It is 60 years since RCA record company released the first commercial seven-inch single, spinning at 45rpm.

To celebrate the anniversary, BBC News has been given access to a factory that still makes singles.

"The Federal Government and private sector will invest up to $43 billion over eight years in a super-fast national broadband network, in the "single biggest infrastructure decision in Australia's history".

In a bombshell decision this morning, the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, announced that none of five bidders for the national network - including Optus and Melbourne group Acacia - were up to scratch."

Click here for more information.

The SNL gang have done it again ...

This morning, Apple unveiled details about the iPhone OS 3.0 software and released the new iPhone Software Development Kit for developers.

Cut, Copy, Paste, Search, Auto-fill for Safari -- awesome. The New APIs also provides support for applications to communicate with hardware accessories attached to iPhone or iPod touch.

Click here to learn more about the 3.0 SDK.

Massive respect. If I was on that flight, I would have given him mad props.