Egyptians, blocked from the internet, are being offered a way by Google and Twitter to "tweet" by using a voice connection.

Vodafone has increased its New Zealand contact centre capacity after political unrest in Egypt forced one of its contact centres to close.

Gartner estimates that smartphone users will download a shopping 17.7 billion apps - worth US$15bn - this year.

Drivers are flouting the ban on hand-held cellphones - new figures show a phone-related car crash almost every two days, dozens of injuries and five deaths last year.

Kiwi tech entrepreneur Derek Handley on his latest venture into mobile advertising.

Is it a good thing or a bad thing that Google has created a mobile phone application that will solve any Sudoku puzzle?

Smartphones and tablets will help double the shipment of computers around the world in just five years, according to new research.

Complaints against the telecommunications industry have more than trebled in the last three years, with an increasing number made about non-members, giving rise to calls for the scheme to be made compulsory.

The Commerce Commission has called for lower wholesale voice and text pricing to encourage competition in NZ's cellular market.

'I love you I'll see you in heaven,' a 15-year-old girl wrote in a text message to her married, 27-year-old lover.

Finally, mobiles are living up to their early promise.

Telco rivals say they have the technology to deliver the Government's goals.

It may be called a 'phone', when its main use is anything but - it's almost as absurd as calling an iPod Touch a radiogram.

These days, if someone calls me for "a chat", I adopt the same quizzical expression as if they'd suggested we mud-wrestle each other for kicks.

Dozens of cases of 'text neck' - a condition linked to using mobile devices - are being reported each week, chiropractors' say.