The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Apple says it took less than 48 hours to pick up the first million Ping users. Ping is a social network feature of iTunes 10 that allows users to follow artists and friends " to discover what music they’re talking about, listening to and downloading."
The take-up rate among iTunes 10 users is pretty impressive: "One-third of the people who have downloaded iTunes 10 have joined Ping," said Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of Internet services.
Not everyone is impressed. iTWire's Alex Zaharov-Reutt wrote "I won’t be wasting my time with it."
Why you'd want to allow other people to see that you'd just purchased a particular track from the iTunes Store is moot, but some people feel Ping doesn't reveal enough information about them, for example the track they're currently playing. Another objection is that Ping doesn't provide integration with other social networking services, notably Facebook.
Business Insider noted a reference to Facebook in a Ping screen shot presented by Steve Jobs during the iPod/iTunes/AppleTV launch event last week. But All Things Digital quoted Mr Jobs as saying that Facebook wanted "onerous terms that we could not agree to" before allowing Ping users to connect with their Facebook friends.
Many articles about Ping assert there are 160 million iTunes users. However, this appears to be the number of iTunes Store accounts (a store account appears to be necessary to use Ping). Apple claimed an active iTunes user base of 500 million back in 2007, and with all the iPods, iPhones and iPads sold since then, the number is likely to have grown rather than contracted.
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