[H]ardNews 2nd Edition - End O' The Year Roundups

Forbes Company of the Year:

This years honor goes to no other than the hard drive mammoth Seagate.

Everything is being disruptive and disrupted," he says. "Disk drives have been a $20 billion market for five years. All of a sudden you're going to see phenomenal growth--an extra $10 billion to $15 billion."

Shacknews GOTY:

Head on over and say hello to our good friends at the Shack. While you are there, take a look at what you guys voted as Games of the Year.

It's the final day of the year and to close out 2005 we present the game of the year award winners as voted on by thousands of Shackers. There were close results, there were blowouts, and there is an unexpected overall Game of the Year winner.

Top 10 Gadgets of 2K5:

I bet you are wondering what are some of the coolest, most innovative gadgets were made in the last year? Well look no further!

It's not exactly the world's biggest secret that we cover our fair share of gadgets here at infoSync World - and of course we have our own personal favourites for 2005. Curious?

You can also take a look at Cnet’s take. Oh, and don't forget about what Wired thinks.

Software Flaws Abound:

Everyone needs to check out the numbers of all the software flaws found in 2005. This year we came in at a lean 5,198.

According to US-CERT, researchers found 812 flaws in the Windows operating system, 2,328 problems in various versions of the Unix/Linux operating systems (Mac included). An additional 2,058 flaws affected multiple operating systems. There may well have been more than 5,198 flaws discovered this year; these were only the ones reported to US-CERT.