Customers line up for iPhone
Amazon.com is already taking pre-orders for books related to the iPhone, while Craigslist had listings from people willing to wait in line for cash or looking for someone to do so. The iPhone goes on sale tomorrow at 6pm in each US time zone, says Top Tech News.
The iPhone combines the functions of a cellphone, iPod media player and Web-surfing device. Apple claims the device will be easier to use than other smart phones because of its unique touch-screen display and intuitive software that allows for easy access to voice mail messages, the Internet, and video and music libraries.
Apple is not saying how many units it will have at launch, nor has it announced any per-person limit.
FTC urges Internet restraint
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) yesterday said policymakers should be cautious about regulating high-speed Internet traffic, reports The Washington Post.
The agency issued a report addressing network neutrality, the notion that Internet service providers should treat all online traffic equally.
The issue pits consumer groups and content providers such as Google against large cable and telecommunications companies such as AT&T and Comcast. The telecoms groups want the option of charging customers more for transmitting certain content, including live video, faster or more reliably than other data.
Mobile phones 'offensive weapons'
A teaching union is calling for mobile phones to be classed as potentially offensive weapons, reports BBC. NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates said the way pupils misused them to bully their teachers meant they should be banned from school premises.
She has sent evidence of more than 100 cases of teachers being abused and bullied by phone, e-mail and online.
The UK government recently announced a crackdown on "cyber bullying" and gave teachers powers to confiscate mobiles. As part of this, it has set up a cyber bullying task force made up of industry, ministerial and teaching union representatives.