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Employers have been warned that staff using their own laptops or tablets to transfer and store confidential business information could potentially compromise their business.

Text messaging, rather than talking over the phone, is now preferred by many Australians, according to a new survey which found that 56% of Aussie adults avoid making phone calls, turning instead to messaging apps or even email.

Closely monitoring your child's mobile phone or tablet use is a contentious issue. But if it is something you believe you should be doing and you trust an overseas company with your child's communications data and metadata, then the TeenSafe monitoring software is now available in Australia.

Almost three in five Aussies say they call their family and friends less frequently since the rise of social media, according to newly released research.

Apple has a dirty secret. There is a massive hole in its iPhone messaging system.

Many young drivers are tempted to read and write text messages and otherwise engage in social media when behind the wheel of a car. Bad idea.

Aussies are being taken to the cleaners when it comes to sending text messages, according to Australia's peak communications consumer body ACCAN.

If you text and walk, you're a bloody idiot - new research is showing that people that text while walking are at risk of ruining their balance and posture, and severe injury.

Victorian drivers who text while driving will face big fine increases, which come into effect today.

Texting your significant other all the time should mean you're deeply in love, right? Apparently not, according to some new research.

If you text and drive you're a 'bloody idiot' and you'll now also face a much harsher penalty in a push from the Victorian state government for tougher texting laws.

Texting and driving has long been accepted as illegal, but the Northern Territory has taken the extraordinary step of banning texting while walking.

The New South Wales government today launched a $1.5 million road safety awareness campaign, designed to discourage people from texting while driving.

Massively popular messaging app WhatsApp is in negotiations with Google over pricing of a takeover, if ‘insider sources’ are to be believed.

Internode has added NodeMobile mobile phone plans to its product roster, offering a generous amount of social media specific data.

Optus mobile customers are now able to donate to Red Cross relief funds for specific appeals via SMS under a facility set up by Optus and digital marketing company, Be.interactive.

A new survey called the Internet & American Life Project, by the Pew Research Center, found that U.S. adults send or read text messages while driving just as much as do teenagers. Actually, 1% more adults text and drive than do teens--27% versus 26%.

If you are one, or have one lurking in a bedroom right now, it probably comes as no surprise that Millennials think email is somewhat quaint - a way to communicate with a great aunt perhaps.