PC Magazine is to ditch the dead tree version and go completely digital as of the January 2009 edition:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335009,00.asp
Pirated Blu-ray discs, soon to be available at a back alley near you. Only 720p at the moment but I'm sure they'll do better:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081117-fake-blu-ray-discs-hatched-in-china-industry-is-concerned.html
Things got heated between Microsoft and HP when Microsoft dropped the requirements for "Vista Ready" PCs to suit Intel:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2008403670_microsoft18.html
Radio New Zealand release their OGG and MP3 audio player javascript as Open Source software, and enlist the help of some blind testers:
http://richardhulse.blogspot.com/2008/11/free-and-open-source-audio-player.html
Google's iPhone search applet, which lets people search the web by speaking at an iPhone apparently fails on British accents:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4767151a28.html
And finally. The Wooly Mammoth genome is sequenced, but needs a bit of tidying up before we can see them at the zoo:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/business_intelligence/mining/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100912&subSection=News
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