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

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

Trumpets set-top box. Plans 100 more NetFlix is going toe-to-toe with Apple TV. And then some. Continued

CES 45nm ‘Silverthorne’ not even out yet LG has craftily shown off an ultra-mobile PC based on Intel’s as-yet-unlaunched ‘45nm Silverthorne’ processor at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Continued

Taking the best from both and still failing to cover the UK T-Mobile and 3 are to combine their 3G radio networks in the UK, increasing coverage for both companies and reducing running costs. 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

All the stories, all the best kit The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) brought a bumper harvest of gadgets and goodies to Las Vegas. Here are all of Register Hardware’s CES 2008 stories, brought together for your reading pleasure… Continued

Connected, pumped, and conceptual Every year, companies and individuals in the IT industry - mostly CEOs and those in marketing - spew vast quantities of unmitigated hype. In line with this year’s rise in global temperatures, the past 12 months saw a spike in recorded levels of hot air. Continued

Local T-Mobile follows US lead T-Mobile has pulled the troubled Sidekick Slide phone from its the shelves of its UK stores following reports of power cycle faults in the US. 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

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

Ever the comedian, Susi has pronounced this U100 mobile from Samsung as being so thin, it ‘verges on taking up minus space’. Wowsers. If this U100 were a woman, she’d be stumbling down the London Fashion Week catwalks in a… Continued

Comment Ofcom squares up to EU over spectrum carve-up Ofcom is changing the way spectrum is licensed in the UK to remove usage restrictions, but the EU is calling for region-wide harmonisation of use to create economies of scale. Continued

Stop the mobile data madness We are indebted to The Mirror for the latest example of mobile data charging madness, this time in England. Continued

Virtually a quad player Tiscali is set to relaunch the Toucan Mobile brand it acquired as part of last year’s Pipex buyout, though it’s still talking to the networks about which lucky operator gets to carry Toucan customers. Continued

More news from the 3GSM, this time from Microsoft and Vodafone, who have announced they are working together on an enhanced and co-branded Instant Messaging service. The idea is to make the service seamless - accessed from both the PC… Continued

It’s a bit of a Samsung love-fest here at the moment, as Susi and Ashley are getting hands on with some of the brand’s recently announced mobiles. The latest cat out of the bag is this rather sleek F500 multimedia… Continued

Ever the comedian, Susi has pronounced this U100 mobile from Samsung as being so thin, it ‘verges on taking up minus space’. Wowsers. If this U100 were a woman, she’d be stumbling down the London Fashion Week catwalks in a… Continued

Of carts and horses It shouldn’t be a surprise as to why IT’s automation needs often fall to the bottom of the stack: because most companies are not in the technology business, investments in people, processes, or technologies that are designed to improve IT only show up as expenses on the bottom line. And so while IT is the organization that is responsible for helping the rest of the business adopt various automated solutions, IT often goes begging when it comes to investing in its own operational improvements. Continued

Taking the best from both and still failing to cover the UK T-Mobile and 3 are to combine their 3G radio networks in the UK, increasing coverage for both companies and reducing running costs. Continued

Solid, init? Samsung has rolled out its first “ultra-durable” mobile phone, and with its water-, dust- and shock-resistant shell, the Samsung M110 Solid mounts a chunky challenge to Sonim’s “indestructible” XP1. Continued

Don’t even think about it Led Zeppelin have warned that anyone buying illicit tickets for the band’s O2 Arena gig will likely not get past the tout-busting “stringent security measures”, the Daily Telegraph reports. Continued

WirelessHD 1.0 ready for implementation The companies behind the Wireless HD (WiHD) standard - Intel, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, LG, Matsushita and NEC among them - have completed the first full version of the specification. Continued

LG describes blast as ‘virtually impossible’ A South Korean man was this morning found dead at work, apparently killed by an exploding mobile phone battery, AP reports. Continued

Connected, pumped, and conceptual Every year, companies and individuals in the IT industry - mostly CEOs and those in marketing - spew vast quantities of unmitigated hype. In line with this year’s rise in global temperatures, the past 12 months saw a spike in recorded levels of hot air. Continued

If you haven t heard of Mark Levinson, don t worry. All you need to know is that he s a US hi-fi guru and the centrepiece of LG s latest music-oriented handset, the LG-LB3300. Continued

Comment But still ‘experimenting’ In its bid to bring the full internet experience to the mobile device, Nokia will need to formulate a clear strategy for mobile advertising, an important internet revenue driver, but also an area fraught with risks. Continued

Euthanasia performed on its PDP TV range Japan-based Fujitsu has announced that it will end production of plasma screens due to poor profitability. The company was the first to commercially introduce this technology in 1992, but sales of plasma TVs have been falling behind those for LCDs. Continued

This Old Box C:\> cd \memories\ibm\1981 It’s time again to rewind that fleshy cassette storage device in your head to yesteryear. Continued

Review Nothing slippery about this one… With its recent 6500 Slide and Classic models, Nokia has introduced the most unlikely twins since Schwarzenegger and DeVito. Although they share the same model number and 3G capability, the 6500 Slide and 6500 Classic are very different devices both in looks and key features. Continued

Connected, pumped, and conceptual Every year, companies and individuals in the IT industry - mostly CEOs and those in marketing - spew vast quantities of unmitigated hype. In line with this year’s rise in global temperatures, the past 12 months saw a spike in recorded levels of hot air. Continued

It’s a ‘pretty poor experience’, so you can’t have it Vodafone has won an injunction preventing T-Mobile from selling the iPhone in Germany. T-Mobile is Apple’s exclusive carrier partner in Europe’s biggest market. Continued

DRM-free MP3s from music label to be sold on US website Warner Music Group is making its music available for download from Amazon without Digital Rights Management (DRM) copy protection, enabling consumers more freedom in how they listen to and transfer digital music. Continued