The future will be a long time coming.

Bob LeDrew over at CBC seems to have shared one of my brainwaves... Rogers horridly poor announcement of the iPhone 3G, coming July 11 to its network. I had noticed that for the first few days (4 to be exact)after the announcement, the Rogers website had only a teaser ad saying "something big is coming July 11th" and a link that went to nowhere. It just looped back to the homepage. Then it linked to a short press release saying that it was, *gasp* the iPhone, and it will cost $199 for 8GB and $299 for 16GB. Frustratingly, no information on pricing of the data plan(s) was forthcoming. ACH! I want one, just tell me what it will cost me! I will pay it! But what is the point of dribbling out half a press release once a week? To generate Apple-esque buzz? I've had all the iPhone rumors I can stomach, thank you. Another fine demonstration of Rogers great product offerings but stunning marketing ineptitude.

While on the subject of products that are long overdue, Mozilla has declared that Firefox 3 will be released tomorrow, June 17. Those of you who have been using one of the perfectly stable beta releases for two or three months now can move right along now. Incidentally, 3.1 is in the works for as early as July to fix the things that we just couldn't shove into 3.0 despite a very long lead time.

And finally, Ars Technica gives us bloggers reasons to lock our doors and keep our heads down, pointing out that several bloggers have recently been arrested around the world. Now, most of this comes to you from the usual suspects like Iran and China, but Egypt is also right up there, along with Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.