23rd Jan-end of Jan

Television:
Ofcom warns the BBC about its plans for download services (23rd Jan): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6290745.stm but the BBC trust gives its approval a few days later (31st Jan): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6316857.stm

Music:
Sony agrees compensation for the 'rootkit' PR disaster (30th Jan): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6314443.stm

Video Games:
How Sony are using user-generated content to help maximise sales of the PS3 (29th Jan): http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,2000468,00.html

Future Technology:
Intel announces chips using nano technology (27th Jan): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6299147.stm

Music:
Changing digital record buying habits and chart rules lead BBC radio stations to change their playlist policy (26th Jan): http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1999042,00.html

Internet / Television:
Fox subpoenas Youtube to find out who pirated episodes of The Simpsons and 24 (26th Jan): http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2007-01-26T102643Z_01_N26209477_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-YOUTUBE-FOX.XML see also: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1999800,00.html

Security:
Confirmation that HD DVD copy protection has been breached (see last posting) (26th Jan): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6301301.stm

Mobile Phones:
In Finland a novel has been published written in tx msg (25th Jan): http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/01/25/sms.novel.ap/index.html

Internet / Mobile Phones:
Mobile phone footage of a playground beating is posted by children on the web (24th Jan): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6294399.stm

Internet:
China to overtake USA as world's largest internet user (24th Jan): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6293345.stm see also http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1998038,00.html

Future Technology:
The military are creating robot insects carrying explosive warheads - 'micro air vehicles' (MAVs) or 'wasps' (23rd Jan): http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72543-0.html?tw=wn_index_1

Security:
Myspace launches a lawsuit against a prolific spammer (23rd Jan): http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8856/53/

Internet:
The BBC's CBBC announces plans for a child-friendly virtual world (23rd Jan): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6290585.stm

Security:
A report on the current threats from cyber-criminals on the web (23rd Jan): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6290413.stm posted together with a useful glossary of the contemporary forms of crime: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5400052.stm#sniffing

Internet:
An article on the increasing significance of the web for politics and political campaigning (23rd Jan): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/6287749.stm