[WelMac] Fwd: The Daily Feed - Kiwi successfully hacks first NZ iPhone

[Jo Booth]

I kinda like the coverage m-net do of Apple stuff.

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> Kiwi successfully hacks first NZ iPhone
>
> Ken Lewis
>
> A Kiwi software developer has become part of a global elite after  
> successfully hacking an Apple iPhone allowing him to use the device  
> on Vodafone New Zealand's network.
>
> John Ballinger, a director of IT Auckland company Bluespark, says  
> the hack took him six hours of hard, sometimes painful work to get  
> the phone apart and to accept a Vodafone SIM card.
>
> Read More...

I also heard last week the Chris Double of http:// 
www.bluishcoder.co.nz/ (local Mozilla/Firefox legend) had got one of  
his three going.

More Apple stuff on m-net:
>
> Meanwhile, our previous poll asked you to pick what percentage of  
> the school computer market you thought Apple enjoys.
> Apple has long been something of a quiet achiever in the education  
> sphere, and typically for the brand, commands fierce loyalty among  
> adherents.
> The fact is no one knows for sure what the exact percentage of  
> school computers are Apples. Microsoft, says it's between 20 and 30  
> per cent, but probably the best authority is Renaissance Limited,  
> the Apple distributor in New Zealand.
> Renaissance Education Division general manager Tony Webster says  
> their best estimate of Apple's penetration is 30 per cent of the  
> 25,000 computers operating in Kiwi schools, adding that even the  
> Ministry of Education comes to Renaissance for an estimate.
> Not surprisingly, most m-net readers thought the figure to be much  
> lower. Almost half of you (44.4 per cent) said the figure would be  
> between 1 and 20 per cent, while 30.6 per cent were bang on the  
> money picking the 21-30 per cent figure. Just 8.3 per cent thought  
> Apple's share of the school sector was between 31 and 50 per cent,  
> and from there the numbers hover around the 2 per cent mark.
Read More...
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