Blackberry Pearl. The Pearl was a Victorian erotic magazine that nourished generations of schoolboy fantasies. Blackberry hopes its Pearl will sustain at least one generation’s entrepreneurial fantasies by helping them thumb out e-mail while on the move

Censorship caught up with Indian net-users in July when the DoT was ham-handed enough to block popular domains like Blogspot.com and Wordpress.com to stop people from reading the memoirs of a bored 16-year-old virgin Princess Kimberly. Nope — the GoI isn’t obliged to tell you what it’s blocking, or why and at whose request. But it has been kind enough to assure us that the censorship will be less intrusive once they’ve put better blocking technology in place

del.icio.us What sites do you bookmark and tag? Would you like to see what other people bookmark and tag? That’s about the best descriptor one can make about the del.icio.us USP. Check it out, but of course, you already have!

Energy. Unknown Irish electronic security company called Steorn takes out a full-page ad in The Economist challenging scientists to prove that it hasn’t invented a way to create “free, clean and constant energy”. The hullabaloo is followed by thousands of Phd-sign-ups — and then nothing, as the test phase starts

Flash Memory is the new photofilm. Everybody owns a digital camera and everybody wants more space to store their pix

G probably still stands for Google but the tech analysts are talking about a company called Gilead Sciences, which may develop a breakthrough anti-HIV drug. And socio-watchers are talking about the philosophy of Ghetto Latte — making a cut-price Latte out of a cheap Americano plus free milk and condiments

Hezbollah have to be candidates but you could also consider the phenomenon of Hikikumori or “absolute social withdrawal” — it’s being recognised as a disease among teenagers and young adults

ibloodyPod, you’d say, with its 39 million sales and 246 million Google references? Until you think of Ibloody-raq with its 187 million references and its toll on all sides

Jihad & Al Jazeera would be top of the mind for most. Al Jazeera broke a lot of new ground with its English channel

Kylie Minogue, back from her battle with the big C. There are more searches for the pint-sized Aussie wriggler than for Ricky Ponting

Lifehacking, as a philosophy, encompasses any clever and non-standard solution to a given problem. Sometimes very zen and very techie – sometimes just ghetto latte

Myspace, the social networking site with its weird and wonderful population of students, musicians, kinks and pornstars. It’s inspired one macabre series of serial murders and even led to spinoffs like Mydeadspace where dead Myspacers are listed

Naukri, the first Indian Internet portal to go public on the Indian stock exchanges. The way the qualified institutional buyers and foreign institutional investors lapped it up, it didn’t hurt to have a plebian name and downmarket branding

Orkut, the social networking site has provoked a state of war between GenY and its parents. Half of Brazil and most of teenage India has signed up. There’s an iconic picture of the Turkish founder relieving himself against a tree. Orkut contains many good forums and communities — and there’s also the Telugu incest group, a strictly-moderated community of 2,700-very odd members

P is for the PS3 or the PSP (depending on your Budget ). The PSP is being touted as the best mini DVD-quality movie screen. The PS3 is being touted as this unbelievable piece of hardware, which comes with an equally unbelievable price-tag. The games more expensive than the hardware

Query is at the heart of Google but there’s also Accoona, Yahoo, Technorati and Dogpile

R-streaming radio-aka Pandora and all its clones. Broadband, headphones and a multitude of multimedia devices means that streaming radio has become the norm

S for satellite TV, most metro-dwelling Indians will claim but it stands for SecondLife, a virtual world with nearly three million residents, a brilliantly constructed free economy and currency that’s convertible to real money

T has to be for the Tunisian Prison Map — an interactive mashup map of Tunisian detention centres built on the backbone of Google Earth maps and Amnesty International reports. The New York Times did one of murder locations in NY; several people did the Ipswich UK serial killings. It’s a new artform

UMD — the universal media disk from Sony is the latest attempt to prevent digital piracy. Sony hasn’t released burners or blank disks of the 1.8Gb format. But the format’s already been cracked — so sorry!

Vista, the new Windows OS is not vapourware. Various beta versions have been released and indy anti-virus makers have screamed blue murder about the protection measures which lock them out of the OS’ kernel

Web 2.0 has to be the winner here. This is a collection of new technologies, which improves the Web experience. Of course, Indian media-watchers will yearn for a “nast-algic” mention of the Warfornews and other Indian media blogs — (mediamamu, mediamalice, etc). These set new standards in nasty navel-watching but most seem to be dying natural deaths. Wii isn’t officially here yet or else, it would deserve more than a passing mention

X-Box 360 — Everybody is talking about the PS3 but they’ve already mainlined on the X360. Despite reservations and the unstylish styling, X works, on the P&L account at least

Y is for YouTube — the first net-video site that cracked the numbers paradigm and ended up being bought for a huge number. YouTube is a crazy concept, it consumes enormous bandwidth, every second post has copyright issues, every signup is doing Ghetto Latte because it’s all for free. How will Google monetise this?

Zombie networks or Zidane? My vote goes to Zizou — his Liverpool kiss is still the most-watched piece of footage on Youtube