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It seems that Apple continues to get into hot water over its applications store for the iPhone. The Electronic Frontier Foundation finally managed to get a copy of the developer agreement, which developers have to sign before they can submit applications for approval.

Well, better late than never, I suppose. Microsoft now has a new mobile phone platform that it hopes will rival the iPhone, and Google's own Jesus-phone, the Nexus One. It took its own sweet time -- and you won't be able to buy one of these until this Christmas season. But it looks as though it might be worth the wait.

How often have you wished that you had people? I've always wanted people, so that I could get my people to talk to other people's people, and make important things happen. Like film deals, and book contracts. I bet Brad Pitt has people. And I bet Stephen King has people. That's why they're successful A-list celebrities, while I still have problems getting served at the local dive bar and never even have enough time to manage my woefully overdrawn bank account. It's just not fair, I tell you. Now, though, we might all be able to have people - or at least, a virtual equivalent thereof.

Could the happy marriage between Apple and Google be at an end? A report in BusinessWeek suggests that it might. The rumour is that Apple is negotiating with Microsoft to replace Google with Microsoft's Bing as the default search engine on the iPhone.

In a little bit of cool home-grown tech down at CES, iSkin, a Toronto-based company that makes iPhone accessories, demoed an iPhone case that has an infrared receiver at the top. Working in tandem with an iPhone app, the phone can become a universal remote like Logitech’s popular Harmony line of remotes.

Now, I thought this was super cool, and it was great to see it work seamlessly with a MacBook laptop. But apparently, there will be support for everything from TVs, cable and satellite boxes, Blu-ray players, netbooks, and other devices that could be supported. Given that this was a prototype, there was no list of devices on the app, and there’s no word on how many TVs from a given manufacturer might be supported, but the way it looks and how it works seemed really interesting to me.

What do you call the first decade in a century? The zeros? The noughties? The zips? Whatever you call this one, It's been a long, wild ride in technology. We've seen a variety of groundbreaking developments, which have given rise to a term that has become commonly-used in technology: disruption. Here are a few of the milestones that we've seen since 2000.

One of the most talked-about arcade games of the '80s -- Don Bluth's beautifully animated Dragon's Lair -- is now playable on your iPod Touch or iPhone.

Published by Electronic Arts, the $4.99 downloadable Dragon's Lair application once again stars Dirk the Daring, a bumbling knight who must navigate through treacherous traps laid by an evil wizard, Mordoc, in order to save the kidnapped Princess Daphne.