Why spam is out of control, Ordnance Survey loses national subsidies, Britain ignores new DAB format, the single-pixel camera and much more

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• Why spam is out of control
  Noticed a lot more junk in your inbox? Danny Bradbury reports on the increasingly sophisticated methods being used to pump out millions of unwanted emails.
• Survey subsidies wiped off the map
  Government's decision to stop paying Ordnance Survey to chart all of the UK raises the spectre of future privatisation.
• Britain refuses to listen to new digital radio format
  A new standard for digital radio is good news for everyone - except the UK, which is stuck in the past.
• Gadgets
  • Sony Ericsson W850i
    Overall you'd probably be delighted to find the W850i in your Christmas stocking - delighted, that it is, until you saw a neighbour with the Sony Ericsson W950i handset which is also imminent.
  • Samsung BDP-1000 Blu-ray player
    So the high-definition video war has finally reached the UK with the launch of Samsung's BDP-1000 Blu-ray player. It's a smart move for Samsung to get in early, especially as Blu-ray's rival - HD-DVD, developed by Toshiba - will probably be cheaper.
  • Flybook V33i Lux Pro
    With its 8.9in screen it might be one of the tiniest notebooks on sale, but the Flybook V33i Lux Pro is also one of the most innovative.
• Gamesblog: The future collision of robots and gaming
  Keith Stuart: I spend a lot of my time thinking about the future of gaming. I don't mean hot new genres or transitory design trends. I'm talking waaaaay off in the future, when games break out into our real lives. It is going to happen.
• Newly Asked Questions:
  • Why didn't Google buy Zimbra instead of Jotspot last week?
    Perhaps to make the task of building an online suite of office-style applications harder for itself.
  • Is Microsoft really giving Linux its blessing?
    Absolutely not! The deal that Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer has announced with Novell will involve Microsoft handing out thousands of vouchers for what he called "Novell's version of Linux" running on Windows servers.
• Can't we all share in the search bounty?
  Victor Keegan: Should we be paid for using search engines? For most people that is a silly question. Of course not, they would say. If anything, we should be paying them.
• Technobile
  Mat Smith: Another USB lava lamp? You shouldn't have. Really. Because I don't have any spare ports left.
• The dragon who's an angel for hot text
  Doug Richard has breathed fire at would-be entrepreneurs on BBC2's Dragons' Den, but has also helped them and others get started.
• Why is the government so eager to stifle innovation in business?
  Michael Cross: In almost every walk of life, we boast about being innovative. Even heritage parks usually put the word "new" somewhere in their promotional blurb. But in one huge sector of economic activity, innovation is a dirty word.
• Internet governance: it's like an arranged marriage
  The first UN-backed forum started out as farce - but turned into a triumph.
• One pixel is plenty for pictures
  Forget millions of pixels - two American researchers are working on a digital camera that has just one.
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• Newsbytes
  Microsoft Office goes gold | Cute TVs for cute kids | Healthier website | Tough but lighter and smarter | Project it wider | Quit now on YouTube | Computing costs