Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Another Bird Down. Intelsat loses another satellite. "The temporary service interruption aboard IA-7 was extremely unusual; in Intelsat's case, literally a once-in-30-years occurrence," said Starband's CIO concerning problems with one Intelsat satellite in November. 8:32:03 PM

Dell's Rollins dismisses iPod as a "fad". "Fads rage, and then they drop off," says Kevin Rollins. As for the Mac Mini, he says, it won't "turn the industry upside down." 8:31:34 PM

Make Beautiful Music With Value. Do you want to play a one-string fiddle or a 12-string guitar? 8:30:04 PM

The Big Red Button (of Doom). We’re pretty sure a heavy duty three-stage arming sequence big red button of doom doesn’t do anything other than serve as a rather elaborate prop on one’s desk—or feed one’s cold-wartime fantasies of nuclear proliferation, absolute power, and, of course, mutually assured destruction. But if they set it up as a single configurable key via USB, well, we’d be in bliss. Though you shouldn’t need to ask, you may want to know what application it would open? Internet Exploder, what else? 8:28:06 PM

Picasa 2 Google's entry into the world of photo sharing and management has been released to the world... and it's totally free. Back when Google acquired Picasa, I heard a lot of "it's a total ripoff of iPhoto" well, folks, this version can do things that Photoshop can't even do, to say nothing of how it outshines iPhoto. 8:25:16 PM

Car, play me Eminem's latest hit. Online-music company Gracenote is developing a voice-recognition interface for car stereos. 7:55:36 AM

Google Releases Photo Organizing Software  Search engine leader Google Inc. released free software Tuesday for organizing and finding the hundreds or thousands of digital photos often stored on a computer's hard drive. 7:55:15 AM

Nanotech lighting the way. Particles that capture infrared light could allow everyday objects to tap into an under-exploited source of energy. 7:52:01 AM

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