Immersion branches out Tactile feedback firm Immersion could be on shaky ground with its latest development, the world s first portable navigation devices (PNDs) with vibrating touchscreens. Continued

Net income increases 41%, revenue nearly doubles AT&T posted a 41 per cent profit increase in the third quarter, largely attributed to iPhone sales. Continued

Gibbon monkeys around with web access Ubuntu fanboys have been crying into their beers after discovering internet connection problems with Canonical’s latest open source Linux distribution operating system, dubbed the Gutsy Gibbon. Continued

Column Unencoding the web My first response to the idea of a dot-sex web domain was: “Well, that’s a rip-off”. And when I heard about dot-tv and dot-euro I wasn’t the only one to say: “Here we go again…” And I bet most of us were equally cynical about dot-asia. Continued

Most people seeking a portable gaming system are happy with a Sony PSP. But in the US, where everything s larger, one company has developed a PC-in-a-box product that unpacks into a three-screen display. Continued

French law bites Mac maker, again Orange will indeed offer Apple’s iPhone on France, but the most interesting aspect of the two firms’ partnership will be the availability, for the first time, of officially unlocked handsets. Continued

Gaming Zone to open in Edinburgh If your missus nags you about spending too long on your Xbox 360, then HMV s establishing a safe haven for you. On Friday, it s opening its first in-store gaming room, allowing gamers to try before they buy or just giving them a place to relax while their other-half hits the High Street. Continued

Has ex-CEO been tangoed? Bernard Ghillebaert, chief executive of Orange UK, is to step down from his post after a management shake-up by parent firm France Telecom. Continued

Smartphone Show Ugg! It’s Andrew’s round-up The 1990s mania for Flintstones anthropology has been on the wane for some time. It was freighted with too many dodgy agendas, and people twigged fairly quickly that you can simply make up any “evolutionary psychology” you wanted. Studies such as the one that suggested rape provided evolutionary advantages didn’t exactly help the cause. Stephen Jay Gould called it “Just So Stories”, and EP turned out not to be an exciting new branch of science, or even social science, but gothic fiction - to be filed under “Creative Writing”. Continued

Could even be integrated into an HD TV Toshiba may be gearing up release an own-brand Xbox 360 with a built-in HD DVD drive, a senior executive from the company has apparently claimed. Continued

Review Could it be a contender? Rock has a reputation for punching out high-performance laptops, and it’s latest line, the flagship 17in desktop-replacment X770 series, has a spec that suggests it’s no slouch either. Continued

ALK Technologies will finally launch the latest release of its CoPilot Live satellite navigation software across Europe this month. Version 7.0 will arrive - coincidentally - seven months after it was originally promised. Continued

Flogging cheap mobiles is easy Nokia’s swallowed an estimated 39 per cent of the global mobile phone market in its third quarter, sending profits rocketing 85 per cent. Continued

Review All camera and no connectivity? The latest handset to join Samsung’s stylish sliderphone line-up is unashamedly image conscious. However, the G600 is all about its photographic features rather than its flash looks, being one of a few mobiles to boast a five-megapixel camera. Continued

Review All flash and no features? With its pulsing lights and back-to-nature themes, Sony Ericsson s S500i is aimed at the supposed style-savvy consumer. But does this sliderphone have the functionality and appeal to really grab fashion-phone followers? Continued