Two Australian companies have teamed up to send SMS bill payment reminders to mobile phone users and are touting it to utilities providers as a cost effective way to get customers to cough up.
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.
It is more important for online banking to make customers feel secure than make those customers actually secure, according to the head of technology at Commonwealth Bank's New Zealand subsidiary, Auckland Savings Bank (ASB).
NSW Teachers Credit Union has become the first customer of Australia Post's push into online banking authentication and its token-based service.
Commonwealth Bank online banking customers can request SMS or token-based two-factor authentication to improve the security of their accounts, the bank announced.
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Defhead.com chooses music acts, invite them to play at an inner-city Sydney venue and Webcast the show live to their Web site visitors. Here is some behind-the-scenes footage of the night as well as an interview with the lead singer of Something With Numbers.
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Industry analysts are always predicting what will happen in the future. David Braue went back in time five years to see how analysts expected the mobile comms market to evolve, and then compared it to what actually happened.
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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.
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Australians can now view their Hotmail accounts via SMS, following the formation of a partnership between NineMSN and Vodafone.
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.
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