New research shows that more than 500 million NFC-ready mobile phones will enter the market in 2014, giving major widespread accessibility to near Field Communications Technology.

If you have a password and a credit card stored on your device, you're pretty much responsible for what happens on that device, even if done by your child. It's important is that parents understand how the app store works, and what controls they have over their kid's purchases.

Mobile payment providers hoping to disrupt payments make a lot of claims about their products, touting them for convenience and security. Now add another benefit to mobile payments: cash is disgustingly unclean.

Thanks to new 4G connections, offering speeds around five times faster than on most current mobiles, it is estimated that the amount spent via m-commerce will now rise a further 115 per cent in the next 12 months, during which time the number of smartphones will also overtake the number of PCs in Britain.

E-retailers kept busy in recent weeks showering consumers with Easter greetings and incentives to buy their holiday gear with them. More than a third of survey respondents report owning tablets and of those, at least one in five had planned to use the devices for Easter-related purchases.