Our condolences go out to the families and friends of victims of the interstate bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minnesota during the evening rush hour on August 1, 2007.

Additional information can be found here:
Minneapolis bridge collapse coverage

If you are looking for a package of free software for your starving student or starving entrepreneur, check out SoftwareFor.org.

The good people over there have compiled a fairly large collection of best-in-class free software applications. The package includes multimedia, utilities, internet, academic tools, games and productivity software that would appeal to or be useful to a student. A complete list can be found here.

There are two different packages available, one is for Mac OS X the other is for Windows. The packages are in the form of CD images that you download and burn to disk.

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Steve Jobs announced the iPhone today at Macworld.

Here are some highlights:

• It's thin.
• It's pretty.
• It has no buttons
• It has 3.5 inch touchscreen.
• It has a 2 megapixel camera.
• It downloads, plays and synchs music and video.
• It surfs the full internet on the Safari web browser.
• It runs OS X. (How did they fit it in there?)
• It gives you non-linear, visual access to voicemail.
• It will feature Blackberry-like "push" email.
• It's quad band GSM.
• It has EDGE, WiFi (802.11b/g), and Bluetooth wireless capabilities.
• It will run on Cingular's network in the US.
• It will cost $499 for the 4GB model with a 2 year contract.
• It will cost $599 for the 8GB model with a 2 year contract.
• If approved by the FCC, it should be available in the US in June 2007

 

For more information, get it from the horse's mouth.

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