A $27m prize, backed by Google, will be given to the first company that builds a robot rover craft and lands it safely on the moon.

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

International flagbearer for open-source movement began with a librarian's quest to save money.

Whatever the truth of any Flash argument, Jobs' stance appeared to have little, if any, impact on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad sales.

How a fibre optic link changed the world.

Bart Visscher, co-founder of software company Emendo, has had his business tested on several fronts by the Canterbury earthquake.

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.

Citizen cyberscience is a grass-roots initiative that harnesses the power of online volunteers.

It's more difficult than ever to get marketing emails through.

A Kiwi super hacker is using his skills to reveal security holes in ATM machines.

Local software company Pingar has begun an ambitious push into the Chinese language computer search engine business.

Guidelines rather than a law change will be used to allow inventions that contain embedded software to be patented, Simon Power says.

Apple's iOS4 lock-down may cost it in the smartphone market, the same way its 'no clone' policy hit it in the 1990s.

'If the iTunes account hacking part is true, then Apple really needs to step in and fix this,' wrote one.

CreativeTech is an Apple-centric conference concept, and the very first one is taking place in September.

Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7, is close to becoming more widely used than Vista, but still lags far behind XP.