A galloping headache of ones and zeroes muddles the post-CES holiday Monday, but the flow of information continues apace:
Russia honors Sputnik designer [AP]
Sergei Korolyov, author of the beep heard 'round the world, designed Sputnik only after Stalin's agents smashed his jaw, threw him in a Gulag for years and made him work behind bars on combat plane designs during WWII.
Microsoft to launch Xbox 360 in China soon: sources [Reuters]
"Microsoft is also checking with the Chinese government, including the culture and information ministries, that authorities are comfortable with the product"
Cell phone subsidies enrich telecoms [AP]
Cellular customers pay hundreds of millions each year in pointless billing fees designed to enrich landline telecommunications operators.
Time may run shorter on 'Doomsday Clock' [Reuters]
The operators of the symbolic clock, which shows in symbolic "minutes" how close the world is to thermonuclear annihilation, are doubltess ecstatic to have something to do again now that Iran, North Korea and co. are waving the threat of nuclear death. They plan to thank Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by sending him a nice "thank you" note next Christmas, and a tie.
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