Sony rushed out a press release earlier in the week, thinking they had won an award for their SIXAXIS motion sensing technology in the PS3’s wireless controller. Howeverit has been surprisingly discovered that the award was for the historical innovation of Sony’s Dual Shock – an award shared by Nintendo’s D-Pad controller!

The world’s thinnest phone with widescreen video iPod, photo player, Internet browser, email device and much more has just been launched. It’s the gadget of the decade! Totally, utterly, jaw-droppingly amazing.

The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) is now denying that it made comments that 10,000 .com domain names owned by Chinese Internet users were lost after all. So, what’s going on?!

At the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, GM are showing off a concept car called the Chevrolet Volt. It’s the successor to the EV-1, last seen in the movie ‘Who Killed the Electric Car’. So, Hooray! An electric car from a big manufacturer is coming back. But one caveat – it’s still a hybrid, and it’s not available until ‘the end of the decade’.

Halo hungry Xbox 360 owners will get access to the Halo 3 beta in two interesting ways – one a guaranteed way, by buying new Xbox 360 game ‘Crackdown’, the other by playing Halo 2 on Xbox Live for three hours from the 1st to the 3rd of Febraury, and being one of the first 13,333 people to do so.

Can Apple really deliver something new in around a dozen categories, like the iPod phone, new widescreen iPods, a 12-inch MacBook, a Mac Tablet and much more… and will the press only focus on what wasn’t delivered, instead of what was?

The recent undersea earthquake near Taiwan continues to cause chaos in the Asian region for Internet users, with Chinese .com domain name owners the latest casualty!

Finally someone has the sense to launch a dual format player – but what will this do for sales of already expensive existing single format next generation players?

Seagate says a 300 Terabit hard drive, or one that stores 37 Terabytes, will be available to purchase by 2010. That means over 6000 Blu-ray discs on a single hard drive!

What might we expect to see happen in 2007? Read on…

An online report is suggesting that some PS3 owners are trying to trade their PS3s with Nintendo Wiis. Interesting stuff!

Want to create your own website, but don’t want to mess around with HTML? NetObjects Fusion came out years ago promising to make web design easy, and although it has gone through at least a couple of owners over the last 10 versions, it’s still a great way for people wanting a ‘normal’ website (and not a blog site) to create one easily.

For over 50 years, the US Defence organisation NORAD has been on high alert on Christmas Eve as the operation to track Santa on his journey moves into high gear. Thankfully, 2006 is no different!

A campaign called ‘Bad Vista’ from the Free Software Foundation is trying to tell Internet users that Vista is bad and that they shouldn’t use it.         

Sony’s PSP handheld gaming/movie/music/web browsing system and more will get its own movie download service in 2007 to rival the video downloads iPod owners enjoy through iTunes.

If you’re interested in reading a very indepth review of Windows Vista and other Microsoft technologies (with occasional Apple and other reviews as well), then you need to know about Paul Thurrott.

But no word on which Monday they mean…

Well, when it comes to the iPhone, sadly, no-one besides Steve Jobs, his inner circle, Chinese manufacturers and specially selected Internet pundits like the Gizmodo guys or a drunken Digg founder (Kevin Rose) really know.