Future Steve

IGN has a review of the new Star Trek MMO. It’s PC only.

Sometimes someone trying to do some good on the freeway actually succeeds.

The Consumerist is reporting that DirecTV is about to hike prices.

The thing I’m hoping for? That DirecTV and TiVo will finally announced availability of their new DVR at CES this week.

Oh, and companies – Quit it with the upper and lowercase in your company names. It’s annoying.

Have an Android phone?

Check out Google Goggles. Take a picture of something, and it’ll search it for you.

I have to wonder – are the images being uploaded to the server? If so, are they geotagged, to improved Google’s database?

Google introduced a new programming language: Go

It’s a merging of Python and C++. Read more about it at GoLang.org

Gizmodo has a story about a new tablet that Microsoft is working on.

As far as the software goes, that at least looks interesting, but I really not sure of that hardware.

Between the two screens that will touch each other when the thing closes, the middle bar that looks like it’ll get in the way, and the pen interface that will make you write out URLS… I’m not sure I’m sold.

One would hope that they create a whole new OS for this thing, and won’t rely on Windows Anything for the programming side. There’s just too much baggage there, and with a completely new device they have a chance to break away.

Do I think they’ll do that? Nope. I can hope though.

Bill Keller of the NY Times mentions, “the impending Apple Slate” in this video, after about the 8:15 mark

Bill Keller speaks to the digital group at The New York Times from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo.

Apple intro-ed the Magic Mouse today… Hope it’s better than the Mighty Mouse. I hated that thing. New models of the Mac mini, iMac and Macbook were also introduced.

AMD and Pixelux Entertainment have announced the Open Physics Initiative. Pixelux is the developer of the physics system used in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.