Short messaging system messages are making big strides, with mobile phone users sending upwards of 50 billion text messages in the first quarter of this year, according to the GSM Association.
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Telstra today declined to confirm or deny a report that it was firing up to 100 staff from its troubled IT services division Kaz.
Queensland TAB is today expected to launch a limited implementation of custom SMS-based messaging system that will eventually render field workers' conventional pagers redundant.
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An Australian company has underlined the potential of well-proven technologies such as short-messaging services to deliver m-commerce applications, launching two new products based on SMS.
Telstra expects the increased uptake of the recently launched Blackberry wireless e-mail/data solution to help drive non-SMS data revenue from less than 10 percent to 70 percent of that achieved from SMS.
Far from being a mature technology, SMS is still in the "cave-painting" stages, according to Giri Ramachandran, head of alliances and market development for Telstra.
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