Four Manila-based call centre staff have been suspended over abusive text messages sent to Telecom customers.

Adam Greenfield, in Wellington to speak at the Webstock conference - has a different take on computing than the rest of us - and sees networks where we see mundane things.

Telecom admits a "serious hardware failure" was responsible for a widespread outage in its much-vaunted XT mobile network.

Telecommunications reporter Helen Twose talks to 80s hair bands, gets tweeted at by a shrub, sees Audi's Wi-Fi-toting A8 and meets a guy paid to roll his eyes at the Mobile World Congress.

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

The world's largest wireless carriers are combining forces to make it easier for software developers to write multi-device smartphone applications

Nokia and Intel are combining the software they've each been developing for smart phones, tablet computers and other internet devices.

A kiwi salesman was stunned to receive a $1100 bill from Telecom for just 10 minutes of internet access from his laptop.

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

Telecom has announced a profit of $80 million in the December quarter, down 23.8 percent on the same period last year in what it called a 'solid result'.