fibre optic link changed the world.

Bart Visscher, co-founder of software company Emendo, has had his business tested on several fronts by the Canterbury earthquake.

An uprising by the software geeks who create iPhone apps has forced Steve Jobs, the company's chief executive, into a rare and humiliating public climbdown.

Citizen cyberscience is a grass-roots initiative that harnesses the power of online volunteers.

It's more difficult than ever to get marketing emails through.

A Kiwi super hacker is using his skills to reveal security holes in ATM machines.

Local software company Pingar has begun an ambitious push into the Chinese language computer search engine business.

Guidelines rather than a law change will be used to allow inventions that contain embedded software to be patented, Simon Power says.

Apple's iOS4 lock-down may cost it in the smartphone market, the same way its 'no clone' policy hit it in the 1990s.

'If the iTunes account hacking part is true, then Apple really needs to step in and fix this,' wrote one.

Some features in Windows 7 are designed to help users get a lot more from the operating system.

Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7, is close to becoming more widely used than Vista, but still lags far behind XP.

Scientists have developed software which can tell young people if they are chatting to an adult posing as a child on the internet.

The Joint Border Management System will give Government agencies a powerful data-matching tool for identifying those transporting illegal goods.

Don McGlashan talks to MacPlanet about scoring film, making music on Macs and why there's no PC in the mix.