We’ve been dreaming about the return of the Telstra Gold Phone and it appears our dreams are Telstra’s commands. The return of the infamous 80s phone-box has been revealed via the companies Twitter and Facebook page, as well as a teaser page with extra details.
In Christianity, Easter is about one guy rising up from the dead. In reality, however, its all about the chocolate bunnies we get (and then have a year’s worth of chocoloate). Well, the good people over at Think Geek has come up with something that merges the two things – a Chocolate Zombie Bunny.
Yes, you have read that correctly. In an attempt to show off the power of HTML5 and its GWT engine, Google has created a port of Quake 2 – proving that a lot of people have a lot of time on their hands. Anyway, it is not an April Fools joke, and you can install it and battle your friends (because it is also multiplayer!). However, don’t expect to use Firefox or (the dreaded) Internet Explorer as they won’t work. You basically need Google Chrome/Chromium or Safari to play the game. Why? In a nutshell, they have a similar method of reading the HTML code.
UK broadcaster Channel Four and the Royal Shakespeare Company have announced a brand new project that will see the famous William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet being performed on Twitter. Yes. You have heard this right. This is no April Fools joke. The programme, called Such Tweet Sorrow, will go live on April 12 and other than the title and the announcement of it commencing, not much has been revealed.
For about three-four hours, we were censored by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) – and that had to hurt our business. Don’t worry, we got everything back to normal because we moved to another host.
Read more on what happened after the jump.
It was a simple April Fools Day prank that sent Telstra share prices up to 5 percent. However, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission – known to not have a sense of humour – is now investigating how the spoof article managed to whip up such a frenzy.
The article, published in Computerworld, said that Telstra was going to split into two divisions – retail and wholesale divisions – in its bid to secure the national broadband contract that was to be awarded next week. However, while it was April 1 here; it was March 31 in the US. It has been reported that it also failed to contain a disclaimer.
Leading technology and broadband discussion forum Whirlpool have announced that they have been acquired by ninemsn.
This, according to the press release on the front page, “demonstrates the strategic importance of user-powered content to ninemsn’s vision of delivering content and services to customers” at any place, time or location. Tony Faure, CEO of ninemsn, said that the site represents the changing face of the media.
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