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GPS in iPhone

I must say, I am impressed. Given that GPS essentially drives of Google Maps in the iPhone, and uses Cell locator instead of satellite locator (with its drop in accuracy), I did not expect good performance.

Flock

Flock is a new browser based on the Mozilla Gecko engine. Gecko is the engine that drives the famous Firefox browser from Mozilla as well. The difference between flock and other browsers is that flock is aimed at the social networking crowd and as such aggregates all your data in one place, your browser. It can show your photos from picassa and flickr, your friends from facebook and your drupal blogs inside the browser. Not a bad thing if you ask me, as long as none of the information leaves the browser.

Desktop and OSes

Redhat recently announced that they had no interest in promoting RHEL onto the end user's desktops. They are more content trying to get the server market. Ostensibly, the main reason behind this was business, as a public company Redhat has to create and sell products that will maximize share holder values, and Redhat feels that desktop linux will not bring in that value.