The latest money-spinner in the Australian mobile phone market -- SMS games - has been launched by Telstra and if the European lead is anything to go by the telco heavyweight is set to make a killing.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has begun a federal court case against three companies for allegedly spamming Australian mobile users with unwanted SMS messages.
ANZ launch M-Banking, allowing customers to make a variety of bank transactions from any Java-enabled mobile handset.
Minister for Finance Lindsay Tanner yesterday said he didnt know how long it would take to reignite IT spending in Canberra following the Gershon review.
NAB has followed ANZ by taking the plunge into mobile banking, introducing a text message banking service which has already signed up 1,100 users since its introduction yesterday.
The team behind the Sydney-based maker of mobile games and applications B33hive has sold its business off and is starting again with a new Twitter-based service for television addicts.
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Indexing a large chunk of data is a bit like joining Weight Watchers: it's a useful first step, but it doesn't immediately solve the problem of how you're going to deal with all that blubber.
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In the everlasting war to win your dollar, Optus has again recalculated its capped contract plans, calling these new plans Monster Caps. But as with the announcement of its prepaid broadband plans late in 2008, the devil is in the details, or monster as the case may be.
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Sydney's Bardia Housman and Michael Mak have spent the last five years building and rebuilding their business as they rode the dot-com roller coaster to the brink and back again.
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?
When Apple whips the covers off the latest iPhone software we want to be blown away, because when it comes to a major software update copy-and-paste just doesn't cut it.
While not a iPhone killer, the HTC Touch represents good value for money. If you can do without 3G support or a high-res camera, then the Touch will offer most features you'd require from a smartphone.
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.
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.
Beware! Scammers have found a new way to dupe consumers, this time using mobile calls.
An Australian company will today announce the distribution of a platform for enterprises to SMS-enable applications without needing to know complicated telephony protocols.
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