O2 have apologised to potential customers after their website failed due to the amount of orders for the new iPhone 3G.

They have taken orders at a rate of 13,000 per second!!!!

WOW! Even I am impressed with that. Now just got to label and box them!!!

Can’t see many of these being lost by couriers can you?!!! LOL

 

It seems like half the world is sitting here watching, listening, blogging, twittering or IM’ing news of Apple’s WWDC 2008 event from the Moscone Convention Hall in San Francisco today.

I have to admit to being caught up in the excitement even though I sold my iPhone recently.

The iPhone is a great bit of kit but I didnt really have the need for it anymore so, sadly, I parted ways with it.

It certainly looks like exciting things are happening for it and I will no doubt make use of some of the features even if I don’t actually own a device.

Also waiting on Snow Leopard info and hopefully more…..i’ll keep listening.

Tata of India has begun finalising the details of their latest car, the Nano. What is so different about this car as opposed to any other is that it will cost a mere £1,250 ($2500) to buy.

Now this brings obvious opportunity to many developing countries and many opportunities to market in more affluent countries to second, third, fourth car owning families and to poorer families.

It also opens up many possibilites for lower cost rentals including Urban rental schemes like Zipcar or CityCarClub.

However, if a car like this is lower cost to own what issues does that bring with it?

More disposable? Do we buy, use and throw away like a pizza box? Would there in effect be more plastics, metals and chemicals wasted due to this disposability?

More dangerous? If we care less about the vehicle we drive, will we become careless in our driving skills, after all a few bumps later and we can just buy a new car.

Enviromental damage due to easier access to vehicles? The car is cheaper, easier to own by more people. Does this mean more cars on our roads, more gridlock, more people in more countries driving, this is after all an Indian product, think of the numbers in India and China alone. What enviromental damage is this going to cause in terms of production and fuel.

Will rapid expansion in car ownership be tempered by rising fuel costs due to greater demand?

So is this a good thing or a bad thing? Post your comments and let me know be interesting to see your views.

Be careful of what seems like a good offer…

…unlimited DVD’s for £9.99 ($20) was the offer that Amazon.co.uk made and I gladly accepted.

Just pick, have them delivered and return, seemed simple enough and for a couple of years I was doing just that.

Amazon have decided to get out of the market and transferred their business to another company, so I thought I would look over my stats.

It was then I found out that I had paid them £130 (£260) and I then went and added all the DVD’s I had rented into my amazon shopping cart…guess the figure?

It would have cost me, today, £105 ($210) to buy the DVD’s and watch them as many times as I liked, forever for £25 ($50) less.

So, be careful of these offers and if you must use an online DVD rental facility make sure your either watching a hell of a lot of DVD’s or maybe a decent amount of Blu-Ray discs, otherwise just buy the things.

Lesson learned!

At least I think it was the tooth fairy, though I don’t think the insurers believed me!

A few days ago I had my lovely new (4 months old) HD LCD stolen along with some other items from where I live.

This is a big word of warning and advice to those that have similar products.

Without hesitation, screw them to the wall. Even if you have to suffer a couple of loose cables (its not that bad, paint the cables if you must)

Sure we all talked about TV’s that would be wall mounted one day and yet the day has arrived and our TV’s are still sitting on little tables and custom designed plinths.

This allows anyone to come in and simply lift these, now quite light, large screen tv’s and walk off with them.

In yesteryear these large screen tv’s weighed in at just under a large elephant but now they are in effect quite portable weight wise.

So unless you want to come home and find it gone I would strongly recommend fitting that thing to the wall and making sure you have a lockable bracket, before you buy it so it cannot easily be removed from the wall.

I have taken some quite strong security measures this time around, which I won’t detail here but needless to say next time it won’t be such easy pickings.