Top 10 stories: iPod touch, Telstra cable, SCO v Linux and more
What were the hottest stories last month? Check out the 10 most popular articles on ZDNet Australia during September 2007.
1. Review: Apple iPod Nano (3rd generation) Love it or hate it, and opinion seems firmly divided, there's no getting past the look of the third generation iPod nano. Gone is the candy bar design of the Minis and first two nanos. In is the iPod Classic shrunk in the wash look, which conspires to be both fat and thin at the same time.
2. Review: Apple iPod Touch It's this year's latest must-have gadget and the first bona fide iPod to have built-in Wi-fi, the Safari Web browser, and the YouTube app iPhone owners have come to love.
3. Telstra turns on 30Mbps cable in Sydney, Melbourne Telstra has upgraded its cable speeds in Sydney and Melbourne, offering users a bump to 30Mbps.
4. Test your broadband: Oz now on 5.5Mbps average Australia's broadband may be better than you think -- according to a survey of over 50,000 users in the country, the average connection speed is now around 5.5Mbps.
5. Commentary: 2Clix scores own goal with Whirlpool case 2Clix's decision to take legal action against Whirlpool means the company has already lost the battle to hide negative comments about its accounting software.
6. SCO blames Linux, bad publicity for its failure In a statement published this week, SCO Group blames the success of Linux and "negative publicity", as causes for its decline -- the company may need to wind up its operations after its copyright case against Novell collapsed, prompting it to file for bankruptcy.
7. GPLv3 to drive users from Linux to FreeBSD? GPLv3 will help FreeBSD take some users away from Linux, according to the founder and vice president of The FreeBSD Foundation.
8. Commentary: Microsoft Office for Mac's site off to a bad start Microsoft has launched a Web site to show off some features in its Office productivity suite for the Apple Mac, but at this stage it seems the company can't even get the promotional Web site working correctly.
9. Photos: Installing Vista SP1 beta Earlier today I downloaded the standalone installer for Windows Vista SP1 build 6001.16659 and installed it on a few systems to see what it was like -- and I thought you might like to take a look at it.
10. Linux coders crack Apple's iPod Touch Programmers have bypassed a new difficulty in providing Linux support for the latest-generation iPods.