News (3)

  • AU direct marketers claim 'opt-in' optional under SMS code

    Carriers won't be required to ensure consumers have "opted-in" to receive short-message-service marketing under a new communications industry code released last week according to the Australian Direct Marketing Association (ADMA).

  • Code may protect Australians from SMS spam

    Consumers may soon gain greater protection from SMS spam, if a new code from industry body Australian Communications Industry Forum is approved.

  • Canning SMS spam

    Australia’s telecommunications industry is determined to tackle the growing SMS spam epidemic on its own, but mobile users shouldn’t expect relief from the annoyance until 2002.

Create an e-mail alert for "acif"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
acif


Frequency: *

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Alex Serpo 64-bit Windows: It's time to get serious
    What do Windows 7 and Windows NT have in common? Despite being separated by 16 years, they're both available as 32-bit operating systems; and it's time for Microsoft to move on.
  • Array IE patch: Microsoft's eight days of hell
    It's always funny watching an event force a company to break old habits and this IE zero day was enough for Microsoft to do it. As Microsoft Australia's strategic security advisor Stuart Strathdee said "we pulled all stops to get this patch out".
  • Array Fowl play foiled, Telstra's fairy tale is over
    Like many, I expected Telstra's dismissal was inevitable, given that it had openly flouted the NBN's guidelines and attempted to bend the process to its own wishes. But who would have expected it so soon?
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured