Steve Ballmer, confirmed today that the Zune software will be coming to the Windows Mobile Platform.
“the Zune software will also be ported to and be more important not just with the hardware but on the PC, on Windows Mobile devices, etc.”
..Being a big fanboy of Exetel, this is my first post on Techgeek in a long time:)
Well over the past 2 weeks, Exetel have been doing some changes to their ADSL1 & 2+ offerings that go via Telstra & Optus wholesale networks and being delivered to the Exetel subscriber. Their latest plan table has seen vast upgrades in quota on the ‘onpeak’ period of 15% to 300% on some plans. Offpeak is still staying the same generous 48GB offer on all ADSL1 & ADSL2+ plans.
Currently Exetel are on their way to becoming a big leading ISP, their sales have been increasting and now they have a peak of 75,000 customers connected to their network on ADSL1, ADSL2+, HSPA & business services.
Really whats expanding at Exetel are their bandwidth links internationally, listed on Steve Waddigton’s (Network Engineer At Exetel’s) blog, he said that “Connected customers has increased by 20% since 1 Jan 2008″ straight after that in his press, he said “Bandwidth use has increased by 34% since 1 Jan 2008. Looking even further back, in our first year of operation we needed to provision bandwidth at 23-24kbps per user to meet peak demand (and I recall some carrier suppliers at the time commenting on how high that was, since they were provisioning at 10kbps). Now, 4 3/4 years later, we need 46kbps per user.”
Even the MRTG graphs show that:
Looks like Exetel have been through a successful year so far, with the new additional services, they are deffently doing a great job.
According to members, aaNet will host a BBQ
The email sent to their customers:
As an aaNet customer, you have been exclusively invited to attend one of aaNet’s community BBQ’s. The BBQ’s provide an ideal opportunity to meet other aaNet customers and members of the aaNet team. We want to bring ‘community’ back to aaNet and we’re hoping the BBQ’s will be a step in the right direction. All you need to do is turn up! And we’ll do the rest!
The plan on the day
The aaNet BBQ’s are fully catered with juicy BBQ food, refreshing drinks and great company! On the day there will be competitions and prizes, and we have the much awaited aaNet polo shirts which we promised some of you a long time ago!
Bring your family, your picnic rug and your favourite BBQ games and we’ll make sure you have a great time!
Don’t delay, register today!
GigaOm and TheAppleBlog have announced that GigaOm’s parent company Giga Omni Media has purchased the blog. No word on how much did they bought the blog for, but it expected that he Om Malik didn’t pay that much for it.
In GigaOm’s posting, Malik said that he always wanted to start an Apple-related blog, but didn’t want to compete with an already expanding list of blogs devoted to Apple that already do a great job.
This is the second aquistion that the company has made this year, previously buying jkOnTheRun over a month ago.
With its latest iteration of the iPod Touch, Apple has added two highly coveted features–external volume controls and a speaker–and lowered prices, too. However, the Touch’s physical changes are incremental, and they don’t bring the device up to the level of its sibling, the iPhone 3G.
To be sure, the lower prices make the Touch a more attractive purchase than before, coming in at $229 for 8GB (previously $299), $299 for 16GB, and $399 for 32GB (down from $499). The prices are more in line with what Apple and AT&T charge for the iPhone 3G: $199 for 8GB, and $299 for 16GB. (You don’t have to pay a monthly fee to use the Touch, though.) While the amount is still more than what you might pay for competing media players, you get more with the Touch, too.
Let’s begin with what stays the same. This version of the Touch continues to share many characteristics with the first-generation Touch and with the iPhone 3G. All have a bright, gorgeous, 3.5-inch, wide-screen multitouch display with 480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 pixels per inch. All have 802.11b/g wireless support. And all sport the same operating system software that allows for easy navigation, a host of useful apps (Safari Web browser, calendar, e-mail, contacts, Google Maps, YouTube, weather, clock with multiple alarms and stopwatch, ordinary and scientific calculators, and notepad), and the ability to expand your device through Apple’s App Store.
Playing music remains a breeze. Press the home button below the display to activate the screen, and then select Music from the dedicated buttons along the bottom of the screen. In vertical view, the music’s cover art dominates the display; orient the player horizontally, and it switches to Cover Flow view, which lets you page through the cover art as if you were viewing a flip book.
By adding new features to the iPod over time (notes, photos, videos, etc.), Apple has given owners of previous models plenty of reasons to lust after the latest and greatest models. But Apple hasn’t just been adding features to the iPod, it’s also been taking some away. I own a fifth generation (5G) iPod, and compared to my original second generation (2G) iPod, there’s a lot missing nowadays.
The latest iPod packaging is remarkably slim compared to the original’s. You could actually fit four 5G iPod boxes inside the box of the 2G. And Apple is proud to point this out on the Product Design page of their Environment site:
The packaging volume of our fifth generation 30GB and 80GB iPod was reduced by 69% from earlier models. This enables 120 more units to be shipped per pallet compared to the fourth generation 30GB iPod.
What that means for the environment is “eliminating hundreds of thousands of pounds of packaging waste.”
How did Apple manage to reduce the iPod’s packaging that drastically? By removing most of the accessories that the iPod previously came with.
Apple has admitted it did not invent the iPod, which was in fact the brainchild of a British man who patented his prototype 30 years ago.
Kane Kramer, now 52, took out a worldwide patent in 1979 for a media player that looked similar to the iPod but could store only 3.5 minutes of music. He dubbed it the IXI and planned to expand its capacity as technology advanced.
However, after running out of funds in 1988 Kramer was unable to put forward the £60,000 needed to renew the patent so his idea fell into the public domain.
Kramer, now a struggling furniture salesman, was therefore not entitled to receive any money or recognition from those who used his design.
The revelations came to light after patent holding company Burst sued Apple, claiming the iPod infringed on its patents.
EzyDVD has salvaged ReelTime Media, a internet movie download start-up which failed, and plans to relaunch it as EzyDownload in September - after picking up the company, which cost $5 million, for a few thousand dollars in April.
The only thing that is missing is the contracts with movie studios, but CEO for EzyDVD said that the service will be ready in September.
Movies will downloaded and played in a proprietary player to protect copyright. Movies will sell around $5.95 per new release.
Mozilla’s Download Day ended at 11:18 PDT yesterday (or today, if you live in the US), and it has set a new Guinness World Record by getting 8.2 million+ downloads of its Firefox 3 browser - shattering all expectations and way above the number pledged.
According to the FAQs section, Mozilla is the only company that has attempted this record - and has set the bar for most downloads in one day. The Guinness World Records judges, however, still need to verify it - removing duplicates from the count records.
And, if you want to feel special - you can get a personalized certificate that you can download and print.
Apple has announced the worst kept secret in town - the 3G iPhone. It is much thinner, faster and is cheaper than the first-gen iPhone. The 8GB will now cost US$199 (with a two-year contract), with GPS that will work on the AT&T’s 3G cellular network. A 16GB will be $299.
If you want to compare the prices, the previous model’s 8GB version cost $399.
The battery is supposed to support 300 hours of standby time, 5 to 6 hours of Web browsing, 7 hours of video and 24 hours of audio, but the talk time is cut in half from 10 hours to 5 hours.
Apple’s Website also lists the release date for this new product - it will be released in 25 countries on July 11, including Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Japan, Italy and the US.
There are other countries on that list too, however their schedule has not been announced.
Full Keynote announcements will be on a post - posted later in the afternoon.
