Large US home improvement chains are selling virtual tools - sensors, Wi-Fi enabled appliances and software - to help people monitor and control their homes from their smartphones.

New Zealand technology companies could be unwittingly heading into a "perfect storm" of intellectual property litigation risk as they rush to float on the sharemarket.

Microsoft's CEO unveiled his first vision statement, saying that more engineering and organisational changes are needed as he attempts to turn around the software maker.

For many of us, the idea of cloud computing - or of storing information in "the cloud" - conjures up images of puffy white balls of fluff containing limitless amounts of information, somewhere in the region just above our heads.

The first thing you notice about Vend chief executive Vaughan Rowsell is his gigantic moustache. The second thing is the bright green Chucks on his feet, a "welcome" gift to all new staff.

Entrepreneur Christina Domecq launched her latest business, Ora, at an event last night that included an address from Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce.

SAP NZ, the local unit of the world's biggest business management software company, posted a 32 per cent jump in sales last year to the highest in more than a decade on growth.

More than 80 per cent of Kiwis who use the internet have experienced a cyber security breach, but only 39 per cent have then changed their online behaviour, new research shows.

If you thought that self-tracking and the collection of personal health and fitness metrics was just a fad then an announcement last week by Apple CEO Tim Cook at the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference might suggest otherwise.

Serko co-founder Darrin Grafton says there's a "land grab" for travel management software business.

Hotel Tonight is an app that tells you what hotels have rooms available close to you. While it sounds simple, there's far more to it.

Apple's pitch to developers at its annual conference this week shows how CEO Tim Cook is ramping up efforts to keep programmers from switching loyalties to Google and others.

Computer users have been warned to take urgent action to protect themselves from a cyber virus pandemic, with up to a million computers in 12 countries infected since 2011.

The internet has made the world smaller, but sometimes it seems like our neighbours have never been further far away.

A plan to modernise the sharing of patient records nationwide between healthcare providers has passed an early check-up with an initial

A couple of years ago I talked about Judit Klein, a very clever student following the Creative Technologies course at AUT. Judit had won a scholarship to visit Apple's famed annual Worldwide Developers' Conference.

Investor demand for New Zealand software company Serko's sharemarket debut could be affected by the volatility that has hit technology stocks this year.