A handset is all you need to transfer money, whether to retailers or to friends and family, reports Chiara Cavaglieri

Google is hoping to build the world's largest digital filing cabinet in the latest attempt to deepen people's dependence on its services.

A watchdog has cleared a series of tweets by footballer Rio Ferdinand following a complaint that they misled his followers about a competition for game tickets.

IPhone maker faces analysts amid souring relations with network providers

Google's founder and chief executive, Larry Page, suited up for an appearance in court in San Francisco yesterday in what is shaping up as one of the most significant battles over smartphone patents and copyright and a dramatic showdown between two of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley.

He of the vast riches?

Facebook will spend 1 billion dollars (£629 million) to buy the photo-sharing software company Instagram.

1. iReward Chart

Available on iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and Kindle, £2.49

This app tracks good behaviour of your children by criteria you set up yourself, by awarding stars.

Blackberry maker, Research in Motion, announced today that they plan to change their focus to business customers after struggling to compete with Android and Apple in the smart-phone market.

Do you find it difficult to motivate yourself to exercise? The desire for a bikini body or abs of steel not enough to get you down to the gym? In that case, there's only one thing that is going to help – the threat of being eaten alive by a zombie horde.

1.Travel Etch a Sketch £11.49, lovememory.co.uk

Channel their inner Picasso on that long haul flight with this pocket-sized version of the children’s drawing game.

Life – according to a German mobile-telecoms giant with access to your personal call data – is for sharing. But, at 30p per picture message, they would say that.