Australia's world-first news media bargaining code received the final tick of approval on Thursday when parliament's lower house agreed to the government's changes, which were made after negotiations with tech giants. sbs.com.au/news/governmen…

Huge funding for Sinch - clearly positioning themselves to take on Twilio and Vonage. My bet is M&A targeted at gaps in regional coverage, platform capabilities, future tech. techcrunch.com/2021/05/25/sin…

2FA is big business for #SMS. Messaging apps will still need initially, but if this works, could signal possible reduction in role of SMS for 2FA for messaging apps in future: thenextweb.com/news/instagram…

Pamela Clark-Dickson Pamela Clark-Dickson Lots to 'like' about this, esp. its genesis 'over a couple of beers' - law enforcement use encrypted messaging app to catch criminals, rather than being thwarted by them. But as pointed out, likely only tip of iceberg. abc.net.au/news/2021-06-0…

Excellent! Now I'd like to see, if not already there, the AIATSIS map prominently displayed in POs at desks where people address their mail. And/or a booklet/PDF that maps postcodes to traditional lands/country. Make it as easy as possible for people to do this Australia Post

Kudos to @AnnastaciaMP for showing dignity and restraint in her response to this boorishness from John Coates. Who among women hasn't experienced being patronised by a man at some time/multiple times during their working lives? The exchange reflects extremely poorly on Coates.

Our projection of 292.6mn DAUs pretty much on the money for Snap 2Q21: cnb.cx/2W4Fm8y Our Messaging Apps Tracker (previously OTT Communications Tracker) provides 2-year projections on key metrics for Snap and nine others - and the report has just been published too!

The RCS-based Messages by Google app has 500mn active users globally. I think this is first time for solid numbers on #RCS. Still lower than Meta apps, Weixin, iMessage, etc. Like iMessage, Messages is native on Android devices (not all) . . #GoogleIO2022 9to5google.com/2022/05/11/rcs…

Per Benedict Evans: I know the individual fines are probably relatively small change but still! And will the fines alter employee behavior? Or just force usage further underground? Wall Street hit with US$2b of fines in WhatsApp probe - The Edge Markets theedgemarkets.com/article/wall-s…

Just downloaded, installed, tried and pretty much immediately deleted BeReal.. Yeah, nah, not for me. Taking & sharing a photo of where I am in the moment - yeah, I'm happy to do that. But then also immediately taking and sharing what seems to be a mandatory selfie? Nah.

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Like everyone else, I'm grappling with what the metaverse actually means. I found this, from Benedict Evans, a useful read: ben-evans.com/benedictevans/…. I can just about visualize that we are heading for a Black Mirror-type world (some episodes), for good and/or bad.

So, apparently I'm 'unable to follow more people at this time'. Twitter, your usefulness to me is declining.

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It was my pleasure recently to participate in the Good, Bad and Ugly Telecoms Innovation Podcast with Pat Flynn - thanks Pat, great conversation!