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Windows Live Mail Beta is here:

You can read more about it, and download a trial from here: http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas

Adobe Premiere Elements 4 released:

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced on Septempber 24, 2007 the immediate availability of Adobe® Premiere® Elements 4, a major upgrade to the best-selling consumer video-editing software. Available for Windows®, Adobe Premiere Elements software offers easy and flexible ways to create home movies with amazing video and audio effects in just minutes, and then share them on DVDs, via mobile devices or upload them directly to YouTube and other social networking sites. Adobe Premiere Elements includes a wealth of new functionality, including an Organizer to help find and sort video clips, one-click movie themes and an improved easy-to-use interface.

Adobe Consumer Products: http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/consumer/

Product Home Page: http://www.adobe.com/products/premiereel/

New Features: http://www.adobe.com/products/premiereel/features/

USB 3.0 coming soon:

Intel and others plan to release a new version of the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus technology in the first half of 2008, a revamp the chipmaker said will make data transfer rates more than 10 times as fast by adding fiber-optic links alongside the traditional copper wires.

Read more details here: http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9780794-7.html

1 KG = 999.999950 grams ???

A kilogram just isn’t what it used to be. The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight — if ever so slightly.

Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, southwest of Paris, says the reference kilo appears to have lost 50 micrograms compared with the average of dozens of copies.

You can read more about the “shrinking” kilogram here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_sc/shrinking_kilogram

Pavarotti passes away:

Today is indeed a very sad day for the Opera world - Luciano Pavarotti, arguably one of the greatest Opera singers to ever bless the world with his artistic talent, has passed away at the age of 71.

I am still in awe of his magnificent performance at Madison Square Garden a few years back. May his soul rest in peace.

Here is a beautiful quote from his official web-site: “I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent and this is what I have devoted my life to”

CNN has published an obituary here: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/06/pavarotti.obit/

Apple releases a new iPod product line

Exactly 1 year minus 1 week later from when Apple’s last iPods were released, Apple has revamped its entire offering of iPods with a brand-new line of iPods:

• iPod touch becomes the front-runner of the iPod product line.
• The big iPod has now been renamed to iPod classic.
• iPod nano becomes smaller but fatter, and can now play videos.
• iPod shuffle simply gets refreshed with new colors.

You can read all about the new line here: http://www.apple.com/ipod/whichipod/