It’s one of the biggest houses in the country, but the walls are closing in on Kim Dotcom as he rattles around his mansion.

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.

Four women of Chinese descent are suing Sephora for allegedly blocking and deactivating the accounts of 'Asian-sounding' customers during a 20 per cent off sale.

Tech blogger Juha Saarinen talks about his concerns with copyright in the digital age and reviews the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 10.

WhatsApp, the world's most popular instant messaging platform, has begun encrypting all its data by default.

New York has unveiled the most ambitious plan yet for the payphone of the future offering WiFi connections, free calls and more.

Matt Heath writes: Who knows why people post mean stuff? Maybe their life is crap or maybe they're psychotic - but before you start crying you need to check credentials.

I have been getting professional inspiration and a better understanding of where the new disrupters will come from that will pose challenges for law, policy and business.

We love market disruption: it's what makes things better, more affordable, and forces inferiority out, writes Lee Suckling.

Slingshot has every right to offer customers back-door access to international websites, says an internet advocacy group.

Heavy demand by homeowners desperate to access details about newly released property revaluations has now brought down the Quotable Value website.

Finger print identification, a standard feature on new iPhones will soon be common place, a visiting biometrics expert says.

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are part of a growing number of firms that are entering into power purchase agreements with wind farms.

Kiwis are among tens of thousands of householders worldwide whose privacy has been breached on a website featuring intercepted live feeds.

So fans of the actor's witty puns, intellectual musings and calls to humanitarian arms will be disappointed to learn that he's decided to temporarily quit the network.

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.

David Kirk, chairman of Trade Me Group and Kathmandu Holdings, is seeking to raise A$25 million to A$40 million ($44.5 million) in an initial public offer on the ASX of Bailador Technology Investments, an Australian and New Zealand tech fund.

Society has always been fascinated by sex, and the internet gives us insight into previously unheard of sexual practices, portraying them as standard conduct, writes Lee Suckling.

ComCom clears merger of online travel agencies Expedia and Wotif.com after assessing concerns the tie-up would increase commission rates.

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.

Facebook paid $22 billion for a startup that generated $10.2 million in revenue last year.

Apple's Tim Cook and Alibaba's Jack Ma said they're open to working together to turn phones into tools for buying and selling stuff.

Tech is part of everyone's life in Japan, but doesn't appear to have supplanted their livelihood, even for menial tasks.

Alibaba's Jack Ma is on the prowl for entertainment it can sell to Chinese consumers through its set-top boxes.

Sky TV unveiled plans to upgrade its set-top boxes and roll out a new web-based ondemand video service at its annual meeting today.

Sky TV has signed a conditional contract to renew its five-year deal with the NZRU.

Tinder: tacky, or just a super-efficient way to meet a match in this new age of need-it-now-ness? wonders relationship expert Jill Goldson.