Technology Crescendo

The past few days have seen what looks like a major change of affairs in the technology arena.

• Sandisk, holders of IP for nand flash drives, were doing the only too logical thing-placing media on micro-sd card with a USB sleeve to plug it into players. Now, micro-SD is a tiny weeny thingy no bigger than a SIM-card, but sizes as big as two gigabyte are in existence. Many phones have microSD slots, so it is nothing new, only placing of media such as music and videos in place of (ungainly) CDs and DVDs--all of five and a quarter inches diameter whose surface you can place a hundred micro-SDs which are even slimmer.
• Google teamed up with T-mobile to announce the coming of G1, a Google cellphone widely seen as a rival to much successful Apple's I-phone. Its build is no run-of-mill imitation of existing cellphone-it's got retractable querty keypad and a trackball. Some tech enthusiast has placed the two rivals side-by-side and compared them here. (if this link ever goes stale, ping me, I have saved the text somewhere.
• Like a powerful but aging elephant whose molars can no longer chew enough twigs to drive its huge body, therefore slowly starting to waste away, Microsoft have lately been trying to run catch-on (gaming, search) and not so successful upgrade (vista). Plus, the man whose name is synonymous with Microsoft, Bill Gates, recently retired early. If it weren't for shareholder, Microsoft trustees could have just convened and retired the titan of technology successes whose time has come, like a general who won many wars but has at last shown all the signs of aging.
• One of my recent posts was my concern about the European scientific project dubbed LHC. Something went wrong and they had to halt their experiment: about a ton of liquefied helium liberated itself back into atmosphere where it had been abducted from, rendering the superconducting magnets not so super--Talk of biblical Babel tower.