Buzz Out Loud 764: iPhail?
On the first day of the iPhone 3G massive amounts of fanatics went home frustrated. Activation problems meant a lot of folks couldn't go home with a working iPhone. Some didn't even have a working phone at all, as the old phone got deactivated but the new one was not brought into working order. Meanwhile FCC goes Medieval on Comcast and announces the four freedoms of the Internet will be enforced.
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iPhone 3G goes on sale
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-iphone-3g-goes-on-sale-plagued-by-activation-problems/
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080711-launch-woes-turn-iphone-parousia-into-activation-apocalypse.html
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/itunes-activation-servers-go-down-iphone-3g-customers-being-sen/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9988836-93.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9988807-1.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9988728-16.html
.Mac migration to MobileMe hits some roadblocks
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-9987736-92.html
iPhone 2.0: What’s Good (and free!) in the iTunes App Store
http://lifehacker.com/398275/whats-good-and-free-in-the-itunes-app-store
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9987795-2.html
Jailbreak! Living in sweet harmony!
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/41730121/living-in-sweet-harmony
http://wikee.iphwn.org/
Comcast faces FCC sanctions for blocking Web traffic
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2008/07/portfolio_0711
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080711-comcast-loses-fcc-head-slams-companys-p2p-filtering.html
Open Wi-Fi network viable defense against infringement charge--at least in Germany
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080710-open-wifi-network-viable-defense-against-infringement-chargeat-least-in-germany.html
Researchers craft bot to populate Wikipedia with gene data
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080710-researchers-craft-bot-to-populate-wikipedia-with-gene-data.html
Microsoft to finally end OEM licensing for Windows 3.11
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/10/186236
Free games as a solution to game piracy
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/10/1651248
VOICE MAIL
Scotland
iPhone activation problems
Vonage
Here's why it's bad for them to work together.
Anonymous
Date advice.
Heya buzz people 
I have a Hilarious story, T-mobile (the provider in the Netherlands) is having some problems, all those people standing in line waiting for the iPhone all happy. But then OH NO, the T-Mobile activation servers went down with in 3 min. so people can’t take there phone home, they will get called when activating is done. second problem, T-Mobile shop employees blame IT (who doesn’t?) because they need iTunes to activate the phones, yet they can’t install iTunes on company machines.. yeah right, that’s why 500 people got the iPhone?. those 500 got sold in Rotterdam last night at 3 PDT. so Anyway, I’m not getting a phone.
(You wanna donate me one). But every store has about 12 phones, some only 6 and are split in to third segments, so 1/3 is 8gb 1/3 16GB white and 1/3 is 16GB black. Really a launch gone all wrong.
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It's pure profit for the wireless companies. Everyone pays ridiculous prices for it, except me, because I avoid it like the plague.
The problem I think was with the servers being hammered.
Had to wait longer at Cardiff O2 shop.
This link talks about the fact that the biggest Rogers store in Canada got only 100 iPhones. What a joke!
Actually, there is a brand [namely EA Games] which is quite well known: NFS or Need for Speed which has embedded advertising EVERYWHERE. From "most wanted", where every single communication was sponsored by Cingular. Burger king everywhere, and specific in-game car advertisement. Carbon, the next chapter, had even more sponsorship and advertisement. And the last one, Pro, well, you can see at Gamespot how much advertisement there is.
Eventually, it has become a hindrance and a pain in the a**. The biggest flaw in the entire game is the tantalizing amount of ad there is embedded.
Funnily enough, those games, even they are heavily based in net gaming, are not for free.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDZUk67FpB0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDZUk67FpB0