Parallel to the exponential growth in technology is the growth of the internet of everything, or put simply, the connectivity of all devices to the internet.

First it conquered search. Then it was online video and advertising. Now Google is turning its attention toward telecommunications.

Vocus Communications, the Australian fibre network and data centre company, has agreed with Spark New Zealand to form a new construction joint venture, Connect 8.

An episode for the upcoming season of Germany's Next Top Model will be filmed in Auckland next week.

As writers, actors and directors jostle for favour following the Oscar and Bafta award nominations, scientists have discovered the true measure of a film's worth is not how many gongs it wins, but how many times later film-makers reference it.

Hundreds of New Zealand Vodafone customers have condemned a proposal by the telecommunications company to cut local customer services jobs and outsource some of the work to the Philippines.

Vodafone is on "shaky ground" in raising its fibre internet prices along with copper-line broadband charges, says InternetNZ.

The country's three biggest internet companies are planning to charge customers more from next month and the general manager at one of them doesn't think broadband will ever be as cheap as it was....

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.

Some Aucklanders were without broadband for up to 12 hours after a fault with Chorus cut the internet connection.

An issue with broadband electronics was behind the outage that caused 15,000 Auckland households to lose internet overnight.

Rodney Hide writes: Prime Minister John Key likes to text. So, perhaps it would help us all if Labour and the Greens drew up a list of whom the Prime Minister can and can't text?

Chorus shares rose to a 13-month high after the Comcom lifted the price it can charge for access to its copper lines.

Spark has warned that its prices could rise after the Commerce Commission this morning proposed a new wholesale rate that Chorus can charge retailers.

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.

Spark New Zealand has got closer to Chinese telecommunications vendor Huawei Technologies in an expanded deal.

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

New Zealand is on the edge of a smartphone revolution being led from an epicentre in Asia.

New York has unveiled the most ambitious plan yet for the payphone of the future offering WiFi connections, free calls and more.

Herald tech blogger Juha Saarinen looks at Spark's new roaming plans and gets his hands on an iMac Retina 5K monitor.

Spark, formerly Telecom, says there are early signs that its rebranding has been successful.

Talkback host Danny Watson is taking his show to the bottom of the world. The Newstalk ZB personality will broadcast live from Antarctica for three days next week.

Spark says it is nearing the end of the first phase of its transformation from a traditional telco to a digital services business.