Posted on June 18, 2008 by Jonathan Hensley
Quick Links for Jun 18th
Here are some interesting links from today:
- Firefox 3 downloads clear 8 million mark
And while 8.3 million might well become an audited record, Adobe blogger and evangelist Ryan Stewart pointed out that Adobe gets 8 million installations of the Flash plug-in on an average day. - Trend Micro gambles on ‘in the cloud’ technology
Chen argues it's faster to do a suspected malware lookup in the cloud than to initiate and execute a sandbox heuristic environment on the desktop. We're talking milliseconds vs. the 1 to 2 seconds for each sandbox inspection, and over several thousand sam - Are Your Kids Driving You Nuts? Send Them to Apple Camp!
I had no idea Apple offered this! Not only is the Apple store good for picking up guys, but you can also send your kids there for Apple Camp during the Summer months!Apple Camp kicks off in July at all Apple store locations and entails 2.5 hours of free
- Shape-shifting robot squeezes onto military radar
iRobot today won a $3.3 million contract to build a shape-shifting, flexible robot for dangerous or hard to reach combat duties.The robot is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Chemical Robots (ChemBots) program that seeks
- Microsoft needs advertising that ‘just works’
I harp on the "perception vs. reality" thing with Vista because that's all that this is, and to date, Apple and the iCabal have somehow usurped the Vista marketing message from Microsoft.It's time to take that back: Apple's switcher ads are almost univers - Microsoft Congratulates Mozilla for Firefox 3
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team has sent a fancy cake to Mozilla’s Mountain View headquarters to join the celebration of the Firefox 3 release. - iPhone running Windows XP
Citrix used its thin client technology to demonstrate an Apple iPhone running Windows XP, at the recent Citrix Application Delivery Conference in Melbourne.