Apple has reached a settlement over a class-action lawsuit filed over the antenna problem which dogged the 2010 launch of its iPhone 4, according to a statement published yesterday.Apple promises to pay US$15 or give a free...

Twitter's admission that its iPhone app has been gathering address book data without telling users is a big issue for New Zealanders who are used to good privacy protections, a tech expert says.The social media service has promised...

Two in three mobile users are terrified of being without their phone, a study has shown.Researchers found the number suffering from "nomophobia" - or a fear of being separated from their mobile - had risen from 53 to 66 per cent...

Apple says application developers will have to get express permission from users before tapping into contact information stored in its popular gadgets, in a move to address privacy concerns.The maker of iPhones, iPads, and iPods...

Google has assured users of its smartphone wallets that the mobile-age technology thwarts thieves better than old-school cash or credit cards."Mobile payments are going to become more common in the coming years, and we will...

Thousands of Chinese factory workers will be given the chance to detail the punishing conditions on assembly lines producing Apple iPads and iPhones after the United States company bowed to criticism and agreed to allow independent...

Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of cellphone maker Motorola Mobility has now won approvals from US and European antitrust regulators, moving Google a major step closer to completing the biggest deal in its 13-year history.The...

Apple, following reports of harsh working conditions, said the watchdog Fair Labor Association began inspections at a Foxconn plant in China that makes products for the California gadget-maker."We believe that workers everywhere...

Google's $US12.5 billion acquisition of cellphone maker Motorola Mobility has won approval of European antitrust regulators, moving Google one step closer to completing the biggest deal in its 13-year history.EU Competition Commissioner...

A New Zealand man is getting a whole lot of love - in the form of money - through an iPhone application he developed called the Love-O-Matic .And today might be th

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Vodafone New Zealand, the country's biggest mobile phone operator, reported a drop in customer numbers, as new market entrant Two Degrees Mobile wins subscribers of its larger rivals.Auckland-based Vodafone had 2.42 million customers...

World-leading mobile phone maker Nokia will cut 4,000 jobs at its smartphone manufacturing facilities in Finland, Hungary and Mexico by the end of 2012, it said."The expected headcount impact by country is 2,300 in Komarom (Hungary),...

2degrees says it now has 875,000 people on its network but won't reveal their customers' average monthly spend.The mobile operator said today its customer numbers had grown from 580,000 last year to 875,656 as of February 1.2degrees...

Android and iOS smartphones may be getting the lion's share of tech-media hype at the moment, but Microsoft could soon be in for its time under the spotlight as a leaked internal video provides details to the look, feel and...