For a nice change of style from the usual ‘I hate Telstra story’, Telstra have decided to focus on customers (*gasp*) – rather than profit and loss statements. Today, Telstra will give customers access to a new online portal that aims to be a one-stop shop for all things plan-related.
Virgin boss Richard Branson’s iPad magazine Project has hit the App Store today with an “electrified” Tron cover (promising videos and an audio interview inside), plus heaps more. It’s a free download, with issue one costing $4. [iTunes]
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Whatever Rupert Murdoch’s got planned for The Daily can wait; fellow billionaire Richard Branson has beaten him to the punch with The Project. The iPad-only magazine launches tomorrow, promising some sweet Tron-pegged Jeff Bridges action.
In the richest of rich person problems, airline and Formula One team owner Richard Branson just lost a bet to airline and Formula One team owner Tony Fernandes. The stakes? He’s got to be a flight attendant on an Air Asia flight from Kuala Lumpur to London.
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How does Virgin Atlantic make an aging Boeing 747 look like it just rolled off the lot? Four days, dozens of workers, litres and litres of paint, and one pretty sweet time-lapse video. That’s how.
If you were waiting for Virgin Mobile’s iPhone 4 pricing, you should be following them on Twitter, because that’s where they shared the info. Updated.
Gizmodo readers might be getting the feeling their handset is more and more a data device and less and less a telephone. Virgin Mobile seems to be noticing that shift, too. The new Virgin Smart Caps, launched today, tip the voice/data balance firmly in favour of data. Starting at $29 per month, now offer unlimited SMS to any network plus 1GB of data included while giving a lesser focus to included voice value. And you can even get the Samsung Galaxy S on a $29 plan.
