Some care must be taken to see this is not taken too far but, by and large, gamers do not like Microsoft and do not, as a general rule, think Microsoft Windows is a good gaming platform.

In Canada, Telus has began offering adult content to its cellphone customers. Available on a ‘pay-per-download’ basis it allows mug punters cellphone users to download pornographic photographs and videos and pay $3 to $4 a time.

Going back a few years there was a company in Sydney — memory, memory, I’ll be forgetting the names of my wives next — which specialized in putting a lot of information in to a small space. Its space of choice was the ubiquitous 3.5 inch floppy disk.

It matters not what users think of Vista — most are fairly favorable — but starting with the release to the consumer in the United States on Tuesday it will very quickly start to change the world of personal computer.

People who upload their films to YouTube may soon get a share of advertising revenue. This was said by YouTube founder Chad Hurley to the BBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He said his team was working on a revenue-sharing mechanism that would ‘reward creativity’.

A coalition of Microsoft’s European competitors, including IBM, Adobe and Sun, have renewed their attack on Microsoft’s Vista operating system, which is due to be launched to consumers this week. 

Almost simultaneously, Intel and IBM (acting with AMD and Toshiba) have announced a breakthrough in the basic design of transistors — the tiny switches which together make up building blocks.

A video of what is purported to be the first mod chip for the Nintendo Wii games console is doing the rounds of the Internet (see video at end of post).

A new search engine technology is being demonstrated at music social networking site midomi.com that allows you to identify a track by singing, whistling or humming a few bars of a song to the search engine.

Sometimes when a relative has been very ill and is making a valiant effort to recover you talk in hushed tones around them.

Phrases like, ‘plucky person’, ‘always showed spirit’, ‘just won’t give up.’

To start a story and Digital Right Management being circumvented it is best, perhaps, to start with a quotation by Muslix64 — blessing be upon that name — who did the cracking. The hacker said:

Despite the consistent efforts of security corporations and professionals around the globe, the Troj/Dorf-Fam worm, dubbed ‘Storm Worm’, continues to infect computers worldwide. 

I have always looked up to Google Video; to me, their videos always set a higher standard. Where else could you go to get 20-30 minute video clips of Scientists and Professors speaking to their class about advancements in technology? Still Google, but now you must sift through the massive database of YouTube drivel to obtain anything useful. 

The Sony PlayStation 3 was late. The Sony PlayStation 3 had some problems. Exit left, pursued by bear, Ken Kutaragi, the chief PlayStation engineer.

It was obvious that once Google bought YouTube there would be a spate of complaints about the copyright-breaching which was the custom rather than the exception on YouTube. Following protests after the take-over YouTube took off a large amount of pirated material — the figure of 300,000 clips is bandied around with no substantial evidence that this is the figure. Just make it a lot.

It’s amazing just how badly Sony is handling the launch of the PlayStation 3. Every step of the way it seems to be getting things wrong. In the latest bungle Sony seems ignorant of the “Internet” and “globalization”.

The good news for Microsoft as it prepares to launch the consumer versions of Vista is that more Americans are downloading movies onto their PC. 

Why pay, when you can download movies for free?