New Optus BlackBerry Plans

Two Optus Blackberry plans offer unlimited email from $9.99.

It's Your Call: Do Lunch By Phone

MOBILE phones can access the internet, play tunes - and now be used to pay for lunch.

Concert Plans Sound Note Of Encouragement For Community Hit By Drought

WEARING a large milking apron, baggy tracksuit pants and gumboots splattered in fresh and aged cow dung, Shaun Church looks every bit the dairy farmhand as his eyes scan the 300-strong dairy herd.

Anz Hit By Bill Express

ANZ will write off $53 million of debt following the collapse of the bill payment network Bill Express, but the bank has already swung into action to salvage most of the network of 4700 payment machines located at newsagents and other retailers across the country.

Bill Express Pulls The Plug

ANZ will write off $53 million of debt following the collapse of Bill Express, but the bank has already acted to salvage most of the network of 4700 payment machines at newsagents and other retailers across the country.

Phone Flick Secures Trip To Toronto

CENTRAL Coast filmmaker and former Newcastle Shoot Out winner Jason van Genderen has won the Sydney Film Festival's MobileMovies award.

Change Is One Thing You Can Bank On

Retailers overseas are moving into banking as banks here battle to improve their image with customers.

Mobile Phone Millionaire Proves He's Crazy Like A Fox

When it comes to business, John Ilhan has the right number. Larry Schwartz reports.

Mobile Rip-offs Targeted

Pushy mobile phone retailers who ripped off young people had better beware, NSW Fair Trading Minister John Aquilina has warned.

Wake Up Retailers! Dial Up Coke Is The Real Thing

Third generation technology has arrived and with it a business revolution. For a couple of years now one of the favourite examples people have used to illustrate the consequences of the mobile phone revolution has been the ability to dial up a drink vending machine and have it deliver you a can of Coke, charged to your phone account.

In-flight Mobile Phone Deals

Cable & Wireless Optus Ltd expects an increase in mobile sales as a result of a new venture aimed at selling mobile services to tourists. C&W Optus' Ozitalk, launched yesterday, will allow visitors to buy or rent a pre-paid mobile phone before leaving home, on the plane on the way to A

Family To Net Lion's Share Of Mobileworld's $30m Listing

One of the country's biggest independent mobile-phone retailers, Mobileworld Communications, plans to raise $30 million by listing on the Australian Stock Exchange next month. Almost a decade after the retailer opened its doors, and after some financial difficulties with its now defunct wholesal

Mobile Phones Life Savers

It seems Wollongong isn't immune to Australia's love affair with the mobile phone. In fact a survey that revealed one in three Australians now carries a mobile phone has come as no surprise to Wollongong retailers. Accent Communications manager Shane Hornby said most of his customers were bus

Mobile `hang-ups'

A MOBILE phone starts ringing and instinctively hands within earshot reach for pockets. Then the hands pause while the head adopts alistening position. Is it mine? No, it's over there. It's mine, somebody might say, and all bar one of the group return to general business. It's a lit

Calling A Phone A Dog Works For Some

Marketers are still divided about whether personality or technology will sell a mobile phone in Australia, writes KIRSTY NEEDHAM . WHAT do you do if you are one of the world's largest communications companies and yet are barely recognised by consumers in a country with one of the highest penetr

Court Battle Over Mobile-phone Ads

A newspaper that offered a ``free mobile phone for every reader" and a shop engaged in the promotion are the first organisations to have criminal proceedings launched against them for allegedly misleading readers. The Trade Practices Commission filed the charges on Wednesday in the Federal C

Everyone's Doing It: Going Mobile

Girls on trains do it, boys in pain do it, even educated brains do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love with the mobile phone. Gadget-mad Australians are deciding that the mobile phone is no longer a yuppie toy. With prices of standard phones dropping to $500 and both Optus and Telec

Today's Mobile Phone To Become A Thing Of The Past

Technology is about to catch up with Australia's 400,000-plus mobile-phone users, and it could be very expensive. The present analogue mobile phone system is due to be phased out by the year 2000 as a new, more advanced, digital system begins to be phased in from early next year by Telecom's Mob