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.

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Pool Crashing in the UK Becomes Latest Google Earth Prank
  The latest craze for teenagers with no place to go except Facebook is "dipping," or gatecrashing someone else's swimming pool. According to the Daily Mail (commenter djheath's favorite publication, if I recall correctly) putative trespassers select their
• Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3
  You already know about Firefox 3's marquee new features, but now it's time to dig deep and unearth the shortcuts, tweaks, and even Easter eggs that Mozilla marketing doesn't mention. In honor of today's official release of Firefox 3—at 10AM Pacific Time

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Demand for Data Puts Engineers in Spotlight
  That means people with the skills to design, build and run a data center that does not endanger the power grid are suddenly in demand. Their status is growing, as are their salaries — climbing more than 20 percent in the last two years into six figures
• McDonald’s Remote Ordering System Is Gaining Popularity
  In 2006 we reported that McDonald's was testing a system in which drive-thru orders were being taken by employees at a remote location, usually in another state altogether. Nearly 2 years later, the system has proven successful in some areas and is being
• Firefox 3 being released today, but not for a few more hours
  According to the official Mozilla blog, the final version of Firefox 3 will be posted online at noon central time today. Mozilla is actually trying to set a record for most downloads in a 24-hour period with Firefox 3.

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Why Kyte.tv will kill Qik and Flixwagon in cell phone video space
  This is a post I didn’t want to write. Why? For the last six months I’ve been using Qik’s live video service off of my cell phone. I’m the top user there, with most views, most videos, and all that. I’ve used that service to take videos inside…
• Honda first to offer hydrogen cars in US
  Honda will be the first automaker to make a hydrogen car available to consumers, and the vehicles will be available first in the U.S. at dealerships in Costa Mesa, Santa Monica and Torrance, the company said Sunday.
• Samsung’s Instinct Doesn’t Ring True as an iPhone Clone
  The latest to arrive is the Samsung Instinct, to be introduced by Sprint on June 20. I’ve been testing the Instinct, and while it isn’t a bad phone and has some features the Apple product lacks, it’s no match for the iPhone. The manufacturers haven’t repl

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.