Aussie crowdsource study targets Google’s secret search algorithm
We use it everyday, depending on it for quick, accurate information - around 38 million queries a minute - but what do we really know about the inner workings of Google’s...
News Partner Programme launched by Apple (not for NZ, though)
Apple has introduced the News Partner Program, a new set of initiatives to expand Apple's work with and support for journalism.
The News Partner Program aims to ensure Apple News customers...
The Pixel 8 could be a phone for smaller pockets
In recent years, phones have kept getting bigger. Consumers seem to have decided that the benefits of having something light and compact are less important if it means squinting through the...
Microsoft unveils a whole heap of Surface devices
Get ready for the word “Surface” to gradually look more and more weird through repetition, as Microsoft just unveiled five major bits of Surface branded hardware. And that's before you get...
Google is fixing two big Play Store rating problems
There’s nothing like an indignantly angry review to put you off downloading an app, and Google now has a couple of ways to make things both fairer to developers, and more...
Google News to return to Spain, after government scraps a law Google didn’t like
Well, surprise, surprise. In the long running battle between government and big tech, that’s another win for the away team.
In 2014, Google shut down Google News in Spain, because the country...
Microsoft confirms Xbox streaming stick is in the works
If you want to play Xbox games, historically the first step has been to buy, borrow or steal an Xbox. But ever since Microsoft launched Xbox Cloud Gaming, having access to...
No recognition, little reward – women in tech speak up
The gender gap, slowly closing in many industries, remains a chasm in tech. Of the 19,456,000 professionals working in tech only 28 per cent of them are women, according to LinkedIn.
A...
NZ media’s new Big Tech strategy
Six years ago Stuff and NZME, sick of losing readers and digital advertising revenue to Google and Facebook for little recompense, pitched the idea of a merger to the Commerce Commission.
Their...
Apple ‘seriously’ concerned with iPhone 14 Plus sales
Like most companies with shareholders to wow, Apple doesn't enjoy failure and is quick to take action when something just isn't working. To that end, the company took the failing iPhone...