If someone tried to scam you, the Australasian Consumer Fraud Task Force (ACFT) and the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) want to hear from you.

Optus is expecting calls and messaging across its mobile network to go gangbusters right through the Christmas and New Year period, with we Aussies expected to pass on cheer and goodwill by making over 34 million calls and sending more than 65 million SMSs on the Optus network on Christmas Day alone.

Norwegian company, Numa, has launched an emergency SOS alert application for mobile users - "SOS Rescue Me" – which can be downloaded from the iTunes store.

Australian school children can be at the leading edge of learning if schools embrace new technologies to offer a more individual education experience, according to new research which also reveals that students don’t think their needs are currently been met by the education system.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has accepted an enforceable undertaking from nightclub promoter, Urban Agent, to comply with provisions of the Spam Act 2003, after the nightclub was investigated for possible Spam breaches.

Following public outcry and world-wide ridicule, Pakistan's telecommunications companies have just announced they will hold off on plans to block 1,695 words and phrases in SMS messages.

A whopping 3.5 trillion mobile text, video messages and pictures will be sent in the Asia Pacific region this year, which is almost 50 percent of the world’s mobile messages, and an increase of 14 percent since last year.

An Australian company that specialises in telecoms bill optimisation claims that businesses are wasting a fortune by allowing their employees to use SMS texting on corporate mobile phones. The company claims that SMS messaging is costing businesses as much as $1000 a megabyte, while much much cheaper data messaging alternatives are available.

Just one month after Web based SMS messaging service provider SMS Global and its boss were fined $85,000 by the Federal Court of Australia for misleading customers, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued proceedings against the company in the Federal Court alleging contempt of court.

The Federal Court in Melbourne has imposed penalties totalling $85,000 against Melbourne based provider of SMS and MMS messaging services, SMS Global, and its director, Carl Krumins for misleading consumers by falsely representing that it was endorsed by the government.