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Australia's second biggest telco, Singtel Optus, has been hit by an outage that has been affecting some services for at least the last four hours.

Hardware authentication security key provider Yubico has released its YubiKey 5 range of products in Australia, offering mobile-free multi-factor authentication as well as password-less Windows 10 login.

Global revenues from Rich Communication Services messaging will exceed US$9 billion by 2022, up from an estimated $126 million in 2018.

The number of mobile users adopting NFC ticketing will exceed 375 million by 2022, up from an estimated 122 million globally in 2017, according to a new report from Juniper Research.

Despite the rise of data-based messaging apps vastly superior to just 160 characters, the humble text message has turned 25 and may well be with us for another 25 years.

WikiLeaks has released details of a CIA project called HighRise as part of its ongoing Vault 7 document dump, with the application in question being for Android exploitation.

Global software company Pegasystems has launched an Intelligent Virtual Assistant – an artificial intelligence-powered bot designed to turn applications into smart assistants on any channel.

Telstra's half-yearly profits have dropped by 14.4% and its revenue has fallen by 3.6%, according to an announcement on Thursday.

Omnichannel customer experience and contact centre solutions company Genesys is to undertake an overhaul of accounting software provider MYOB’s contact centre capabilities.

Optus has launched native Voice over Wi-Fi — or Wi-Fi Calling — which the telco says allows customers to easily make and receive calls, SMS and MMS where there is limited mobile coverage but an accessible Wi-Fi service, such as home or public WiFi.

Broadband provider TPG has introduced a new $1 pay as you go plan and an additional 100 international minutes to its unlimited AU Calls & SMS mobile plans in its latest market offerings.

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

Modern day communications are making life stressful for some young Aussies, with Facebook Messenger more popular than SMS, and while there’s some angst, there are simple solutions to modern complexities!

Reports on Twitter suggest Telstra suffered DNS problems with its ‘primary business DNS servers’ - while Telstra’s service status suggests even more problems.

Vodafone is predicting a massive uplift in network traffic over the holiday period with data usage expected to balloon by 70% and SMS traffic to double over the New Year period.

’Tis the season to be jolly but ’tis also the season to be online and break some records, Telstra-style!

 You cannot use the cloud for voting yet but the the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) will use the cloud to meet digital election demands – more than 100 million hits on election night.

For the first time the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has decided on a price for mobile network operators to charge for receiving SMS messages, today setting a price of 0.03 cents per SMS.

If you’ve got poor Optus mobile reception at home, you can now use any Wi-Fi connection anywhere to make and receive Optus mobile calls and SMS messages.

What a yatangled web Yatango weaves with its $23.90 unlimited voice and SMS plan, while three other plans get an always welcomed data boost.