links for 2008-01-24

The name of the actor, who died tragically on Tuesday, awkwardly comes out as “Tom Cruise” in Google’s English-to-Spanish translator.

The 4G-X version of Asus’ popular sub-notebook, coming to the U.S. sometime in the first quarter, will have Windows XP standard.

The Zune is catching up on the iPod slowly but surely. Microsoft announces yearly updates to their social networking site, quarterly updates to the player’s firmware and user customization of the device. Great.