Internet device gets a keyboard Nokia took a direct pop at Apple yesterday as it unveiled the latest addition to its internet tablet range. Continued

Exclusive You and whose portal? Nokia is being handed a sharp lesson in business basics: don’t compete with your biggest customers. Continued

Sony Ericsson s announced availability of two previously unveiled music-oriented handsets and the broader availability of an erstwhile Vodafone exclusive. The W910 and K850 were both announced back in June, while the K630 is essentially a rebadged Vodafone V640i. Continued

Number crunching with Apple Apple’s figures came out on Tuesday, revealing that all is going well in Cupertino, but analysts crawling over the details are trying to work out if they reveal anything else besides - such as the revenue cut Apple is getting from every iPhone in use. Continued

Is it a camera? Is it a phone? Samsung s G800 slider handset could easily be mistaken for the existing G600, if it wasn’t for one element: Samsung claimed the new model is the world s first phone to feature both a five-megapixel camera and a 3x optical zoom facility. Continued

Updated Got a standard def 16:9 telly? Now you too can use an Apple TV I’ve been playing with Apple’s Apple TV set-top box this week, and I have to say I like it. But Apple’s missing a trick by not allowing those of us - me included - without HD TVs to make the most of the device. No matter: a simple hardware trick solves the problem. Continued

Will Toshiba get there first? Sony may be about to ship the world’s first commercial OLED TV, but don’t expect anything bigger than the telly’s 11in screen until 2010. Continued

Analysis How Hutch called Skype’s bluff Business-wise, Skype is a basketcase. But that’s just one of the things that makes it one of the most emblematic companies of our time - a real, Ur-Web 2.0 company. Continued

Review So cutting edge you could shave with it So here it is, the new big boy on the block. Replacing the old K800i/K810i at the top of the Sony Ericsson cameraphone family tree, the K850i shoulders quite a burden of expectation. After all, as far as Sony Ericsson is concerned this is pretty much as good as it gets. Continued

To subscribe to The Register’s weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here Microsoft vs Google, vs Microsoft, vs Microsoft? Continued

So much for Vodafone’s ‘exclusive’ O2 is offering customers access to their MySpace accounts, only eight months after Vodafone announced its exclusive with the Murdoch-owned portal. Continued

French law bites Mac maker, again Orange will indeed offer Apple’s iPhone on France, but the most interesting aspect of the two firms’ partnership will be the availability, for the first time, of officially unlocked handsets. Continued

Available for download next month Veteran rock outfit Led Zeppelin has announced it’ll make its catalogue available on 13 November from “all online music retailers”, Reuters reports. Continued

Immersion branches out Tactile feedback firm Immersion could be on shaky ground with its latest development, the world s first portable navigation devices (PNDs) with vibrating touchscreens. Continued

Net income increases 41%, revenue nearly doubles AT&T posted a 41 per cent profit increase in the third quarter, largely attributed to iPhone sales. Continued

Gibbon monkeys around with web access Ubuntu fanboys have been crying into their beers after discovering internet connection problems with Canonical’s latest open source Linux distribution operating system, dubbed the Gutsy Gibbon. Continued

Column Unencoding the web My first response to the idea of a dot-sex web domain was: “Well, that’s a rip-off”. And when I heard about dot-tv and dot-euro I wasn’t the only one to say: “Here we go again…” And I bet most of us were equally cynical about dot-asia. Continued

Most people seeking a portable gaming system are happy with a Sony PSP. But in the US, where everything s larger, one company has developed a PC-in-a-box product that unpacks into a three-screen display. Continued

French law bites Mac maker, again Orange will indeed offer Apple’s iPhone on France, but the most interesting aspect of the two firms’ partnership will be the availability, for the first time, of officially unlocked handsets. Continued

Gaming Zone to open in Edinburgh If your missus nags you about spending too long on your Xbox 360, then HMV s establishing a safe haven for you. On Friday, it s opening its first in-store gaming room, allowing gamers to try before they buy or just giving them a place to relax while their other-half hits the High Street. Continued

Has ex-CEO been tangoed? Bernard Ghillebaert, chief executive of Orange UK, is to step down from his post after a management shake-up by parent firm France Telecom. Continued

Smartphone Show Ugg! It’s Andrew’s round-up The 1990s mania for Flintstones anthropology has been on the wane for some time. It was freighted with too many dodgy agendas, and people twigged fairly quickly that you can simply make up any “evolutionary psychology” you wanted. Studies such as the one that suggested rape provided evolutionary advantages didn’t exactly help the cause. Stephen Jay Gould called it “Just So Stories”, and EP turned out not to be an exciting new branch of science, or even social science, but gothic fiction - to be filed under “Creative Writing”. Continued

Could even be integrated into an HD TV Toshiba may be gearing up release an own-brand Xbox 360 with a built-in HD DVD drive, a senior executive from the company has apparently claimed. Continued

Review Could it be a contender? Rock has a reputation for punching out high-performance laptops, and it’s latest line, the flagship 17in desktop-replacment X770 series, has a spec that suggests it’s no slouch either. Continued

ALK Technologies will finally launch the latest release of its CoPilot Live satellite navigation software across Europe this month. Version 7.0 will arrive - coincidentally - seven months after it was originally promised. Continued

Flogging cheap mobiles is easy Nokia’s swallowed an estimated 39 per cent of the global mobile phone market in its third quarter, sending profits rocketing 85 per cent. Continued

Review All camera and no connectivity? The latest handset to join Samsung’s stylish sliderphone line-up is unashamedly image conscious. However, the G600 is all about its photographic features rather than its flash looks, being one of a few mobiles to boast a five-megapixel camera. Continued

Review All flash and no features? With its pulsing lights and back-to-nature themes, Sony Ericsson s S500i is aimed at the supposed style-savvy consumer. But does this sliderphone have the functionality and appeal to really grab fashion-phone followers? Continued