Carl Sagan Auto-Tuned, AT&T's Network Future And More

This week's All Tech Considered is about a translation service used in Rite Aid pharmacies. In our conversation after that segment, we talked about these topics:

• The video above is called A Glorious Dawn and is about as awesome as Web video gets. Musician John Boswell created it and I heard about it on a friend's blog, Miscellaneous, Etc.
  
• I visited AT&T's Austin lab last week with my colleague Kirk Ladendorf and we talked about the company's network plans as its smartphone data traffic grows. The company rolled out MMS (multimedia messaging service) on the iPhone Friday. Now iPhone 3G and 3GS users can send photos or video as text messages.Micr
  
• osoft is so excited about its upcoming Windows 7 operating system that it's suggesting people host parties to support the late-October launch with the promise of a free copy of the software. Unfortunately, this cringe-worthy video was part of their marketing effort.A mo
  
• vie about Facebook called The Social Network is in the works and will star Justin Timberlake and Jessie Eisenberg. Heavy-hitters Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher are involved.