Comment Biter bit Qualcomm had yet another setback in the courtroom this week, as Broadcom was awarded $19.64m in damages for incorporating Broadcom technology in its baseband chips and software. Continued

They know where we are - and it’s for our own good… Mobile internet users can now prove their location to a website or remote network service, according to geolocation specialist Quova. Continued

Samsung has turned to one of the world’s leading - apparently - industrial designers to remould its latest handset as a “pragmatic work of art” rather than a run-of-the-mill candybar. Continued

I’ll see you in court. Oh, you’re already there Nokia has filed another lawsuit against Qualcomm in their ever-growing list of patent spats. Continued

Comment To the tune of £4 trillion, TIA review says The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) report makes fascinating reading every year, mostly because it points to the sheer scale of the industry, but also because it highlights just how big the trends we have been following have already become and how big they are likely to become in a few more years, projecting out to 2010. Continued

RAZR phones fail to slice into new markets Motorola has announced another round of layoffs - 4,000 to add to the 3,500 jobs it slashed in January. Continued

Frees up thousands of pink slips Texas semiconductor manufacturer Freescale is cutting jobs across the company as part of a strategy to reduce costs during a sluggish year. Continued

Version 1 Linux ready for mobile phone use Writing a software app for mobile phones can be an frustrating experience. What’s sauce on one handset, may be poison on another. For compatability across phones, manufacturers and cellcos remains an elusive goal. Continued

Comment One per cent is aiming too high Steve Jobs sounds modest with his 2008 sales prediction: “10 million iPhones is one per cent of the mobile phone market”. This is indeed true, but it’s not a useful benchmark. Continued

Updated O2: Of course we will, but we don’t support the war The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has mounted a media campaign this week to shame major employers into signing its statement of support for military-reservist employees. Continued

Will Head writes… RIM is soon going to be rolling out a version of its much prized instant email software that will run on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform. The company has offered similar functionality in the past through BlackBerry Connect,… Continued

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

Orange is jumping on the talent show bandwagon, but on mobiles phones with Play-Off, which claims to offer the nation s never-ending queue of wanabees a platform to pit their talents against one another. You need to submit 10-15 second videos… Continued

I’ll see you in court. Oh, you’re already there Nokia has filed another lawsuit against Qualcomm in their ever-growing list of patent spats. Continued

Feature HDMI. DisplayPort. UDI. Three rivals, only one winner. Which will it be? Take a look at the back of a typical HDTV, and you’ll almost certainly see at the very least one or more Scart connectors; a handful of RCA jacks to feed in stereo audio, composite video and component video; and at least one High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) port… Continued

Users don’t care about speed, telco claims BT is aiming to push access speed down the broadband agenda as the copper wires which carry data into homes swiftly approach their technological limits. Continued

Hardware Widow Sony has rolled out a range of laptops based on Intel’s latest ‘Santa Rosa’ Centrino Duo technology, sheathed in a range of “bold… eye-popping… fashion-forward” (eh?) colours and equipped with a “pulsating” light that shines through the chassis to tell you what the machine’s up to. Continued

Another Minority operating system? Microsoft launched Surface Computing last night, and with a new computing paradigm - the table-top. Continued

Computex Intel has rolled out its anticipated extension of ye olde Pentium brand into the more advanced Core era with a quintet of desktop and laptop processors based on its new architecture. Continued

Comment One per cent is aiming too high Steve Jobs sounds modest with his 2008 sales prediction: “10 million iPhones is one per cent of the mobile phone market”. This is indeed true, but it’s not a useful benchmark. Continued

Price cuts, exclusive games and a more integrated mobile strategy would help Things are looking tough for Sony: redundancies, missed shipment targets and poor financial results. So what’s a giant mega-corporation to do? Take advice from bloggers, of course… Continued

RAZR phones fail to slice into new markets Motorola has announced another round of layoffs - 4,000 to add to the 3,500 jobs it slashed in January. Continued

Media analyst Screen Digest has completed some interesting research into the global market for over-the-air (OTA) mobile music downloads, as well as speculating on what impact the iPhone may have on this market. By the end of 2006, the global… Continued

New low in ‘unlimited’ definition Orange has launched its unmetered-mobile-data tariff for the UK - but unexpectedly capped it at 30MB a month. Continued

Pictures claiming to have been taken on Apple’s forthcoming iPhone have tipped up on the internet. The image, showing a man tucking into some jam on toast, was spotted by Mobile Guerilla, after constantly typing taken with an apple iphone… Continued

Vodafone aims to encourage customers to sign up to its family tariff by selling two Samsung C300s, or two Nokia 1600s, in a single bundle. The Samsung deal costs 75, and the Nokia deal costs 50. They’ll be sold in… Continued

Personal reasons CEO Hans Kleis has resigned from Sharp Europe, citing “personal reasons”. He leaves next month. Continued

Pictures claiming to have been taken on Apple’s forthcoming iPhone have tipped up on the internet. The image, showing a man tucking into some jam on toast, was spotted by Mobile Guerilla, after constantly typing taken with an apple iphone… Continued

Feature HDMI. DisplayPort. UDI. Three rivals, only one winner. Which will it be? Take a look at the back of a typical HDTV, and you’ll almost certainly see at the very least one or more Scart connectors; a handful of RCA jacks to feed in stereo audio, composite video and component video; and at least one High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) port… Continued

If you’ve been holding a meeting and found you’ve had to compete with the allure of mobile email for your colleagues’ attention, you’re not alone. A survey of senior executives found that 86 percent said it was common for people… Continued

Analysis Long-planned escape from beige boxes Microsoft’s announcement of Surface Computing, basically a PC built into a coffee table, might indeed represent a new paradigm in computing technology, but for Microsoft it’s just another attempt at getting its software out from the beige boxes under our desks to somewhere, anywhere, else. Continued

Research in Motion (RIM) has said that it plans to port software to devices running the latest Windows Mobile 6.0 operating system, allowing more devices to run like BlackBerries. The software would allow people who don’t want to lose their… Continued

The propaganda VoIP may be great for keeping calling costs down - but it does mean you’re shackled to your PC by a headset, which doesn’t lend itself to long conversations. ZyXEL is hoping to change all that with the… Continued