Mobile Phones

With mobile phone use on the rise, some people are turning to simpler devices to help them cut down on their screen time.

The app allows passengers to digitally alert bus drivers that they're waiting at a stop.

James Gill discovered how to streamline texting between Apple and Android devices during his school holidays, but Apple blocked the workaround. Now the tech giant may face legal action in the US.

When Chris Pyatt found out his small business had been listed as "permanently closed" on Apple Maps, with the pin in the wrong location, he realised he had a costly problem on his hands.

As Samsung announces new phones with a focus on artificial intelligence, its main competitor claims top spot in the smartphone market.

Central Queensland's Deborah McGee and other residents in the region went without a Telstra mobile service for weeks following storms in December, a situation a telecommunications academic says can be helped with domestic roaming.

The eSafety commissioner says the social media platform's hate-monitoring practices are "jaw-dropping" after it reinstated thousands of banned Australian accounts.

The feature in smart devices will play an increasingly important role in alerting emergency services to accidents and other incidents, a technology commentator says.

The state's Department for Education says the new ban is working, but experts aren't convinced.

Canberrans will be shown positive consent ads as they swipe on Tinder after ACT Policing pitched a promotion of territory laws.

Some devices, including older mobile phones, will no longer be able to get service when Vodafone becomes the first of the three largest telcos to switch its 3G network off.

As steam rises from every horse they ride in morning track work, the master jockey and apprentice put in the hard yards, attempting to earn their stripes in a foreign country they now call home.

The ACT will join with the rest of the country when it enacts the ban but some teachers are still not convinced.

Mobile phones, smart watches and any other handheld or wearable devices will be banned from ACT public schools in 2024, bringing Canberra schools into step with the rest of the country.

Telstra apologises after a faulty part leaves business owners and residents in a north west NSW town in a service blackout.

A man who was addicted to gambling for 20 years says he has watched the industry change from a punt at a local TAB to endless betting apps available at the swipe of a finger.

In written answers to Senate questions on notice, Optus has confirmed it has paid compensation in cash to customers affected by its nationwide outage on November 8, after being slammed for originally only offering extra data.

Word games were all the rage in 2022, when Wordle grids were all over social media. An indie development duo from Melbourne are hoping to bottle some of that magic with their new word game. 

Submissions to a Senate inquiry outline what happened behind the scenes as Optus rushed to fix its recent outage.

Kelly Bayer Rosmarin was highly regarded as a corporate warrior after surviving last year's cyber attack fallout, but her fate at Optus was decided earlier than Monday morning's announcement, writes Peter Ryan.

If last year's cyber attack failed to teach Optus a few lessons in handling massive tech failures, perhaps the public scrutiny of the Senate will force the system reboot the telco so desperately seems to need, writes Kate Ainsworth.

Issues between blue and green message bubbles could soon be a thing of the past, as Apple moves to adopt the RCS standard.

A Melbourne woman says she was in "an almost panic-attack state" trying to get in touch with Optus after the telco signed up a new customer with her mobile number.

Optus is facing growing scrutiny after some triple-0 calls failed during its unprecedented outage.

Optus is no stranger to class actions after last year's cyber attack. But a week after its crippling nationwide outage left 10 million Australians in the dark and businesses unable to trade, is another one on the horizon?