Australians have lost millions of dollars to a phone scam demanding the payment of tax debts and threatening prison time, with authorities including the Tax ...
Australia's big telcos are misleading consumers and businesses at every turn and the ombudsman receives way more complaints than its peer for financial ...
We compare 1300 plans that may help you increase sales – by making it easier for customers to call your business.
It was about 7pm on November 12. The 199 call centre received a call about an alleged thief that had been caught by the people at 51/B Minyekyawswa street in ...
Telstra, Optus and Vodafone have responded to the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) comments about making mobile calls to ...
In Australia, it can take as few as 15 minutes to steal someone's phone number, a type of attack known as SIM hijacking. Such attacks are rising, but mobile.
A North Carolina woman told police Dec. 16 she accidentally left her wallet in a vending room at a Sunset Strip Avenue motel. When she went back to retrieve it, ...
2018 had its fair share of embarrassing failures in the mobile and tech industries. Here are the biggest tech blunders of the past year.
MOBILE phone numbers are being hijacked at an alarming rate with unsuspecting victims losing thousands of dollars from bank accounts in a simple scam.
A well-known hacking group linked with China's intelligence and security agency has been pilfering secrets for over a decade from organizations in at least 12 ...
People are increasingly receiving nuisance calls and texts to their mobiles. But how do telemarketers and charities get your phone number? We look at the Do ...
UIDAI says the toll free number 1800-300-1947 in the contact list of Android phones is an 'outdated and invalid number'
The ACCC is seeking compensation for TPG Internet customers that have been caught up in its misleading conduct in relation to unfair prepayment consumer ...
Smash-mouth city. At long last, the Florida Times-Union has upped its column game, with two critical political reporters in higher-profile gigs. As 2018 closed ...
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Since July, there have been 55000 reports of scam calls from the Australian Taxation Office. In that time, scammers have netted $1.8 million from around 430 ...
TPG is in the consumer watchdog's crosshairs again, with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) kicking off legal proceedings in the ...
The founder of Telstra PhoneWords, Gavin Scholes, and investors led by Aura Funds Management, have acquired Telstra PhoneWords and promise to help wit.
On a gray afternoon in Juneau, 36-year-old Kristen Hemlock sat on her bed picking at a cold McDonald's chicken sandwich, waiting for the checks to arrive.
SUNSHINE Coast residents have been warned of a sophisticated Central African phone scam which could cost them dearly when they call back.
The statement says that the Supreme Court's judgment did not mention such a condition.
About 1,300 RCMP telecommunications staff have voted to join the Canadian Union of Public Employees. CUPE made the announcement Wednesday, saying ...
The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), says it will impose appropriate sanctions on any telecom operator that allows the illegal masking of ...
As we bid adieu to 2018 and welcome 2019, take a quick look at important events of 2018, crucial happenings, decisions and discourses that are very important ...
Masked calling otherwise known as call masking is a technique usually by individuals or companies firms to keep personal phone numbers of businesses and ...
A record 2000 schoolgirls from 73 Victorian schools have participated in a Melbourne tech event designed to encourage them to take up a career in the...
Telecommunications operators exchanged 62, 709 subscribers within the last five months in mobile number portability (MNP) exercise.
ASUS has unveiled impressive new 13, 14 and 15-inch "thin and light" laptops with its most compact designs ever, featuring enviable four-sided frameless ...
Brisbane entrepreneur Jordan Grives says it hasn't quite hit home that he has sold the business he created less than 10 years ago. Grives today revealed he has ...
A structured guide to telecoms laws and practice in Australia.
The latest research from Brisbane Fringe Cityscope shows property sale numbers and figures have significantly increased in the past three months.
Telemarketing company Lead My Way has fallen foul of the Do Not Call rules governing unsolicited telemarketing calls, paying a penalty of $285600 for...
The CVC costs set by the NBN Co make it very difficult for ISPs to offer gigabit connections to more than a select band of customers who are willing t...
Telstra is selling its stake in its Phonewords business to a consortium led by the company's founder Gavin Scholes and Aura Funds Management.
Canada's Big Three carriers have submitted new documents to the CRTC further denying the existence of a widespread sales problem.
Queensland-based Fonebox, an inbound telecommunications *service* provider, has sold to US technology company J2 Global for $30 million.
Boost Mobile, which proudly boasts of winning a Canstar Blue customer satisfaction award, has just boosted its pre-paid plans with its biggest data boosts yet.
The iconic Telstra payphone hasnt gone the way of the dodo just yet, but it seems only a matter of time before they die out as a push to replace the ...
Vodafone has reported a 47% data usage increase on its mobile network during the 2018 Melbourne Cup, along with a stack of other winning stats. Despit...
Recently I've been getting calls from an American sounding guy called John Mitchell, offering some kind of financial advice, in what is an obvious rec...
Renaming the unlimited data portion of select new plans as "peace of mind data" that eliminates excess usage charges, there are of course still some l...
Telstra's highest BYO plan, the L plan for $89 per month over 12 months, looks very compelling, especially for frequent international travellers who h...
With my 4G smartphone able to offer vastly faster upload and download speeds than all NBN connections in existence today, and while the NBN says it do...
Medibank Private is growing its at-home care *service* and preparing to launch rewards for healthy behaviour to strengthen its value offering and help stem the ...
If you want to use two SIMs in your new iPhone XS, XS Max or XR, then unless you have a select Chinese model with two physical SIM slots, you'll need...
A new mine located near Fifield is getting closer to development and it's expecting to bring a massive boost to Parkes and its neighbours in more ways than one.
CORRECTION: Please note that this article contains corrections and clarifications at the end of the story.) The powers-that-be at Singtel Optus may t...
You report that the ACCC accuses the big four banks of "accommodative and synchronised pricing behaviour" that allows them to extract another $1200 to ...
Arabic Situation Report on Syrian Arab Republic about Food and Nutrition, Health, Children, IDPs and more; published on 16 Aug 2018 by OCHA.
Chevy Chase Trust Holdings Inc increased its stake in Nasdaq Inc (NDAQ) by 6.93% based on its latest 2018Q3 regulatory filing with the SEC. Chevy Chase ...
Healthscope boss Gordon Ballantyne is on the defence following the departure of the Northern Beaches Hospital CEO after a litany of bad press about ...
Frasers Property Australia is poised to buy Stockland's The Grove Estate in Melbourne's west for more than $200 million in one of the biggest residential land ...
We explain some of the clever ways you can put more advanced (but affordable) phone services to good use.
Development giant Stockland is quietly shopping around one of its best-selling Melbourne residential estates, as it comes under pressure to improve its balance ...
Matt Comyn had a plan to drive the biggest reforms to the home lending market in decades. But it never happened. The royal commission heard why on Monday.
The chief executive of plumbing supplies group Reliance Worldwide says its SharkBite push-to-connect fittings are finding robust demand in the crucial US ...
Harassing phone solicitations are among the top consumer complaints in America today. "It's scary. It's gotten to the point where it's dangerous to answer your ...
The fitness empire, F45, that turned one studio in 2013 into more than 1300 in 36 countries, launched its newest franchise offering – F45X – which will include ...
Telstra's new 4GX-lite Mobile Satellite Small Cell offering has launched, offering "a new solution to help people living and working in some of Austra...
The telecoms regulator is in a row with Eir, the country's largest telecom firm, about whether it should be obliged to provide public pay phones. Communications ...
The world is on the cusp of moving to the era of 5G, which is key to make autonomous cars, connected devices, smart cities, remote surgeries and a host of ...
Australia's second largest telco Optus suffered a drop in profits for the quarter ending 30 June despite increasing revenue and subscriber numbers. Th...
Bernie Sanders's political revolution can't be limited to election campaigns — it must be brought into our workplaces and unions too. Hundreds of Verizon ...
The giant Baselworld watch fair has wrapped in Switzerland on the most positive note for some years, clearing a cloud that questioned the fair's future.
3D printers and guns keep turning up in police raids.
16.1 million or almost 80% of Australians 14+ now read or access newspapers in an average 7 day period via print or online (website or app) platforms, an ...
Already frustrated with the lack of options when it comes to picking a cellphone provider? You might be about to have even fewer. T-Mobile and Sprint have ...
YEREVAN, September 25. /ARKA/. Veon Armenia telecommunications company (trading as Beeline in Armenia) announced the launch of a new tariff plan for ...
Tupper Lake. When the new 838 area code was launched back on Sept. 19 to supplement the nearly exhausted 518 area code, most people assumed that the ...
Two-way investment between the US and Australia totals $1.45 trillion, dwarfing Australia's other bilateral economic relationships.
Telecommunications operators and commercial banks are denying involvement in SIM swap frauds as Nigerians continue to lose millions of naira to fraudsters ...
Leaders at the Hospital for Special Surgery share their learnings in transitioning from an old analog pager system to an integrated telecommunications system.
ANALYSIS The ascent of the iPhone over the years has been good news for Apple. But it now is also becoming bad news as the number of new features that...
Officials in Minnesota say a third-party vendor performing work on a 911 system caused a widespread *service* failure in Minnesota, and that the outage affected ...
Willis Towers Watson's miscalculation of the group's pension deficit follows the recent accounting scandal which knocked £8bn off its stock market value.
Taipei, Sept. 13 (CNA) Apple Inc. will begin Friday taking pre-orders for two of its three new iPhone models in Taiwan, which has been listed by the U.S. ...
SAN FRANCISCO and OAKLAND, Calif., July 31, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- A national survey of 14- to 22-year-olds provides new evidence on the growing mental ...
One of the giants in the world of leisure and entertainment, Melco International, has been granted the exclusive license for a casino resort in Cyprus.
Nepal's trade deficit increased to a record high of more than Rs. 1 trillion in the first 11 months of FY 2017-18.
Another Quarter of Sequential Earnings Growth - Restoration of US Virgin Islands Network Almost Complete. Third Quarter Financial Highlights: Revenues: ...
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. and STUTTGART, Germany, Sept. 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- New part-by-part production facility with body shop, paint shop and ...
Four decades ago this week in New York, the world's first mobile phone call was made on a Motorola DynaTAC that was about as tall as an iPad, took 10 hours ...
Increasing malware attacks mean heightened demands on corporate cybersecurity investigators who must find the causes and quantify the aftermath, ...
One of the curious aspects surrounding the Federal Government's encryption bill is why it took Australian firm Senetas — which has technology exports...
Welcome to the 2018 edition of CRN's annual report on Australia leading partner manager and channel directors. This is our third year of compiling the channel ...
The shakeout in the telecom sector amid a brutal tariff war and massive debt has claimed its fair share of victims, with companies being forced to exit or get ...
Bell Canada acknowledged Friday that it needs to improve when selling its television, internet and wireless services but insisted that the percentage of problems ...
CAIRO – 29 August 2018: Egyptian Railway Authority is planning to purchase 500 air-conditioned rail carriages for the third class, which comes as part of ...
Boost Mobile doesn't consider itself an MVNO, but its major competitors are telcos and MVNOs, so it has responded to ever better plans with more data...
There are three ways to get into the driver's seat of Tesla's Model 3, the mass-market electric vehicle that Elon Musk has bet his company's fortune on: 1. Go back ...
Before Apple's earnings report last week, analysts were falling over themselves to declare the iPhone X as a failure with poor sales, but not only did...
The latest research from Brisbane South Cityscope shows that sales figures have fallen from a two-year high to a two-year low.
A proposed 45m NBN tower within 500m of the local school, pre-school and residences has outraged the Main Arm community.
Cyber security experts have berated telecommunications operators over the prevalence of SIM swap fraud in the country, arguing that such fraud could be ...
Turkish authorities estimate the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey will exceed 5 million in 2028.
A car ran down a group of touring cyclists in the Central Asian state of Tajikistan, killing four people from the US, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
At just 19 years of age, Jordan Grives found himself pitching his then brand new telecommunications *service* to C-suite executives at some of Australia's most.
Wesfarmers is reviewing exit options for Kmart Tyre & Auto *Service*. As first reported by Street Talk on Monday, the Perth-based conglomerate has hired boutique ...
The Arizona Democratic Party is putting Republican Congresswoman Martha McSally under the spotlight as a national conversation unfolds about internet ...
The human genome consists of seven billion DNA base pairs and it takes 100GB to represent the unique sequence for a person. Australian National Univer...