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The only thing the iPad mini doesn't have is a traditional phone dialler, but with FaceTime support and the ability to have a landline number through Skype and other services, along with WhatsApp and plenty more, the awesome new iPad mini may well morph into a future iPhone Mega.

GUEST OPINION by Claudio Cardile, ANZ Managing Director, Barco:  Struggling with a skills shortage made more acute by closed international borders, Australian companies are placing renewed focus on the professional development of their existing employees.

GUEST ARTICLE: One of the world’s most popular CRM systems, Bitrix24 is about to become even bigger, better, and faster. How exactly? Let’s find out.

COMPANY NEWS: One of the world’s most popular CRM systems, Bitrix24 is about to become even bigger, better, and faster. How exactly? Let’s find out.

GUEST ARTICLE: Communication means everything - in relationships, in business, in business relationships. Now that we have been largely deprived of face-to-face communication at work due to the ongoing pandemic, it gets increasingly difficult to maintain the same level of efficiency and engagement that we had before.

GUEST ARTICLE: Communication means everything - in relationships, in business, in business relationships. Now that we have been largely deprived of face-to-face communication at work due to the ongoing pandemic, it gets increasingly difficult to maintain the same level of efficiency and engagement that we had before.

Changes announced to the WhatsApp privacy policy and scheduled to take effect on 15 May will not result in accounts being deleted or the app becoming unusable immediately after that date, the company, part of Facebook, says in a statement.

Video comms company Zoom has announced financial results for the fourth quarter ended January 31, 2021, and says it marked "a string finish to an unprecedented year for Zoom", which has Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts, Jitsi, Bitrix24, Skype and so many other players in the video space fighting for supremacy.

In what is a clever marketing ploy for the Viber messaging, voice and video calling app, its CEO is making an appeal to Australians to use its services, with Viber stating it cut all business ties with Facebook back in June 2020.

Optus has successfully made an end-to-end 5G video test call while simultaneously streaming video content on a 4G device with the Ericsson Spectrum Sharing technology.

Wondering what your Mum wants for Mother's Day? We've already seen a range of interesting gadgets and gift cards suggested as great gifts, but what about also just getting in actual contact via call, text or video chat, if you can't be there in person?

If you're plagued by slow Internet connectivity, or have an older Android device or one running Android Go, but still want video calls, Facebook Messenger Lite has a video message for you.

It’s not just Norwood’s World Phone with inexpensive app-based global phone calling, or Vodafone’s $5-a-day roaming, but Flexiroam feature-packed new app, too.

Microsoft has agreed to purchase Skype only days after news reports suggested either Google or Facebook was interested in the company, with Microsoft aiming to blend Skype throughout its offerings, but at a massive price: US $8.5 billion!

While some will ring in the new year with a kiss, others will be heavily texting, sending and receiving text messages at what is, as always, predicted to be the biggest number yet: 74 million text messages, 8 million more than last year!

Although Apple has introduced video calls nearly a decade after the first 3G video calls started to be made, Apple's Skype-esque video calling works a freakin' treat, as long as you are in range of Wi-Fi.