SMS price scam

Posted by Michael on January 24, 2010, 6:48pm, 94 views,  Leave a comment

Some simple research has proved what many people have known for a long time — the cost of text messaging is excessive. Read more

The text menace

Posted by Michael on March 7, 2009, 4:25pm, 248 views,  2 comments

Telegraph writer Judith Woods has a charming column published in The Age today on her effort to give up texting. Read more

Landlines less popular

Posted by on May 9, 2008, 8:03pm, 284 views,  Leave a comment

A report released by the Australian Communications and Media Authority shows that 90 percent of household consumers have both a fixed line phone and mobile phone. Read more

New communications

Posted by on October 22, 2007, 9:59pm, 355 views,  Leave a comment

The way we communicate has changed dramatically in my relatively short lifetime.

When I did computer studies at school in 1983 it was all programming theory; we didn’t have any actual computers in the classroom.

When I started working as a journalist in 1987 we used typewriters, the office didn’t have a fax machine and there was no such thing as a mobile phone. Read more