Tech news stories that caught our attention or imagination.
Aug 28
Okay, this is fascinating in a geek kind of way. Scientists have used Google Earth to watch grazing cows and have made an astonishing discovery, cows are basically compasses. News.com.au (Follow the link for the full story) reports that scientists used Google Earth software to study the alignment of 8510 cows in 308 pastures around the world …
Aug 27
This was an interesting little titbit in the news today. In the UK a judge has ordered that Apple can never show a particular iPhone 3G ad again. The advertisement in question claims that, “you’ll never know which part of the internet you’ll need” and “all parts of the internet are on the iPhone”. Because the iPhone does …
Aug 14
Jacob sent this through yesterday and I also read something similar on news.com.au that same morning. ‘Slow’ iPhone 3G glitch blamed on secrecy This is a very interesting story and very telling of Apple’s history of secrecy. I am not going to analyse this now as I think it needs a good in depth look …
Aug 06
Just a quick post to announce my complete and utter love of the iTunes apps store. I’m actually writing this post directly from the iPhone using a WordPress app. Okay, it is not as fast as writing it on my Mac, but it is way cooler! I’ve downloaded about 25 or so apps and haven’t …
Aug 03
Okay, I haven’t posted in a couple of days because I finally got my iPhone on Thursday and I have been balancing my time with a cold and playing with my phone. Now that I finally have the iPhone 3G what do I think? It is wonderful. Optus, on the hand, has been less than …
