Bungled bundle O2 has been forced to delay integrating its ISP business into a bundle package again, this time until at least September. Continued

Watchdog calls for better web regulation Complaints about online adverts in the UK rose by 33 per cent in 2006, according to an annual report from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). Continued

Not getting lost more important than Lost Mobile TV is getting a lukewarm reception among consumers, with more mobile users expressing an interest in getting their phone kitted out with GPS technology. Continued

Bad choice of dance partner US mobile operator Verizon has had a fit of moral outrage and cut sponsorship of a tour featuring R’n'B artist Akon after he dry humped a 15-year-old girl - the daughter of a preacher - on stage. Continued

Number of the beast Microsoft’s top lawyer says open source software violates exactly 235 entries in the firm’s vast patent portfolio. Continued

Analysis Sky battle self-inflicted Virgin Media used its quarterly conference call last week to throw another tantrum at Sky. What’s ridiculous is that most of Virgin Media’s current problems are self inflicted. The dispute with Sky involves a few tens of millions in fees: that’s dwarfed by the amount of debt the group now carries. Without new capital, the cable giant’s future looks bleak. Continued

TiVo inventor says VC shortfall stymying innovation British technology is being crippled by a lack of venture funding, according to a leading UK entrepreneur who made his fortune in Silicon Valley. Continued

TiVo inventor says VC shortfall stymying innovation British technology is being crippled by a lack of venture funding, according to a leading UK entrepreneur who made his fortune in Silicon Valley. Continued

Review Practical and portable? Portable TVs are hardly a new idea. Neither for that matter are portable DVD players. However, put the two together, add a host of other features and then you do have something that feels like it’s breaking new ground. Continued

LCD maker LG.Philips has developed what it claims its the world’s first 14.1in colour display that’s flexible enough to bend. It announced the “breakthrough” a year on from showing off the first bendy monochrome 14.1in panel. Continued

Hot on the heels of chip maker Intel’s Centrino Duo notebook platform revamp come the laptops based upon it. One of the first: Sony’s vaguely MacBook Pro-like Vaio FZ series. Continued

Didn’t appear in 2005, 2006; will ship in 2007 Samsung’s on again, off again plan to produce a player that can handle both next-gen optical disc formats - HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc - is going to happen after all. The Korean giant today said it will ship such a machine in the US in time for Christmas. Continued

clamshells and candybars Nokia is all candybars and clamshells today after it launched seven handsets for developing-world markets - some designed to make it easy for them to be shared by families. Continued

It’s not just for ebooks, you know ‘Electronic paper’ developer E Ink yesterday paved the way for bigger, brighter displays for almost any handheld gadget you can think of - all consuming a tiny fraction of the power today’s LCDs do and all able to continue showing information even when the power is cut. Continued

Motorola will next week take the wraps off a phone capable of showing “full-motion” Hollywood movies, the company’s chief said yesterday, though he went some way from promising a true personal media player experience. Continued

JavaOne Get connected Motorola executives yesterday portrayed a world where whole populations are bypassing the PC and fixed-line networks to experience the internet using broadband and mobile. Continued

It’s not just for ebooks, you know ‘Electronic paper’ developer E Ink yesterday paved the way for bigger, brighter displays for almost any handheld gadget you can think of - all consuming a tiny fraction of the power today’s LCDs do and all able to continue showing information even when the power is cut. Continued

Two winners in ICT supply battle Capgemini and Hewlett Packard have gained the most ground in the rankings of top suppliers to the public ICT market. Continued

Bivio runs deep packet inspection apps in the network Specialist hardware developer Bivio Networks is now targeting UK spooks and service providers with its latest 10Gbit/s programmable deep packet inspection (DPI) engines. Continued

Samsung has launched its second-generation UMPC, the Q1 Ultra, in the US - two months after the device was unveiled at the CeBIT show in Germany. Continued

Two winners in ICT supply battle Capgemini and Hewlett Packard have gained the most ground in the rankings of top suppliers to the public ICT market. Continued

Metal mobile to appear in all form-factors LG has introduced a candybar incarnation of its Shine slider phone. The new model - dubbed the KE770 - is 9.9mm thick, just shy of the regular Shine’s 14mm waist. Continued

Column 11n for business It’s always been a bit of a mystery to the average corporate PC user: why, if Wi-Fi runs at nearly 60 megabits per second, can you still plug several Wi-Fi access points into a 100 megabit Ethernet socket and drive it from your 8 megabit broadband ADSL router? Continued

Review Yes, it does everything - but is it any good? It’s the Swiss Army Knife of mobile phones: a compact handset that does everything. Music, video, mobile and wireless broadand, photography, satnav, email, blogging, office work, web surfing, messaging - heck, it’ll even help you talk to people over long distances. But is Nokia’s top-of-the-range N95 trying too hard to be too many things? Continued

We told you some time back that Vodafone had done an exclusive deal with YouTube. Well, now you can try it for yourself - as it’s just launched. Before you feverishly reach for your mobile handset to check out all… Continued

Where ever I lay my cap, that’s how I roam Germany, the European Union president, is suggesting that the proposed cap on mobile-phone roaming be increased to .60 per minute for outgoing calls, and .30 for incoming; as opposed to the .40 and .15 currently proposed. Continued

Ashley and Shiny Shiny’s Susi put the Nokia N95 through its paces. Nokia… Continued

T-Mobile has just launched the web’n'walk USB modem, which is compatible with both PC and Mac, offering broadband speeds of up to 1.8Mbps. And according to T-Mobile, it’s significantly cheaper than the similar device from Vodafone. On comparable 12-month price… Continued

Where ever I lay my cap, that’s how I roam Germany, the European Union president, is suggesting that the proposed cap on mobile-phone roaming be increased to .60 per minute for outgoing calls, and .30 for incoming; as opposed to the .40 and .15 currently proposed. Continued

Editors’ Blog Mobilise everything I recently had a chance to talk to a couple of execs from Antenna Software - Gregg Plekan, SVP Product Development and Jim Somers, VP of Marketing about its Antenna Mobility Platform (AMP), announced at San Francisco Gartner Symposium/ITxpo on April 23, 2007. Continued

clamshells and candybars Nokia is all candybars and clamshells today after it launched seven handsets for developing-world markets - some designed to make it easy for them to be shared by families. Continued

To subscribe to The Register’s weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here Betting on a gambling ban Continued

Review It’s a phone. It’s a camcorder. It’s a robot. Well, maybe not a robot… The Nokia N93i isn’t quite sure if it’s a phone, a camcorder, or something in between. Flip it one way and it appears all phone-like, but swivel the display around and it feels like you’re holding a mini-camcorder. Continued