Apple. It wasn’t only the umpteen million iPods, the gazillion iTunes downloads and the new intel-based Macs that made waves for Apple. It was a device that wasn’t, and may never be. Tech forums are abuzz about a mobile-phone-cum-iPod that’s supposedly due for a mid-January launch. It can’t be called the iPhone (because Cisco owns that brand) or iMobile (similar). Apple has maintained a dignified silence

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

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