Up to 20 government departments will cut short leases for temporary accommodation taken after the Christchurch earthquakes and return to the CBD en masse in 2016.

Kiwi technology firm Booktrack is seeking to "ride the self-publishing wave" and has worked with Google to launch a web-based studio where users can add their own soundtrack to novels, short stories or even blog posts.

On the third anniversary of the massive jolt that sparked the two-year Canterbury quake sequence, Cantabrians can take a trip down memory lane on Google Maps Street View.

Google has chosen a brand-name candy for its new Android version expected to launch soon: Kit Kat.

If you're out tramping on one of New Zealand's Great Walks in the next wee while you might meet Matt Jenke. Be sure to wave "hello", because the world is watching.

Stephanie Heizmann Auerbach might just have set a new high for inflight bad behaviour.

In a classroom at Goffs School in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, neatly uniformed children are sitting in rows, gazing at the teacher.

Fraud police are investigating a New Zealand company calling itself GoogleDirectory.

A security flaw in Google's Chrome web browser, which lets anyone with access to a user's computer see all their stored passwords, has been discovered by a Kiwi software developer.

Queenstown entrepreneur Boyd Peacock wants people to get home safely.

Google is working on plans to turn smartphones into translators which would allow callers to speak into the phone in their own language.

A major new global plan aimed at forcing multinationals to pay more taxes has been described as underwhelming and disappointing by a Kiwi tax expert.

There are no flash cars parked outside Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, California, only smart cars.

It appears our biggest domestic terror threat is either Tame Iti's training camps or Dotcom's (alleged) copyright infringements.

NZ has reached for the sky, backing Google's extraordinary plan to encircle the Earth with helium-filled balloons beaming internet access to billions. Google's secretive research team Google X launched Project Loon yesterday in Christchurch.

Developed in the secretive Google[x] lab, today Google launched a world-first in Christchurch: Sending internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons.

The Google Maps team won’t stop until it has every last inch of the planet stored on its servers. Would we really be so lost without them? asks Tom Chivers.

New Zealand businesses are being urged to follow in Google's footsteps and provide a chilled-out, fun workplace to improve productivity.

Google is growing up. This may seem a strange thing to say about a company that has long been one of the most profitable digital enterprises.

Twenty-five years of human expansion and environmental devastation across the globe has been illustrated in interactive time-lapse graphics by Google.

Facebook's net income and revenue grew in the first quarter of the year, helped by an increase in mobile ad revenue, a figure some sceptical investors are watching closely.