An £80m programme to provide frontline police with smartphones has left some forces with more mobiles than officers, says an auditors’ report

An £80 million mobile phone scheme to free up police on the street has led to some spending more time in the station, auditors found.

Gosh, isn’t this interesting? Vodafone has won a landmark tax dispute in India over its $11bn acquisition of a 67pc stake in Hutchison Whampoa’s Indian mobile unit, which later became Vodafone Essar. Another Private Eye/Ritchie nonsense ground into the dust. The Indian Supreme Court ruled that the taxman had no jurisdiction over the British mobile

Telecoms regulator says new rules will ensure there will be four national wholesalers of mobile services in future

The European Commission has moved to further integrate the 27-nation market for card, internet and mobile payments and stave off a lack of competition in that business. More »

The European Commission has moved to further integrate the 27-nation market for card, internet and mobile payments and stave off a lack of competition in that business. More »

I've had a great trip with my kids down to Montpelier on Eurostar and a double deck TGV. The SNCF train was better than the ageing Eurostar. There was room to move about - even with a sofa area at the end of the carriage for those who can't last 5 secs without making mobile phone calls. The kids loved it. It took slightly longer than the flight, but thanks to the French tax payer and the...

Police have been banned from charging their mobile phones at work in a bid to save money.

The European Commission is following with interest the battle between Google and Visa, which have both stepped up their offers of "digital wallet" services. EurActiv has seen a draft of a public consultation document that the EU executive will launch in January on internet and mobile payments. More »

Let us imagine you are working on software for a mobile phone. When an SMS text message comes in you might think it would be cool to display it and highlight any email addresses or phone numbers in it. The user would tap an email address to add it to his address book, or tap a phone number to call it. It is a fairly obvious idea. There are a few different ways you could...