Optus Releases New BlackBerry Plans

Optus has just released two Blackberry plans that offer unlimited email from just $9.99.

Keeping An Eye On Your Assets

A BIG Brother-style service, TracerTrak, enabling businesses to track assets outside cellular phone range, will be launched this month by satellite mobile company Globalstar.

Cellular Addiction

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Mobile Training

SOON it may be possible to learn wherever you are, whenever you are there. In the same way the cellular phone untethered us from the work desk, there may soon be no need to burden your back carrying scores of hefty training manuals if mobile training kicks off.

Hello, It's God On The Line

GIVE us this day our daily SMS. Believers in today's frenetic world can now find inspiration on the run thanks to that omnipresent companion - not their guardian angel but a cellular phone.

One.tel To Guard Against Mobile Spam

UPSTART cellular phone service provider One.Tel launched its 1800MHz national network last Thursday with a promise that its planned advanced services would not lead to spam on our mobiles. ``Spam on e-mail would not even be close to the spam opportunity on the phone, and we see that as something

Strathfield: Telstra Has Lost Its Edge

Strathfield Group has warned that a drop in Telstra's share of the mobile telephone market has wounded its own cellular phone business and all but wiped out the electronics retailer's earnings in the second half. Trading in the six months to June is expected ``to contribute little" to Strath

The Mobile That Can Organise Your Day

Nokia 9110 Communicator TO improve its first Communicator, a device uniting cellular phone with PDA, Nokia created a smaller, lighter unit with a larger, brighter screen plus tiny expandable memory card. Matt Rothschild, Nokia's mobile phone national accounts manager, said: "The Nokia 911

Uk Phone Giant May Float In '99

United Kingdom-based cellular phone giant Vodafone is ramping up plans to float its Australian subsidiary on the stock exchange, hinting at a possible listing next year. Vodafone Australasia chief executive Dr Brian Clark said in Sydney yesterday there was ``no doubt" that Vodafone would see

Mobile, But Not In The Driving Seat

At the launch of a new cellular phone network, Tim Fischer was desperate to show he's listening to regional Australia. But will it do him any good? TIM Fischer waved the mobile phone around like it was an offering from the heavens. A handpiece similar to this one, he asserted, would help bridge

Pocket Pagers Still Alive And Beeping

Mobile phones look cool, say the kids, but the bills they generate can burn a hole in any parent's bank account. The pocket pager - the former techno-trophy scorned by the cellular phone generation - is making a triumphant return from stage left. But this time the pager talks back. The new "

Cellular Perils

There is still no agreement on the effects of radiation emitted by your mobile phone, writes DAVID FLYNN. MANUFACTURERS and distributors of devices which claim to protect mobile phone users from harmful radiation were not surprised at last week's news that a Telstra-funded study found cellular-l

All In The Head

ONCE upon a time there was a mobile phone user who started to suffer from migraine headaches. He noticed that the more he used his handheld cellular phone, the more frequent and intense the headaches became and, as he used the phone less, the headaches equally diminished. Figuring there was some

Telstra's New Deal: A Single Number

Telstra yesterday launched a one-number telephone system that the company claims is more revolutionary than the cellular phone. Known as Telepath, the system will allow people to use a single new number with a 0500 prefix, instead of having separate numbers for the home, work, mobile phone and pa

Analogue Still Has Its Strengths

WHILE analogue shutdown is only four years away, the cellular phone is still a viable proposition, particularly for people who want a mobile for emergencies, to feel more secure when driving alone, or to stay in touch with family and friends. Analogue phones are much cheaper than the smaller, mor

Teens Ring Up Costs On Cellular Phones

TEENAGE romance seems to be ending Australia's love affair with the mobile phone. Having given their sons and daughters phones so they won't be stranded or in danger when out at night, some parents are so alarmed at the cost that they are turning to telephone companies to have the devices discon

Ericsson Reduces Size, Not Features

ERICSSON'S new GH388 digital cellular phone is even smaller and has more features than the GH337 it replaces. Evolutionary rather than revolutionary, it is thinner and lighter and also runs for longer between battery recharges than the previous model. But it's still not up to the standard set by

Stanilite Asks Nab To Appoint Receiver

Troubled electronics and communications group Stanilite Pacific Ltd yesterday requested its banker, National Australia Bank, to appoint a receiver after the collapse of a key contract with Argentina's biggest cellular phone group. Successful renegotiation of the $34-million contract secured last

Indian Trading Giant Woos Telstra

The giant British-Indian Hinduja group, having failed to lure Telstra into a cellular-phone venture in Madras, is now trying to get the national carrier to join it in developing cable telephony in Bombay. According to Mr Ashok Hinduja, the youngest of four brothers who run Hinduja, the $US11 bi

Blues Dial Up A V For Victory

Watching the Sydney Blues' off-field team work overtime at the weekend, one can only wonder how sport survived before the introduction of the cellular phone. While the home side battled it out against the Hunter Eagles, the Blues' hierarchy had smoke coming from its mobile phones, anxiously inqui