Tag: australia
Xbox 360 Core drops to same price as Wii in Australia
Those Aussies sure are a strange bunch, I should know, I was born there! The latest What The Hell Were They Thinking?! story comes from WiiWii, who are reporting that the recent price drop in Australia of the Xbox 360 Core model is now the exact same price as the Nintendo Wii. Whoops…
DEFINITELY NOT in my back yard – man destroys mobile phone masts in awesome tank rampage
Presumably he'd just been woken up AGAIN by another spam text about Vodafone Live services.
The Sydney man drove an armoured personnel carrier – or a HUGE TANK to make the story sound more exciting – through six mobile phone masts, and was on his way to a seventh when police managed to stop his TANK RAGE…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 19-June-2007: Wi-Fi, Broadband, Yahoo, EA, Vodafone
– A Venezuelan tech-god puts the rest of us to shame by setting a new record for the longest Wi-Fi link, of 237 miles.
– John Howard, the embarassing Aussie Prime Minister has announced a US$1.68 billion initiative to bring broadband to 99% of the population by 2009. Now, to get at least 80% of the population to buy computers and actually start using electricity…
– Yahoo’s Terry Semel…
Freddie Flintoff on your phone! How the Ashes are going mobile
Hurrah for England, we're going to stuff the Aussies in the Ashes. Well, I can hope. But the Ashes are significant this year not JUST because of England's imminent historic whitewashing of Ricky, Shane and chums (am I tempting fate…