Computing.co.uk – Bad winter could cost businesses £230m per day
The Forum of Private Business has warned that severe weather conditions could costs businesses £230m per day if they do not take steps to enable staff to work from home. The figure is based on one employee per company being off for one day and not working.

Silicon.com – Windows Azure users will have to pay from next month
Microsoft will start to charge developers to use its Windows Azure cloud computing platform from next month.

BBC – Bigger Amazon Kindle DX lays down gauntlet to rivals
As the e-reader market heats up, Amazon is trying to stay ahead of the competition with the international launch of its bigger Kindle DX.

Total Telecom – T-Mobile UK, 3 UK in talks to sell Google’s Nexus One
T-Mobile and 3 UK have confirmed they are in discussions to sell Google’s first own-branded Android smartphone, Nexus One, in the U.K.

The Guardian: Boris Johnson to launch London ‘Datastore’ with hundreds of sets of data
Fund of up to £200,000 will help developers to create innovative use of 200 datasets in new free data initiative

Computerworld UK – Year-end glitch blocked email across world
Email sent in the first few hours of 2010 may not have reached its recipient thanks to an embarrassing “2010″ bug buried in the open source SpamAssassin anti-spam engine used by many Internet Service Providers.

Computer Weekly – 2009 sets new records for malware, says Panda Security
PandaLabs, the anti-malware laboratory of Panda Security identified record 25m new strains of malware in 2009. This is 10m more than the company has recorded in the past 20 years and includes a large number of new examples of banker Trojans, making up 66 per cent of the total