Red Herring has reported that Vodafone and Orange has blocked customers from using Internet telephony services such as Skype over their networks. Phones are being shipped that have specifically had their VoIP capabilities disabled. One such phone is the Nokia… Continued

The hooplah. The stories. The comment Apple’s iPhone goes on sale in the US this evening. The queues have formed, and limits placed on how many of the handsets punters can take away with them. What is all the fuss about? Find out by reading Register Hardware’s most popular iPhone stories… 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

Breeds flock of hybrid DVD boxes HP has quietly snuck through an update to its home desktop PC range with the computer giant now officially shipping its media centre systems with hybrid Blu-ray/HD DVD drives. 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

Mouse maker Logitech has rolled out a raft of accessories aimed at laptop owners - and, let’s face it, these days a lot of us are. Among the selection: backpacks, notebook stands and assorted add-ons. Continued

When you ve gone to the trouble of getting a flashy phone the last thing you want is a naff Star Trek headset making you look like a crack dealer. This is probably why Jabra have come up with Cara, a… Continued

Susi examines the Nokia 6300 and reports back for Tech Digest on this simple, straightforward but fairly limited phone. Nokia… Continued

Orange has launched its Pay-Off contest and is inviting its customers to submit 10-15 second video clips of themselves either trying to prove that they’re the sexiest person alive (Face-off), are the best/craziest dancer (Dance-off), or are just plain weird… 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

MacBooks, Vaios challenged Dell has revamped its Inspiron laptop line with a set of three models all available in a choice of eight “vibrant” colours and with a pick of Intel or AMD processors. Continued

Wi-Fi to be sidelined Capex investment on pre-4G wireless systems will reach a cumulative total of $13bn by 2012 if new spectrum allocations, and technology roll-outs, stay on schedule. The main systems attracting this global spend will be 802.16e and its successor 802.16m, and LTE. However, while the latter will see a strong uptick in growth from the turn of the decade, it will not overtake WiMAX in capex terms until 2014. Continued

So are live promoters the new pigopolists? As some of the biggest figures in the music business weighed in on the future of music this week, there were very mixed views on its future. Continued