The view from the LiMo window What a pity Andy Rubin’s charming Welsh Terrier can’t talk. But that makes “Alex” Rubin the perfect spokesperson for Google’s phone software. Continued

eBay auction to help Brazilian street kids Jimmy Page has donated a pair of tickets for Led Zeppelin’s December 10 reunion gig at London’s O2 arena to Brazilian street kids charity Task Brasil. Continued

This time it’s Google making the claim So Google is working with some big industry players on an open-source operating system for mobile phones. The assumption is that developers are waiting for a completely open OS to change the mobile world. Continued

‘No one can take our customers’ Arun Sarin has told the FT that he has nothing to fear from Apple’s iPhone/iTunes combination, or Google’s Android, or even Nokia’s Ovi, as no one can ever take their customers’ billing relationship away from them. Continued

Comment Takes a leaf from Nokia’s book All the coverage thus far about Microsoft splashing out $46m for Musiwave, has been about how the mobile music service supplier has had a dramatic fall from grace, and has cost parent OpenWave some $80m. Continued

SC07 The server booster bonanza takes hold One topic - even more so than cheap shrimp - dominated this year’s Supercomputing conference in Reno: Accelerators. Continued

Apple vs BlackBerry vs numeric pad The virtual Qwerty keyboard on Apple’s iPhone allows users to enter text as quickly as they would on another handset’s physical keyboard, but they’ll make rather more mistakes in the process. Continued

Nokia, Qualcomm, handbags at ten paces Nokia today saw its Netherlands case thrown out of court on the grounds they hadn’t explained it properly, three weeks after the same thing happened in Germany - but the war of patents between the two companies continues. Continued

Exclusive Just having a chat with Ofcom The man behind Google’s $4.6bn plan to become a national wireless broadband provider in the US has ruled out a similar move in the UK when spectrum is auctioned off over the next two years. Continued

Unsure which DSLR to plum for this Xmas? Just ask an expert… Christmas time always means photography time. So, if you’re looking to buy a new digital SLR (DSLR) or upgrade on older machine to capture this year’s happy moments, here are the season’s five hottest models according to camera expert George Asghari, who runs independent retail chain Ask Electronics’ flagship London store. Continued

Always look on the bright side of life… Peter Erskine, CEO of UK operator O2 said it’s “early days” for the iPhone in the UK - and shot down some of the larger sales numbers being touted for the device. Continued

Will they hook you? Taiwanese manufacturer E-Ten has expanded its Glofiish smartphone range with the launch of the 3.5G M800 - part of its plan to double its share of the Windows Mobile market to 20 per cent by the end of 2008. Continued

Can we charge more than that? Oh, yes we can Vodafone customers disappointed at not being able to pay 899 for an iPhone can rest assured that O2 is not alone in overcharging customers for flashy hardware - as this screen grab from its web site shows: Continued

Review Gets you from A to B without going via L, O, S or T Nokia has decided satellite navigation is where it s at. The Finnish phone giant released its first GPS-enabled mobiles this year, and is promising a whole heap more for 2008. And its multi-billion dollar purchase of map supplier Navteq leaves no doubt how seriously Nokia is taking sat nav. Continued

Also suitable for voice calls, apparently Nokia has rolled out the rumoured extension to the N series line-up, a candybar alternative to the N95 sliderphone, dubbed the N82. Continued