• Nokia is putting out a netbook. Just like any other windows based netbook but probably costinh $799. But don’t worry cause something that’s actually sexy is coming out too, the N900 which is a Maemo5 “tablet” that’s actually a phone as opposed to N800.

• Motorola is showing off new Android stuff next Set 10. It better be good. Or else.

• Without much surprise UK ISPs don’t like 3 strikes laws and believe it’s even illegal.

• On the oposite spectrum of the netbook, Nokia is trying its hand at electronic money management with Nokia Money. This is something that might actually work on emerging countries.

• C’mon Microsoft just let Windows Mobile die a deserved death instead of digging its grave deeper with stopping .99 apps on their Store

• Google is trying to unbreak IE just a little by bringing SVG through JS magic.

• On Pirate news Eircom is blocking TPB following an out of court settlement with the plastic slab people. That was in Ireland, you know, the country where blasphemy is against the law.

• And on strange pirate news, China jailed software bootlegers. Yes. China. Hell as frozen over.

• You own a Pre ? It’s rating you out. Shoot it.

• Nintendo is gonna allow games to boot from SDHC. Great news if you know what I mean.

• Microsoft is bringing Office to Nokia Phones. Let’s just hope it’s better than Office Mobile on Windows Mobile. But it won’t.

• On errr, uncensorship news, China decided to back down on the Great FireWall of China. Lets just hope other countries less free than China, like Australia, follow this example. But oh wait, the Australian government is trying to get ISPs to pay for equipment to spy on their customers. I supposed freedom loving australians will just have to move to … China.

• On touting my own horn news, Portugal made the news with 1Gbps broadband access announcement. That was a few days of my life so I might as well point it out. (btw, surfing at gigabit rocks now even more than in 2002).

• Nokia, cause the N97 is well, chunky, decided to put out what the N97 should have been all along and call it N97 mini. It’s got less builtin memory but on the other hand it isn’t a pig.

• Apple, while very happy for taking away 32% of the handset market profits with just 8% of the revenue got a lot of flak for the absolutely pathetic handling of Ninjawords on the app store.

• And on security, if you’re a furein national living in OK you’ll be issued with an ID card that can be cloned in 12 minutes and that’s using off-the-shelf stuff. Don’t you feed safer already ?

• There’s two way of doing censorship. One is the honest way, like China does it. The other is the let’s pretend we’re a free country and just want to protect the children way. Malaysia is going the second way.

It has finally happened, FriendFace. I’ll keep scanning the IT Guys for more signs of things to come.

From the looks of it, this was the exit strategy. So kudos and stuff.

• Mobile: Ericsson is obviously full of cash as it snatched the CDMA and LTE units from Nortel’s corpse for $1.13B. On more LTE news, Verizon will run trials during 2009 which is good news for people without iPhone contracts. AT&T made fools of themselfs (again) by claiming jailbroken iPhones can be used in cell tower terrorism. My first reaction to this is “huau. is your network that crappy ??”. My second would be, “i’m pretty sure a cell tower terrorist would go for a much simpler mobile than the iPhone, but hey, whatever rocks your boat”.

• Wii sales are sliding. That doesn’t stop Nintendo from still owning half the living room market and totalling destroying Sony in the handheld market. Lets not forget that according to a number of reports Nintendo is the only one of the 3 that actually turns profits on unit sales.

• The RIAA helpfully reminds us “bought” DRMed music is not actually expected to work forever. Cause you know, that would be too much hassle for them. Meanwhile the FSF reminds us copyright is not all bad like the Pirate Party would lead us to believe. It’s true kids, there’s no GPL, MPL, BSD and Artistic without copyright.

• This has been a “good” week for news. The majority of PC laptops come with Computrace LoJack on the BIOS just in case your laptop get “misplaced”. It just so happen Computrace LoJack is a vulnerability in itself so it can contributed to your information being, well, lojacked. Meanwhile, Apple keyboards are too smart and have enough processing power to run a keylogger. Remember when keyboards just went click ? ATI Video cards (take that NVidia!) are powering the fastest MD5 collision system to date. (AT&T would say video cards can be used by md5 terrorists). And the happy fun news of the weed, scammers (or more likely publicity stunters) installed a fake ATM at Defcon where it obviously got spotted pretty fast.

• In censorship news, the Australian Govt decided the Great Australian Firewall test was success despite failing

• Going off tech into biotech, Boing Boing ran a story about douchebag companies trademarking South American native crops and then proceeding to levy tax on them.