Share and share alike to save the planet A number of big name tech firms including IBM, Sony and Nokia have joined forces to work on a patent-sharing plan, dubbed Eco-Patents Commons. Continued

CES The F700’s younger brother Samsung has waited until the end of this year s CES show in Las Vegas to secure plenty of attention for its latest mobile phone, the Croix UI-based F490. Continued

Macworld Expo Price cut, new system software coming Apple is to re-launch its Apple TV set-top box as a movie rental system, offering HD content for $4.99 a pop as a direct download. The hardware’s getting cheaper too. Continued

Alpha 200 created Sony has taken the wraps off the successor to its Alpha 100 (a100) digital SLR camera, predictably dubbed the Alpha 200 (a200). Continued

Black hole death ray caught on camera NASA has identified a rather unfriendly galaxy which is blasting its neighbour with a black-hole generated jet in what the agency calls “never-before witnessed galactic violence”. Continued

Jobs for the boys at Orange Less than a month into the job and Orange boss Tom Alexander has lured three of his old muckers from Virgin to help him turn Orange UK into a competitive business. Continued

Finnish phone manufacturer to distribute rudeware Nokia has signed a deal with Vivendi to distribute the latter’s games through their Download! client on the S60 platform, including the eponymous Leisure Suit Larry. Continued

Barcode readers you can talk to It’s not just mobile phones that are getting more features than you can possibly use, Motorola’s latest barcode scanner has a VoIP client built in to allow shelf-stackers to chat while they’re working. Continued

Connecting people? German politicians will investigate whether Nokia took unfair advantage of state and EU subsidies after it announced the closure of its handset assembly plant in Bochum in North Rhine-Westphalia. Nokia employed more than 2,300 people there in exchange for EU subsidies. Continued

CES ‘Kick slider’ successor, the Z10, kicks butt Motorola launched it’s successor to the impressive “kick slider” Z8 - reviewed here - the Z10 at CES in Las Vegas. First seen in May last year, the Z8 was a packed full of features… and the Z10 is no less so. Continued

Vodafone shows off new handset colour Samsung has stayed true to its word and created a white-edged version of its F700 smartphone. Continued

No headphones here The New Year brings about resolutions to get fit and lose weight. So, if you re still struggling to get up of the sofa, a jacket with built-in MP3 capabilities could be the motivation you need. Continued

Q&A I need your help choosing what mobile phone to buy. Here’s what it has to do: Continued

Q&A Are there any updates on unlocking a new OTB iPhone with firmware 1.1.2 in the UK? There are so many forums and commercial websites with long convoluted solutions that I’m at a lost as to what set of instructions to follow. Continued

Killer phones or kill-a-phone? The convergence of PC and cellphone architectures has brought Intel and Qualcomm increasingly into conflict, and at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, both showed prototypes of their platforms for next generation mobile devices. Continued

Vodafone shows off new handset colour Samsung has stayed true to its word and created a white-edged version of its F700 smartphone. Continued

CES Here in Las Vegas ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) the first casualty of Warner Home Video’s decision to back Blu-ray is the HD DVD shindig scheduled for Sunday night. Clearly unwilling to face the press, the HD DVD camp have cancelled the event. Toshiba and co. are no longer in a party mood. Continued

Review iPod Touch beater? Believe it or not, ‘yepp peetoo’ is Samsung’s preferred pronunciation of the name of their new media player. Thankfully a coterie of Yepp Girls were on hand at the launch of the peetoo a month or so back and they had such lovely thighs, sorry, smiles, that we instantly forgave Samsung its assault on the English language. Continued

Unwired Video Review Super-thin Forget about keyring drives, here’s a USB storage product that you can slip into your wallet as easily as it’ll slip into a computer… Continued

After one grueling day of unemployment Cisco Systems is filling its head of technology spot with the one-day former CTO of Motorola. Continued

CES The F700’s younger brother Samsung has waited until the end of this year s CES show in Las Vegas to secure plenty of attention for its latest mobile phone, the Croix UI-based F490. Continued

Not RAZR sharp Motorola boss Ed Zander has been ousted as CEO by the firm’s board of directors. Continued

Season of goodwill to all IT companies Motorola and Metrologic have settled a half-decade long patent dispute, which the comms giant inherited when it bought Symbol Technologies almost a year ago. Continued

Testing’s complete The Federal Communications Commission s (FCC) website has come up trumps once again. It s revealed some definitive specifications of Motorola s latest handset, the Rizr Z6c. Continued

No headphones here The New Year brings about resolutions to get fit and lose weight. So, if you re still struggling to get up of the sofa, a jacket with built-in MP3 capabilities could be the motivation you need. Continued

Inside the mobile matrix, part 1 If you’re a developer working with mobile devices few decisions will be more critical than the platform you choose to focus on. With the correct choice, your skills and creativity may pay off both financially and personally when thousands of users enjoy something that you brought into the world. Continued

‘Montevina’ adjustment Intel will revise its naming scheme for mobile processors in Q2, a move that will see the old LV and ULV labels dropped in favour of new processor class prefixes to go with the ones already applied to Core 2 Duo chips. Continued

Worth waiting for summer 2009 Vodafone boss Arun Sarin could be cashing in 45m, in shares and options, if he can keep Vodafone on an even keel until summer 2009. Even if he jumps ship now he could sell off what he already owns for a tidy 10m. Continued

As O2, Voda say latest Ofcom statement is overkill 3 UK plans see its four UK rivals in court next week in the opener to what might turn into a 250m case, accusing them of making it difficult to customers to switch to the upstart network. Continued

You’d have thought that everyone knows the Chameleon can change the colour of its skin. But not the designers of the latest USB gadget, it seems. “This product does not change colour,” warns UK supplier Drinkstuff. Continued