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.

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

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

Creditors have accepted a 20c-in-the-dollar proposal from one of Orcon’s former owners but a court has yet to approve the deal.

An analyst says further job cuts in the telco sector will occur in coming months as Spark looks to cut staff in its technical department.

A 14-year-old boy suspected of planning a series of bombings in Vienna was reported yesterday to have been offered US$25,000 by Isis to carry out the attacks and claims that two other youths recruited in the same way remain at large.

Searchers can now locate and rescue people missing somewhere in a staggeringly large area in as little as 40 minutes thanks to advancing technology.

Nearly all New Zealanders have affordable internet access but there are disparities in low-income areas and for satellite service users, new research shows.

Customers who pre-ordered Apple's latest model iPhone are angry at being kept waiting - and one says he was offered a Samsung Galaxy as an alternative.

Chorus is seeing growth in its high-speed fixed line connections as it continues to roll out the bulk of the govt-sponsored ultrafast broadband fibre network.

Vodafone NZ says it is not planning major job cuts after internal speculation that the telecommunications giant was looking at a significant management reduction.

One of the former owners of internet company Orcon who has debts of $3.57m has avoided bankruptcy and will attempt to appease creditors with a $343,000 deal.

Chorus’ proposed changes to wholesale broadband services are likely to breach “good faith” terms, according to legal advice received by the Commerce Commission.

They make their money helping Kiwis communicate but the biggest telcos in the country aren't quick to pick up the phone when customers call.

Sky TV's big result on Friday was a reminder that while we can all see the future, real profits live in the present.

A telemarketing company which switched broadband customers to Slingshot without their consent has been fined almost $170,000.