EDITOR'S NOTE

Good afternoon,

Telstra appears to have leapfrogged the Communications Alliance with a tough new stance on rogue premium SMS providers.

It comes on the back of weeks of heightened debate on the issue - firstly over the lack of an industry code of conduct, and secondly over whether or not the code that was finally released a couple of weeks ago goes far enough.

It will be interesting to see what the Communications Alliance thinks about this development and whether it forces them to toughen their stance, too.

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Staff writers | April 03, 2009

Telstra will introduce tough new rules on premium SMS providers before the end of June, including double opt-in requirements and a process to terminate providers with "continued high and unacceptable complaint levels".

By Brett Winterford | April 03, 2009

The Internet is already filtered, says cyber-law academic Alana Maurushat, often in ways even less transparent than legislated ISP-level filtering.

By Ry Crozier | April 03, 2009

Hitachi Data Systems is unlikely to follow other storage vendors into the cloud storage market directly, preferring to provide the infrastructure underpinning the likes of Optus and Vigabyte instead.

By Iain Thomson | April 03, 2009

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that IBM is close to finalising a deal to buy Sun Microsystems.

By Staff writers | April 03, 2009

Health fund HCF is pioneering speech analytics in its call centre that listens to calls and can pinpoint customer problems before they escalate.

By Staff writers | April 03, 2009

The Federal Government's national grocery price comparison website is undergoing a major rebuild that will see it hosted in Amazon's EC2 cloud and include integration with Google Maps.

By Phil Muncaster | April 03, 2009

Twitter is testing new search functionality and page layouts aimed at boosting productivity and usability for its rapidly growing user base.

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