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.

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Asus to embed Linux into all motherboards
  Asus is to embed a lightweight, instant-on version of Linux called "Splashtop" into all its motherboards, following good feedback from customers.
• Dell commits to green dream
  Dell has committed to improving the energy efficiency of its desktops and laptops, and says that by 2010 they will consume 25 per cent less energy than today. The company said it will do this by continuing to integrate what it calls energy-smart technolog
• Predators and the Internet.
  … recent case against MySpace by a family in Texas. The family of a young girl who was "lured" and,eventually, sexually assaulted by someone she met on MySpace filed a $30million dollar liability suit against MySpace and lost. I tend to agree with the c

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Should We Be Concerned That The Military Will Use Counterfeit Routers Bought Off eBay?
  There was a story last week that got a lot of press about how the FBI discovered that the military was using a ton of counterfeit technology equipment, including thousands of fake Cisco routers. Dan Wallach has an excellent writeup looking at the security
• Do You Have A Lame Password?
  So remember how last year I told you about the top ten most used and abused passwords? Well, apparently some of you weren't paying attention, cause the list is just as lame (and essentially the same) this year! When I read USA Today's report, I had to chu

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Get 100 free MP3s from eMusic
  You've probably heard of eMusic, the online store that sells DRM-free MP3s. If not, well, it's an online store that sells DRM-free MP3s. The service traditionally offers 25 or even 50 free downloads as part of its one-month subscription trial, but right n
• Now you can cry over heavens «
  Remember when I cried over seeing something very cool at Microsoft Research? Well now you can cry too, because the World Wide Telescope is now up. Still is stunning, even a few months later.
• Slim Down Your Wallet with Your Phone
  Blogger Albert Alberts loves a slim wallet, and after reading over some of our wallet-slimming tips, he realized he had a powerful wallet-slimming tool in his pocket all the time: his iPhone.

Here are some interesting links from today:

• New HP ‘Dragon’ 20″ laptop
  HP has a brand new PC that promises to offer a first class home theatre experience coupled with high performance computing. This is one HUGE notebook that is HP’s first 20.1-inch display. There is no question that it is stylish, innovative, and it has t
• ‘Smart’ power meters herald future of our electricity use
  Determined to cut his electricity bill, Darrell Brubaker took the usual steps of raising his air conditioner's thermostat and cooking more on the grill. But the key to maximum savings — as much as 6 percent a month last summer — was his grasp of the s
• Credit crunch failing to hold tech back
  Confidence seems to be high in the UK tech industry that it can avoid the pitfalls of the credit crunch during 2008. More than half (53 per cent) of SMEs surveyed by tech trade body Intellect, forecast double-digit growth this year.

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Microsoft’s Vision of the Dynamic Datacenter
  The first part into a Dynamic Datacenter is efficiently handling the physical datacenter. On top of that physical datacenter Microsoft will push the hardware virtualization aspect to gain dynamic placement of operating systems. The third layer is Applicat
• Competitive zeal of Ballmer key element in Yahoo chase
  As Yahoo continued to resist Microsoft's $42 billion takeover offer, a key question was just how far Microsoft's excitable CEO, Steve Ballmer, was willing to go in hopes of defeating online advertising and search leader Google. For now, it seems Ballmer h
• Older Gas Pumps Don’t Go Above $4
  With gas prices across the country soaring to over $4/gallon, you may want to track down one of those (now mostly rural) gas stations that still uses really old gas pumps. It turns out that many of them were not designed to handle prices over $4. They go

Here are some interesting links from today:

• OQO turned into world’s smallest Mac
  A poster on the OQO Talk forums appears to have turned his Vista-operating OQO e2 UMPC into a something capable of running Leopard. Upon making his bold claim, TRF was initially ridiculed and charged with merely layering Vista with a set of Leopard skins.
• Comcast: How To Get $90 Off Your Comcast Bill
  Reader Matthew just cut his Comcast bill in half with a single phone call. He received a flier from one of Comcast's competitors that boasted a much better price than the $175 per month he was paying. When he called Comcast and told them about the better
• Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer
  "Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that "may have been used in crimes." It basically bypasses all of the Windows security (decrypting passwords, etc.) in order to elim

Here are some interesting links from today:

• How Live Mesh Will Reinvent Microsoft
  Live Mesh represents a sea change for Microsoft, writes columnist Rob Enderle. The technology will enable the transition from the current computing environment to a cloud-based ecosystem and redefine Microsoft's place in the market at the same time.
• Bluetooth implants: Why not?
  I see more and more people walking around with Bluetooth headsets lodged behind their ears every day. Most states are passing hands-free laws for drivers. Even my technophobe wife wants one. I could be wrong, but I think it's only a matter of time before

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Microsoft’s piracy problem could grow
  In the newly released Service Pack 1, however, Microsoft is softening its stance somewhat. The reduced functionality mode is gone, and in its place, a series of warnings and visual indications that a computer is not running a genuine copy of Windows. I wo
• Global Warming, Financial Crisis, etc.
  Let me throw out a few facts. In 1900, the average life expectancy for an American was 47 years. In 2004, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, it was 78. In 1900, Americans devoted 50 percent of their incomes to putting food on the tabl
• GPS market at turning point with sliding prices, demand off
  The experience of Netherlands-based TomTom NV — which saw earnings fall 83 percent in the first quarter — suggests the market for stand-alone global-positioning systems is at a turning point. "What we saw for the first time is that selling prices fell
• Happy spamiversary! Spam reaches 30!
  Thirty years ago next week, Gary Thuerk, a marketer at the now-defunct computer firm Digital Equipment Corporation, sent an email to 393 users of Arpanet, the US government-run computer network that eventually became the internet. It was the first spam em
• FBI wants to move hunt for criminals into Internet backbone
  give us the ability to preempt that illegal activity where it comes through a choke point as opposed to the point where it is diffuse on the Internet
• AT&T Charges $2 to pay bill with cash!
  Rhonda Payne went to an AT&T Wireless store in Calhoun, Ga., recently to pay her phone bill in cash. When she arrived at the store, she was in for a surprise. Paying in person, she was told, costs extra — $2 extra. Payne objected to the "administrative c