Who'd have thought a video game and a console one at that, would be the largest entertainment launch of all time. That's bigger than any previous book, movie, music CD or DVD ever launched before. The Xbox 360 title beat previous U.S. sales records set by blockbuster openings for entertainment events such as the release of “Spider-Man 3” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” Halo 3 has garnered more than US$300 Million in sales in it's first week worldwide. Some other tid-bits from the PR...

• It's the largest pre sold video game with over 1.7 Million copies ordered in the US alone
• More than 2.7 Million gamers have played Halo 3 online in the first week (this increased to over 40 Million in the first day after the opening week)
• Within the first day of its launch, “Halo 3” players worldwide racked up more than 3.6 million hours of online gameplay

2Clix became the latest Blog victim when their idiotic attempt at legal action against the founder of the Australian Whirlpool forums, Mr Simon Wright, when the legal action against a negative post on the Whirlpool Forum site revealed a lot of very unhappy customers with the 2Clix product. Whirlpool is an online community that was originally setup to help online users by creating an Australian broadband community site where users can share their experiences, good and bad, with other members. Whirlpool has since grown into one, if not the, largest online community site for all things online related. It is a great example of a long lived volunteer online community that has gone from strength to strength. 2Clix will now be remembered for their thoughtless act of stupidity and will no doubt be used as an example time and time again to others that the old Cluetrain adage of "Markets are conversations" is a live and well. Googling "2Clix" today shows the 5th from top listing titled "2Clix or Not 2Clix?"..... The overwhelming support Whirlpool got from it's forum members and the power of the Blogging community swinging into action has finally made 2Clix back down http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=834421 Never cross swords with an online community......... especially one that bites back. Join Whirlpool! http://forums.whirlpool.net.au :-) Posted By Shane Williamson Technorati Tags: 2clix, whirlpool, blogging, online communitites

All About Symbian has posted an in-depth review of the new Nokia N95 8GB that is about to hit the markets worldwide. The review clearly shows that this is not just an update to the memory on the device as the name suggests, but a fairly impressive upgrade to other components such as the new brighter and larger screen. Posted By Shane Williamson Technorati Tags: nokia n95, nokia, mobile, gadgets

Unbelievable! Running Quake on a mobile phone! :-) http://www.intomobile.com/2007/10/29/video-quake-running-on-nokia-n95-8gb.html  Posted by Shane Williamson

  I'm currently in Denmark and I'm finding 3's International roaming on 3 Denmark's network to be a great customer experience. 3 call their roaming service on other 3 networks "3 Like Home". So you don't get charged for receiving a phone call and you have access to all your 3G services without doing any changes to your device. 3 Australia provide a self provisioning service via their website called "My3" that allows the user to change their international roaming and voicemail settings directly without talking to a help service rep. Whilst using international roaming data and voice calls do not fall into my current plan with 3, the simple rates take away the guess work of exactly how much I will be on my bill when I return. For instance the mobile data rate is AUS50c per Mb and an SMS is the same price as at home. For more information about "3 Like Home" click on "Going International on the top of 3 Australia's home page. Posted by Shane Williamson from Copenhagen, Denmark.