Thursday, January 30, 2003

Report: NASA to announce nuclear-powered Jupiter mission. SpaceRef reported Wednesday that NASA will unveil plans next week for a new Jupiter orbiter... [spacetoday.net]
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Clie to plug into USB upgrade. Sony's handheld computers will soon be able to exchange data with other digital devices without going through a PC first. By Winston Chai, Special to. [CNET News.com]
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DivX software delivers moveable media. DivXNetworks unveils a new version of its compression technology that promises to let Internet users shrink video files on the PC to play back on a range of consumer electronics devices. By Stefanie Olsen, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com]
2:33:34 PM    comment   

NYT.  Wow.  Cash strapped Vivendi is about to sell the best PC game company in the world to Microsoft.  This may be interesting.  If Microsoft put some of the producers at Blizzard in charge of theme development, it could remake how people view Microsoft (imagine an entire thematic interface with skinable everything, background music, storage locations built into the wallpaper, etc).  Right now, Microsoft themes are basically shades of corporate grey (bland and uninteresting).  Given how most new PCs have power to spare, and the ability to offer complete profile-based desktops to multiple users, it should be easy to get this done.  Game interfaces, particularly those from Blizzard, are light-years ahead of productivity apps and operating systems in their immersiveness. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
2:32:57 PM    comment   

Red Light, Green Light: A 2-Tone L.E.D. to Simplify Screens. A diode that glows in two colors may pave the way for simpler displays. By Ian Austen. [New York Times: Science]
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WIFI Total Cost of Ownership: "TCO is an attempt by IT professionals to consider the true cost for a given technology. Its pretty easy to ignore some pretty significant costs when you get emotional about a new technology and can't wait to deployit. Take, for example, desktop machines. The cost of the machines is only a small portion (about 10%) of the total cost of owning and operating one in a commercial environment. There's software, administration, maintenance, support, training, etc. We can contemplate some of those issues for a Wi-Fi network as well. Here are some of them." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson]
2:28:55 PM    comment   

Occidents will happen: China rips up the 3G rulebook. Philips boosts "royalty-free" TD-SCDMA with T3G [The Register]
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