The video below is of Apple's new store grand opening, on the famed 5th Avenue in New York City. The poor chap who filmed the 3.5 min video stood in line for 3 hours before being able to squeeze his pimply Steve Jobs-Loving ass in amongst the other fan-boys. The things we do for love, eh? [Katherine Hannaford]

Just one, anyway. As part of design firm Alloy's presentation at today's MEX conference, they showed a video snippet of one mobile user trying to watch TV on a 3G handset. And you could say they weren't impressed:

"That is just crap! That is shit! I can't see anything, the sound's all distorted, the image is severely pixelated, and it makes you want to be sick. It's like when you get on one of those bad porn sites and you try and download something. If that's what streaming is, I'd never even think about going there, let alone paying for it."

Oof! This isn't picking on the networks or TV providers but it does cast some interesting light on the current hype surrounding mobile TV. And we certainly won't be surfing those bad porn sites any time soon...

Why is MySpace such a runaway success? Because it's a jack of all trades, apparently. This, at least, was the message from Frederick Ghahramani of technology firm AirG, speaking at today's MEX conference in London.

He was talking about mobile communities, but took time to explain why MySpace is such a hit, so that mobile companies can figure out how to emulate it. It's all down to the way it combines features of several other sites - Blogger's blogging, Photobucket's image-sharing, Match.com's dating features, topped off with a little bit of Napster's music preferences.

MySpace isn't better at any of these things than those sites, but the important thing is that it brought them all together in one service. "It's played the combination game of combining all these key building blocks, so there's a real multiplier effect which is what makes it sticky and successful," said Ghahramani.

Design firm Alloy used today's MEX conference - it stands for Mobile User Experience - to unveil its latest concept phone, the Polygon. It's their attempt to design a handset that's actually half-decent for accessing multimedia content - whether it's TV, music, taking photos or surfing the Web.

And it looks.... like a normal phone, actually. It's a clamshell phone which replaces the buttons on the bottom half with a rugged touchscreen, which changes according to what you're using it for.

In the past few months Propellerhead has noticed an alarming increase in the amount of foreign spam. Most of it seems to be Russian in origin but there are also good few Chinese, Japanese and Korean messages as well. If they're getting past your Spam filter it's worth creating an Outlook Express Message Rule to deal with it.

Open one of the emails -- make sure you don't open any attachments or click on any links -- and look for a foreign language character or symbol that appears several times in the message body, but not one that could be used in an English language email. Highlight it and press Ctrl + C to copy it to the Windows Clipboard. Now go to the OE Tools menu then Message Rules > Mail and click the New button. Tick the Conditions box that says ' Where the message body contains specific words', now go to the Actions box and check 'Delete it'.

According to Games Digest, a report on US gaming site Gamespot states that Apple is currently putting together a working party of games industry folk, quite possibly with an eye on entering the games market.

It's believed that the new games section will be connected in some way to iTunes, which could mean downloading new games as opposed to nipping down the local retailer for it. With download speeds getting faster, it's certainly possible and would make sense. Want to know more? Visit Games Digest for more on this and everything else that's happening in the world of gaming.

  Orange has announced it is bringing together mobile, fixed-line and broadband, rebranding Wanadoo as Orange in the process and offering free broadband with some mobile packages.

Customers signing up to a pay monthly mobile contract over £30 per month will get free broadband. The broadband package (previously £17.99 a month) includes a wireless modem and Orange Wireless & Talk - Orange's VoIP service, which offers free evening and weekend calls to UK landlines. For an extra £6 per month, customers can sign up to the Orange Anytime package which gives them free calls to UK landlines. In addition, if they are an Orange Pay Monthly customer they will also be able to register for free calls to Orange mobiles (via the Wireless & Talk service).