Whirlpool’s annual survey of broadband-loving tech fiends is a great insight into what Australians think about the NBN, as well our ability to pay our broadband bills. But that’s not all: it also tells us that there are apparently 1.4 million Australians who have seven or more computers running off a single broadband connection. More »
Yesterday morning, Brett Winterford at ITNews revealed that broadband forums site Whirlpool was the victim of a DDoS attack that brought down the site. The site went down, then came back up before being hit by another attack today. But why? More »
Rub-a-dub-dub, it’s Whirlpool’s Sub-Tub concept. Perfect for small flats in imaginary-land, the OLED TV lid folds down for access to the basin and mirror. Check it out: More »
Google’s Nexus One handset has been available overseas (and locally via some clever retailers importing the device and reselling it), but so far it hasn’t been partnered with a mobile carrier. That’s all about to change, with Whirlpool user iJoseph_ being told via customer support that the telco is launching the handset in June. More »
It looks like AAPT opened the floodgates – TPG has announced on the Whirlpool forums know that they’re planning on launching an unlimited ADSL2+ plan for $75 a month. More »
After a couple of months and 23,683 applications, the official results from the Whirlpool Australia Broadband Survey are in. Among the findings: Whirlpool users don’t care much for the mandatory internet filter, although they also reckon they’ll be able to bypass it. More »
The Australian Whirlpool forums are one of the best resources anyone can ask for when it comes to working out which ISP is best suited to your needs. That’s why you should fill out their annual Australian Broadband Survey, which is running now. More »
One of the much wanted features to be made available with the iPhone 3.0 software beta – alongside MMS – is tethering via USB and Bluetooth. Reader Jennifer from Axiom software has sent us a pretty awesome guide to tethering your iPhone to your laptop via Bluetooth for Australians. While we haven’t tried it ourselves (no iPhone 3.0 beta to play with, unfortunately), she claims that it’s pretty stable and works well. Here’s how to do it: More »
We saw the US team offer up a guide on how to get MMS working on your iPhone with the 3.0 beta software a couple of weeks ago, but it wasn’t all that useful to us Australians. Fortunately, the guys over at Whirlpool have all the necessary carrier files for the Australian networks in one handy Wiki page. More »
