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The government will "carefully consider" the impact of new and emerging technologies on Australia's privacy legislation.
The federal government is moving to boost its stock of knowledge in the outlook for electronic payments, including techniques for minimising fraud, as it considers how to regulate the area in the future.
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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.
Let's face it, mobile commerce never delivered on the hype that surrounded it over the last few years. But that doesn't mean mobile commerce is dead, thanks to a new use of an old technology.
The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) has announced plans to introduce a range of premium mobile messaging numbers, facilitating the introduction of mobile commerce to the consumer market.
A group of electronics manufacturers is looking to expand the uses for removable flash memory cards with a new security specification.
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