Killer phones or kill-a-phone? The convergence of PC and cellphone architectures has brought Intel and Qualcomm increasingly into conflict, and at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, both showed prototypes of their platforms for next generation mobile devices. Continued

Vodafone shows off new handset colour Samsung has stayed true to its word and created a white-edged version of its F700 smartphone. Continued

CES Here in Las Vegas ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) the first casualty of Warner Home Video’s decision to back Blu-ray is the HD DVD shindig scheduled for Sunday night. Clearly unwilling to face the press, the HD DVD camp have cancelled the event. Toshiba and co. are no longer in a party mood. Continued

Review iPod Touch beater? Believe it or not, ‘yepp peetoo’ is Samsung’s preferred pronunciation of the name of their new media player. Thankfully a coterie of Yepp Girls were on hand at the launch of the peetoo a month or so back and they had such lovely thighs, sorry, smiles, that we instantly forgave Samsung its assault on the English language. Continued

Unwired Video Review Super-thin Forget about keyring drives, here’s a USB storage product that you can slip into your wallet as easily as it’ll slip into a computer… Continued

After one grueling day of unemployment Cisco Systems is filling its head of technology spot with the one-day former CTO of Motorola. Continued

CES The F700’s younger brother Samsung has waited until the end of this year s CES show in Las Vegas to secure plenty of attention for its latest mobile phone, the Croix UI-based F490. Continued

Not RAZR sharp Motorola boss Ed Zander has been ousted as CEO by the firm’s board of directors. Continued

Season of goodwill to all IT companies Motorola and Metrologic have settled a half-decade long patent dispute, which the comms giant inherited when it bought Symbol Technologies almost a year ago. Continued

Testing’s complete The Federal Communications Commission s (FCC) website has come up trumps once again. It s revealed some definitive specifications of Motorola s latest handset, the Rizr Z6c. Continued

No headphones here The New Year brings about resolutions to get fit and lose weight. So, if you re still struggling to get up of the sofa, a jacket with built-in MP3 capabilities could be the motivation you need. Continued

Inside the mobile matrix, part 1 If you’re a developer working with mobile devices few decisions will be more critical than the platform you choose to focus on. With the correct choice, your skills and creativity may pay off both financially and personally when thousands of users enjoy something that you brought into the world. Continued

‘Montevina’ adjustment Intel will revise its naming scheme for mobile processors in Q2, a move that will see the old LV and ULV labels dropped in favour of new processor class prefixes to go with the ones already applied to Core 2 Duo chips. Continued

Worth waiting for summer 2009 Vodafone boss Arun Sarin could be cashing in 45m, in shares and options, if he can keep Vodafone on an even keel until summer 2009. Even if he jumps ship now he could sell off what he already owns for a tidy 10m. Continued

As O2, Voda say latest Ofcom statement is overkill 3 UK plans see its four UK rivals in court next week in the opener to what might turn into a 250m case, accusing them of making it difficult to customers to switch to the upstart network. Continued

You’d have thought that everyone knows the Chameleon can change the colour of its skin. But not the designers of the latest USB gadget, it seems. “This product does not change colour,” warns UK supplier Drinkstuff. Continued