A complete end to mobile roaming fee stress should hit Europe next year, thanks to EU politicians voting to approve and "fast track" into law regulations that stop the networks charging us any roaming fees while within the EU's member states. Read More >>

Spoiler alert: the country that requests the most data from tech companies is the US. This should really be no surprise for anyone who's been following the news lately but their dominance is actually pretty admirable. Take that you Frenchies! Read More >>

Imagine how rubbish your internet's going to be when all your neighbours and their kids are streaming films in 4K all evening on their TVs and laptops. That's the scenario being tested in Japan right now, where one network is bunging 4K content to its subscribers down a standard broadband connection. Read More >>

OpenStreetMap, the free wiki world map, is a wonderful little project that has become hugely successful. Now, the team behind it has released a report which explains how it's changed over the last eight years—and some of the results are damn pretty. Read More >>

Time cloaks are so much cooler than invisibility cloaks because they use freaking time to hide things, not silly dumb vision tricks. This new method of using a time cloak is the first that can cloak data at rapid rates. It might change security altogether. Read More >>

Good news for those scared of signing their lives away on contract (even for just 30-days at a time): EE's punting new 4G pay-as-you-go plans. Unfortunately, it's seemingly just data, aimed at tablets and MiFis, but it's a start. Who actually uses their phone for anything but data these days, anyway? Read More >>

Researchers who spend their days thanklessly looking into mobile phone browser performance have found a problem with the stock browser that comes on the Samsung Galaxy SIII, claiming it can use up to three times more data to display pages over 3G than necessary. Read More >>

It looks like Three's data network is down or being intermittent for a load of people right now. We can personally verify that data has been buggered overnight and all morning on Three, but calls and texts are still getting through. Read More >>

Vodafone has once again used the vague term "late summer" to describe when it'll be launching its 4G network in the UK, as part of an announcement about its future infrastructure spending plans. Read More >>

There are only so many place you can tweet from, and Twitter's been diligently indexing them all. These new visualisations from the Twitter team organised for this sort of thing show the history of all geo-tagged tweets since 2009 (when the feature was born) by location. We're talking billions of them. Read More >>

The High Court of New Zealand just ruled that the FBI has to give slews of Kim Dotcom's digital property back to him. The agency—along with officials in New Zealand—screwed up pretty badly, indeed. Read More >>

Here’s something cool. A studio called JWT Spain made a 3D app that tracks the trajectories of every ball hit in a tennis match in real time, and then spits out fancy visualisations. Read More >>

That mass of Clubcard data Tesco has on you and your shopping preferences might soon be put to good use, as the shopping giant is considering a mobile advice system that gives buyers tips on healthy choices. Perhaps it could use GPS to set off an alarm should you wander within 10 metres of the Dairy Milk. Read More >>

Some clever research into boosting fibre optic speeds has managed to increase the range and capacity of fibre, thanks to sending two data streams down the pipe instead of one. Read More >>

The parading of the dead Prime Minister around London attracted near-record iPlayer viewing figures for the BBC, with some 823,000 people watching the live stream of Lady Thatcher's descent into the pits of... the crematorium. Read More >>