Supplying mobile content worldwide
Submissions to Australian Communications and Media Authority’s Reconnecting the Customer inquiry - published yesterday - the peak industry body, Communications Alliance, said it supported the ACMA draft report but that the industry’s revised Telecommunications Consumer Protections (TCP) Code would address the major issues raised in the report.
Customers of New Zealand mobile phone carrier 2degrees got a surprise in the middle of the night when they received hundreds of text messages not intended for them.
The free application, ”The Sound of Buildings”, aims to capture the stories behind some of Melbourne’s significant constructions, giving users access to interviews with architects, construction workers and engineers.
Every person in the world will have access to mobile phone service within five years and half the handsets will be smartphones.
The head of mobile infrastructure for Ericsson, Ulf Ewaldsson, says global mobile penetration will reach 100 per cent by 2016, or even a year earlier.
Prices on Apple’s iTunes App Store in Australia have been slashed to take into account the recent surge in the Australian dollar.
Apple Australia confirmed today that for Australia and some other countries, pricing on apps - but not music, books or movies - had been adjusted “due to changes in foreign exchange rates and local tax laws”.
In May, Apple Korea was ordered by the court to pay 1 million won ($883) in compensation to Kim Hyung-suk, a lawyer, two officials at Changwon District Court said on Thursday in Korea. They declined to be identified because they are not authorised to speak to the media.
Forty-six per cent of Australian mobile phone users are now using smartphones, up from 31 per cent in 2010, according to a survey released by Telstra today.
Here are some tips on what types of phone use will gobble up your megabytes:
Streaming video and videoconferencing. The biggest offender. One minute of YouTube-quality video eats up 2 megabytes.
Almost every Victorian secondary school has been faced with at least one incident involving graphic pictures of students being circulated on mobile phones or the internet, cyber safety experts and teachers have told Fairfax Media.
Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne have for the first time discovered how they can use piezoelectric thin films to turn mechanical pressure into electricity.