Google Android Today Increased iPhone Sales Tomorrow
Apple is set to reap a bucket load of money with a leading analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray?s, forecasting that the Company will sell 5 million iPhone?s and 11 million iPods in the next quarter. The assessment comes only hours after Google introduced in partnership with HTC a brand new Android smart phone

Nokia Online Apps Get A Makeover
After Nokia bought U.S. digital maps firm Navteq for $US8.1 billion in July, it has also acquired ten smaller firms to jump-start its Internet services business, according to reports.

Treo Is Neat Say Telstra As Complaints Rise 75%
Telstra says Palm's Treo Pro is the first smartphone on the Next G network to score its "Blue Tick" good coverage in rural and regional areas as well as metropolitcan areas. The news comes as the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman reports that complainsts about Telco's is up 75%.

ComTel Launches Ad Subsidised Cheap Mobile Plans
Queensland-based communications company and Vodafone partner ComTel has launched what it says is the country's first advertising subsidised mobile phone service, and giving users the option of cutting their mobile costs by up to two-thirds.

Dodgy Dutch Multimedia Company Cops ACCC Wrath
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has instituted proceedings in the Federal Court against Dutch mobile entertainment company TMG Asia Pacific over what it says was false, misleading and deceptive conduct and a contravention of the Trade Practices Act 1974.

Remembering Communication During Disasters
The Adtec linked emergency response telephone system (ALERTS) is designed for large companies, so they can connect a connect a crisis team automatically if there is a disaster - whether man-made or natural.

Telstra Posts Healthy Profit & Expects More Growth
Telstra has reported a profit after tax of $3.7 billion for the year ended 30 June 2008, an increase of 13.5 per cent.

iPhone VoIP App Released Today
Swedish company Global IP Solutions (GIPS) has announced that it has developed an enabling voice over IP (VoIP) application for the Apple iPhone 3G.

ACCC Issues Warnings Over iPhone
It seems that carefully reading all that data download limit fine print and product disclosure information when buying something like an iPhone might not be such a bad idea, according to Australia?s consumer watchdog.

New Colourful Desktop IP Phone From Polycom
Polycom has released a desktop SIP phone with a colour display, HD Voice technology, and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity.

Optus Customers Left Stranded In Queensland
As of 8.30 this morning there are major network problems for Optus mobile and landline customers throughout Queensland and some parts of NSW, affecting voice and broadband services.

Apple Hits Grand Slam With 10 Million iPhone Downloads
Apple today announced that iPhone and iPod touch users have already downloaded more than 10 million applications from its new App Store since its launch last Friday.

Sony Ericsson & Kyocera Hit With Lawsuit
According to reports from The China Post this morning, IT giants Kyocera and Sony Ericsson Mobile have been slapped with a lawsuit and accused of violating several mobile phone technology patents.

Nokia Siemens Networks Seal $900M Chinese Deal
Nokia-Siemens Networks has announced that it has reached a network expansion framework agreement with China Mobile, valued at $AUD901 million, according to Reuters.

Nokia Releases Caring & Sharing GPS Phone
The Nokia 6220 classic comes with a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and Carl Zeiss optics as well as A-GPS with geotagging, this full-featured device makes snapping and sharing pictures online easy and more fun than ever before.

Is Telstra Blocking Access To Resellers?
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has been forced to act as an arbitrators between Telstra and a number of other mobile service resellers over access to telephone exchanges.

Telstra Blames Nature For Poor Service
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has issued a report Telstra?s pricing and although the reports was generally benign, a couple of the findings on wholesale service went against the telco.

Business Phone With GPS & Push Email From Samsung
The Samsung i780 business phone is designed to enhance work efficiency and is equipped with Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional. This advanced version of the Windows Mobile operating system supports Push email, Java and full document editing capabilities.

PR Company And Chris Noth Go Star Crazy For LG
COMMENT: International PR Company BursonMarsteller is in PR heaven right now. They are sucking fees worth tens of thousands of dollars from their client LG by rolling out stunt after stunt in an effort create street cred for LG flat panel TV displays and mobile phones among the so called in crowd.

Feds To Set Up New Consumer Telco Body
The federal government wants to give consumers more power when dealing with telcos with the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy announcing funding for a new telecommunications consumer peak body.

ACCC Says Phone Deals Getting Cheaper
According to reports compiled by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on telecommunications (ACCC), competitive safeguards, and changes in the prices paid for telecommunications services fell in real terms by 2.7 per cent in 2006-07.

Vodafone Caught Spying On Their Own People
Looks like someone on the Vodafone board has been watching too many re-runs of The Avengers as the company has now has joined the infamous club of tech companies that have been caught spying on board members.

2.3 Million Do Not Call Numbers And Growing
Life is getting tougher for telemarketers as Australians have listed more than 2.3 million telephone numbers on the Do Not Call Register since its launch one year ago.

Sleek & Svelte Conference Phone From Crinia
The Crinia AC100 conference phone can be connected to the Ethernet for use as a VOIP telephone and is the only telephone system where the user can record the calls onto a portable USB Flash Drive. These recordings can be played back on the AC100 or stored on a computer for future reference or distributed as required.

Motorola Hurt As Samsung And LG Attack Market Share
Motorola's dominence in the mobile phone market is sliding with the Company reporting a sharp decline in sales to 29.9 million units in the first quarter of 2008, compared with 47.6 million units in the year-ago period.

Siemens Dives Back Into IT Channel Head First
It seems you just cant keep a good German down. According to the newly appointed ANZ general manager for German electronics giant Siemens Enterprise Communications, Eric Hampel, the company is firmly back in the IT channel with growth predictions that should make a sales managers eyes water.

ACMA Releases New Code Of Conduct For Telcos
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has released a new Telecommunications Consumer Protections Industry Code that is designed to consolidate consumer protections in the new converged communications market.

iPhone Set To Turn Broadband Into Rivers Of Gold
When the iPhone is finally released in this country, it will not just be tech addicts that will be the winners; third party OEMS?, app makers and other providers will also be getting some hot action from the Apple gravy train.

MobileActive Seals Croatian Deal
MobileActive, an Australian company that develops entertainment and services for mobile phones, has cut a deal with Croatian company Infinum, owner of the telco Vipnet.

Apple Now Hiring iPhone Engineers
Now that Apple is finally bringing the iPhone to Australia, it seems it is also looking for an iPhone Field Validation Engineer here and it wants someone with "technical understanding and experience with GSM/GPRS, Edge, CDMA and UMTS".

Vodafone Crows Over iPhone Grab
It seems the smiles over at Vodafone Australia are bigger than the one at Luna Park after the telco managed to snatch the much sought-after Apple iPhone deal from right under the jaws of both Optus and Telstra.

Panasonic Phones Give Schindler A Lift
Panasonic has provided Schindler Lifts with the IP-PBX phone system, enabling Schindler Lifts and their customers to keep talking so Australian lift and escalator users can keep moving.

Optus Gets Shitty With The Federal Government
Optus has threatened to pull out of the bidding to build the $9 billion national broadband network unless the Federal Government extends the deadline.

290 Million Smartphones Shipped In Q1
Being in the mobile device market seems to be good business for some more so than others as the number of mobile devices nudges the 290 million mark being delivered this quarter alone according to a report by ABI Research.

Motorola Lose Direction & $454 Million
To say Motorola is in pain would be an understatement. The company?s latest figures show a first-quarter loss grew to $AUD 210 million, with net sales falling about 21 per cent to $AUD 8.10 billion.

New Skype Service Takes On The World
Luxemburg based online telco Skype has announced unlimited calling to over one third of the worlds population with the launch of its new calling subscriptions.

New $6B Telstra Entity Formed In OZ
A new $6 billion telecommunications entity with 17,000 employees has been formed by Telstra in what is seen as a major play ahead of the Federal Government announcing the awarding of an $8 billion dollar contract to build a new broadband network for Australia.

Massive Growth Predicted For Phone Browsers
A report by ABI Research states that web browsing on smartphones will grow to 1.5 billion units by 2013.

Nokia Stocks Go From Bad To Worse
According to a report on Bloomberg.com, Nokia shares have suffered their worst quarter result in almost four years.

Ericsson Signs Major GSM Deal In China
According to a report in mobiletechnews.com, Ericsson has signed two massive GSM expansion framework agreements with Chinas two largest mobile operators, China Mobile and China Unicom, valued at about USD $1.3 billion and USD $140 million respectively.

Telstra Contradicts Minister
Following our story this morning called ?Telstras CDMA Network Refuses To Die? concerning the postponement of the closure of the CDMA network due to worries over the 3G network in the bush, Telstra has replied to channelnews claiming that this is just not the case and their 3G network is in top-notch condition.

Polycom Take The Buzz Out Of Phones
Polycom has announced that its SoundStation and VoiceStation conference phones now incorporate advanced radio frequency (RF) shielding technology.

Global Telco Services Tops $US65 billion
According to a study by IT analysts Ovum, the worldwide telco services market hit the $US65 billion mark in 2007.

You Can't Sell What You Dont Own Telstra
After losing its case against the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in the High Court yesterday, Telstra says it will "look long and hard" at the question of possible investment in the Government's $4.7 billion fibre-to-the-node broadband project.

Dodo By Name, Dodo By Nature
A government agency has ordered telecommunications provider Dodo to get its act together and comply with industry codes pertaining to complaint handling and billing, after a highly unusual number of complains from customers were recorded.