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Article | 14/01/2009 ACMA hits Optus with $110,000 fine for Spam Act breach

Optus has paid the second highest penalty to date for alleged breaches of Australia’s spam legislation.

Article | 15/01/2009 Phone prototypes stolen from Sony Ericsson

A number of stolen prototypes of Sony Ericsson mobile phones were found at the home of a company employee, Swedish police said on Wednesday.

Article | 9/01/2009 Big Skype update coming next month

Skype will release a big upgrade to its PC client software early next month, making video conferencing a central feature of the new interface.

Article | 9/01/2009 MI5: Internet phone services a risk to national security

Internet telephone services pose a serious threat to Britain's security, the head of MI5 has said.

Article | 7/01/2009 Mumbai gunmen used US VoIP service

A US VoIP phone service kept one of the terrorists who carried out deadly attacks in Mumbai, India, in November in touch with his handlers based in Pa...

Article | 7/01/2009 Motorola phone made from recycled plastic bottles

Motorola is still in the midst of plans to spin off its mobile handset division in 2010, but will show off a new cell phone made from recycled plastic...

Article | 23/12/2008 HP enables photo printing on the iPhone

Hewlett-Packard on Monday launched an application that allows users to print pictures wirelessly from an iPhone.

Article | 22/12/2008 Unified communications war will heat up in 2009

The unified communications war between Microsoft and IBM has so far been pretty one-sided, with the giant from Redmond having the publicity edge over ...

Article | 16/12/2008 IPhone, economy spur better phones, apps

Just two years ago, the mobile phone market was pretty ho-hum. You had your candy bar phones and your flip phones. There were BlackBerry devices and W...

Article | 6/12/2008 First Camcorders, Now Webcams: HD Gets Cheap

High-definition is rapidly going mainstream.

Article | 1/12/2008 1 million Google phones sold by end of year

HTC, maker of the original Google phone, is boasting that demand is so high that sales will reach a million by the end of the year.

Article | 27/11/2008 Videophone service coming to US for $30 a month

An IP-based videophone service called GlobalLinx will launch in the US in the second quarter, offering a US$200 videophone and $30 monthly service for...

Article | 31/10/2008 Poor(er) people buy iPhones, drive 3G growth

Counter-intuitive as it sounds, lower-income buyers are driving sales of Apple's iPhone 3G, a Web metrics company said Thursday.

Article | 15/10/2008 m.Net to build Fox Sports mobile site

Premier Media Group [PMG], owner of the Fox Sports Channel, has appointed m.Net to build a dedicated mobile site for Fox Sports Australia.

Article | 15/10/2008 Microsoft to release OCS 2007 update in February

Microsoft plans to add voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), collaboration and Web presence enhancements to the next version of its unified communicati...

Article | 3/10/2008 Chinese Skype spies on users, researcher says

Text chats conducted using the Chinese version of Skype that contain keywords such as "Taiwan independence" and "Communist Party" are logged along wit...

Article | 1/10/2008 SanDisk launches world’s largest capacity micro memory cards

SanDisk this week announced the launch of the world’s largest capacity microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro (M2) cards -- the first cards of their kind to...

Article | 24/09/2008 Solar-powered Wi-Fi trailer connects remote sites

Bringing wireless network access to remote work sites like mines and railways is always a challenge so a team of Aussie engineers have thrown a Wi-Fi ...

Article | 12/09/2008 Microsoft launches video messaging service, webcams

Fun seems to be the message with this year’s webcam and communications launches from Microsoft at its Hardware Anywhere event. This week the software ...

Article | 4/09/2008 Freshtel subsidiary launches WiFi mobile telephony service

Freshtel Holdings Limited [ASX: FRE] subsidiary Tesco Teleecoms has launched a new converged technology internet telephony service.