PDC Previews first quarter 2009 Microsoft has scheduled the first quarter of 2009 for the first code drop of Silverlight for mobile devices. Continued

Taking the market temperature What’s special about IBM’s Quicksilver? Texas Memory Systems has launched its RamSan 5000 flash solid state storage product offering one million IOs per second - and it’s available now, not in many months time. Continued

$59m damages awarded Pioneer has prevailed in its legal battle with Samsung over who owns key plasma display technologies. Continued

Cusses out ARM core Intel has started calling the iPhone a flawed browsing experience. The chip giant attributes this to Apple’s choice of an ARM core to power its moderately successful mobile phone. Continued

Skinnier gadgets on the way Clearly unphased by the courtroom kicking its taken from Pioneer, Samsung’s display division has demo’d a bendy OLED display. Continued

Comes With Carphone Warehouse - or does it? Mobile operator 3 confirmed that it s the first UK network to offer Nokia s Comes With Music bundle directly to punters. Carphone Warehouse claims the right to be the UK s exclusive retail partner for the deal but 3 has a chain of around 150 stores. Continued

Too many mobiles Sony Ericsson plans to slash the number of handsets in its mobile phone line-up following its first quarterly loss in more than five years. Continued

Official RIM, together with Vodafone, has finally taken the wraps off the worst kept secret in handset history: the BlackBerry Storm. Continued

Civil servant, intel docs, train seat The civil servant accused of leaving secret intelligence documents on a Waterloo to Surrey train will appear in court later this month. Continued

RIM’s first HSDPA phone back on Orange UK next month Vodafone has told its third-party sales partners to use the “software issues and technical faults” it claims forced Orange to stop selling the new BlackBerry Bold to persuade consumers it has a better 3G network than its rival does. Continued

Fail and Yahoo! Maybe he shouldn’t have bought all this s**t Yahoo! is firing a bunch of people to cut $400 million from its budget. That sucks for the people who work there, but the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who hustled Yahoo! out of more than $2.5 billion in the last 4 years probably aren’t terribly concerned. Continued

Wireless Groundhog Day To the surprise of no one, engineers representing America’s incumbent wireless carriers and broadband internet providers have attacked the FCC’s plan to grace the country with a free “third pipe.” Continued

O2, Be Broadband network slowed Workmen in London’s Docklands sliced through a major fibre optic trunk yesterday, forcing businesses and ISPs nationwide to reroute internet traffic. Continued

Review Samsung’s best smartphone yet It may be the first eight-megapixel cameraphone to hit the UK, but Samsung s i8510 does more than simply take nice snaps. Much, much more. Continued

Exclusive Not true, claims carrier O2 has pooh-poohed claims that it has signed a deal with Apple to offer new broadband customers MacBook laptops. Continued

Cookie Monster’s ideal phone? LG has finally taken the lid off of the biscuit tin and revealed the specifications and price of its latest cost-conscious caller: the KP500 Cookie. Continued

‘Explosive’ growth a year on from Eee PC’s arrival First Gartner and now IDC has highlighted the rise of the Small, Cheap Computer as one of key product categories keeping the European PC market afloat. Continued

Here is your new BlackBerry, Winston Smith The bother of choosing between an 18-month contract or a high up-front price may soon be the least of your worries when buying a new mobile phone, because you may soon be required to prove your identity before you’re allowed a new handset. Continued

Launch date still unknown The BlackBerry Storm handset is as good as confirmed now, following the airing of a Storm advert on US TV and the leak online of a promotional Storm video. Continued

Fail and Yahoo! Maybe he shouldn’t have bought all this s**t Yahoo! is firing a bunch of people to cut $400 million from its budget. That sucks for the people who work there, but the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who hustled Yahoo! out of more than $2.5 billion in the last 4 years probably aren’t terribly concerned. Continued

Video software problems to blame? Software issues affecting the BlackBerry Bold appear to have spurred Orange to suspend all UK sales of the 3G handset. Continued

Closedzone BT Openzone customers will next week be cut off from public Wi-Fi provided by The Cloud, and will lose coverage at thousands of hotspots as a result. Continued

Flight firm to launch in-plane mobile calls Ryanair is just weeks away from letting its passengers make in-flight calls using mobile phones. Continued

Take that Samsung! LG isn t going to let Pixon make Samsung the only phone manufacturer able to offer two eight-megapixel handsets. So the South Korean firm s created a second super-snapper phone of its own. Continued

Launch date still unknown The BlackBerry Storm handset is as good as confirmed now, following the airing of a Storm advert on US TV and the leak online of a promotional Storm video. Continued