Microsoft has released to manufacturing Vista Service Pack 2, meaning it should be out real soon-like, so it still looks on track for May. Does anyone still care about Vista with Windows 7 being all like, right here? [ZD Net]
iSuppli has issued a formal estimate for the build cost of the Palm Pre, pegging it at $US138. This undercuts the iPhone, at $US174, and even the G1, at a modest $US144. Why so cheap?
NPR has an amazing interactive map of our power grid—the complicated mesh of power plants and transmission lines delivering juice to your house. This picture shows new proposed lines—it looks damn sad without them:
We talked about XP Mode—which runs programs that work in XP but not in Vista—in our Windows 7 RC1′s hands-on. Now Microsoft is coming up with details about what hardware and licenses this will need.
Many of you asked if you could buy the goosebumping version of Stand By Me that we featured yesterday. Good news: It’s out this month in CD and DVD, along with other amazing songs.
Scientists at Cornell University have super-computed the geotags of 35 million Flickr photos, creating photography heatmaps for locations around the world. Their conclusion? People really, really like taking pictures of landmarks.
Still sore from their rough first step into the smartphone industry in February, Acer has committed to building one Android handset before 2010. On the possibility of an Android netbook, though, they dithered. Hard.
RealNetworks’ courtroom feud with the MPAA is now under way, and as predicted, the company doesn’t really give a mouse’s arse about RealDVD. It’s Facet, RealNetworks’ archiving DVD player, that everyone’s all worked up about.
You saw the pictures, you read the spec sheet, and you heard the pitch. But how does Samsung’s first Android phone look in motion, while interacting with a Real Live Human?
