O2 runs out of iPhone 3GS
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Blog, hardware, BT, Mobile Phones, Apple on
Apple sold a million iPhone 3GS units in the first three days worldwide, and now it would have appear to have run out of them altogether in the UK. According to the stock update checker at the exclusive provider of the iPhone in the UK, O2, the iPhone 3GS is currently out of stock.
O2 says “Due to the phenomenal demand for the new iPhone 3GS, we’ve temporarily run out of stock online, over the phone and in our retail stores. We expect additional stock of the new iPhone 3GS to be available online, over the phone and in our retail stores at the end of this week.”
This despite a huge hoo-hah over the cost of the new iPhone, and in particular the spectacular double-barrel rip off that is the high price of tethering and the high price of data transfer outside of the UK. It also seems to suggest that the general public are either unaware, or simply do not believe, the ongoing reports of overheating problems facing the 3GS which have left some white units discoloured and some users complaining of the iPhone being too hot to hold when using GPS applications.
Steve Jobs, the Apple CEO who is now back at work following his liver transplant, says “Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning… iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.” Which is fine, but that momentum hits something of a brick wall when stocks run out while demand is still so high. Perhaps your first job back at your desk, or from bed if you are working at home today, should be getting those distribution lines sorted. Your second job might be investigating the overheating claims and giving us some kind of official comment. Just a thought.
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Gatecrashing the WiFi hotspot party
By Davey Winder in Editorial
I attended at flashy BT launch party held in the restaurant on the seventh floor of the Tate Modern art gallery in London last week. Peaches Geldof providing the predictably thump thump thump dance music to which nobody was dancing. There were, however, lots of people squeezed in, enjoying the full array of services on offer such as the food and drink. My colleague and I established ourselves near one group who had just returned from the bar area armed with a huge plate of food, lots of cold cuts and olive bread, sundried tomato and roasted peppers a-plenty. We sat there, waiting for our chance to pounce, and when nobody was looking pinched a little bread and a few cold cuts. Nobody seemed to notice, nor care, so we upped the ante and swiped the entire plate. Now despite sitting just a few feet away from the people whose food it was, they were oblivious to the fact that we were helping ourselves to something that belonged to them. They had erected no obstacles to make it more difficult to swipe the food, nobody stood between us and it, nobody questioned what we were doing when we moved the plate onto our table, nobody shouted at the tattooed man sharing their food without their consent to stop.
Exactly like WiFi it seems to me.
Vast numbers of users just plug in their wireless router and start playing, without fannying about with security stuff. Not just home users, the consumer oinks who know no better, but small business users at the corporate end of the WiFi stick who really should know better. Even the basics such as changing the default root access to the router itself so there is a different password, sometimes any password at all in fact, and an admin username other than root. Not doing this leaves the hardware compromised to anyone who goes and Googles for the default security information for the router in question. But the numbers of folk who do not bother implementing any kind of perimeter security to prevent passers-by, people in the next office, anyone within range from usurping the connection and making use of bandwidth they have not paid for is remarkable.
Which is why the irony that this was the launch party for a new venture between BT and FON to form the ‘world’s largest WiFi community’ did not escape me. You see the plan is that everyone on the BT Total Broadband scheme, all three million plus of them, will be able to join the share your WiFi party. By opening a secure channel on the wireless router a small part of their bandwidth will become available for use by any other member. In effect turning your home or office into a BT FON WiFi hotspot.
Great idea, and all that, but as I have pointed out one that hundreds, thousands and possibly hundreds of thousands of people are already making a reality today without even realising it.
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The Da Vinci Code connection
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in BT on
BT has continued to beef up its global professional services and security solutions presence by acquiring network security specialists Counterpane. Founded by Bruce Schneier, one of the best known, most vocal, and highly respected security and cryptography experts, the company provides outsourced security for large corporate networks, monitoring in excess of 500 networks for Fortune 100 business and multinationals around the world. Covering Microsoft and Oracle databases, SAP ERP applications and IBM mainframes, and with three data centres in the US and Europe it is a clever and prudent buy for BT who will, I am informed, integrate it into its Professional Services arm from April next year.
I first heard rumours that the takeover was on the radar a couple of months ago when I was the guest speaker at a BT
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