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Aussies have reported more than 250k potential SMS and MMS scams related to parcels or delivery to 7226 since May 2023, according to telecommunications company Telstra.

Well-known global messaging platform Burst SMS is now Kudosity, reflecting the brand's curiosity about its customer's customers, which in turn leads to insights to innovation to value - to kudos. Hence, Kudosity.

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End-to-end encrypted messaging platform Signal has updated the version of the application available to Android users so they can transfer SMS messages to another messaging client, a spokesperson for the company says.

End-to-end encrypted messaging platform Signal will phase out support for plaintext SMS and MMS messages in its Android app over the next few months.

felix, a mobile and internet brand under telecommunications company TPG Telecom, has introduced VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling to improve call connections, quality, and offer the ability to simultaneously talk and browse over a 4G connection for its customers.

Ever wished you could send/receive an SMS from your computer? Microsoft has announced that its Skype program will support this soon.

A serious vulnerability in most versions of Android has been revealed before any major phone vendors have released patches for their devices.

New research says 438 billion messages will be sent per day by 2019 for a total of 160 trillion messages per annum up from 94.2 trillion per year in 2015.

Optus has introduced Family Sharing for data, letting families share their data allocations while also offering unlimited standard national talk and text on postpaid mobile plans.

Australia’s biggest telco, Telstra, has seen ‘a new record’ set over the two day NYE 2014 and NYD 2015 period compared to the same timeframe last year.

It’s Vodafone’s turn for a massive NYE night, with 11 million SMS to be delivered, 4.5 million voice calls to come and lots of extra staff!

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.

Although the Royal Wedding saw 'expected social media surges' in Twitter and Facebook, Sybase 365 says 'no-one could predict the increases in US and UK SMS/MMS traffic'.

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!

Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., the global leader in mobile messaging and mobile commerce services, today announced that it has processed more than one trillion inter-operator messages since the company launched the first SMS interoperability messaging hub in 2001. One trillion messages is equivalent to processing approximately 32,000 messages per second for every second of one year.

An Australian company reckons it has a way of delivering native-looking web applications to multiple mobile platforms with a minimum of effort.