Daily Tech News Snippets, where we bring you a tiny selection of tech like news from across the globe along with snarky commentary.

Today we have a precursor to some of the issues that would plague the Internet, Virgin giving the Total Cost Of Ownership argument the finger and cheaper Internet Access, soonish.

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Today In Computer History

October 27, 1980

All techs take note – Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first major network outage that hit the precursor to the Internet – ARPANET.

Hold on to your hats folks – It was caused by a software bug.

Thanks a lot developers, now we know who got served first.

To read how it went down, check out COMPUTERHISTORY.ORG

Virgin America Goes Google

Shortly after the London Stock Exchange dumps Microsoft products, Virgin America dumps MS Exchange to start using Google Apps for their email.

They expect the move to Google to cut their email costs in half over a year.

WHERE IS YOUR TCO ARGUMENT NOW?! WHERE IS IT?!?!

Ahem. Read a cool story, including a piccie of skywriting in dot matrix, from INFORMATIONWEEK.COM

Apple Delays White iPhone (Again) To 2011

The white iPhone 4 has been delayed again. Maybe well have a white iPhone 5? I wonder if Steve Jobs will declare the white iPhone 5 some new invention or something…

Another INFORMATIONWEEK story.

Flash Player 10.1 Coming To Windows Phone 7

Name one thing Windows Phone7 will do that iOS can’t? Flash.

Nuff said.

Read about the maybe/maybenot scenario over at EVERYTHINGWM.COM

Cheaper internet soon

Wow. South Africans should rejoice – Industry leaders are predicting a 20 to 25% drop in prices for Internet Access in the next 12 months.

I wonder if that cost reduction will filter down to the end user…

Read more at IAfrica.com

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