July 11 the 3G iPhone will reach the snatching hands of the crazed public. The new iPhone supports new features such as 3G wireless (surprise!), GPS mapping, enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange, and the new App Store. Keeping in line with the original iPhone, you get the same major features: widescreen iPod, and desktop-class web browser. It also includes smart sensors that help save battery life by adjusting the backlight based on ambient light.

The 3G iPhone is presented with the lines: “Twice as fast. Half the price.” The price will start at $199.

Click here to see the features of Apple iPhone 3G
 

1. If you are wearing gloves, the iPhone’s virtual keypad won’t work. That’s a concern for wintertime phone calls in cold areas.
2. No memos.
3. No voice dialing.
4. No voice recording.
5. No games.
6. No capacity for video output to a tv (as iPod has).
7. No capacity for over-the-air calendar appointments.
8. No capacity for over-the-air software updates.
9. No IM. Gotta use text messaging.
10. No flash or zoom in the camera.

If you have more reasons .. let us know in comments!

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has complied with a request by the Pentagon to remove some online images from its street-level map service because they pose a security threat to U.S. military bases, military and company officials said on Thursday.

Gen. Gene Renuart, head of the military command responsible for homeland defense, said the Pentagon had talked to Google about the risks and expected the company to cooperate in removing selected images from its Street View service.

“We have been contacted by the military,” Google spokesman Larry Yu said. “In those instances where they (the U.S military) have expressed concerns about the imagery, we have accommodated their requests.”

The Defense Department, which is still studying how many images are available, has also banned Google teams from taking video images on bases.

“We’ve got to get a sense of what is there and see how we can mitigate it,” Renuart said.

But because many images were taken from public streets, the military may not have a legal right to request that videos be pulled.

Street View, a feature of Google Maps, offers ground-level, 360-degree views of streets in 30 U.S. cities. Web users are able to drive down a street, in a virtual sense, using their mouse to adjust views of roadside scenery.

The feature has become a popular service for drivers seeking to plan a trip to an unfamiliar neighborhoods. But from the outset, Street View has been a magnet of controversy over potential privacy invasion of people captured in the images.

In one instance, a man was pictured exiting a San Francisco strip club. In another case, a woman was shown sunbathing. Complaints have even included a woman asking that a picture of her cat be taken down, a request Google denied.

The images that worry the Pentagon include views of bases, including security at the entrances to those installations.

“It actually shows where all the guards are. It shows how the barriers go up and down. It shows how to get in and out of buildings,” said Renuart, commander of U.S. Northern Command.

“I think that poses a real security risk for our military installations,” he told reporters at the Pentagon.

The Google spokesman said his company’s policy was to photograph only those images visible from public roads.

“It is against Google’s policy for a driver to seek access to a military base,” Yu said.

Street View has yet to be introduced outside the United States. Web-based Google Maps and a related computer-based service called Google Earth have drawn criticism from a variety of countries for providing images of sensitive locations, such as military bases or potential targets of terror attacks.

The services rely on civilian versions of satellite maps that it licenses from commercial mapping services.

Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft’s Curtis Wong give an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft’s new WorldWide Telescope — a technology that combines feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the world and the heavens, and weaves them together holistically to build a comprehensive view of our universe. (Yes, it’s the technology that made Robert Scoble cry.)

Hi-Def video presentation.

Site: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/

Pakistan says it has lifted a ban on YouTube, after the website removed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, adding that an earlier worldwide outage sparked by its actions was unintentional.

Telecommunications officials said that the popular website was up and running again in the conservative Muslim nation after YouTube removed “highly profane and sacrilegious footage” that was offensive to Islam.

“We have issued instructions to all internet service providers that YouTube should be unblocked as the specific content has been removed by the website,” Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) spokesman Khurram Mehran said.

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LinkDOTnet started its operation in Pakistan just a month ago in Janurary and within just 1 month, PTCL strikes and shook the whole ISP industry in Pakistan by their new MOST ATTRACTIVE packages.

As the result LDN (LinkDOTnet) had to revise their rates again even before 30 days of their launch.

512kbps @ Rs.1200/month
1mbps @ Rs.2000/month
2mbps @ Rs.3900/month

LinkDOTnet was the first DSL company to offer the attractive rates but now PTCL rules. LinkDOTnet was the first to give Unlimited Data Transfer bandwidth per month on DSL packages. All the other companies (Dancom, Nexlinx, WOL Net, Brain Net, CyberNet Extreme, etc.) had limited bandwidth packages of 2gb, 4gb, 6gb, 8gb per month. For a heavy internet user even 10gb which is offered by Wateen Telecom on their WiMAX package is too less.

PTCL launched a new DSL package on 28th Feb, 2008. All packages are with unlimited bandwidth.

512kbps @ Rs.1199/month
1024kbps @ Rs.1999/month
2048kbps @ Rs.3999/month

They have also launched Student/Faculty package for universities too. As far as I know only those universities which are approved by HEC can apply. Because I have heard that the 30% discount to students is basically what HEC pays to PTCL on the behalf of student.

Student/Faculty Package
512kbps   @ Rs.839/month
1024kbps @ Rs.1399/month
2048kbps @ Rs.3499/month

All the current old DSL packages were upgraded to these new speed automatically by 1st March, 2008.

This is really a revolution in Pakistan that PTCL is the first company to offer 2mbps internet connection for home users. Now I wonder that the poor network of copper wires support this kind of data transfer or not?

 
Dean Hachamovitch, the guy who runs the Internet Explorer team, will be one of our keynoters at MIX.  As he promised on the IE Blog, Dean is going to share more about Internet Explorer 8 including a sneak peek at some of the features his team have been hard at work on.  Dean’s keynote at MIX06 was one of the highlights of the inaugural MIX conference.  Since then, IE shipped a new version with a new UI and dramatically improved standards support, and the browser industry has heated up with an emphasis on web standards and new entries in the browser market.  You won’t want to miss this keynote to see how the next version of Internet Explorer is shaping up and learn how Internet Explorer 8 fits into today’s browser marketplace.

Read more about it on Microsoft Office Internet Explorer Blog

The way the internet handles website domains is going to change, following an update to the core “addressing system”.

If we continue with the current way of allocating web addresses, we will run out of available domain names by 2011.

So the internet’s master address book is being updated to include records written in a new format, IP version 6, which will help to create millions of new potential web addresses.

The problem occurs because people and the internet use two different methods to call up web pages: we type words into the address bar of our browser, whereas our computers translate that into a string of numbers to find the page that you are looking for. This numerical string is taken from the internet’s master address book of domains.

Most numerical web addresses are currently written in IP version 4, but from today, the internet’s root servers will also be able to handle records written in IP version 6. It means that computers and servers that use IP version 6 will be able to bypass IP version 4 completely when retrieving pages on the net.

Although the impact of this highly technical switch will be felt mainly behind the scenes, there is a possibility that at some point in the future, customers may have to upgrade some of their home computing equipment, such as internet routers, to handle these new long addresses. However, experts stress that such upgrades are a long way off.

A January Netcraft survey estimates that there were last month 155,583,825 WEB SITES ON THE INTERNET. Two other interesting data points: 1) Growth had slowed from 5.4 million new sites in December to just 354,000 new sites in January; and 2) Apache serves, which have been in the lead but suffering a long decline has been surging lately, and at the expense of Microsoft.

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