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Sydney school swine flu scare
27th May, 2009
A Sydney boy who had been on a cruise carrying swine-flu infected passengers, returned to school for about a day before being quarantined...
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NSW Education enters a new era in Parent Communication - MGM selected for system-wide schools texting
21st May, 2008
School services leader MGM Wireless today announced that the Sydney Region NSW Department of Education and Training has awarded the company its tender for the provision of sms and Parent communication services.

More US clients for MGM
Adelaide Advertiser December 21, 2007
MGM Wireless has capped off a successful year with the signing of two U.S. school districts for its messageyou anti-truancy system.

SA stocks surge $6bn on mining growth
Adelaide Advertiser 11 December 2008
THE value of South Australia's stock exchange-listed companies has surged more than $6 billion, or 28.4 per cent, in the past year.

ASX Announcement: MGM Wireless unveils world first ‘on-demand’ school-parent communication technology
8 October 2007
School communication specialist MGM Wireless will unveil its latest technology, 191ASK School News Channel™, today at the Australian School Bursars Association conference in Adelaide (Oct 8-11).

Truants warned - new SMS alert system will roll out to WA schools in 2008
WA Minister's Statement, 2 October , 2007
Western Australia’s public schools will have a new weapon to fight truancy in 2008, with the State Government announcing a $950,000 five-year contract to provide SMS communication software to public schools today.

ASX Announcement: MGM Wireless signs landmark whole-of-State contract with WA Department of Education and Training
2 October , 2007
Australia’s leading school text messaging solutions group, MGM Wireless Ltd, today announced it has signed a multi-year contract with the Western Australia Department of Education and Training to supply its messageyou™ software suite to WA government schools.

ASX Announcement: MGM Wireless cashed up for New Year assault on international markets
3 September, 2007
Adelaide-based school communications and services group MGM Wireless Ltd today announced a loss of $784,000 on revenues of $2.198m for the year to end June 2007. The result comes after expensing costs associated with a strong year of international expansion and product development and a depreciation charge of $184,000.

ASX Announcement: MGM Wireless opens US school year with Arizona School District signing
August 21 2007
MGM Wireless has opened the new American school year by signing the Sahuarita School District in Arizona as the first entire US school district to select the company’s leading edge messageyou™ solution for attendance monitoring and school-parent communication.

ASX Announcement: MGM Wireless appoints former Federal Education Minister to board
August 17 2007
Adelaide-based school services company MGM Wireless is delighted to announce the appointment of former Federal Education Minister John Dawkins AO as non-executive Director.

ASX Announcement - MGM Wireless reaches record annual revenues of $ 2.25 million
July 31 2007
South Australian based MGM Wireless Ltd announced today that June quarter revenue (unaudited) reached $512,245, taking annual revenue to a record $2.253m, representing growth of 14% over the previous year.

MGM Wireless secures prestigious Indian schools to trial messageyou™
July 11 2007
Adelaide-based school services group MGM Wireless today announced that its messageyou™ state-of-the-art attendance management product is to be trialled in two prestigious Indian schools.

WAGGING school is about to get harder for WA's
252,000 government school students.
WA Sunday Times, July 1, 2007
The State Government will arm its 770 schools with computer software that will automatically send text messages to parents' mobile phones demanding to know why their children are not at school.

MGM consolidates QLD ASX Announcement - May 28 2007
South Australian education services company MGM Wireless (ASX:MWR) today announces it has acquired the Queensland distribution rights to its leading-edge school attendance solutions software.

Learning the lessons of Virginia Tech
Sydney Morning Herald, 1st May 2007, Melbourne Age Sydney, 1st May 2007
LAST month's shooting of 32 students at Virginia Tech, in the United States, has sparked interest in electronic communication systems between students, staff and parents.

Anti-truancy SMS system sold to US schools
ABC News, 1st May 2007
A South Australian company has signed its first deal to supply three schools in the United States with software to curb truancy.

Brighter message from U.S.
Adelaide Advertiser, 1st May 2007
ADELAIDE company MGM Wireless yesterday went to the head of the class after finalising contracts with three Californian schools.

Practising crisis texts vital
Adelaide Advertiser, 1st May 2007
SCHOOLS with mass text messaging services need to practise their crisis communication as if it was a fire drill, according to an Adelaide company that sells the technology.

MGM in US Break Through
30 April 2007
Three Californian schools sign on for messageyou

ICT innovators helping to keep Australian kids safe
AIIA News, 30 April 2007
Truant teens of Australia beware! A new mobile phone messaging system that alerts parents to their children’s absences from school has been implemented in Australia with great results.

ASX Announcement - April 27th, 2007
South Australian based education services company, MGM Wireless, today announces March quarter revenue growth of 62%.

Savvy text to nab Indians
Melbourne Herald Sun April 11 2007
INDIAN students who wag school are going to really hate the Australian company MGM Wireless.

MGM Wireless signs Indian distribution deal: ASX Announcement - 10 April 2007
South Australian-based school services group MGM Wireless Ltd today announced a licensing agreement with Roltin Global to distribute MGM’s patented messageyou™ School Attendance Management solution throughout the Indian sub-continent.

SA firm to head fight on truancy
Adelaide Advertiser, March 17, 2007
ADELAIDE SMS applications company, MGM Wireless, will target truancy in the U.S., having signed a distribution deal with California-based education software specialists, VIP Tone.

Tracking truancy in US
Melbourne Herald Sun March 17, 2007
SMS applications company MGM Wireless will target truancy in the US under a distribution deal with California-based education software specialists VIP Tone.

ASX Announcement - 16 March2007
MGM Wireless announces two-way US/Australian distribution alliance

Wagging school to get harder
Melbourne Sun Herald, January 07, 2007
VICTORIAN schools are using mobile phone technology to catch out truants as new figures show students on average missed an average of 14 days of school each in 2005

The jig is up for US pupils
The Australian, Friday December 22, 2006
Kids jigging school in the United States could be spending a whole lot more time in detention, now that Australian-based MGM Wireless technology has launched its school attendance product there.

Successful Conclusion of US Trials - Launch of US Operations
December 19, 2006
Adelaide-based MGM Wireless Ltd today announced the full scale launch of its innovative messageyou ™ SMS / Text based school attendance product suite in the US starting January 1st.

MGM Wireless Named Top South Australia Fast Mover
November 30, 2006
South Australian-based company MGM Wireless has been named today as third fastest growth company in South Australia, by the In-Business Magazine / SA Great 2006 Fast Movers Index.

Australian anti-truancy company claims red-tape keeping it away
New Zealand Herald, Monday October 2, 2006
An Australian company specialising in anti-truancy programmes says Ministry of Education red tape is impeding its chances of success in New Zealand.

Simple txt and open systems needed for success in truancy solution
September 27, 2006
Australian company MGM Wireless (ASX:MWR) has called for the New Zealand Minister of Education to reduce the red tape currently tying up vendors, following reports that an anti-truancy trial provided by a New Zealand company has failed to deliver on its promises.

Text messages target absent students
Sydney Morning Herald, August 15, 2006, Melbourne Age, August 15 2006 - Playing hookie may soon be no more than a fleeting memory for high-school students in the US thanks to an Australian-built text-messaging system that automatically alerts their parents if they don't show up.

Text Test
The Adelaide Advertiser 14 August 2006 - A South Australian developed text messaging system is being tested at U.S. schools. Already in use in Australia, the messageyou system is being tested in three Arizona High schools this year. The system sends text messages to parents of students who have unexplained absences from school.

SA text idea in US trial
The Australian Financial Review 14 August 2006 - Mobile phone messaging company MGM Wireless has launched a trial in the United States of its messageyou system aimed at improving student safety and reducing truancy rates.

Texts Nail Truants
Comment News WA 06 June 2006
A LOCAL high school is using a text messaging service to increase communication between the school and parents regarding student absences.

'Wag' texts latest tool
Townsville Bulletin, April 5 2006 - A Townsville high school has started using mobile phone SMS messaging to dob in wagging students to their mums and dads.

Truant crackdown
Melbourne Sun Herald, Dec 11 2005 - PARENTS are to be asked to "please explain" to principals when students do not attend school.

Parents receive a text, kids get the message as truancy plunges
Adelaide Advertiser, November 28 2005 - Truancy rates in state schools have been slashed by up to 90 per cent by an award-winning Adelaide innovation. (PDF)

R u @ skool
Port Lincoln Times, November 24 2005 - The Port Lincoln High School will next year be using one of the fastest growing youth communication tools - text messages - to combat truancy.

Wireless: To truants in Rome, SMS is the enemy
International Herald Tribune, October 2 2005 - MILAN Students in Rome are becoming guinea pigs in an experiment that uses cellphones to deter truancy.

Schools to SMS parents
The Australian IT, August 2nd, 2005 - TWICE daily, morning and afternoon, an SMS message is sent to the mobile phone of parents of students absent from Mitchelton State High

Truants trumped by text solution
The Courier-Mail, July 6th, 2005 - IT'S the communication tool of choice for most teens – SMS messaging. But in a new-age solution to an age-old problem, teachers are harnessing the technology to turn the tables on truants...

Text Messages to Stop Kids Wagging
Northern Territory News, June 9th 2005 - Territory children wagging school are about to be dobbed in to their parents - by mobile telephone text messages. The system will involve sending an SMS to alert parents their child is not at school and ask for an explanation.

System sends a message on truancy
The Age, March 25th, 2005 - WAGGING school just got harder, thanks to SMS, the texting technology used by every Australian student within arm's reach of a mobile phone...

Now parents get the message on truancy
The Advertiser, March 22nd, 2005 - "HIGH schools across Australia are keeping tabs on their pupils with an SMS system developed by Adelaide-based MGM Wireless..."

SMS used to dob in students
Herald Sun, March 16th, 2005 - "MORE than 9100 Victorian families can receive SMS messages if their children miss school for unexplained reasons..."

SMS puts truants on the spot
The Australian March 5th 2005 - KIDS in the Sunraysia area of western NSW who are planning to wag school better think again. Their chances of getting away with it are slim, thanks to a new system of alerting parents as soon as their absence is noted.

Mobile text messages used in bid to cut school truancy
Sunraysia Daily - Saturday, March 12th, 2005 - "MOBILE phones are now being used by a number of district schools as the latest tool to combat absenteeism..."
Sunraysia Daily - Saturday, March 12th, 2005 - Page 3 (PDF)

Y is your child wagging school 2dA? Parents track truants by text message
Sydney Morning Herald, May 22nd, 2004 - "Public schools are using text messages to tell parents when their children skip school, with early results showing significant reductions in truancy.."

Truants dobbed in by SMS
News Interactive, October, 2003 - "SOME South Australian schools have taken to using text messaging on mobile phones to help improve student attendance.."

Text Message Cuts Truancy
The Advertiser, October 17th, 2003 - "SOUTH Australian schools are turning to mobile phone text messages to tackle truancy – with dramatic improvements in attendance."

MGM Wireless merger with Ezyimage complete
ADELAIDE, October 10th, 2003 - MGM Wireless today announced it has completed the merger with publicly listed, three-dimensional imaging software company, Ezyimage Ltd. (ASX:EZI).

EzyImage bids for mobile platform place
ZDNet Australia, June 10th, 2003 - "Three-dimensional imaging software company, EzyImage, is making a bid for a place in the mobile services market."

MGM Wireless to merge with imaging software company - Ezyimage
ADELAIDE, June 10th, 2003 - MGM Wireless today announced that it has entered into an agreement to merge with three-dimensional imaging software company, Ezyimage Ltd.

Multimedia Messaging (MMS) support for messageyou™
ADELAIDE, May 5th, 2003 - MGM Wireless Pty. Ltd. announced today development of Multimedia Messaging (MMS) functionality...

MGM Wireless Delivers Lates Release of Message You™
ADELAIDE, March 12th, 2003 - "Extends its leadership position in the enterprise mobile phone messaging market through continuous improvement of its flagship product."

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