Optus Releases New BlackBerry Plans

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

Mobile Mental Health Teams A 'last Resort'

THE NSW Government has watered down its pledge to reinstate 24-hour mobile mental health teams in the Illawarra.

Mobile Phone Fines On Rise For Drivers

ILLAWARRA motorists are increasingly risking their lives behind the wheel, with the number of people caught illegally using mobile phones while driving up by 75 per cent in three years.

Get Upwardly Mobile

The range of features available in new mobile phones can be mind-boggling, so it's important to remember which ones you will actually use, writes David Flynn.

Keelty Slams Reporting Of Terror Cases

AUSTRALIAN Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty has launched a stinging attack on the media for its reporting of counter-terrorism operations, accusing it of misinforming the community and, in some cases, helping to undermine the criminal justice system.

Jail For 'vicious' Bashing

A CRIMINAL lawyer was left so scarred by a vicious and unprovoked attack outside a Wollongong pub he has been forced to knock back assault cases.

Report Exposes Concerns Over Time Targets For Paramedics

AN OBSESSION with meeting Government response-time targets is compromising the care provided by Victoria's paramedics, according to a scathing report into the mobile intensive care ambulance fleet.

Scant Basis For Sacking Miners Call Email Purge Unfair

SACKED Bengalla mineworkers say they have lost their jobs for emails containing images no worse, in some cases, than those in most newsagency windows.

Hidden Dangers Of Being Upwardly Mobile

Going mobile is nothing but trouble for the human brain and anybody driving anywhere such talking heads.

Vce Cheating Rate Low

EXAM notes written on a student's hand and study notes found under a desk were among the reported cases of cheating during last year's VCE exam period.

Global Attack On Warranty Rules

THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has taken legal action against LG Electronics for telling customers who bought its mobile phones that it offered only a limited and voluntary one-year warranty.

Foreign Firms Accused Of Cheapening Warranty

THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has taken legal action against LG Electronics for telling customers who bought its mobile phones that it offered only a limited and voluntary one-year warranty.

Queueing For Justice

The Rau and Alvarez Solon cases are the tip of the compensation iceberg, writes Joseph Kerr.

Mobile Calls Are Falling On Deaf Ears

The Australian telephone industry may set noise limits on mobile phones because of concern that frequent users are endangering their hearing.

Wrong Numbers

Your mobile is stolen and the thief runs up huge bills, but you may end up having to pay them, reports Lucinda Schmidt.

A Will And A Way

Technology is a boon to the less mobile, writes Nicole Manktelow.

Nats Get An Arboreal Lesson On Telstra

FEDERAL Liberal MP Peter Lindsay has accused Nationals worried about the full sale of Telstra of wanting "a mobile phone tower up every gum tree" and warned them of a city backlash.

Credit Fraudster Given Six Years

FORMER Wollongong used car salesman John Galaxidis lived the high life on the illicit proceeds of one of the most extensive cases of identity theft ever discovered in Australia.

Man Survives 'contract' He Took Out On Own Life

IN MELBOURNE'S underworld war, police have often investigated cases where gangsters have taken out contracts to kill each other. But in the past few days they have investigated a contract with a twist.

Black Spots To Go

AN ambitious plan to eliminate mobile phone black spots along the scenic South Coast rail line could soon deliver rail commuters uninterrupted reception between Wollongong and Sydney.