Tivo owners with Picasa or Photobucket accounts just got another way to view their photos on their TVs — everyone’s favorite DVR company announced deals with both services today that will allow users to access their photos from any Tivo device. Photos will be pulled down at the highest resolution your Tivo supports, so Series3 and Tivo HD owners will get HD-res images displayed, and what’s more, users can also access friends’ photo albums.

Russia’s GLONASS system just got a boost with the launch of three new satellites aboard a Proton-K booster rocket, last Friday. The satellites successfully reached low-earth orbit eight minutes after launch.

GLONASS, for the unfamiliar, is Russia’s equivalent of the Global Positioning System (GPS) commonly used in the U.S. In English the words that make up the acronym roughly are translated to “Global Navigation Satellite System.”