Hands up if you have purchased or are about to purchase an iPhone 4. If you are, make sure you don’t completely empty the piggy bank as some of your favourite accessories might need to be replaced or updated.

Apple’s iPhone 4 might have arrived in Australia to massive queues, plenty of free coverage in the mainstream media and the sort of hype not seen perhaps since the release of Windows 95 but clearly quality control is not all it could be at Cupertino.

The ACMA has given the green light to the operation of cellphones and other communications devices aboard commercial aircraft, leaving it to the discretion of the airlines as to whether voice services are offered.

NASA has announced that its Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit has not responded to its communications since March 22, 2010. They still hold hope that Spirit will awaken from hibernation but admit, "It will be the miracle ... if our beloved rover phones home."

The first African School of Physics, in the sub-Saharan Africa, is set to open in South Africa in August 2010. The three-week class, equivalent to a one-semester course, "will help students link the concepts they've learned to the real world."

There was a very good reason, in case anyone missed it, why the Prime Minister unveiled the National Broadband Network fibre footprint in the West Australian seat of Hasluck, rather than in a population centre.

The Gillard Government will take the advice of its KPMG-McKinsey implementation study and roll-out optical fibre in its national broadband network to 93 per cent of Australians – instead of the 90 per cent originally planned.

Ask anyone which GNU/Linux distribution one should recommend to would-be users and the answer is generally always one word: Ubuntu.

Apple's looking for a senior software engineer to "help create something totally new... a new and revolutionary feature for Mac OS X."

IBM is partnering with the Wroclaw University of Technology to establish a university cloud computing centre.

IBM has agreed to acquire Storwize, a company that provides real time data compression technology.

Phytoplankton, a tiny algae, is the start of the food chain. However, scientists have found that their numbers have declined by about 40% since 1950 and are continuing to decline by about 1% per year. This trend could spell disaster for the entire marine ecosystem.

Scientists with CSIRO, the scientific research arm of the Australian government, have discovered a “revolutionary” technique for quickly detecting petroleum hydrocarbons in soil, rock, sediment, and silt.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has delivered the broadest hint yet that a Gillard Government will if re-elected consolidate Government information technology-related activities within a single portfolio.

Not only are MasterChefs, US pop stars, British billionaires and Sydney nightclub hotspots all clamouring for the iPhone 4, there could well be a rush from city, rural and regional users on Telstra who wanted an iPhone with the superior “Blue Tick” certification, because they can now get it!

The Gillard Government will conduct a top-to-bottom review of the media sector in the context of "converged communication" if re-elected, including a look at regulations for media ownership, free to air television, local content, and anti-siphoning provisions across the full range of digital platforms.

It’s the day before the official iPhone 4 launch in Australia, with Telstra promoting its MasterChefs and serving up apple-related food, Vodafone and 3 partying it up at the Ivy, Optus pop starring it up with Kelly Rowland and Virgin Mobile getting Branson in on the act.

Polycom and McAfee have announced plans to jointly develop and deliver secure unified communications and collaboration to enhance the security features of Polycom's video, telepresence and infrastructure products.

The Prime Minister Julia Gillard will unveil the National Broadband Network fibre "footprint" in Perth tomorrow, detailing which Australians will be connected to superfast optical-fibre and which will be serviced by slower wireless or satellite technologies.

Amazon has announced two new Kindle e-book readers at lower-than-ever pricing, with a host of new functionality and clearly aimed at blowing third party e-readers out of the water, but can the Kindle spin spurn the iPad from consumers’ minds?