A Nintendo 3DS fighting game, featuring scantily clad fighters, of whom three are described as being under 18, has been banned in Sweden but is still on sale in Australia as a PG game.

Uh-oh… the world’s biggest population of Internet users is no longer officially allowed to use Skype, with that bad news coming just as Skype announced the good news that video calls were coming to the iPhone at last, which itself followed the bad news of Skype’s global meltdown. Phew!

Another game release falls prey to Australia’s lack of an R18+ classification system.  But mature age games should have no FEAR, most likely this decision on the horror/war FPS NecroVisioN will be turned around.

File under not so strange and apparently true: Bill Gates has banned the iPod, and the iPhone for that matter, from his home. As well as from his family.

Apple is rightly proud of how quick and easy the iPhone 3G is to use, but when does pride turn into deceit? The Advertising Standards Agency in the UK thinks it knows the answer and Apple could face a third iPhone advert ban this year as a result.

Let me repeat that, a little slower. A radio advert for a Vodafone mobile phone contract deal has been banned in the UK because the actress speaks too quickly.