Almost half of UK internet users are going online via mobile phone data connections, according to the Office for National Statistics.

A crowd-sourcing survey into the state of mobile Britain suggests that 3G has some way to go before it offers comprehensive coverage across the UK.

The battle over which brand has the biggest smartphone share in the UK is causing controversy, with RIM disputing the recent naming of Apple as the top manufacturer.

Coming in to effect on 1 April, the cap will affect the UK’s four mobile networks: Three, O2, EverythingEverywhere (previously Orange and T-Mobile) and Vodafone.

Online comparison site, USwitch.com, has released a chart suggesting that the British public is falling out of love with the iPhone 4.

An interesting confluence with the publication earlier today of the Ofcom report about UK consumers’ technology habits, today’s net neutrality letter to Ed Vaizey, and some new comments from Skype’s director of government and regulatory affairs for Europe, Middle East and Asia, Jean-Jacques Sahel.

Mobile phones and computers will soon be able to diagnose sexually transmitted diseases under innovative plans to cut the UK’s rising rate of herpes, chlamydia and gonorrhoea among young people.

Mobile users in the US an Canada tend to pay more for a complete cell phone package than anyone else in the world, according to a new report from the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative (OTI).

The New York Times article last week prompted a furious response from a number of public figures, including former deputy prime minister John Prescott, who demanded that the police tell him if his phone had been hacked.

A new study has suggested that cell phone radiation may be contributing to declines in bee populations in some areas of the world.