Telecommunications reporter Helen Twose looks at the latest and greatest from the show floor at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Stumped by foreign languages when you're travelling? Google is working on software that translates text captured by a phone camera.

A florist said she changed her competitors' Google map details so customers could only contact her.

He pioneered virtual reality and is a leading light in digital culture. So why does Jaron Lanier believe that the internet is killing creativity?

Google's new Buzz social hub features is set automatically to 'on' - and shares Gmail users' information without asking.

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Buzz ... the list of places to promote your business online appear almost endless.

In 2005, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp spent US$580m on MySpace. Four years later he hired AOL's Jonathan Miller to rescue it. He fired founder Chris De Wolfe and hired Owen Van Natta from Facebook. Ten months later, he's out too.

Newcomer mobile company 2degrees says it has signed up 206,000 active customers in its first six months.

British prisoners have been disconnected after they used Facebook to plot with other criminals and intimidate their victims.