Mobile broadband is taking a price dive this Christmas, with Vodafone and Optus trotting out low priced plans with high download quotas. But Telstra says its competitors’ networks are too slow and offer limited coverage.

A new directive in France could see peer-to-peer users cut off if they continue to share files.

Nearly half of the UK’s shoppers have bought goods online which have turned out to be not what they ordered, according to research by a video review site.

Australian Information Industry Association CEO Sheryle Moon has called upon the new Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, to outline a schedule for rolling out a national broadband network.

Yahoo is attempting to placate members of its Small Business Merchant programme after an outage left many sellers unable to process orders on the busiest online shopping day of the year.

Mapping and location service for non-GPS phones.

THE Australian sharemarket was higher at noon boosted by resources and following a lukewarm lead from Wall Street.

THE Australian dollar was stronger at lunchtime today after it received a boost from Australia’s current account figures released today.

THE latest balance of payment figures show the Australian economy remains robust, reinforcing the need for more interest-rate rises, economists say.

Forget satellite — Google’s mobile phone mapping application can give a user’s location without being GPS-enabled, but just a little less accurately.