Not so orsome news

British online tech publication The Register have posted an interesting piece involving New Zealand iPhone developer Orsome and AdMob advertising. An advert embedded into the free version of Orsome’s Bubblewrap game featured an AdMob advert which, when clicked, dialled a premium-rate phone number without warning which has racked up large bills for some unsuspecting British users of the app. It’s an interesting read and the first we’ve heard of the bogus practice that was once commonplace on dial-up internet connections. Read on for the link. [Thanks for the heads-up, Ivan]

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Their latest creation

Apple has announced the much rumored iPad (tablet) at their media event this morning. The device which resembles a giant iPod touch has been over twenty years in the making… but will it meet the sky-high expectations?

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3.2 beta available now!

So now that the Latest Creation event has finished, Apple have updated the Developer Portal and have released OS 3.2 beta.

We’ll be downloading it later and we’ll let you know if anything changes for users on XT. Until then we just thought we’d let you know.

UPDATE: Notes from 3.2 “Note: iPhone OS 3.2 does not support iPhone and iPod touch devices. It runs only on iPad.”

What the hell! So iPhone OS 3.2 doesn’t work with the iPhone only with the iPad. Read More

CEO Paul Reynolds

Telecom CEO Paul Reynolds announced today that in addition to capacity and design improvements already being worked on, he has commissioned an independent review on the XT network. Read More

Pssst... Mauricio...

Well I tell you, you’ve got to be eagle-eyed and just a little bit of a nosy sod to get anywhere in this game. Which is exactly why my interest was piqued when I read the following twitter-conversation between Geekzone owner Mauricio Freitas and 2degrees Mobile…

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Get ready....It's coming

Well folks, here we go….. The iPhone Developer Connection pages are down and as a guess I would say it *may* have something to do with the new SDK that is rumored to hit at the Apple event in the morning…. what do you reckon?

As a note we realise it went down earlier for what seemed like usual maintenance, so it could come back any time seemingly without any changes, but you can bet your bottom dollar something is going on back there.

We’ll be checking this regularly until we fall asleep and then when we wake up for changes.

UPDATE: Looks like it is back. It has been up and down most of the day, we’ll leave this one till the morning but will keep a keen eye for anything new.

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Here we go again!

As if once wasn’t enough, it appears Telecom’s new XT mobile network is experiencing more downtime. Outages have been reported in Wellington, Christchurch, Oamaru and Dunedin.

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Bird Strike

PikPok is another Kiwi development company that is producing some top notch stuff. Today I took a look at their new game ‘Bird Strike‘. Hit the ‘read more’ link to see what I thought and to get the chance to win yourself a copy (we have 3 copies to give away).

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WIN ME!

With thanks to the good people at NNG Global Services Inc., we have three copies of iGO My Way 2009 Australia / New Zealand (the GPS navigation app) to give away. Read on for details of how to enter.

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January 27th

As you may have read on TUAW, Engadget, or Gizmodo this morning, Apple has confirmed January 27th as the date for their much rumoured event.

With the sub-title “Come see our latest creation” and the invite being splattered with paint there is a lot of speculation around what this means. Personally I think it means come and see our new product and the paint was just an accident and someone got fired for making a complete mess of those shiney new invites. Whatever it means you can bet we are more than likely to see the tablet, and new iPhone OS, maybe even a new iPhone will be announced.

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