*The cable spans over 6,900km between Guam and Collaroy
*There are 78 Tyco Telecom repeaters on the system, spaced 92km apart (on average)
*The pipe has a 1.92TB capacity
*Pipe networks guarantees 99.999% uptime
*Every metre of the cable had to be manually placed into the ships that were laying it.
*Internode were the first customer to trial the connection prior to today’s launch

The Official Amazon Kindle Forum has a thread called the “Average Kindle Owner’s Age.” Someone counted up all 1,387 responses and found that 70% of respondents were over 40.

Keep in mind, the data is by no means scientific. There were no controls in the polling process, meaning that it’s quite possible for the average Kindle Forum reader to be over 40 (or something exactly the opposite), while the average Kindle buyer is of a complately different age group.

Still, it’s a staggering number that’s tough to completely write off as fictional. Kindles are obviously successful in their niche, but for most gadgets to take over the mainstream, they need to have a level of universal appeal that, sadly, supports tweens, mid-20s jerks such as myself and all those 40-year-olds who just CLAIM to be in their 30s during anonymous online polling. [Kindle Culture via Gear Diary]

Based on the renderings, you can display a rear view camera on the screen (technically impossible) or use the iPod like a Nike+ device to track your bike workout (might also be impossible). Still, very cool if you’re using this on rides that aren’t through traffic. [Cannondale Community via Cannondale via Trend Hunter]

Blizzard, like The Pirate Bay, implements a P2P system. Instead of avoiding issues of copyright, the developer utilises P2P as an inexpensive way to distribute WoW updates and patches. And the last time we played WoW, which was admittedly some time ago, Blizzard’s P2P updater was pretty much mandatory to play the game. So if you’re thinking what we’re thinking, The Pirate Bay may have jumped the gun with their announcement. And Blizzard may actually be the sleeper king of P2P. [slycknews via slashdot]

Since it ended in September, the count doesn’t include Michael Bay’s reluctantly sold 190,000 Transformers HD DVDs, a figure which will probably continue to rise, adding to the HD DVD camp’s overall numbers. And the numbers may shift more favourably towards HD DVD as Paramount and Dreamworks maintain exclusivity for at least 17 more months.

Nevertheless, it does suggest that, still without serious pushes from Fox and Disney, the Blu-ray posse is maintaining its lead, and even growing it: Since the advent of high-definition discs back in spring 2006, just over 3 million Blu-ray discs have been purchased stateside, while only around 2 million HD DVD discs have sold. [Reuters]

Wired had this really cool chart that shows where we spend our tech dollars last week that we somehow missed, but better late than never, eh? The chart breaks down the average household spending on tech goods and services annually, and it shows that we spend way too much money on landline phones: 26% of all tech spending, to be exact. Who out there is still paying for a landline phone these days? Come on, fess up.

Full version of the chart after the jump.

We also look to be spending way too much money on cable TV as well. In fact, it looks like if we were to drop our cable and phone services, we’d cut nearly half our tech spending out. Speaking as someone who has neither cable nor a landline, I can tell you that not paying $2,000 a year for those services is a pretty awesome feeling. What do you think, could you live without cable TV? It’s not that bad, really. [Wired via Treehugger]

The internet is now officially a place to pick up girls, since they outnumber guys on the internets in the US by over 6 million users. Of course, most of them look nothing like Scarlet Johansson, but we can’t all be picky. Apparently, only 66 percent of them have heard of YouTube, however. Of course, the more pertinent question is, “are any of you reading Giz?” –Matt Buchanan

More Women Online [eMarketer via Slashdot]