The new year is inspiring to all; a time for change, re-birth, and quite possibly, a new virus. E-mails are currently scouring the Internet, trying to find vulnerable hosts to execute their latest threat.

Some businesses already have Vista. It will be on personal computers on sale in the next few months. It will be the last operating system that Microsoft will ever release for the personal computer.

Response to my post about the Microsoft-AMD Acer laptop scandal has underscored the disconnect between how bloggers are perceived and what they actually are. Microsoft’s recent comments about the scandal also demonstrate just how cynical the company is when dealing with bloggers.

As if one mouse wasn’t enough, Microsoft is in the process of developing software that will allow you to have multiple mouses on a single PC, known as Multipoint technology, and you’ll find that it may serve an interesting purpose. 

Two swallows do not a summer make. But in the United States FMH - the biggest of the lad’s magazines - has made an undignified retreat. It will maintain its online presence but there will be no printed version.

The French space agency, CNES, is at it again. No, they are not launching cats into space; although, they do plan to publish their archive of UFO sightings and similar events on the Internet.  

The International Association of Virtual Reality Technologies (IAVRT) has announced a new “first generation network created specifically for the transmission of real-time, virtual reality (VR) and gaming data”.

The biggest problem with using a laptop is that generally you won’t get more than four hours from a battery before it needs to be recharged. This is can be quite a pain, since most of us work at least eight hours a day.

Despite Microsoft lodging two patents for technology related to Really Simple Syndication (RSS), the company “honestly hope(s) that (its) work brings benefit to all feed publishers, developers and users”, according to Sean Lyndersay, RSS program manager lead at Microsoft.

Two hour flights to the other side of the world may seem like a scene from a science fiction movie; but the technology is in place, and a plane that can do just that is currently in development. 

Microsoft and AMD have sent free Acer Ferrari 1000 and 5000 notebooks loaded with Vista to a group of high-profile bloggers.

Recipients include Brandon LeBlanc, Scott Beale, Barb Bowman, Mauricio Freitas, Mitch Denny, Zen.Heavengames and Long Zheng. (Update: the machine that Long Zheng will receive is actually a Velocity Micro Media Center PC).

Despite increased competition from Microsoft, a significant change in technology platform, and a stock options scandal, Apple Computer has been named as one of 2006’s highest-growth technology companies by Business Week.

A recent report by The NPD Group, a leader in consumer and retail information, is stating that downloading Illegal videos has surpassed legal videos by 5 to 1; and it’s not surprising to see the majority of them have pornographic content.

One of the most remarkable posts I’ve come across while trawling through the blogosphere is Google Sighteeing’s  ”Top ten naked people on Google Earth“.

Hot issue: Is she on her front or on her back?

Japanese memory chip manufacturer, Eplida Memory, is claiming a world first, with a recent announcement that it is using its new 70-nanometer process technology to manufacture 1-Gigabit and 512-Megabit DDR2 SDRAMs.

Amazon.co.uk’s console and videogames manager James Schall has pronounced Nintendo’s new Wii games console was the most wanted present of Christmas 2006, according to a report in the Daily Express.

It wasn’t so long ago that many people wondered how on earth Opera Software was ever going to make money with its Opera web browser. Let’s face it, the world hardly needs yet another web browser.