News round-up: 7 November

The end of a momentous week in American history

BlackBerry Storm fails due to lack of Wi-Fi, says TechRadar’s Dan Grabham

A momentous week for America, with Barack Obama finally dispatching the much-unloved George ‘Dubya’ Bush at the White House, much to the joy of pretty much the entire free world, as well as mobile phone companies and ISPs who also benefited from massively increased numbers of calls, SMSs and internet traffic around the election day this week.

Like podcasts? Got an iPhone? Good. Apple’s iPhone will finally be getting direct podcast downloads with the forthcoming firmware update 2.2 later this year, giving you the ability to download podcasts direct to your 3Gesus phone on the go, with no more need to hook up your phone to your desktop or laptop to get your podcast fix.

Xbox 360 gamers, it seems, buy more games than their Sony and Nintendo fanboy counterparts. The attach rate for the 360 is notably higher than that of its competition, although it seems that Nintendo fans, unsurprisingly, play more first party developed games than Xbox and PlayStation gamers.

Virgin Media teases us yet again with the promise of 50Mbps broadband ’soon’ by sending us some pictures and specs on their new shiny, PS3-alike broadband modem. It seems strange to get excited about a modem. But we did. So there.

The BBC’s superb iPlayer could soon be going international, if the BBC’s director of future media and technology, Erik Huggers, has anything to do about it – revealing in an interview that the company has big plans for the iPlayer, that may well see the service opened up globally.

Finally, while many tech fiends have been getting overly excited about the release of the new BlackBerry Storm, TechRadar’s Dan Grabham remains to be sold due to the Storm’s lack of Wi-Fi.

Source: techradar

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