Ok, so the launch has happened and while we at Tech 2.0 wait for some friends in the US to ship one across so that we can use it on international roaming and give you guys a REAL review, here are the funniest three iPhone pieces floating on the interweb. Text: Churumuri for their hilarious post "11 similarities between the iPhone and Rajni" The only one I didn't quite agree with was: ""6) College dropout Rajni is in the safe hands of Shankar who has not known failure at all as a director. The iPhone is in the safe hands of college dropout Steve Jobs who has not known failure at all as a tech visionary." As Steve Jobs himself said in his famous Stanford speech, he's failed badly once and picked himself up to even greater heights. Not to mention, the string of flopped Apple products over the years! Nevertheless, superb piece! ...

The first reviews from some of the lucky journalists (insert professional jealousy expletive here!) to get an early-review Apple iPhone model are out in the US media! The overall impression is that the "Jesus Phone" may actually live up to the hype after all. Minus the blood to wine conversion of course, though, I'm told there's a nifty app for the phone that actually lets you .... anyway, lol, here are some quick links: Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal: "Our verdict is that, despite some flaws and feature omissions, the iPhone is, on balance, a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer." More David Pogue, New York Times: "... so sleek and thin, it makes Treos and BlackBerrys look obese." More Stephen Levy, Newsweek: "The iPhone is the rare convergence device where things actually converge." More Edward Baig, USA Today: "Apple's iPhone isn't perfect, but it's worthy of...

Computers have come a long way and while they can crunch data easier than humans, they still don't "get" the subjective stuff. Thats the reason why CAPTCHAS as we reported on the Tech 2.0 show last week, are mankind's best defence against spam. I got a regular Press Release today, from an Indian car-maker today, which had me scratching my head when I read this line: "17 youth are being trained at the company's Jamshedpur facility, while another 340 individuals have been placed in two select it is and the Ramakrishna Mission Shilpa Mandir." After some thinking I figured that someone had run the release through a Spell Check and auto-corrected ITIs (Indian Technical Institutes) to 'it is' towards the end of the sentence. Just goes to show that however good software gets, you still need a human to run a final check! This poem, first published in the satire magazine, 'The Journal of Irreproducible Results' and thereafter modified...

Ah! The sweet irony of a college dropout delivering a graduation speech! Even sweeter if it's the richest man in the world coming back to take his degree and address students of arguably the most famous college in the world. When William H Gates delivered the commencement address to Harvard's Class of 2007 a few days ago, life had come full circle for the founder of Microsoft. He joked that he was leaving his job next year and a college degree would help on the CV. For those who don't follow Microsoft, Bill Gates is relinquishing all responsibilities at MS and will focus on his foundation full-time. If you read the speech without being told whose it is, you could be forgiven for thinking that it's probably some stereotypical leftist-activist 'jholawala' crusader. And yet it was the very man who epitomizes American capitalism exhorting the students of an institution that is the very essence of America, to dedicate their...