Weak phone sales blamed Motorola has warned that it expects to see a first quarter loss after a downturn in sales of its mobile phones. Continued

No future for the 20GB model? Sony is to introduce an 80GB version of the PlayStation 3, documents filed earlier this month with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reveal. Continued

VSLive Rival offers helping hand to customers Mystery surrounds the fate of AppForge, the mobile applications developer, with suggestions the company may have ceased trading. Continued

Column You have the weekend to respond It’s now (almost) too late to submit your comment on what should be done with the “digital dividend” - which is to say, if you think Sky should have a monopoly on High Definition TV, then you’ll be smiling. Continued

Sony Ericsson this week took the wraps off not only its latest Walkman-branded slimline slider phone but also its first handset capable of accepting high-speed HSDPA downloads. Continued

Review Is this mish-mash mobile masterful at all? It’s always nice to have a little look-see at the newest hardware, but the E600 isn’t actually new as such - it’s the reincarnation of several previous models, including T-Mobile’s Dash and MDA Mail - as the Dash is called over here - and manufacturer HTC’s own S620. Continued

Cut off customers Illinoyed A long-planned area code change for Chicago has left BT customers in the UK unable to call the southern part of the Windy City. Continued

Review Style over substance? Ever felt that boring old black and silver just wasn’t you? When you go telly shopping are you uninspired by the me-too-ness of the models on offer? Want something in your lounge that makes a statement? Then Taiwanese manufacturer HANNspree could have just the model for you. Continued

Engineers to be sent door to door LG has admitted its code caused some of its LCD and plasma TVs to freeze during certain digital broadcasts transmitted by Australia’s Nine Network. The South Korean giant apologised for any inconvenience caused and pledged to fix the troubled tellies. Continued

Comment Pulls out of WiMAX Ericsson was never going to welcome WiMAX, given its potential cannibalisation of the Swedish giant’s strongest market, UMTS/HSPA, but it was mellowing towards the technology last year as it sought to diversify its customer base and be less dependent on cellcos, moving towards multi-network convergence and managed services for its growth. Continued

Console internals rejigged Nintendo is reportedly tweaking the Wii’s internal workings to prevent the use of console modification chips. Continued

According to Apple Insider, they have it on good authority that a Swedish firm has been assured that they’ll get their hands on a 3G version of th iPhone as early as January 2008. Whether it will be the first… Continued

Apparently there are 66 million unwanted mobile handsets in the UK, with phones being replaced on average every 18 months. But if you have a Nectar card, you can trade your old handsets in and buy something else. Like a… Continued

Exclusive Been to Montreal? Bruised by a resurgent Intel, AMD wishes it had tackled the four-core era with a different approach. The chipmaker stands behind the technical merits of pumping out a so-called native four-core chip with all four cores on the same piece of silicon. Continued

We talk to Microsoft’s Jack Greenfield about the future of Visual Studio At Microsoft s Architect Insight conference in Wales this month, Microsoft software architect Jack Greenfield tells us about a BMW factory which rarely makes the same car twice. It is an example of mass customization, handling millions of variations within an automated process. Could the same apply to software development? Continued

Column You have the weekend to respond It’s now (almost) too late to submit your comment on what should be done with the “digital dividend” - which is to say, if you think Sky should have a monopoly on High Definition TV, then you’ll be smiling. Continued

Weak phone sales blamed Motorola has warned that it expects to see a first quarter loss after a downturn in sales of its mobile phones. Continued

Cut off customers Illinoyed A long-planned area code change for Chicago has left BT customers in the UK unable to call the southern part of the Windy City. Continued

Ladies and gentleman, we’re currently cruising at a speed of 70MPH… In the true spirit of healthy competition, LG Electronics has launched a rival to Pioneer’s in-car SatNav entertainment device. The LG LAN9600R has a seven-inch touchscreen DVD monitor, MP3 player and CD tuner with European street-level navigation and integrated Bluetooth hands-free calling. Continued

Hardware Widow I’m Lenin on a lampost at the corner of the street… And what mobile telephone will Moscow’s most fashionable oligarchs be clasping to their ears this spring? If Russian handset supplier Isse has its way, its re-styled Nokia 8800, the Monaco, that’s what. Continued

Another charity turns to technology to aid its fundraising efforts. Amnesty International UK is to implement a mobile phone payment system that can handle donations of up to 800. Using the LUUP payment system, Amnesty will be able to receive… Continued

On paper putting a powerful speakers in an MP3 player sounds like a great idea. But just as camera phone makers inadvertently created the fave ASBO past-time of happy slapping, so the Samsung K5 along with the Sony Ericsson Walkman… Continued

Can you really get nostalgic for an old mobile phone? Apparently so - well, at least in Korea, where Motorola has re-launched the StarTAC brand with the StarTAC III MS900 clamshell. Except, it's not got a lot on common with… Continue

There are some folk round here who reckon that the only gadget launch that really matters this year is, you guessed it, the Apple iPhone. So we have decided to give them their own blog. Over at iPhonic, Apple die-hard… Continue

It's not unusual for companies to tempt new customers with tempting free offers, but it is unusual for them to offer the same deals to existing users. But that's what Virgin Mobile is doing by offering free music downloads to… Continue

Stuart Dredge writes… Once upon a time, Sony's Walkman was the most powerful music technology brand in the world. Everyone knew what a Walkman was, it was one of the most desirable and fashionable devices around, and it arguably changed… Continue