Police in a New York suburb, faced with an unruly crowd of girls waiting to see a teen idol, asked an executive from the idol's record company to use Twitter to tell the crowd to disperse. When he refused, he was arrested for hindering the police effort.

Domino's have beaten rivals Pizza Hut to the punch with a new iPhone app, allowing hungry customers to order pizzas from wherever they are, whenever they want. Record levels of laziness soon to follow.

Time travel has become much more plausible, as Powerhouse Museum’s Commons on Flickr allows users to 'see' historical Sydney using the iPhone's camera.

Starting today, smartphone applications from Aussie mobile developer BigTinCan are now available for download and purchase through the Cellmania distribution channel - opening up the products to over 200M new users throughout the USA, Europe and Asia/Pacific. Aussie Aussie Aussie!

Mobile and Internet content services provider, Mobile Streams, has signed a licensing deal with mobile entertainment retailer, FoneStarz Media, for distribution of its content on channels Australia and New Zealand and Western Europe.

Research by a psychology professor shows that people talking on cell phones are more than twice as oblivious to their surroundings as those not on the phone -- so much so that they failed to notice a clown on a unicycle.

Doesn't have quite the ring to it as Free Beer, but if you own a compatible Nokia device, here is how to get some Gameloft goodness, including Price of Persia and Assassin's Creed for free.

iPhone users are set to lose their red eyes and crop their excesses, with Adobe bringing Photoshop to the app store with a free download.

Augmented reality was once a sci-fi fantasy, but is now available in the palm of your hand through the iTunes store, with Sun Seeker.

Not into protesting..? Petitions not your thing? An Aussie developer has launched an iPhone app to support Earth Hour's "Vote Earth" campaign.

Opera Software today released Opera Mini 5 beta, the newest update to the world's most popular Web browser for mobiles. What’s new, and is it an essential download?

They’ve done what our cricketers and tennis players couldn’t… Blackberry developer BigTinCan are on top of the world, literally, after reaching the number one spot on the Blackberry App World chart.

Facebook... Is there anything it can't do? Two girls were rescued from an Adelaide drain last night after alerting friends through their saviour, Facebook.

VicRoads today launched a new iPhone application designed to educate younger drivers about the dangers of using their mobile phones while driving. Will it race up the charts, or crash and burn?

Facebook 3.0 is the latest version of the iPhone application from the immensely popular social networking site, and is now available from the Apple iTunes App Store. What's in it, and more importantly, what's missing?

The SUNA Traffic Channel that provides Melbourne road users with real-time road information will be extended to Sydney and Brisbane in the middle of the year.

A pilot project from Nintendo allows baseball fans to watch replays, check live statistics, and order food and drinks without leaving their stadium seats.

US wireless carrier Sprint Nextel has issued a strong challenge to Apple's iTunes service, offering mobile phone downloads at a price matching 99 cents. The service, which begins in early April, will apply to the 1.5 million songs in the Sprint Music Store library.

A new survey indicates yet more differences between men an women, this time in the use of mobile technology in managing relationships.

Despite deals with Google and Yahoo, mobile phone operators want to create their own search engine, ensuring more of the advertising revenue flows to operators rather than the established search engines.