| Friday 28th September, 2007 | | | Further to our perspective update from last week, Free Access has reported that “Apple has put SIM unlockers on notice that they may be causing ‘irreparable’ damage to their phones by hacking them.” Free Access also provides us with an insight into Apple’s comments on the matter that modifications to the phone could lead to it being ‘permanently inoperable’.
Brad Howarth commented on companies that make money from social networking sites like Facebook and how they are regarded as a way of “extending their brands and improving their overall marketing mix”. Brad is looking for examples so it will be interesting to keep an eye on this one.
The blogosphere made a lot of noise this week about the arrival of Halo 3 for the Xbox 360. Alex Zaharov-Reutt commented that “Halo 3 is genuinely one of the biggest entertainment events of all time”. Stephen Fenech also provided some insight into the new arrival, commenting that Microsoft is expecting the game to notch up worldwide sales of more than $250m in its first day. This would make it the most successful entertainment release of all time. In line with this, Screen Play commented on the rush to buy the game when it was released at midnight and asked who would be taking the day off to play.
Stuart Corner amused us this week with a post entitled “How to get rid of a Telstra telesales person”. Perhaps we should all brush up our telecommunications knowledge; what a technique!
Top five journalist bloggers of the week: Free Access, Screen Play, Fuzzy Logic, Gusworld, Cornered.
Top five IT Professional bloggers of the week: techAU, The Tower Blog, Hey Jude, Dipping into the blogpond, Talking Technology.
For more information on the week in review, or to make a comment, please contact Helen Smith at helen@espressocomms.com.au. | | | | Friday 21st September, 2007 | | | Following on from our comments last week on the lawsuit that 2Clix was filing against Whirlpool, The Beer Files detailed the withdrawal of the case this week. The Beer Files focuses on the rather curious media release announcing this status change, commenting that it seems unusual that “the news pertaining to the changed status of a legal action would be conveyed to the defendant by an employee of the plaintiff rather than a legal representative.” Gusworld also comments on the case and ponders whether more publishing companies will withdraw forum threads following a complaint, than stand their ground.
It has officially been announced that the iPhone can be unlocked and users can now copy information from the AT&T sim card that ships with the phone and then apply it to the sim card you want to use. Stephen Fenech seems thrilled at the idea and details how he undertook the task in order to implement his Optus sim card. Danny Gorog also shares this love of the iPhone, commenting that “To say the iPhone is one of the most amazing consumer electronics devices ever released is spot on.” iPhone Mojo furthers the discussion providing the link to a website that gives a tutorial for unlocking the device.
This week Free Access reports that Vista and XP users will have to upgrade to Windows Live Messenger 8.1; no questions asked.
Anthony Caruana focussed on GPS, providing an anecdotal story about a cab driver asking him for directions. The PDA Guy responded to this by posing two important questions; 1. why doesn’t every cab driver have GPS and 2. Why don’t Aussie cab drivers have ‘the knowledge.
Top five journalist bloggers of the week: Free Access, Gusworld, Kernel Knowledge, Tech Blorge, Screen Play.
Top five IT Professional bloggers of the week: The Tower Blog, techAU, Frankarr, Snur Blog, The Spoke.
For more information on the week in review, or to make a comment, please contact Helen Smith at helen@espressocomms.com.au.
| | | | Friday 14th September, 2007 | | | Media Connect held its annual Influence forum over the long weekend and as a result, there have been several posts this week by journalist attendees. Angus Kidman provided us with a virtual tour of his hotel bedroom as well as providing a “smattering of remarks” from some of the sessions.
Apple have proudly announced that it has sold its 1,000,000th iPhone. Free Access reports that in just 74 days, Apple has reached their milestone. It took years for the original iPod to reach this figure.iPhone Mojo provides an insight into the iPod sales history with an interesting forecast graph. So what’s next for Apple?
Firefox has also reported this week that it has passed the 400 million download mark just three years after it was first released. TechBlorge writes that according to Market watcher Xitimonitor, “Mozilla's latest version, Firefox 2.0, commands a 28% share of the browser market and [that] in July, it beat Internet Explorer 7 in half of the European countries.”
One of the major players in this week’s blogosphere was the story about 2clix suing Whirlpool over their forum posts. Stan Beer writes on the subject for iTWire, referring to the Statement of Claim lodged by 2Clix. According to the statement, Simon Wright allowed statements "relating to the Plaintiff and its software product that are both false and malicious" to be published on the Whirlpool forums." TechBlorge also commented on the lawsuit, mentioning that 2Clix said that two discussion threads in Whirlpool criticising its software product caused tremendous income losses and a decline in sales. Meg Tsiamis also added comment to the mix, as well as Seamus Byrne at Gizmodowho offered his luck to Simon Wright in his fight against the claims.
| | | | Thursday 6th September, 2007 | | | Thanks to APEC most of us have a short week and so our perspective update will be based on only six days blog content.
Further to the great Facebook debate that we commented on in our 24th August update, TechBlorge makes reference to Trade Union researcers in the UK, who claim that banning such social networking sites could harm productivity and morale within organisations. Recent advice is that companies should uphold informed and appropriate policies that could potentially improve the workplace environment.
Facebook announced to its members on Thursday that it would soon make profiles searchable by search engines such as Google and Yahoo! TechBlorge comments on the bid to boost traffic to the website, noting one major catch; you can only view that person’s details if you sign up to the service. TechBlorge notes that “by allowing anyone to see whether their friends are using Facebook is likely to win more membership in the process.”
Hydrapinion’s Patrick Gray focussed on Zango’s recent legal battle against PC Tools. Zango sued PC Tools for indicating their software was suspect, and suggested the claim was harming its business. Zango later withdrew its action. Patrick questions whether, precedent set, the organisations that run such Torrent search engines will be able to use the ruling to protect themselves against similar actions brought against them.
For something a little more light hearted, Alex Kidman has revealed himself as a stat-obsessed editor. His blog looks at a few “fun and notable” of his own web stats for the month of August. Alex questions his audience when the seventh most popular search term was “hermaphrodites.”
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