The mobile telecommunications industry joined the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman this week to launch new tips to help consumers manage their spending on mobile data services.

Mobile InSite is the MCF’s occasional electronic publication containing current news, issues and science on mobile telecommunications deployment. It also provides information about the new MCF and AMTA initiatives.

Victorian drivers will be able to use smartphones as in-car navigation tools after VicRoads backed down on a proposed blanket ban on mobile GPS devices, reports the Age newspaper this week.

It’s an unlikely medical device: a sleek smartphone more suited to a nightclub than a rural health clinic. But it’s loaded with software that allows health workers in the remote northernmost Philippines province of Batanes to dramatically reduce the time it takes to get X-rays to a radiologist - and to get a diagnosis for a patient being tested for tuberculosis, the Boston Globe reports.

Australians care about the planet, but they are suffering "green fatigue" after constantly hearing consumer warnings and well meaning advice, a survey reported by the Sydney Morning Herald has found.

A new Federal Government report has concluded that while there are costs associated with young people’s use of new technology it provided a “unique avenue to communicate with young people and has enormous potential to reengage the most marginalised members of society if access is distributed equitably”.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority today released a report that explores changing community attitudes and practices in dealing with their personal information online.

The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) has called on the industry to focus on communications, people and processes to improve customers’ experience.