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• 10 January 2006

• News: Samsung sees 2006 as year of LCD TV

  Samsung sees strong demand for LCD televisions this year as prices continue to fall, an executive told press at CES in Las Vegas.

• News: Murdoch predicts decline of portals

  Portals like those from Yahoo and Microsoft will fade in popularity as savvy users go directly to the content they want to view, publishing titan Rupert Murdoch said this week.

• News: Apple to ship huge Mac TVs – analyst

  Apple will set the stage for the technology industry in 2006, an analyst opined yesterday.

• News: Accton to beat Netgear with Wi-Fi VoIP phone

  Taiwan's Accton plans to launch two wireless handsets by the middle of February that allow users to place calls over the internet at little or no cost.

• News: China-based DVD pirate pleads guilty in US

  A US citizen who had been sentenced to serve a two-and-a-half-year jail term in China for selling pirated DVDs, has plead guilty in US federal court to charges of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods.

• News: Two new WMF bugs found

  Just days after Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in the way Windows renders certain types of graphics files, a hacker has published details of two new flaws that affect the same part of the operating system.

• 09 January 2006

• News: Google eyeballs Microsoft and Apple

  Google has launched its latest effort to expand into desktop software with a bundle of freely downloadable applications.

• News: Vodafone, Sony launch mobile music service

  After launching a streamed mobile TV service, Vodafone is poised to introduce a new streamed music offering, in a move to boost revenue beyond its core telephony business.

• News: Court gives first nod to Sony BMG settlement

  The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is praising a US District Court judge's preliminary approval of a settlement with Sony BMG Music Entertainment over two widely-criticised copy protection programs found on an estimated 15m music CDs.

• News: Skype 2.0 with video feature available

  Skype Technologies SA has completed testing the latest version of its internet-telephony software with a new video feature and is now encouraging users to download it.

• News: Blu-ray/HD-DVD fight 'bad for everyone'

  The drive to replace DVD technology with newer discs boasting greater storage capacity has come down to two major competing formats, and the coming marketplace battle will be bad for companies and users, the head of a major US technology products retailer has said.

• News: Microsoft defends its WMF response

  A Microsoft official has defended the company's response to the discovery of a security vulnerability involving the Windows Metafile format. This flaw put systems running Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 at risk from malicious hackers.

• 08 January 2006

• News: There's gold in them thar chips

  Gold is prized in chip manufacture for its excellent electrical conductivity, but it also has unusual properties that could give it a role in new optical chips, scientists have discovered.

• 07 January 2006

• News: Opinion: betting on digital entertainment

  The world's largest consumer technology trade show has opened in the gambling kingdom of the US. Las Vegas may be an appropriate place for CES 2006 because, for users, buying the latest gadgets sometimes means betting against the odds.

• 06 January 2006

• Opinion: CES is wearing me out

  And I'm not even there.

• Opinion: CES: Slingbox coming to the UK next year

  Sling Media will introduce a UK version of its Slingbox media device next year.

• Opinion: CES: Philips Entertaible touchscreen board game

  Philips has produce a prototype touchscreen board game called Entertaible, on show at CES.

• Opinion: CES: super-ultra-mega-portable computer

  Oqo's 01+ measures just 124x86x23mm (width x depth x height) yet runs a full version of Windows.

• Opinion: CES: PMC not dead

  Adoption of Microsoft's Portable Media Center by device manufacturers hasn't been exactly swift, but that looks set to change, with many on show at CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) including LG's new widescreen PM70 model, pictured below.

• Opinion: CES: possibly the ugliest computers ever?

  Courtesy of Kick Butt Computers. Yes, that really is a mirrorball inside the middle one.

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