It can be disappointing to arrive at a hotel only to find out that the internet connection is rubbish. Helping you to avoid that situation, the Hotel Wi-Fi Test is a crowdsourced service which gathers and displays Wi-Fi quality at thousands of hotels around the world.

Australia’s long forgotten payphone booths (only 9% of people used one in 2013) will be repurposed as Wi-Fi hotspots. It's part of a plan to blanket public spaces with internet, launched by Telstra, the country’s largest telecommunications and media company.

Four in five Americans check their phones within 15 minutes of waking, and 79% keep that device on or near them for 22 hours each day. As author and entrepreneur Nir Eyal points out, these devices have the human race hooked - but why? We sat down with him to find out more.

The word ‘webisode’ isn’t often associated with quality viewing. Finding content worth watching usually means trawling through cat videos and porn. Yet one in three Americans would give up TV in favour of online. CanHigh Maintenancechange perceptions of made-for-web content?