I thought we’re currently on recession but according to AppleInsider report that Apple issued a bulletins to some of its partner strongly suggesting that they should stock their inventory with iPods and MacBooks because these item will become extremely limited in coming weeks

Apple “strongly suggested” that resellers bring in—or place immediate lump orders for—approximately 4 weeks worth of their top selling iPod models. Supplies of the players would start to become extremely limited in the next seven days, the bulletin said.

Maybe Apple is expecting the economy to jump once the holiday seasons comes. Well, I hope so too!

Via {AppleInsider}

If you think 8 million new users registered for China Mobile is already pretty impressive you bet but that’s not it, that figure is just for the single month of June alone and the official total for this year is a whopping 53 million new subscribers.

According to China’s Ministry of Information Industry, by the end of last month China Mobile hits a total 600 million subscribers.. putting my 4 year-old sons word “that’s humongous”.

via {PC World}

The iPhone Dev Team who earlier provided a jailbreak for the iPhone 2.0 software but not completely unlocked for the iPhone 3G, which means you and me are still not free from the claw of the iPhone exclusive carriers.

According to the team’s blog post achieved a hack to the iPhone 3G baseband while leaving everything else alone. The approach/solution is through software which they explain it in their own post:

We have accomplished this by being able to execute our own code on the baseband that allows us to circumvent security checks and flash the baseband with older, disallowed firmware. Please note this has been accomplished using software only, the iPhone 3G has not been disassembled or hardware modified in any way.

TechCrunch blog post by Michael Arrington is generating a lot of discussion response from gadget lovers on the internet. The idea is…

The machine is as thin as possible, runs low end hardware and has a single button for powering it on and off, headphone jacks, a built in camera for video, low end speakers, and a microphone. It will have Wifi, maybe one USB port, a built in battery, half a Gigabyte of RAM, a 4-Gigabyte solid state hard drive. Data input is primarily through an iPhone-like touch screen keyboard. It runs on linux and Firefox. It would be great to have it be built entirely on open source hardware, but including Skype for VOIP and video calls may be a nice touch, too.

What do you think? Im thinking of Kindle right now.

The legendary classic rock group Journey (or some fans call them the J-Boys) announced that ZVUE will be selling an exclusive MP3 Player pre-loaded with all 22 tracks from the new Journey double-CD, “Revelation”.

The Journey-branded player will be available exclusively at Wal-Mart stores nationwide beginning July 22. The product retails for $39.88 and will be presented in gift-box packaging, designed to feature Journey with their new lead singer Arnel Pineda which they found on YouTube.

Each disc of the double-CD will feature 11 tracks; one will feature brand new material from the band while the other will feature re-recorded classic Journey hits.

Are you looking for bulk quantities of unlocked iPhone 3G? Then you might want to try (but first at least verify if they are legit/legal) Union Camera, Ltd. a Hong Kong based company which offers original and all brand new iPhone 3G to interested buyers. There’s a minimum order of US$1,000 though it didn’t say how much each item so you better check them out.

Link {Alibaba}

Apple Inc. will be launching its new version of iPhone called 3G iPhone this Friday. The new iPhone will utilize the 3G wireless technology and also added new features such as GPS mapping, support for Microsoft Exchange, better sound quality, added battery life, WiFi connectivity and more.

Unlike the previous iPhone, to activate it you’ll have to be at AT&T store, I guess this it to make sure that AT&T is also in the (fees) loop.