Facebook staff reportedly refer to the social network giant's email project as the 'Gmail killer'.

Christmas came early this year at Mountain View, with Google throwing around six-figure sums to retain its top talent.

It seems like the BlackBerry is losing its addictive powers, and businesses are shopping around for other smartphones.

Desktop giants forced to share space with growing array of computing devices.

Statisticians well-placed in job market as demand for data keeps growing.

Recipe for change: Boundaries, work - and the occasional reward.

Only one has started school but all three of the Cotter children are using iPhones, an iPad and an Apple laptop.

Huge user base, ever-increasing engagement, hype, salivating VC investors - shame about the business model.

Is Microsoft's new browser good enough to see Windows users dumping Firefox and Chrome?

Facebook's valuation, vacillating in recent months between $23bn and $33bn, is highly speculative and almost certainly too high.

From software to electric bikes, serial entrepreneurs Shaun and Grant Ryan are proving that big ideas run in the family. Karyn Scherer reports.

While most online music ventures let us listen for free, Ping revolves around something that for many has become an anachronism - paying for it.

Despite scoring 370,000 new users every day, making money out of its customers has proved a real challenge for Twitter.

Who knew New Zealand had a space programme? In truth, with the exception of Auckland company Rocket Lab's launch of a rocket 100km into the sky last November, we can't claim to have tried visiting the inky void.

Depending on your age, gender and tolerance levels for whiny teenage singers with dodgy haircuts, the diminutive Canadian pop and R&B phenomenon is either a heart-melting object of infatuation or a viral contagion infecting the web.

It does nothing to speed up typing; as one user said, it's as if someone is constantly interrupting you to finish your sentences, and always getting it wrong.

An uprising by the software geeks who create iPhone apps has forced Steve Jobs, the company's chief executive, into a rare and humiliating public climbdown.

Creative Tech, the biggest Apple-centric show ever to hit New Zealand, takes place this weekend in the heart of Auckland.