COMMENT: A new phenomenon due to the rise in smartphones is where we turn to our devices to answer a need.

You can see what information Google is stockpiling, and ask it to forget your history.

COMMENT: A selection of ways you can use your smartphone camera.

New Google feature to collate local seismic information and display it after a quick search, avoiding trawling through websites

COMMENT: Spark chief executive Simon Moutter hit a nerve calling for Google, Facebook and other global media players to pay their fair share of taxes.

Google will now provide clearer satellite images.

The sites that serve up song lyrics are in danger of being devoured by Google.

Google is turning its attention to the smartphone market again.

COMMENT: Who is going to give you all these answers and without payment of money? Google!

COMMENT: Tax - it's about doing the right thing, writes Spark managing director Simon Moutter.

Here are just a few explanations behind the strangest mysteries involving Google Maps.

Allowing the app economy to develop chaotically has led to incredible clutter.

Google New Zealand, the local unit of the global search engine, received less revenue from its parent and related companies in 2015.

Artificial intelligence is making it possible to create new songs in just seconds.

What's the first thing you would do if you lost your smartphone?

ANALYSIS: Omnity, a new search engine, tries to put things in context.

Google's offices in Paris have been raided by police in an investigation into money laundering and "aggravated tax fraud".

Brian Lesko and Dan Sherman hate the idea of driverless cars, but for very different reasons.

The Bay Area has long been the center of the technology world, and it remains the undisputed king of startups.

The legal fight over Google's effort to create a digital library of millions of book is finally over.

After campus police pepper-sprayed student protesters, Davis paid some $175k to clean up the university's reputation.

The app was part of the Taliban's digital campaign to attract a bigger audience worldwide.

COMMENT: Right now, millions of consumers are facing a problem with simplicity, as both the number of smart products and the functions of those products multiply.

Google's analysis of its first crash deserves a little more explanation.

The companies are showing their support for Apple, which is fighting the U.S. government over accessing a locked iPhone.

Now you can Haha, Wow, Sad or Angry on Facebook. Here's what you need to know.

The Internet giant is getting interested in building next-gen cable boxes.

If you hop into one of Google's pod-like self-driving cars, you now legally won't be considered the driver.

We live in an age of rapid technological change and disruption. But can the Big Five tech giants ever be disrupted?