Dell working on Eeepc Rival

Michael Dell, founder of Dell, funny that, was spotted carrying a “Mini Inspiron” - a new 9 inch model notebook.
Dell spokesperson, Anne Camden said

“Hats off to Brian Lam of Gizmodo as he seems to have caught Michael roaming the halls between sessions and saw he was carrying something our Ideastorm contributors will recognize,”

It’s suggested that it’s based on Intel’s Atom processor.

Given that Dell already has pretty low prices for pretty decent hardware, I can only hope that it will compete directly with the Eee-style notebooks. Given that Dell already sell computers with Ubuntu on them, this would be a perfect way to get it out there.

15 Minutes you don’t want back

Just watch. Via RPS

Firefox 3 Download Day

Firefox is going for a world record for most software downloaded in 24 hours when Firefox 3 is released. There’s no official launch date yet, what with that pesky RC2 shoving in, but keep checking back at the site above, pledge your download, and go for it!

Google News Alerts as RSS

Google News Alerts can now be digested as an RSS feed. This is easier than a bunch of emails coming in, I think. It helps to keep it all in one place.
It would seem as well that the standard syntax for the alert feed is as follows:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=search+term&ie=UTF-8&output=rss

I’ve just replaced the SEARCH+TERM bit (a plus is needed for spaces) with various values and added that as a feed to google reader. Works great.