Telstra says it can’t guarantee ‘porn-free’ loan mobiles!

October 13th, 2009 MELBOURNE - One in four Australian men secretly store phone numbers on their mobiles to hide them from their partners, a new research has revealed. The Microsoft survey of 1125 Australian mobile phone users also found that just 8 per cent of women owned up to the sneaky practice.

September 27th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Majority of Australians chose mobile phone over their landline connections as their main communication tool, a new survey has claimed. According to Australian Media and Communications Authority data, 70 per cent of 18-31-year-olds look at their hand set as the primary source of communication.

September 10th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A senior member of the Liberal Party of Australia has warned against children's exposure to pornography at home, saying viewing of the restricted material is as dangerous as guns for kids. Scott Morrison suggested that laws should be introduced Down Under forbidding parents from letting their kids watch the explicit content.

August 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A new survey has revealed that watching YouTube videos, looking up "sex", socialising and searching for search engines are the popular activities children perform on the Internet. The survey conducted by computer security firm Symantec listed the Top 100 searches using the company's tracking service OnlineFamily.Norton, which monitor's children's and teenager's internet use.

July 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A prison officer, who allegedly supplied pornography to inmates at a prison farm near Beaudesert, Australia, is under investigation. The police and Queensland Corrective Services raided the Palen Creek Correctional Centre to find two portable memory sticks that allegedly contained pornographic images, in the prison officer's locker, the Courier Mail reports.

June 28th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australian telecommunications and media company Telstra has had to apologise for the second time in the last two months because of a sexually explicit photo that ended up on a Sydney teenager's rental phone. The lewd image was found on 13-year-old girl Monique's second hand Telstra ZTE handset last week.

June 1st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Satyam Computers has appointed Venki Prathivadi as country manager for Satyam Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) replacing Deepak Nangia. The India based IT company has also appointed former chief information officer Vijay Prasad as principal advisor to the ANZ region to enable it to find its feet in the area after the set back in January following the revelation of a massive fraud.

May 27th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The E head of Satyam Computer Services in Australia, Deepak Nangia, has resigned. Nangia told The Australian he left the company around three weeks ago to pursue other opportunities.

May 13th, 2009 MELBOURNE - When a Taiwanese carpenter bought a porn DVD from a local vendor, he never knew he would see a secretly taped motel footage of his own wife having sex with his friend, whom he would later end up stabbing. Identified only by his surname Lee, the man discovered the illicit sex on the DVD in 2002, reports the Courier Mail.

April 13th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Telstra has said that it cannot guarantee its loan mobile phones are free of porn, after a 10-year-old Gold Coast girl was exposed to a sex video. The mother of the Runaway Bay girl said a phone she borrowed from Telstra had not been reset and it contained the previous client's personal text messages and recordings.

April 6th, 2009 MELBOURNE - While parents worry over the link between cell-phone and cancer, mobiles are making their way into the hands of kids as young as nine, according to a study. The prevalence of mobiles among kids came to the fore at the time when the independence of Australia's peak mobile phone research group was being questioned.

March 20th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Tourism Queensland has disqualified Russian contestant from the world's best job competition, following her alleged involvement in porn scandal. Officials have said that "pursuant to the Terms and Conditions for the Best Job in the World", it was excluding Julia Yalovitsyna from the selection process.

March 18th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Tourism Queensland has asked the Russian 'Best Job in the World' candidate to explain her alleged involvement in a porn scandal. The tourism officials have asked for a formal response from Julia Yalovitsyna, 29, who allegedly works as a model for an illegal porn studio and coach women for sexually explicit films.

March 14th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australians have come out in support of the Russian "dream job" candidate caught in porn scandal. Tourism Queensland announced that it is investigating claims that Julia Yalovitsyna, a front-runner in their "best job in the world" campaign, worked as a model for an illegal porn studio and coached women for sexually explicit films.

March 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A Russian candidate for the 'best job in the world' has been caught in a porn scandal. According to the Sun, Julia Yalovitsyna, who made it to the list of Top 50 finalists for Hamilton island's caretaker job, has been accused of being a porn studio model.