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

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