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Apple is now the third most popular portable device manfacfurer

Today Apple quietly slipped into third most popular portable device manufacturer. This puts them ahead of Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba, and Dell. This is most likely attributed to their two most recent releases: the iPhone, and iPad. This probably comes as no surprise to anyone, but it is news worthy.

Mars Rover Spirit not to survive martian winter

The Mars Rover was both a success, and a failure. A few months back it got trapped in a sand pit, and has been stuck ever since. It is still broadcasting a signal as it’s power source is a solar panel on it’s head (Kind of like WALL-E).

Mars’ winters get down well below -100º Fahrenheit. This is too cold for the Spirit considering it isn’t getting enough power for it’s heaters to power on.

Problems with coolant shuts parts of ISS down

The International Space Station has a few rather large labs onboard. This labs need coolant to operate correctly. Today NASA reported that they had some coolant problems which made the shut down parts of the ISS.
The crew had a very rude awakening as the coolant problem was reported as a short circuit at first, and the end result was a multiple alarms going off.
They don’t yet know what happen, but they know it was something to do with the pump module in the ammonia coolant loop.
Hopefully this will get fixed quickly, and hopefully none of their parts need to be jettisoned.

If you have any questions or comments please feel free to comment.

Droid getting Android 2.2 next week

Android 2.2 is a big release for the Android market. They have been touting it for about two months. But haven’t released on very many devices.
The Droid is one of the most popular android devices out there. It’s getting the new release of the OS next week (maybe). If you have Droid this should speed up your phone dramatically.

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