December 8th-14th

Music:
On changes in music recommendation and discovery through new media (14th Dec): http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,1971057,00.html

Music:
Has iTunes passed its peak? On contradictory research into the success of downloads (14th Dec): http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,1971068,00.html

Mobile Phones:
Slingbox helps make 3G mobile phones relevent - the Slingbox connected to your own TV sends the signal directly to your phone (14th Dec): http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/comment/0,,1971147,00.html

Video Games:
Controversy over a new Christian video game (14th Dec): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6178055.stm

Mobile Phones:
Norwegian trials of personalised adverts on mobile phones (14th Dec): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6180509.stm

Internet:
Blogging set to peak next year. A report on the slowdown in blog growth (14th Dec): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6178611.stm

Internet:
Mypsace records more US page views than Yahoo for the first time In November, News Corp.'s MySpace recorded 38.7 billion U.S. page views, compared with 38.1 billion for Yahoo Inc., according to comScore Media Metrix. MySpace's growth was 2 percent over October and triple the 12.5 billion recorded in November 2005. (13th Dec): http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/12/13/myspace.yahoo.ap/index.html

Security:
UK online banking fraud up 8000% in two years (13th Dec): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6177555.stm

Television:
The new Reality TV Show - a rape trial with a celebrity jury ... (13th Dec): http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1970725,00.html

Internet / Security:
The US State Department turns to Google to help it track Iranians with links to the country's nuclear programme (12th Dec): http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1969860,00.html

Video Games:
German gamers face jail for acts of violence in video games 'on humans or human looking characters'!!! (12th Dec): http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1969920,00.html

Internet:
Government website planned to shame absent parents who refuse to pay maintenance for their children (10th Dec): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6166045.stm

Media History:
First Edison light bulbs may sell for £300 000 (9th Dec): http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1968254,00.html

Music:
Aging rockers in plea for copyright extension to 95 years ... and in the process they become pawns in the music industry's continued legal piracy against the public (8th Dec):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1967046,00.html

Security:
Internet criminals are using students as 'sleepers' - part of a great report offering an overview of the new types of cybercrime appearing (8th Dec): http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1967228,00.html

Music / Mobile Phones:
"Concern" over children swapping music over their mobile phones (who's concerned? Not me, not the kids, only a music industry whose definition of 'piracy' always omits their own prices and practices ...) (8th Dec): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6217998.stm