Khrunichev and International Launch Services announce an anomaly during today’s Proton mission with the AMC-14 satellite. The Proton Breeze M rocket lifted off at 5:18 a.m. today local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the AMC-14 satellite for SES AMERICOM and its customer, EchoStar Corporation. Preliminary flight information indicates that the anomaly occurred during the second burn of the Breeze M upper stage. The satellite failed to reach the planned orbit. The satellite was built by Lockheed Martin. A Russian State Commission has begun the process of determining the reasons for the anomaly. ILS will release details when data become available. (Read the full post about ‘AMC-14 satellite fail to reach the planned orbit’…)

  Have you ever drank milk that’s not exactly fresh? I have one time, and you can bet that it was a long time before I’d even touch the stuff again. That was especially rough because I’m the kind of guy that can live off of cereal, which is no good without milk. Those expiration dates are helpful in telling you when the milk is bad, however, there are other factors that can contribute to making the milk go sour, which is why a cool little gadget was created that can tell you if the milk is good or bad. The gadget has two parts, one that goes in the milk container, and another outside that can let you know the status of the milk. The bit inside the milk container is actually just a slim metal ribbon. The detector creates a magnetic field that causes the ribbon to vibrate. If it vibrates too slowly the milk is sour, too quickly and the milk has Staphylococcus aureus. Unfortunately these systems only work inside the store. When you take it home, just keep it in the fridge and check the expiration. Source: CrunchGear Tags: laptops, Gadget, MP3, tech (Read the full post about ‘New gadget can detect sour milk’…)

It is hard to imagine that something that is very usual and obvious now, just didn’t exist 10-15 years ago. No smartphones, PDAs, digital cameras… Even such obvious thing nowadays as MP3 player just didn’t exist then. However, when you hold your ipod or Zune in your hand, you don’t even think that this type of the device is celebrating now its 10th birthday! 10 years ago, in March 1998, was released the first in the history portable mp3 player. First company that produced such device was Korean manufacturer Saehan Information Systems, and the pioneer in the digital audio was named MPMan F10. It had a very small amount of memory - just 32 MB, a laughable amount nowadays, but back then it was a good storage capability. (Read the full post about ‘MP3 players celebrate their 10th anniversary!’…)

Posted Mar 15th 2008 11:54PM by Darren MurphFiled under: StorageIf you were impressed with OCZ’s latest 2.5-inch SSDs, chances are you’ll be thoroughly enamored by InnoDisk’s FiD 2.5-inch SATA 10000. ‘Course, it’s certainly not the first 128GB solid state disc we’ve seen, but it does boast a rugged metal enclosure and promises sustained read / write rates of up to 110Mbps / 90Mbps. Reportedly, this SLC NAND flash drive will see its way out to samplers later this month, and it should start shipping in volume sometime during Q2.[Via FarEastGizmos]Tags: robots, pvr, CD, PDA (Read the full post about ‘InnoDisk intros 128GB FiD 2.5-inch SATA 10000 SSD’…)

So you think you’re safe? You think you can just carry on doing what you do in your life without thinking you’re in danger? Don’t you have any idea what’s going on behind the scenes when your computer automatically reboots, crashes, keeps sending your contacts suspicious emails or links to kiddie porn? If you do, then you wouldn’t have been here reading this. No, instead you would’ve been in a state of shock, like the rest of us who are in the know. Instead, you would’ve been curled up in bed, wondering how you managed to last so long without seeing the “real picture”. If you don’t understand what I’m talking about, just take a look at the photo above. (Read the full post about ‘Wicked photos offer a closer look at computer malware’…)

Dell’s got a spanking new 20-inch widescreen flat panel lcd monitor. Based on the specs it should offer exceptional color accuracy, the Dell UltraSharp 2009W display is fully adjustable even down to the tiniest detail. Just by looking at the 2009W LCD monitor, you’d immediately know that underneath its elegant look are high end technology features waiting to be used and explored. The 20-inch size may not be enough for your personal widescreen viewing pleasure, but it is definitely more than enough to answer everyone’s need for additional workspace in their desktop computing needs. The 20-inch high-resolution Dell 2009W displays 102% color gamut in a brilliant 2000:1 dynamic contrast ratio. (Read the full post about ‘Dell intro’s new UltraSharp 2009W widescreen flat panel LCD monitor’…)

Posted Mar 15th 2008 3:11PM by Darren MurphFiled under: Laptops Sheesh — as if the Eee PC, ONE, Cloudbook, G10IL and countless others weren’t enough, now we’ve got one more low-cost laptop to keep track of. Aiming to arrive just a hair below that magical $300 price point, NorhTec is reportedly gearing up to introduce its Gecko laptop to the world, but the machine itself will be designed / built by Quanta. So far, we’re hearing that it’ll tout a 1GHz Via C7M ULV processor, an optional PATA hard drive, integrated graphics, a 7-inch display and the Linpus Linux Lite operating system. According to NorhTech’s president Michael Barnes, “Linpus Lite is very similar to gOS,” which we aren’t exactly sure is something you’d really want to trumpet. (Read the full post about ‘NorhTec prepping sub-$300 Linux-based laptop of its own’…)

The NME is reporting that Guy Garvey of Elbow is against the practice of downloading only certain songs off an album in iTunes instead of downloading the whole album.  Accodring to Garvey, it’s not about the money; “I’d rather people went ripped the whole thing for free than got the individual tracks for 79p each, you know what I mean, there’s no point in doing what we do (otherwise).” Garvey feels that the practice is killing the idea of the album as an art form. That’s why he wants iTunes to let artists be able to lock their albums. (Read the full post about ‘One musician’s opinion: let artists lock their albums in iTunes’…)

Time T-Shirts You can have this for ?29.99 Tags: mobile devices, TV, camera, games (Read the full post about ‘Time T-Shirts’…)

I read about USB Flash Drive Swarovski Crystal Engagement Ring on TFTS. The editor sugest to use this gadgets to your proposal of marriage. Our advice: simply don’t! Girls love diamonds Engagement rings not USB Flash Drives, event if it is full of Swarovski Crystals… Maybe it is a good gift for your wife, but not good for your girlfriend! She will start to think to a real Engagement Ring (remember diamonds?). And if you want to fail go and use it for marriage proposal. (Read the full post about ‘USB Flash Drive Swarovski Crystal Engagement Ring’…)