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iPhone 4s Delivered Two Days Early, Lindsay Lohan's Twitter Spam

by Warren Riddle on June 23, 2010 at 11:50 AM

iPhone Appears Early
Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
  • Apple recently alerted the consumers who had placed iPhone 4 pre-orders that the gadget would actually start arriving today, a day early. Well, the company apparently misled those eager shoppers, because some lucky recipients began to enjoy the fruits of their precocious shopping practices last night. [From: Mashable]
  • A legally besieged, and reportedly financially strapped, Lindsay Lohan apparently spams her Twitter followers for serious dough (serious for anyone who doesn't blow wads of cash on, well, wads of blow). A purported representative of company Beyond the Rack told Gawker that her employer paid Lohan $10,000 to tweet about a Ray Ban sale. Messages shilling other products and services, like purses and travel deals, also appear in Lohan's timeline. [From: Gawker]
  • Apple moved 600,000 iPads during the device's first day of availability, and the company has definitely maintained a torrid sales pace. After just 80 days, consumers have purchased a staggering total of 3 million iPads, even though Apple has yet to introduce the device to numerous foreign markets. [From: Engadget]
  • After WikiLeaks obtained classified U.S. military videos and correspondences, allegedly from detained soldier Bradley Manning, the Pentagon reportedly embarked on a fruitless hunt for site founder Julian Assange. Those military authorities apparently haven't been searching too hard, though, because Assange -- appearing at a free speech seminar in Europe on Monday -- said that U.S. officials had not yet contacted him. [From: BBC News]
  • New York Times editor Phil Corbett defended his recent "no-tweet" publishing policy by asserting that "another service may elbow Twitter aside next year, and 'tweet' may fade into oblivion." A long and dubious trend of social networking failures certainly seems to justify that reasoning, because various major corporations, headlined by AOL and News Corp., have reportedly squandered more than $1.5 billion on fading and defunct sites like Bebo, MySpace and Friends United. (Friends what?) [From: The Guardian]
  • Google announced the development of Froyo, the Android 2.2 update, more than a month ago, but Nexus One owners are still waiting for the official release. A statement from an Android support personnel doesn't exactly clarify the ambiguous arrival date, either; company updates "will only happen once a release candidate meets [their] quality criteria." [From: Engadget]

Tags: android, apple, beyond the rack, BeyondTheRack, bradleymanning, froyo, google, ipad, iphone4, julianassange, lindsaylohan, morningxtra, newyorktimes, nexusone, socialnetworking, top, twitter, wikileaks

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