John Mayer has defended Britney Spears for lip synching in Australia.

The 'Gravity’ singer – who is also in Australia promoting his latest album – blasted fans who had called for a refund after the 'Womanizer’ star’s show in Perth after she sparked outrage by not singing live for her whole performance.

John wrote on his twitter blog: 'If you're shocked that Britney was lip-syncing at her concert and want your money back, life may continue to be hard for you."

Britney, 27, was said to have hid in her hotel room on Saturday (07.11.09) following her performance on Friday night (06.11.09).

A representative for the star said: "Britney is aware of all this and she's extremely upset by it."

In response to the show fans protested about the high ticket prices and 'impersonal' nature of the show.

Concertgoer Wendy Di Renzo, 36, said: "It was so impersonal. She did not interact with her audience. There were no big TV screens projecting the acti ... Read more »

Well, this hacker has quite the sense of humor.
Reports started spreading this weekend that iPhone users in Australia had been falling victim to "ikee," a worm that replaces default wallpaper with a picture of Rick Astley, the British pop singer whose song "Never Gonna Give You Up" has gained eternal infamy thanks to the mainstreaming of the "Rickrolling" prank craze. The photo is accompanied by the message "ikee is never gonna give you up," and it's apparently quite difficult to remove. According to security firm Sophos, this is the first worm detected that targets the iPhone.
The vulnerability is pretty specific: the phones must be jailbroken in order to be affected, and it appears to spread by searching an infected phone's contacts to find other jailbroken-phone users who have installed the Unix software SSH (secure shell) but haven't yet changed their passwords from Apple's default root password, "alpine."
Sophos says that it has not heard of any occurrences of ... Read more »