CNBC's Maria Bartiromo interviewed Liberty Media's president and CEO Greg Maffei yesterday to gather some insight into the decision to invest in Sirius XM Radio Inc. and to learn about the company's future prospects. Maffei sounds highly optimistic (he sort of has to after dumping $530 million into ...

If you really love rocket launches and new satellites blasting into orbit, here's some free porn. It's the Kepler launch we told you about Thursday. Burns "2,200lbs of propellant per second." Hot!......

McAfee My first enterprise antivirus experience was McAfee.  We’re talking probably late 1980’s and there was nobody at the company interested in viruses so I figured I’d take a look.  I managed to clean an infection and decided we needed a corporate antivirus and policy, thus Mc...

Now that I am unemployed, I have all day to thumb around MTV's excellent video archive, which hosts 16,000 videos and should really replace YouTube as the go-to video source for videos but is achingly underutilized. (I was the second view on this vintage video of Faith No More doing the Mosely-era n...

Misty. That's the codename for one of the most advanced spy satellites up there. Launched in a 1990 military mission of space shuttle Atlantis, Misty is hidden by something really weird: A balloon.......

Earlier this year, an aging, defunct Russian Space Forces satellite, Kosmos 2251, collided over Siberia with the US-based Iridium Satellite, LLC's Iridium 33. The collision happened around noon Eastern time on February 11th. It destroyed the two satellites and left a new cloud of space debris in an ...

International Herald Tribune: A NASA satellite to track carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere failed to reach its orbit during launching Tuesday morning, scuttling the $278 million mission. "It's a huge disappointment to the entire team that's worked very hard over years and years and really...

International Herald Tribune: A NASA satellite to track carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere failed to reach its orbit during launching Tuesday morning, scuttling the $278 million mission. "It's a huge disappointment to the entire team that's worked very hard over years and years and really...

As mentioned in an earlier blog, I attended Radio Ink's tech conference a couple of weeks back.  The strong turnout was one of the most impressive aspects of the event.  At a time when companies discourage convention attendance for any number of reasons, a big meeting room was jammed...

Update: Feb. 17, 2009 NYT: Sirius XM averts a close brush with bankruptcy, for now... Things looked irretrievable only a few weeks ago. Sirius XM Prepares Bankruptcy Filing Meanwhile, equity investors have already been effectively wiped out in the past two years, losing more than 95% of their value....