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Here are some interesting links from today:

• Naked DSL – finally catching on
  It's basically a DSL broadband service – but without a standard phone line and the expensive line rental that goes with it. It's an increasingly attractive option around the world -
• Back to the Future McFly Sneakers on sale
  The limited edition Back to the Future's Nike sneakers are available now. You can get yours now on eBay, where prices are going from $600 to $2,000. That is serious dollar gigawattage for a pair of sneakers, even it they look great out of the box.

Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

• Mozilla sets Guinness World Record
  Mozilla today announced it set a new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. The record-setting 8,002,530 downloads coincided with the launch of Firefox® 3, Mozilla’s major update to its popular and acclaimed fr
• Set Gmail as your default email client in Firefox 3
  Now you can configure Firefox to launch Gmail when you click on email address links and avoid the hassle. The folks over at Lifehacker published these tips on how to set it up:
• Dangerous and Ridiculous Things You Can Still Do While Driving
  The big day has now passed for California drivers and cellphones are effectively banned on the road. At least not without a hands-free device…which Californians will inevitably forget to charge or lose.

Here’s what the Google Mobile team came up with.  Apparently you can use a phone to pretty much do anything.

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Internet Explorer 8 Security Preview
  From a security perspective, IE 7 is already an excellent product, especially on Windows Vista, where you can take advantage of Protected Mode. But with online threats evolving, Microsoft is taking steps to address new types of attacks in IE 8. Here’s wha
• Google learns to crawl Flash
  Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we’ve improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by inte
• Intel says to prepare for ‘thousands of cores’
  Intel currently offers quad-core processors and is expected to bring out a Nehalem processor in the fourth quarter that uses as many as eight cores. But the chipmaker is now thinking well beyond the traditional processor in a PC or server.
• Windows SteadyState now supports Windows Vista
  Set it and forget it – You can share the computer and rest easy. Any changes a user might make to the configuration or hard disk can be undone by simply restarting the machine.Windows SteadyState Version 2.5 is now available with Windows Vista Support

Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

• CIOs not taking security breaches seriously
  CIOs and internal auditors don’t feel IT fraud and data privacy is a serious threat to their business despite the spate of high profile data losses and privacy breaches. Nearly two-thirds (65 per cent) of internal audit chiefs surveyed by business consul
• Intel: We’ll Stick With XP, Thanks
  Long-term plans aside, the fact that Intel hasn’t upgraded many of its systems more than a year after Vista’s release is leading to plenty of speculation.
• Google starts move to ad-friendly iGoogle
  As expected, the revamped iGoogle provides a navigation bar on the left edge of the screen that lets users select iGoogle gadgets and perform other functions. Another feature could mean more dramatic changes to the site, though: a “canvas view” that lets
• Bill Gates bids a teary farewell to Microsoft
  REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) – Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft Corp, the software maker he built into the world’s most valuable technology company based on the ambitious goal of placing a computer on every desk and in every home.