Virgin Mobile has run out of iPhones, after announcing that it would be offering the phone on Friday. The website is saying that both the 8GB and 16GB offerings are "Out of Stock", with the white iPhone version only available for the 16GB – and is very limited.
Apple to build second store in Australia
A second, official retail store will open at 9am this Saturday (9 August) in Chatswood, NSW. The store will also allow people to register to a range of workshops online, including one-on-one training and teaching sessions for children. Workshops will be available for Final Cut, OS X, iWork and Adobe’s CS3 products.
FAIL! Kid fakes abduction for game console
SND: It’s a Sunday, and you would have thought that we would get a break – but no, some child managed to f**k that up and decided to make up a plan to fake his own abduction.
Microsoft confirms that the six degree of separation thing is fact
It turns out that at least two people who instant message each other are distanced by 6.6 degrees of separation, or linked by a string of seven people or less.
Thanks to Microsoft’s new survey focused on the popular concept that inspired games like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, it contains all of the instant messaging network traffic from MSN/Windows Live in June 2006, or roughly half of the world’s IM traffic at that time.
Firewire goes fast, just not as fast as USB 3.0
The IEEE 1394 working group, the group behind FireWire’s development in its 400Mbps and 800Mbps configurations, have approved the new S1600 and S3200 standards.
The new standards are built around the already established ecosystem of FireWire, but just increases the speed to 1.6Gbps and 3.2Gbps – and all should be backwards compatible with the older 800 series. There are also plans for a 6.4Gbps spec, but that is not going to happen for a long time.
Shareholders back Yang, ex-AOL CEO can’t join Yahoo board
Jerry Yang and the rest of the board have survived a Yahoo shareholder meeting, after all were at risk of losing their seats; until they made a settlement with Carl Icahn, who launched a proxy battle after the Microhoo deal was formally rejected by the company in May.
New worm targets social network sites
Just because a "friend" sends you a picture of a hot girl on Facebook or MySpace does not mean you should open it, because that "friend" may be part of a botnet, according to Kaspersky Lab.
US agents can now take your laptop, iPod at the border
US federal agents have now been given brand new powers to actually seize travelers’ laptops, iPods and other electronic devices, according to the Washington Post. As well with the new powers, they can hold the seized objects for a unspecified period of time – see any potential abuse of power in it?
Virgin gives you 5GB on iPhone data plan – wow!
When we reported that 3′s unauthorized, make-you-buy-your-own-because-we-cannot-be-stuffed-talking-to-Apple iPhone plans gave you a maximum of 2GB of data on one of their plans; we thought that it would be the only one that is going over the 1GB limit – but we were wrong, as usual.
Geek Out: MAME console in a TARDIS
It’s not bigger on the inside, but it has a kick-arse MAME controller.
While there are things that we certainly think that are weird, we don’t think this is – unless you are not a game freak or a Doctor Who fan. You really have to be a nerd to actually design this system, and even build a MAME controller in a design just like the console of the TARDIS – well not the one in the modern series.
New: Wiimote charging station is on the way
This gadget is the must have Wii accessory for all Wii gamers. (Image: Penguin United).
The image above, as you can see, is the latest Wii accessory that everyone is talking about. This allows you to recharge four Wiimotes, so you can be prepared if you have guests that want to play Super Smash Bros. Brawl (I am addicted to that game).
Up to 80,000 UK AOL users face the boot off the network
After Carphone Warehouse’s ongoing integration with its purchase of AOL’s broadband business in 2006, it has successfully migrated over 1.3 million of those customers onto its network, leaving 80,000 other customers on the original AOL network because of incompatible hardware or operating system.
UK video game ratings set to change – game makers angry
New changes to game classifications in the UK has sparked a row between the government and game makers over who should be in charge with the ratings system. The game industry wants its own code, which is voluntary, to the official code for games.
Three supports the iPhone – by making you buy the iPhone
Even though Apple has left them in the dark, it did not stop Three to get its hands on the iPhone – by making you get it from another carrier. It tells you to buy a pre-paid version of the phone and pay the $80 to get it unlocked so it can work with their network.
PayPal to reimburse eBayers affected from collapse
After the collapse of local seller on eBay, EBS International, its subsidiary PayPal will reimburse customers that have been left out of pocket by its sudden collapse.
While there would not be a limit on how much you will be entitled to be refunded, there will be a criteria – which still needs to be worked out. It is most likely for those who bought goods from EBS International and did not receive them or haven’t receive their refund.