apcmag.com: Vista Service Pack 1 is coming
One of the candidates for this better-late-than-never brigade would be the Windows PowerShell, previously Microsoft Shell -- a .NET-based command line shell with its own scripting language. However, the Redmond clarion call declares that "regressions from Windows Vista and Windows XP, security, deployment blockers and other high impact issues as are the primary focus for the Service Pack."

But the big question is: Will it have a new version of solitaire.exe?

ZPEnergy: Battery Breakthrough
The company boldly claims that its system, a kind of battery-ultracapacitor hybrid based on barium-titanate powders, will dramatically outperform the best lithium-ion batteries on the market in terms of energy density, price, charge time, and safety. Pound for pound, it will also pack 10 times the punch of lead-acid batteries at half the cost and without the need for toxic materials or chemicals, according to the company.

Finally, battery life that justifies me taking my portable computer out of the living room...

Yahoo Finance (Press Release): TRENDnet's USB Adapter connects regular phones to SKYPE
The unit is powered from the USB connection to your computer. A simple hot key allows you to switch between Skype and regular phone calls.

In 1997, you could order pizza delivery from the Internet. In 2007, all pizza delivery orders will go through the Internet...

Bink.nu: How much memory does Vista really need?
Vista definitely requires more memory than XP did to achieve similar levels of performance. That is to be expected with all of the new functionality invovled. To run Vista at its best, I recommend you have at least 1.5 gigabytes of RAM. In my experience, the following is a mapping from XP RAM to Vista RAM requirements for eqivlaent performance.

Includes a graph of what performance is like on a similarly configured XP system.