If 2005 was the Year of the iPod, then 2006 was the year that Apple's portable music player -- and the accessories that surround it -- came of age, with improvements on the original offerings. We select more than 20 of the best speakers, headphones, and other iPod-related products from the past year.

As GM's empire crumbles, we take a look at some of the great things they've accomplished over the last 100 years.

Sony halves the price of the PlayStation 3 development kit in an effort to encourage more games.

Letter: Reader corrects reviewer on use of multiple tabs in IE7.

• The baby shower Paris Hilton threw for pal Nicole Richie reportedly had an "Oz" theme, which is appropriate considering how much both of them seem to like prison.
• Julia Roberts is set to "unveil" photographs of her son today on Oprah. Julia's also booked a host of angels to sing the hallelujah chorus during the unveiling, and afterwards she'll bring peace to the world, but only for 5 minutes.
• Some British famewhore reality star named Sophie Anderton also appears to be a whore in the more literal sense of the word.
• R. Kelly's publicist resigned this weekend under dubious circumstances. Or she finally just came to the realization that it's her job to make R. Kelly look good in the press.
• This past weekend Michael Cera joined the cast of SNL and put on a live performance of the show at the UCB Theater here in New York to benefit the striking writers. Here's a recap of the whole awesome celeb-packed event that will fill you with an agonized envy for not seeing it yourself.

The film focuses on a panic room, a safe shelter usually located inside a residence. The panic room in this film is protected by a four-inch-thick steel door and an impressive security system, and features a phone line not connected to the residence. Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her young daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) end up locking themselves in there to hide from some intruders.

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Four new posters available for the film.

A delicious deaf dumb and blind item filled article in the Financial Times picks up where Forbes left off with more tips on how to successfully marry, and stay married, to a Manhattan business mogul.

When it is your husband's event, you don't leave the house without first checking what he wants you to wear - something best done days in advance in case you don't possess a pair of cargo pants, or a Ralph Lauren polo shirt or your black-tie dress is too glitzy or too revealing and you are in danger of looking too attention-grabbing.

More hot tips: be a "listener and not a talker," remain "up to speed with current affairs and . . . . husband's businesses" and talk up your husband "at all appropriate moments but in a natural, non-unctuous way." Gosh, it's so much more complicated than we thought. We're almost starting to feel like it might be easier to just have your own career and hopes and dreams and stuff and not have to bone any weird geezers with burny-hands. But that's probably just us.

The Corporate Wives' Club [FT]
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Google has made it easier for companies to migrate any e-mail system to Gmail by offering an E-mail Migration API targeted at corporate developers and e-mail administrators.

Sony is confident things will start picking for the PS3 this holiday, though one analyst begs to differ saying it will be yet another Wii Christmas.

An arrest warrant has been issued for the plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye West's mother the day before she died.

Gametap writes:
"This game is one of the most immersive gaming experiences I've had this year, and it's definitely a great reason to own a PS3. The mix of platforming and gunplay worked really well and left me craving the next title in the series. Hear that, Naughty Dog? Get to work!"

Pros: Amazing visuals, specifically the textures; detailed animations that play out in so many cool ways; smart refinement of the Resident Evil 4/Gears of War gun mechanics.

Cons: The swinging mechanic is kind of obnoxious; brutal melee is hard to pull off in a frenzy of fighting; there's an interesting element that's introduced that I would have liked to have seen more of.

9/10

A new feature for Google's iPhone search application that listens to spoken searches will be made available soon, according to the search company's iPhone application page. At press time, the feature had not been rolled out through Apple's online App Store, though a report states it may come as early as Friday.