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• Jonathan ‘Jony’ Ive, the British designer of Apple’s iPod, has been awarded a CBE in the New Year’s Honours list.
  The Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire ranks just below a knighthood and is awarded to individuals in recognition of their contribution and services to British interests by the Queen of England.
• A firm that holds patents for technology used in Internet voice calling is suing search giant Google for US$5 billion over its Google Talk instant-messaging client.
  Rates Technology (RTI), a small, New York company that holds patents to telecommunications technologies but does not sell products, filed suit in October against Google, claiming the company is using two technologies RTI has patented but has not licensed.
• There are also rumours that a Google PC might be coming out with its own OS but it may just be a rumour.
• 2005 Independent Game of the Year Awards goes to a game called Oasis. The game places you in the role of an Egyptian ruler. Each level starts out with the board hidden behind a ‘fog’ that keeps you from knowing what is out there. So the first thing our young leader will do is explore. Each step you take through the desert will add ‘followers’ to your cause. The followers will help you as you progress forward to do research, build roads and amass an army to protect your cities.

–manas