Who doesn’t dream of wandering the fields of ancient Japan, wielding a katana for truth and justice? Though the samurai age is long over, you can still ennoble your privates with awesome samurai underpants.
If any of you out there use Yahoo! Mail, you might have noticed some changes to your account yesterday. Essentially they’ve introduced a smarter inbox system that prioritises messages from your contacts, plus the ability to send and receive up to 1GB worth of files. They’re also planning to introduce the ability to feed content from social media sites directly into your inbox…
When my nephew first learnt to balance on his short little legs and wander around, he had an obsession with remote controls. You could think he was quietly resting in the middle of the day, and all of a sudden the TV would go on, the volume would start going up and as you rushed to check whether your house was haunted, you’d find him there pushing buttons. Well, Foxtel must have had him in mind when they came up with the idea for the Mini-Mote – a smaller remote dedicated to browsing through the children’s channels on Foxtel.
Not happy with cancelling MacWorld and the Stevenote, Phil Schiller and Santa Claus appeared in a joint press conference today at the North Pole announcing the cancellation of Christmas after 2008′s.
After a heated argument over who ought to get dibs on the remote control, a Minneapolis woman decided to drive her point home by stabbing her boyfriend in the gut. Oprah would not approve.
Apple bowing out of MacWorld after January 2009 comes as a shock to many. But, really, according to a source at Apple, they’ve been planning to get off MacWorld for a long, long time.
Hertz is jumping into Zipcar’s territory with its new Connect service, offering short-term rentals via membership for young urban folk to load up on gourmet groceries or Swedish particle board furniture.
Valleywag has the backstory of how a not-exactly-right headline at Businessweek forced Apple to reveal the news that Steve Jobs would not present at the Macworld 2009 Keynote. [Valleywag]
Seeing Apple pull out of Macworld and hearing talk of poor turnout at CES make us speculate on the future of trade shows—like automakers and newspapers, are they another institution on the endangered-species list?
Remember late last month when we brought word that Internode was reselling Telstra’s ADSL2+ service? Well, they’re selling it from today. The pricing looks pretty decent as well – while 2GB for $70 a month doesn’t seem like a lot, 55GB for $130 is a pretty good deal, especially when you compare it to the BigPond prices. And while some of you inner suburb dwellers will scoff, remember that some of us out in the outer suburbs have only had once choice for ADSL2+, and that choice being Telstra. Anyway, check out Internode’s website to get a full rundown of plans available and see if your exchange is one of the lucky ones.
