Interested in knowing iPhone 3.0 release time? According to Apple iPhone website, this software is to be released today June 17. However, there isn’t any particular time when this download will be available.

IPhone 3.0 boasts of new features, so it seemed to be a worthy software upgrade. Cut, copy and pasting text between applications are now possible. Landscape keyboard makes it easier to type. Sending MMS can be done. Spotlight search offers a one-stop search which visits every application on the phone for the search item, so the user does not need to hop from one application to another. Voice memos convert an iPhone to a sound recorder that can record meetings. The Enhanced Stocks App is something that will also be useful to owners who are into the Stock Market trade.

Those are just some of those exciting new features; you can actually see more of those in Apple iPhone software update page. The added MMS capability is sure to attract people who had been greatly turned off by this lack of feature.

The buzz about the new prime number isn’t really the latest news, but this discovery gathers quite a huge interest to day. Odd Magnar Strindmo from Melhus, Norway claimed that he had found the 47th Mersenne prime number last April 12. This IT professional used a 3.0 GHz Intel Core2 processor and this took him 29 days to calculate this 13-million-digit number. This 47th Mersenne prime number is not the largest number: the largest number was discovered last year. Tony Reix verified this feat independently using a different program that ran on his HPC servers.

I hope you had not forgotten what prime numbers are. Prime numbers are often taught at Elementary Math or Arithmetic in grade school. These numbers are divisible only by one and themselves. Typical examples of prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7 and 11.

Now Mersenne primes are a different breed. These prime numbers are equal to this formula:

where n must be a prime number.

Mersenne primes are not discovery made in the modern times. Ancient Greek mathematicians were still the first to discover and study these interesting primes.

There is actually an organization whose ultimate goal is to hunt Mersenne primes: Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search or GIMPS, which had been around since 1996.

Dubai seemed to be shaped up as an architectural wonder in the Middle East. The world looks to them at awe at their magnificent fancy structures. Now their underwater hotel is near to its opening date – finally, as its opening day is always delayed. This hotel, named as Hydropolis Sea Resort, will be open to the public soon. Like their other famous structures, this luxurious underground hotel looks more like a giant sea monster at a distance than an underground building.

This underground hotel is said to be worth £300m. It boasts of 220 suites that show the scenic views of the underwater. The roof of this structure was constructed above water so that guests can hold special events.

To get to the hotel, guests will have to take trains going to and from the building. Interestingly, unlike other hotels, this building is protected by a missile defense system.

I guess this is way beyond what I can afford. For now, I could just imagine myself enjoying a night at one of their underground suites.

If you want to know more about this luxury hotel, you may want to dig deeper into this article:  Hydropolis Underwater Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Interested in “gooey duck”? Gooey Duck is actually spelled as geoduck, and “gooey duck” is more of a pronounciation of the geoduck. This is named to a particular group of huge saltwater clam found in the Pacific Northwest that is commonly found along the coast of US and Canada. The term seemed to have come from an American native word which means “to dig deep”.

Geoducks are actually cultured for their meat. Some groups of people believe that these giant clams are very good aphrodisiacs. These clams have longer life spans than human beings – in fact, the longest in the animal kingdom.

Here are more resources where you can learn about these geoducks:

• Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
• Geoduck FAQs
• Youtube - Discovery Channel
• Wikipedia

The NFL is on once more and many viewers might want to consider watching the NFL Games right at the comfort of their homes. DirectTV actually offers NFL Sunday Ticket which will be shown exclusively only to their subscribers. The complete schedule of the NFL Games is even posted on the website.

DirectTV even offers an early bird deal: order NFL Sunday Ticket with your DirectTV base package for just 5 payments of $55.99, which is $20 off their regular season price. This offer will still end at July 31.

Indeed, this DirectTV deal is aptly targeted to football lovers! If you have not switched yet to this DirectTV then you may want to consider this. The only downside to this is that you really need to have an unobstructed view of the southern sky to have a direct line of sight to the satellites. If you live in an apartment, you will be asked to fill out a form (which you can download from the web site) that is approved by the landlord. You can even order the service right online then wait for the installation to be done according to the given schedule. The entire installation is handled by the Direct TV personnel absolutely free!