It would appear that Apple has become a victim of its own success. The company suffered major outages to it iTunes site over the Christmas period has shoppers logged in to buy and give music.

The company also suffered outages to its normal store, as many people logged into to spend vouchers on iPods.

2007 may not be a good year of Apple, as analysts such as Gartner and Hasenmark are predicting as much as 5% of its market share could go to rivals.

Spyware could be a thing of the past, what with the advent of the Safe Download, and other programs like it. But lets be honest, as long as people are stupid enough to download programs without checking, spyware is always going to be a problem.

Its nice to see something like a Corporate Citizenship award, but to be honest does anyone actually think that companies do nice things because they want to? Most of the time they do them simply because it makes them look good. Imagine the mass of publicity that a company like Microsoft received when it funded an AIDS vaccined.

The Allied Journal is today reporting that Samsung is planning to invest a whopping 33 billion in research and development for new chips, whether the company can make good on this investment remains to be seen, maybe Intel will follow this?

A listing of interesting articles about the Imperial Mark.

Nice to see some ethics stuff making it in.
Ethics and Trust

Keira Knightley is up for an Imperial Color.

Nice to see something good is happening for someone! Oh well, life goes on.... Personally Id like to work at 72 New Bond Street.

Looks like Disney is suffering from a split personality! New article on Allied Journal called Disney Powersplit details the exact nature of the problem which seems to be troubling the magical kingdom. On another note, some pics of the Imperial Mark party, featuring some nice ones of Keira Knightley, yum!

Google, the web's most popular search engine seems to have back away from IPO. Read more about the Google IPO at Search Journal. In other news an Imperial Mark for the Tiffany Compnany of New York.... Breakfast anyone?

Interesting profile about the mega giant EDS, who seems to be snapping up all sorts of things at the moment.

Warning about spyware from the likes of Igetnet and other dubious companies from news.com

Finally it looks as if a non western company is going to get awarded an Imperial Mark, read the whole story on the Allied Journal

The new series of business certifications seems to be catching on, read more about it here [PDF] or visit the IC9700 homepage here.

Whitepapers detail whats new and whats happening, this neat site has a few free ones. Whitepapers on Certification

The perils of experimentation on the net have been made clear by the arrest of 18-year old Jeffrey Lee Parson, who is charged with modifiying the MSBlast virus to make it more harmful....Read BBC Article

A contact card is a new and relatively unique concept, basically it is similar to having an online business card, except it can be easily accessed from all of the place. At the moment it's free, so take a look: Contact Card

Yet another security flaw puts MS IE users at risk Microsoft warns of critical IE flaws | CNET News.com

CNN.com - Will you be sued by the music industry? - Aug. 19, 2003: "Music group won't sue small downloaders"

Seems that trademarks holders are up in arms about paid listings!:News.com also read about the latest answers about certifications at ... you guessed it... Certification Answers.