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Tech correspondent Peter Griffin with news that Google is testing out Android Instant Apps amid a downturn in the global app-based economy. Also how a proliferation of massive bot networks on Twitter could lead to the dissemination of fake news, or be sold off to the highest bidder.

This Way Up reviews what's been hot (quite literally in one notable case) tech in 2016. VR has well and truly arrived and chatbots are on the horizon.

Peter Griffin on the news that Netflix is now offering a downloading option (and not just streaming) for some shows. Also things are heating up with mobile wallets, with the BNZ announcing that it will become the first local bank to offer Android Pay.

This week, the giant retailer Amazon looks like it could be coming to Australia. Meanwhile, you might soon have to pay GST on all the goods you buy online, not just purchases of digital goods including music, software and films and TV shows. Yikes! Also the rise of the chatbot and how tech giants including Facebook are embracing this technology, using tailored chatbots to act as our personal assistants, and to sell us stuff.

Tech correspondent Peter Griffin with an update on local broadband services, with changes and offers announced this week that could affect you.

Peter Griffin on a US report that shows how Facebook, Twitter and other social networks are selling information about us to law enforcement agencies. Also newly released advertising figures show how much clout Facebook has in New Zealand's media landscape. And a horrible week for Samsung, with the recall of 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7 handsets over a fault that makes them spontaneously combust.

Technology news with Peter Griffin and Google launches its new Pixel phone and a digital home assistant called (you've guessed it!) Home. Now search is anywhere and everywhere. Plus Facebook is hoping we're ready to buy and sell stuff in its Marketplace. It offers a place to trade, but no way to pay for the goods, or to rate them.

Technology news with Peter Griffin and Google launches its new Pixel phone and a digital home assistant called (you've guessed it!) Home. Now search is anywhere and everywhere. Plus Facebook is hoping we're ready to buy and sell stuff in its Marketplace. It offers a place to trade, but no way to pay for the goods, or to rate them.

Peter Griffin with the latest tech news, and this week what colour is the internet?! It's a question that designers and businesses are wrestling with as they try to get us to spend as long as possible on their sites. Also the head of the UK's cybersecurity agency wants the internet to be filtered for malware; but how realistic is this?

Peter Griffin has tech news with an update on Apple's tax bill and what it could mean for New Zealand's tech sector. And how GST is about to bite on imported digital goods.