Vodafone gets the gig Samsung’s would-be iPhone beater, the F700 smartphone - aka the Croix - will come to Europe in two months’ time through the Vodafone network, the company revealed today. Continued

Email leak exposes stealth P2P honeypot MediaDefender vows to protect the big-name movie studios and record labels from attack by P2P file sharers. But it seems to have trouble protecting itself. Continued

Ow, that hurts Want to equip your next laptop with a Flash-based solid-state hard drive? You can if you’re after a Dell XPS or an Alienware m9750. Samsung said this week it’s sending 32GB and 64GB SSDs to both companies. But fitting them will cost you. Continued

The propaganda VoIP may be great for keeping calling costs down - but it does mean you’re shackled to your PC by a headset, which doesn’t lend itself to long conversations. ZyXEL is hoping to change all that with the… Continued

Battle for the wrapping paper begins In the run-up to the Christmas season, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo will all be eagerly analysing sales figures in an attempt to declare their own console champion of champions. Microsoft has already made the first move and declared that it’s in the best position to win the race to that place under the tree. Continued

T-Mobile has just launched the web’n'walk USB modem, which is compatible with both PC and Mac, offering broadband speeds of up to 1.8Mbps. And according to T-Mobile, it’s significantly cheaper than the similar device from Vodafone. On comparable 12-month price… Continued

Countering Toshiba Sony has brought its Blu-ray Disc equipped all-in-one desktop PC, the Vaio LT, to the UK, part of a promotional programme for the next-gen optical disc format that will see more laptops fitted with BD drives too. Continued

Not us, sob UK hacks have begun receiving invites to an Apple event scheduled to be held at the Mac maker’s Regent Street, London store on 18 September. Headed “Mum is no longer the word”, the email has already got journos forecasting the UK debut of the iPhone. Continued

Canada, US courts want a piece too SanDisk and its CEO Eli Harari have received grand jury subpoenas from the US Department of Justice for possible anti-trust violations in the NAND flash memory market. Continued

To subscribe to Channel Register’s weekly newsletter - seven days of channel news in a single hit - click here. Some people complain that the IT industry can be a bit colourless and grey, but we can’t agree. There’s quite a bit of colour around. Let’s start with Orange. Nice colour on the whole, unless you happen to be Jem Telecom, a Lancashire-based reseller specialising in BlackBerrys, which went into the red and administration, blaming an outstanding debt from Orange of several hundred thousand pounds - enough, according to the administrator, to keep the company solvent. Orange recently terminated relationships with 150 resellers following an investigation into data leakage from the Orange extranet, stating it had decided not to deal with many resellers, preferring to deal with customers directly. It declined to comment when asked if the policy included refusing to pay money owed to existing resellers. Continued

SIM city Calling all iPhone owners. The first free easy to use - well, relatively easy to use - software to unlock your Apple handset has arrived, mere hours after a rather more tortuous process. Well, almost. It’s not quite ready for release, but folk who have seen it claim it does the business. Continued

Website goes down like a…oh The clamour for tickets for Led Zeppelin’s reunion gig at the O2 in London in November has overloaded the registration website, frustrating thousands. Continued

Vodafone gets the gig Samsung’s would-be iPhone beater, the F700 smartphone - aka the Croix - will come to Europe in two months’ time through the Vodafone network, the company revealed today. Continued

Thalys promises gaming and video-on-demand too Thalys will introduce broadband internet access to passengers travelling between Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Cologne by 2008, the company announced today. It will be the first international high-speed train to provide this service across European borders. Continued

Review Putting the Nokia E61i and Motorola Q9H head to head To say that I find BlackBerry-type phones unappealing is an understatement. So the prospect of using two of these phones was about as attractive as cleaning the wax out of my left ear by sticking a knitting needle through my right ear. Continued

T-Mobile has just launched the web’n'walk USB modem, which is compatible with both PC and Mac, offering broadband speeds of up to 1.8Mbps. And according to T-Mobile, it’s significantly cheaper than the similar device from Vodafone. On comparable 12-month price… Continued

Orange has launched its Pay-Off contest and is inviting its customers to submit 10-15 second video clips of themselves either trying to prove that they’re the sexiest person alive (Face-off), are the best/craziest dancer (Dance-off), or are just plain weird… Continued

Smartphone becomes music phone Motorola has unveiled its latest handset Q-series handset, the Q Music 9m. The handset is a fusion of Treo and Blackberry looks, and an update to its original Q model targeted directly at mobile music lovers looking for plenty of storage and multimedia capabilities. Continued