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Google has just released an online chat program, dubbed Google Talk, that has three noteworthy features:

Yet more Google fun and festivities. If you're into this kinda thing they've got what they call Google Desktop, a mini search engine for your personal documents. You can use it to search for documents, images, web pages you've viewed, email, etc, and it works with Outlook, Thunderbird, Firefox and a whole host of other programs.

A thorough explanation of why Intel are such a poor company today. The funny thing that I see a parallel between their technological demise and that of Star Trek over the years, with how Star Trek turned from being a fairly good and thought provoking show into a stupid sit-com that could do nothing but repeat older stories over and over again, usually using kludges like time travel.

• http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/08/intels-continued-marketing-evolution.html