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Why Has The BlackBerry Storm 2 Unveiling Been So Weird?

9:00AM Dan Nosowitz | The BlackBerry Storm 2 is the followup to Verizon’s most buzzed-about phone of last year—so why has the announcement been so halfassed, weird and clumsy? And, more importantly, where the hell is Verizon? More »
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Google Makes Wave With Limited Release

9:25AM Chris Oaten | If you haven’t caught on to the phenomenon that is Google Wave, it’s probably about time you did. It’s Google’s game-changing application combining email, live collaboration and messaging, which goes only a small way towards explaining its potential. About 100,000 people have been invited to its beta workout. Here’s a snippet from Attack of the Show, via Techcrunch, that might help bring Wave’s potential into focus.
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The 3G iPhone Is Official

4:32AM Mark Wilson | Just now at WWDC, Steve Jobs confirmed the long-rumoured 3G iPhone. People said they wanted 3G and 56% said it was too expensive. “Today we’re introducing the iPhone 3G.” More »
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Rumour: 3G iPhone Launching In June On Optus

11:06AM Nick Broughall | The guys from Current.com.au obviously got more out of CeBIT than I did – apparently somebody on the Optus stand told them that the 3G iPhone would be launching in June. Not only that, but apparently it will cost around about the $700 mark. Considering that officially, both Optus and Vodafone have been keeping very quiet on the whole iPhone front (probably from fear of evil Steve Jobs), this should be classed as rumour, but it does correlate with what our US brethren said yesterday about a worldwide June launch. Who else can’t wait for WWDC just so we can know all the facts? [Current.com.au - Thanks Adam!] More »
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Rumour: iPhone Australian Release In June, Multiple Carriers, 3G

2:40PM Nick Broughall | So. Very. Exciting. The Australian MacTalk Forums are reporting that Apple Australia has begun informing Apple resellers about their iPhone rollout plans. The good news is that we’re looking at a 3G iPhone launched in the last week of June across multiple carriers and with no contract. Current resellers will also be able to sell the device, completely breaking with how the deal has been done in every other part of the world. More »
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Bill Gates Says Next Windows Coming Next Year or So

4:17AM Jason Chen | A strange quote from Bill Gates today as he claims the next version of Windows, code-named Windows 7, is going to be released “sometime in the next year or so.” That’s way ahead of the previous estimates, which claimed Windows 7 was not going to be released in 2009 at all, but somewhere in 2010 or 2011. More »