Thanks to Google, YouTube will be adding live streaming to it’s list of features by the end of 2008! There are a few others doing this right now like justin.tv and ustream.tv but they’re not the greatest services in my opinion. Hopefully YouTube will be able to do it right!! It would be even cooler if they managed to allow live streaming from a cellphone too!

We’ll just have to wait and see.

Straight from Nintendo themselves, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime stated in an interview with the San Jose Mercury News that he can state “for the record,” that Nintendo would not be able to meet the 2007 holiday demands for the Wii. Pretty amazing for Nintendo if you ask me.

Check out the article on DailyTech, there’s a good amount of discussion on this as well.

Sounds like if you can get your hands on a Wii, buy it now and resell it when the holiday rush starts

So as expected, early iPhone adopters were NOT happy about the announcement made by Steve Jobs yesterday at his special event. And because of the floods of emails he got, Steve posted an open letter on the Apple website to all iPhone owners.

His letter basically tries to justify the decision to drop the price of the iPhone and in the end says that any customers who bought an iPhone from Apple or AT&T and isn’t already getting some kind of a rebate will be given a $100 gift card for the Apple store. Details haven’t been posted yet but he promises something will be on the Apple website in the next week.

It appears that Apple is trying to gain back investor confidence since after yesterday’s announcements, Apple stock has been on a pretty steady decline. We’ll have to see how this works out for them.

Today was Apple’s special event where, as expected, Steve announced new iPODS which include the highly anticipated and rumored iPOD Touch, but that’s not the point of this post.

The largest announcement was made at the end just before the musical performance by KT Tunstall. Due to poor sales (I’m assuming) of the 4GB iPhone, Apple has DROPPED it and lowered the price of the 8GB model to $399!

I bet all the kiddies that dug into their savings to get the iPhone so they can look cool among all their friends back at school are crying right now.

To check out all the other stuff that was announced at the event, check out Engadget’s post.

So today is a pretty big day for all you iPhone fanatics. A New Jersey teen has confirmed today that he was able to unlock the iPhone from AT&T and is using it on T-Mobile. The instructions have been posted on his blog and basically requires you to solder 2 wires and then from there on out, is all about editing the firmware. This is not something for just anyone but I’m sure in a few more days there will be software to do all this apart from the soldering.

Get ready for the flood of unlocked iPhones on eBay!

As far as I know, Telus has been blocking port 25 to servers other than it’s own mail servers for about a month now. Possibly longer, but that was the first time I’d heard of it. On the Shaw side, I had been fine and things were peachy until this morning when my outgoing mail started bouncing back.

Shaw had finally joined in…

A friend of mine tells me that Shaw had actually been implementing this one area at a time over the past year, so Telus could have been doing the same as well. Port 25 blocking isn’t something that’s just recently popped up though. A number of providers in the US have already been doing this for a while now and we’re only now essentially “catching up” here in Canada.

The reasoning to this port 25 blocking? “To reduce the volume of Unsolicited Bulk Email (SPAM).”

While this sounds great and all, I wonder how well this actually works. I don’t know when the US started doing this, but I’d really like to know if there has been any substantial drop in SPAM since implementing this block. Sure it prevents zombies from spewing out massive amounts of junk mail and I’m sure in the end there’s some drop in bandwidth usage but maybe that’s the real goal here. To save on bandwidth costs.

Anyone who’s not been hiding under a rock since January will have heard about the iPhone and its release just a few days ago on the 29th of June. And within these few days, the iPhone has been dissected, had activation problems, and even had its root password cracked (which is useless as far as we know right now). While we Canadians are still without access to the iPhone for another year, in the late fall, we may be lucky enough to get the next gen iPhone after everyone else has had a chance to work out the bugs for us .

Some common complaints about the iPhone are it’s lack of a video recording function, no memory card expansion, non-user serviceable battery, 64-bit Windows and Vista not supported, and the CPU being a little underpowered when browsing or downloading long emails possibly in conjunction with a lack of available system memory too. One comment I got from a friend of mine when he was in the US playing with an iPhone at the Apple store was, as he said it, “[it] didn’t seem to work right unless I held it upright at an unnatural angle. The flipping back and forth between portrait and landscape isn’t quite as smooth as I’d have expected.”
AnandTech has a pretty extensive review of the iPhone for anyone who’s been trying to decide whether or not to buy one so I’d recommend you’d check that out first. Obviously the biggest selling point to the Apple iPhone is its great looks and “groundbreaking” user interface both of which just makes anyone who sees it go “ooooohhhh.. aaaahhhh…”

I’d be very interested to hear from anyone who’s purchased an iPhone to let us know what their real life experiences are with it.

Back once again, Dell has another 10 days of savings for Canadian buyers on from June 4th to the 15th!