Optus finally releasing its pricing plans for the iPhone was the big story of the day for everybody, and I dived it at Lifehacker with an analysis of which packages offered the best deal. Gonna be a lot of this going on in the next week. Other posts for Lifehacker on Thursday:
And so it finally happens. Three months after first coming up with the plan, eBay has officially canned plans to make PayPal the sole payment method accepted in Australia, as I noted (unsurprisingly) for APC. It’s good that eBay came to its senses, but still scary that it took so long.
This week’s Snorage column looks at why celebrities are apparently not capable of decent data management, with a particularly strange example from Cornelia Frances. Truly.
Another story for APC, this time looking at Qantas’ imminent launch of in-flight Internet access on the A380. Even though I’m a terminal Internet addict and spend half my life on planes, I’m not sure whether I’d use this — if only because on flights to the US you really need to maximise sleep given their overnight scheduling. (As a side note, I just booked my CES flights and chose the non-A380 option, though that was more a question of timetables.)
Yes, it’s happening: in a minor scoop for APC, I’ve written up how movie downloads via the iTunes store should be in Australia in the next month or so. I’m not that inclined to buy movies online myself, but if I was, the thought of no caps on downloads would certainly be a tempting reason to change ISP.
As I’d anticipated, the big feature for the day at Lifehacker looked at how to make the most of Qantas’ new Frequent Flyer scheme. While it’s nice having the extra flexible options, I suspect I’ll still be using the Classic scheme whenever I can. Other posts during the day:
My prediction the other day that there were more eBay stories to write came about rather quickly. For APC, I looked at eBay’s court loss to Louis Vuitton and how it demonstrated a certain, shall we say, two-facedness.