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An app a day: smartphones that can protect your health
Forget the bathroom scales. Those wishing to keep tabs on their health will soon be able to wear an "intelligent bracelet" to monitor their movement and food intake.

Technology drives better ways of getting around
Smart roads and clever apps could hold the key to solving Auckland's congestion problems, writes Steve Hart.

Smartphones test for new privacy law
Time and technology wait for no one, so can an overhaul of the Privacy Act be truly future proof?

Sub-$100 smartphones in a year, says 2degrees
Smartphones could sell for less than $100 within 12 months, says 2degrees chief exec Eric Hertz.

2degrees claims 200,000 number ports
2degrees says it has gained 200,000 customers from rival telcos Telecom and Vodafone through number portability in the last two years.

James Griffin: All the news that's fit to steal
Clearly, as recent overseas events have shown, hacking into someone's phone in order to hear their personal messages is wrong.

Vodafone faces huge fine over false ads
A Vodafone Live customer spent sleepless nights and another rang the company call centre in tears over huge bills...

BlackBerry bosses try to placate stroppy shareholders
The bosses at Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, sought to buck up their shareholders with the promise of a resurgence in sales.

Outgunned Google accuses rivals of ganging up in patent war
Google is the only one not in a consortium buying a portfolio of thousands of technology patents from bankrupt firm Nortel Networks.