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    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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    SMS Management and Techhnology has lost its NSW managing director Linda Chapman for health reasons.

  • SMS cut 167 staff in 2008

    Aussie IT services firm SMS Technology and Management today revealed it had shed 167 staff between June 2008 and the end of the calendar year.

  • Kaz to fire 100 staff?

    Telstra today declined to confirm or deny a report that it was firing up to 100 staff from its troubled IT services division Kaz.

  • TAB Queensland drops pagers for SMS

    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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    The fact that Australia won't be represented at either of the globe's pre-eminent showcases for emerging tech companies should be considered a national disgrace.

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  • TAB Queensland drops pagers for SMS

    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.

  • Australia's dotcom pioneers: Where are they now?

    Ten years ago they were the young turks of Australia's business community; radical free-thinkers on the path to fame and riches. Shortly after, all those dreams came crashing down. But where are Australia's first dotcom moguls today, and what are they up to?

  • Sol Trujillo: The interview

    In his role as Telstra's chief executive, Sol Trujillo is the most talked about and controversial telecommunications executive in Australia. ZDNet.com.au sister site CNET News.com sat down with Trujillo during a recent trip to the US to quiz him about wireless and handsets.

  • Around the world in ... In-flight connectivity

    There are fewer and fewer places in the modern world where Internet access and mobile signals can't be found. The inside of an in-flight aircraft has remained one of the connectivity-free bastions -- but that's all about to change.

  • For Batlow, bad apples never fall far from the supply chain

    Any manufacturer knows that a product recall can be an absolute nightmare of paperwork and logistics. At NSW agricultural cooperative Batlow Apples, however, an increasingly capable implementation of Microsoft's Navision ERP has provided the confidence that such a recall could be managed relatively easily.

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    The Siemens A50 is a good entry-level phone: it only does the basics but it does them well. More importantly, it does them at a recommended retail price of AU$219.

  • Aust company backs SMS for music, info services

    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 forecasts huge Blackberry leap

    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.

  • SMS still cave-painting: Telstra

    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.

  • New mobile call scam threatens users

    Beware! Scammers have found a new way to dupe consumers, this time using mobile calls.

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