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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

Adobe has finally bought Macromedia. Adobe Systems, which specializes in Desktop publishing apps, brought multimedia applications maker Macromedia in a $3.4 billion deal which, will make adobe a multimedia and desktop publishing powerhouse. This is big news for creative/design world. Maybe Macromedia products like Flash will now be included in Creative Suite.

Some people are very happy with this Acquisition but other are not at all happy. I found this quote on the internet:

It will also be interesting to see how Adobe includes Macromedia Apps in its mainstream software. Whether it will keep macromedia as a separate division in the company or they will fool around with it and release it under a new name.

AYK

Thanks to Vibhas
Here it is the new logo
signing off
G

Whats happening fellow Exunites!
Here I was, sitting at home on New Years , with nothing to do , having reached previously unscaled heights of loser-ishness , when I said to myself:
‘Hey , what better way to kickstart 2006 than by wishing all my brothers and sisters on lnexundotcom?’

This was partially because I couldnt really call anyone , my phones werent working, but what the hey..

Yes Im in a really corny mood , kindly adjust.
Anyway back to the point , Happy Noo year everyone! Yes I like to say Noo because it looks cool! Sue me!
My new year wishes, Heres hoping 2006 brings with it..

For Exun:
Gleaming trophies and Sponsors with XL Sized wallets

For Mukesh Sir:
A fine crop of Exun members and another year of unlimited expertise

For Ishita:
Premium Membership , The Ivies. And a nice fat scholarship (wink)

For Gudi:
Exun Presidency and a swanky car Museum in Paris (wink-wink)

For Sakshi:
A row of iMac G5s in the Exun Lab by the time you become President
Other than that , I dont really know what you want , but I wish you get it this year 🙂

For Varun Misra and the Exun Thinkquest team:
6 tickets to the US of A and a luxury car or something as the grand prize for our webbie – thefutureasweseeit.com

For All remaining Exunites:
Gods blessings and his saving grace , should my first wish for Gudi come true.
And of course more gleaming trophies and crazy Exun stuff.
Lets see you guys beat the Exun video this year [muhahahahaha..]

Miscellaneous Wishes:
Prosperity , Happiness , Tidings of great joy; you know , the works.

Kindly post your wishes and tales of 12 o’clock misadventures
(if any) in the comments section

And he lived cornily forever after,
Vibhas