Ad supported television, music and videos seem unlikely to make their way to Australian mobiles, since the user numbers just aren't there yet, and the paid content market is too lucrative.
The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) is holding public meetings to find measures to restrict access by children to adult content on mobile phones.
New restrictions on online chatrooms, Web sites and mobile phone content will be introduced within a month to stop children viewing unsuitable material.
Communications and IT Minister Daryl Williams has called for public comment as part of a review into the handling of offensive material on mobile devices as one of his last actions in office.
The Internet Industry Association (IIA) has stepped up with its plan to protect minors from objectionable mobile phone content.
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If there ever was an opportunity for a broadcaster to showcase the potential of internet video, this was it, and Seven has blown it. Perhaps its executives should have rung their mates at NBC in the US and gotten some pointers on online coverage.
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A group of technology heavyweights is expected to take the wraps off a secretive effort to secure music and video on wireless devices, according to sources familiar with the plans.
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Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
WiMax, the controversial long range wireless broadband technology, is set to spread across rural Australia from next year -- but despite the outgoing Howard government's ambitious project, both fixed and mobile variants of the technology are already being deployed around the world.
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Macromedia aims to jazz up Web-based animations, videos and mobile content while better integrating the five apps in its updated suite.
Hutchison Telecom has announced new content for customers of its '3' mobile network to satisfy their thirst for financial news.
The number of Australian mobile phone users is expected to hit 17.2 million by 2007, up nearly 2.5 million from end-2003, according to analyst group International Data Corp.
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