The New York Times has now revealed the identity of the blogger who is known for writing on Fake Steve Jobs Blog on BlogSpot as Daniel Lyons. Lyons is currently the senior editor of Forbes.com. In the past months, many people from Silicon Valley were reading, including by both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. This also led to rumours that Gates was writing it, but he denied it.
LonelyGirl15 Finale on YouTube
The people from the LonelyGirl 15 have now posted up 3 of the 12 episodes made for the season finale. The New season will air this week (Australian Time).
However, all twelve episodes are up on the LonelyGirl15 User profile on MySpaceTV. The link is http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.showvids&friendID=77542571
Telstra takes minister to court…
Telstra has posted a legal complaint against the Communication minister, Helen Coonan, because she wouldn’t reveal how the AU$1 billion WiMax funding was awarded to.
Coonan revealed in June that Optus and Elders won the tender, joint funding the project.
LonelyGirl15 ends with a twist…
LonelyGirl15 ended it’s year long season with a huge shock. Aired on MySpaceTV with 12 episodes per hour starting at 8:00AM, the character LonelyGirl15, or known as Bree, was killed off at the hands of a religious cult that chased her for her ‘life-giving qualities’ of her rare blood type.
SuprNova may rise again…
Reports across the web have been spreading with the news that SuprNova, a well-known Bit Torrent sharing site which shut down 3 years ago after legal problems, may reopen next week. An agreement was reached by The Pirate Bay to use the domain name, as reported by TorrentFreak.
AC/DC sells music digitally…
… but not on iTunes. Yes, AC/DC will not be selling their music on iTunes. However, Verizon Wireless has snapped the exclusive rights to it.
The deal is, however, limited to full album purchases. An exception is the group’s biggest hit You Shook Me All Night Long which will be available by itself.
New Kubix Theme
Hey, it’s been a while since we updated you on Kubix.
A new Theme has been posted onto the Kubix’s forums. Though it’s not complete, it looks pretty good! You can suggest new things to be added as well.
IT services firm fined
Raw Capital Partners has been fined AU$33,000 by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) for not declaring the loss of a key contract to the stock market.
The key contract, with Optus, had provided 2/3 of revenue for Raw Capital Partners for the 2005 and 2006 financial period. It was signed in 2001, allowing Raw Capital to provide the telco with network, server, desktop and application support services.
Welcome to the Dark Side…?
Hey,
We have changed the theme into a more darker look to show how much we love technology (if that makes any sense at all). This new theme is on HemingwayEX by Null.in, but we are going to customize it for the reawaken networks. We want your feedback, as we are going to add this to all of our blogs on our network.
Mac OS X on a PC
CNET TV has a video explaining how to install Mac OS X on a PC, that’s great if you are too geeky to do it in the first place.
WARNING: This may potentially damage your laptop, please do not try this unless you know what you’ll need to do.
LonelyGirl15 Finale to air on MySpaceTV
Though it’s popularity came on YouTube, the season one finale (according to Mashable) will air on MySpaceTV on August 3rd. As well, 12 episodes of the finale will come up, one for each hour (Episodes are about 1 – 4 Minutes in length). Also, a branded channel will be created.
iTunes cracks 3 billion
iTunes has finally cracked the 3 billion mark since it’s launch April 2003, though it’s 1 billion songs was reached in February 2006.
In the first quarter of this year, it was ranked the third-biggest overall music retailer in the US, behind No. 1 Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Best Buy, according to consumer surveys by The NPD Group. However, this was based on units sold, not revenue, and counted every 12 tracks purchased online, as it is an equivalent to an album.
ConnectU has two weeks to prove infringement
A federal judge in Boston has now given ConnectU two weeks to amend it’s copyright-infringement suit against Facebook after Facebook sought to have it dismissed.
The case goes that ConnectU founders had hired Facebook’s Zuckerberg to write code for their “Harvard Connection,” a social networking site for Harvard. They also alleged that Zuckerberg stole the idea and code and made Facebook.
Your Space not there? We can fix that…
… Well not us, but LiveSide can. They have a workaround for all the Windows Live Spaces that became unavailable after the upgrade. This problem, as reported, is due to the Windows Live Player gadget being set to invisible. Here is the workaround…
YouTube unblocked in Thailand
According to BoingBoing, Thailand has no longer banned YouTube. Speculation is that Thailand unblocked it as YouTube was willing to block specific access to some clips. The videos in question contained material offensive to the King, Bhumibol Adulyadej.