You would think it would have been a quiet week, but with the news of the alleged compromise of AACS DRM using BackupHDDVD, it caused a major amount of traffic for people looking for more information, so here are a notable stories of the week:

• Has AACS DRM Been Cracked Using BackupHDDVD?
• Tesla Would Be Proud - Wireless P ...

• Microsoft Extends the Xbox Warrenty to One Year
• Time Person of the Year: You
• Gates on DRM
• Microsoft's Zun ...

Well it looks like the editors took a little break this year trying to figure out who was going to be person of the year. Maybe in a politically charged year they didn't even want to go there. But basically everyone who sits in front of the computer is person of the year. The year of the weblog, YouTube, MySpace, and other sites considered to be part of W ...

According to comScore Networks in a release today, they estimate that online spending in the US for the 2006 holiday season through December 15 reached $19.5 billion, marking a 25% increase over last year.

  2006 Holiday Season To Date vs. Corresponding Days in 2005
  Non-Travel (Retail) Spending
  Excludes Auctions and Large Corporate Purchases
  Source: comScore Networks
                                          Billions ($)
                 ...

TechCrunch was one of the bloggers who recently were able to do a sit down with Bill Gates and one of the questions they asked was concerning DRM and the viability of it. The advice given by Bill Gates was:

“People should just buy a cd and rip it. You are le ...

• I'm a Mac, I'm a PC -- I'm a Zune, I'm an iPod
• Changes Coming for the UMPC
• Xbox Backwards Compatibility Update Is Now Live
• Skype for Wind ...

Ok kids, no this isn't a gadget post, but you can break out your Smartphone or UMPC and chat with Santa this year thanks to Windows Live Messenger. Instead of standing in line next to coughing and sneezing kids at the mall, you can sit junior up at the computer and talk online with good 'ol Saint Nick. Just use Windows Live Messeng ...