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Young whiz whips Windows
A love of computer gadgets and being overly curious about how things work have proven to be a winning recipe for one Auckland teenager.
Apple's HealthKit and Health app: Empower or frustrate?
If you thought that self-tracking and the collection of personal health and fitness metrics was just a fad then an announcement last week by Apple CEO Tim Cook at the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference might suggest otherwise.
Apple Watch: Hotel Tonight
Hotel Tonight is an app that tells you what hotels have rooms available close to you. While it sounds simple, there's far more to it.
Pat Pilcher: An interview with a machine
Yesterday marked a landmark day for computer science. A programme finally passed the artificial intelligence test devised by Alan Turing.
How Apple wants all of you
There's a whole world of products out there, but Google and Apple are behind a lot of the ones we choose between every day. Neither company is happy about that fragmentation. They want everyone to use all of their products.
Apple pitch to programmers shows Google threat
Apple's pitch to developers at its annual conference this week shows how CEO Tim Cook is ramping up efforts to keep programmers from switching loyalties to Google and others.
What Apple-Beats union may mean for iTunes users
Wearables, Cceaper streaming subscriptions and remotely controlled home electronics are the changes consumers are likely to see as Apple buys Beats Electronics.
Apple Watch: WWDC dub-step
A couple of years ago I talked about Judit Klein, a very clever student following the Creative Technologies course at AUT. Judit had won a scholarship to visit Apple's famed annual Worldwide Developers' Conference.
Online and free - lessons for the future
New Zealand's largest university is about to give away its teaching free as the Government calls the tertiary sector together to discuss whether such an approach is the way forward.
Pat Pilcher: Are Windows XP security threats overhyped?
With Windows XP support now at an end, debate is raging about what this means for home and business users once XP vulnerabilities start being exploited, writes Pat Pilcher.