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In a continent such as Africa, villagers can be very isolated. Mobile phones shorten distances; they connect everyone to every place on earth. At the Women’s Forum last week Cherie Blair made it clear that helping Africa develop its economy has to be based on new communication technologies.

Three-quarters of the world - including many in developing countries - now has access to mobile phones, according to a new study.

Rural farmers in Africa can now learn new farming techniques through simple animations that can be viewed on mobile phones.

How ‘doing’ friendship on the mobile uncovers significant insight into contemporary youth cultures of masculinity and femininity.

This video is an introduction to augmented reality - a new and growing way to use smartphones to learn about the world around you. This video introduces the technology and covers the basic applications.

Before the end of next year the internet will collapse, predicted Bob Metcalfe in 1995. But he was swiftly proved wrong. Yet as the industry gathers in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress, its biggest annual shindig, it feels like 1995 all over again. Wireless data traffic is exploding...

Three-quarters of Japanese social network users access the sites only from their mobile phones. This observation comes from a survey conducted last year with almost 4,000 social network users in Japan by Mobile Marketing Data Labo.

A platform that will be bigger than the Web. This is the kind of phrase being used to describe the future of what's called Augmented Reality (AR). Big questions remain unanswered, though, about the viability of what could be a radical next step in humanity's use of computers.

A South African instant messaging network vilified for aiding drug pushers is now being used to provide counselling for addicts and people with HIV.

Nokia uses an anthropological approach to explore future mobile phone designs and imagine future scenarios and trends in order to satisfy the needs of people from different cultures and different generations.