Psion special goes binary Last month, we published something unusual for us: a long feature about the consumer electronics pioneer Psion. It’s full of previously untold stories: the plucky outfit could have been the British Sony. But we know that reading long pieces on the web is a pain. So as promised, we’re making it available as a PDF download. Continued

Up 135 per cent, apparently Sony has claimed that PS3 sales in North America have jumped 135 per cent since it brought the price of the 60GB console down to $499 two weeks ago. Continued

Orange is jumping on the talent show bandwagon, but on mobiles phones with Play-Off, which claims to offer the nation s never-ending queue of wanabees a platform to pit their talents against one another. You need to submit 10-15 second videos… Continued

Come on Korea, give us a hint A Samsung representative has confirmed to Register Hardware that online rumours about its creation of a designer touch-sensitive mobile phone are correct - but the bad news is that it won’t be coming to the UK, at least for the time being. Continued

Comment All that glitters doesn’t stay sold The genius of Apple’s strategy for its iPhone is to make a defensive move look like an offensive one. Continued

Another reason to dig yourself an arse groove Samsung has raised the bar for LCD display resolutions giving square-eyed screen-addicts another reason to drool uncontrollably. It has unveiled the world s first 30in LCD display, capable of providing a 2560 x 1600 resolution through the next-generation DisplayPort video interface. Continued

While SMS traffic increases too Mobile operators have reported increased revenue from services other than SMS in the first quarter of 2007 when compared with the same period last year. Continued

To subscribe to The Register’s weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here Rings around the world Continued

Watch out, Toshiba Samsung will launch its promised dual-format HD DVD/Blu-ray Disc player in Europe next month, the company has said, and industry insiders are already claiming the machine could be priced at just 400 ($548/ 271). Continued

Dubai Tower hits 512.1m Dubai declared on Saturday it now boasts the world’s tallest building, with the Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower) scraping the sky at 512.1m (1,680ft) a year before its slated completion. Continued

Review Slim, sleek storage Hard drive maker Seagate continues to try and persuade consumers that add-on drives aren’t just for geeks but for everyone. It’s latest attempt is the compact and eminently palm-able Go, part of its FreeAgent line up of external hard drives… er… “data movers”. Continued

Joins Channel 4 and Sony Ericsson to find UK’s best band Orange and Sony Ericsson have gotten together with Channel 4 to launch “mobileACT Unsigned”: a competition to find the best unsigned band in the UK. Continued

Elijah Page first to die in 60 years South Dakota yesterday executed its first prisoner in 60 years, 25-year-old Elijah Page, who succumbed to a “lethal combination of three drugs at the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls”, the local Argus Leader reports. Continued

32GB memory card support too The rumours were true. Research In Motion (RIM) has officially confirmed its development of the BlackBerry 8820, the first handset in its history to feature built-in Wi-Fi connectivity. It also supports Micro SDHC memory cards. Continued

Samsung has launched four digital cameras, all aluminium-clad and ranging between 7- and 8-megapixel models. Continued

Samsung’s anticipated i620 Windows Mobile smartphone - a skinny slider phone with a drop-down BlackBerry-style QWERTY keypad - is to go on sale in the UK through Vodafone. Continued

Can it be true - a self-filling digital music player? That’s what Sony claims for its new Walkman NWD-B100, a Flash-based DAP with the ability to pull tracks off a PC as soon as it’s connected. Continued

Big Blue is green, Apple is brown. Whodathunkit? Eco-lobby group Climate Counts has issued a green rating scorecard that lauds Canon and IBM as veritable Planeteers, but dumps on eBay, Amazon and Apple as planet-hating muckity-mucks. Continued

Comment It’s just Grouper regrouped You may have heard that Sony has renamed the Grouper user generated website that it bought a while back for some $65m, as Crackle, and begun trying to drag its content into the professional zone by putting up minor amounts of content that Sony owns to make the professional level of the site stronger than, say, YouTube. Continued

Outsold PS3 3:1 Nintendo has sold more than 3m Wii games consoles in Japan, local games magazine publisher Enterbrain has claimed. Earlier this week, it said Sony had shipped 1.01m PlayStation 3s in the country. Continued

Comment All that glitters doesn’t stay sold The genius of Apple’s strategy for its iPhone is to make a defensive move look like an offensive one. Continued

Five times the upload speed of HSDPA Data-over-cellular specialist Novatel Wireless last week unveiled what it claims is the “world’s smallest” USB-connected HSUPA modem, a slimline stick that allows a computer to connect to next-gen 3G phone networks. Continued

Elijah Page first to die in 60 years South Dakota yesterday executed its first prisoner in 60 years, 25-year-old Elijah Page, who succumbed to a “lethal combination of three drugs at the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls”, the local Argus Leader reports. Continued

Hardly Christmas come early, though… In a flurry of broadband selling activity, several firms are gunning for your brand loyalty. Continued

32GB memory card support too The rumours were true. Research In Motion (RIM) has officially confirmed its development of the BlackBerry 8820, the first handset in its history to feature built-in Wi-Fi connectivity. It also supports Micro SDHC memory cards. Continued

But global roaming still some way off Hackers have succeeded in (partially) unlocking the iPhone so Apple’s much-hyped device can be used on at least one network other than AT&T. Continued

N800 model coughs up wireless calls Nokia has made Skype telephone services available via its N800 internet tablet. Continued

Comment The search for seamless mobility Having seen off the challenge to his leadership from billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, Motorola CEO Ed Zander is under renewed pressure as the company warns of a dismal second quarter and a full year of losses in the core handset unit. Continued

Another laptop goes foom Toshiba Japan today expanded its notebook-battery recall programme, adding half-a-dozen more models to the list of laptops it wants owners to use only on mains power until new batteries can be sent out to them. Continued

Big Blue is green, Apple is brown. Whodathunkit? Eco-lobby group Climate Counts has issued a green rating scorecard that lauds Canon and IBM as veritable Planeteers, but dumps on eBay, Amazon and Apple as planet-hating muckity-mucks. Continued

Outsold PS3 3:1 Nintendo has sold more than 3m Wii games consoles in Japan, local games magazine publisher Enterbrain has claimed. Earlier this week, it said Sony had shipped 1.01m PlayStation 3s in the country. 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

There’s a Red Ring of Death joke in here somewhere Microsoft Xbox division chief Peter Moore will be leaving his position in Redmond to join game developer Electronic Arts as president of the EA Sports label. Continued

Pictures claiming to have been taken on Apple’s forthcoming iPhone have tipped up on the internet. The image, showing a man tucking into some jam on toast, was spotted by Mobile Guerilla, after constantly typing taken with an apple iphone… Continued