Here are some interesting links from today:
- How far away is Blackberry software for the iPhone?
iPhone naysayers love to point out that it is not a business phone. Can Blackberry software inside change that? Would a flashy phone that achieves the same amount of email addictiveness be a hit with management? RIM confirmed they are working on supportin
- Exxon sells US gas stations to distributors
"As the highly competitive fuels marketing business in the U.S. continues to evolve, we believe this transition is the best way for Exxon Mobil to compete and grow in the future," said Ben Soraci, the director of Exxon Mobil's U.S. retail sales.
Here are some interesting links from today:
- Comcast Confirms Upload Cap Increase
Comcast's just sent out a release confirming that they are indeed increasing their upload caps on their cable subscribers. Now all applicable users nationwide will have either a 6/1Mbps or 8/2Mbps, depending on which plan they're currently subscribed to.
- Final Firefox 3 State of the Add-ons Report
The clock's ticking down till Tuesday June 17th, when the final version of Firefox 3 will be ready to download—and there's big progress on the add-ons compatibility front.
Here are some interesting links from today:
- How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive
In my understanding of the term ‘batch processing’ it was always used to describe systems (usually computerized ones) where data was collected together for a period of time before it was processed. Instead of doing every small ‘job’ as it arrived
- Anti-Child Porn Efforts Will Make The Child Porn Problem Worse?
In discussing NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's success in getting ISPs to block a list of child porn sites and newsgroups, we noted that it wouldn't do a damn thing to stop child porn. The reality is that it may actually make the problem worse.
Here are some interesting links from today:
- The 3G iPhone
Steve Jobs unveiled the long-awaited 3G iPhone at the company's World-Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco on Monday with prices starting at $199 for the 8GB storage model.
- Chart – The Varying Impact of Gas Prices
Gas prices are high throughout the country, but how hard they hit individual families depends on income levels, which vary widely.
Here are some interesting links from today:
- Get Your Gmail Feed Read to You by Phone
You've always been able to email yourself with a phone call through voice-to-text service Jott, but with the introduction of Jott Feeds, Gmail (and Google Apps) users can now have a summary of their messages read to them by phone.
- Call Sarah Connor – Military Supercomputer Milestone
An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.
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- Is Google making us stupid?
We really don't want to think like Google. We don't want to speak like Twitter. We don't want to converse like e-mail. And yet we increasingly do, as the Internet reshapes the world in its image.
