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

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

Trumpets set-top box. Plans 100 more NetFlix is going toe-to-toe with Apple TV. And then some. Continued

CES 45nm ‘Silverthorne’ not even out yet LG has craftily shown off an ultra-mobile PC based on Intel’s as-yet-unlaunched ‘45nm Silverthorne’ processor at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Continued

Taking the best from both and still failing to cover the UK T-Mobile and 3 are to combine their 3G radio networks in the UK, increasing coverage for both companies and reducing running costs. Continued

Q&A Are there any updates on unlocking a new OTB iPhone with firmware 1.1.2 in the UK? There are so many forums and commercial websites with long convoluted solutions that I’m at a lost as to what set of instructions to follow. Continued

All the stories, all the best kit The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) brought a bumper harvest of gadgets and goodies to Las Vegas. Here are all of Register Hardware’s CES 2008 stories, brought together for your reading pleasure… Continued

Connected, pumped, and conceptual Every year, companies and individuals in the IT industry - mostly CEOs and those in marketing - spew vast quantities of unmitigated hype. In line with this year’s rise in global temperatures, the past 12 months saw a spike in recorded levels of hot air. Continued

Local T-Mobile follows US lead T-Mobile has pulled the troubled Sidekick Slide phone from its the shelves of its UK stores following reports of power cycle faults in the US. 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

CES ‘Kick slider’ successor, the Z10, kicks butt Motorola launched it’s successor to the impressive “kick slider” Z8 - reviewed here - the Z10 at CES in Las Vegas. First seen in May last year, the Z8 was a packed full of features… and the Z10 is no less so. Continued

Ever the comedian, Susi has pronounced this U100 mobile from Samsung as being so thin, it ‘verges on taking up minus space’. Wowsers. If this U100 were a woman, she’d be stumbling down the London Fashion Week catwalks in a… Continued

Comment Ofcom squares up to EU over spectrum carve-up Ofcom is changing the way spectrum is licensed in the UK to remove usage restrictions, but the EU is calling for region-wide harmonisation of use to create economies of scale. Continued

Stop the mobile data madness We are indebted to The Mirror for the latest example of mobile data charging madness, this time in England. Continued

Virtually a quad player Tiscali is set to relaunch the Toucan Mobile brand it acquired as part of last year’s Pipex buyout, though it’s still talking to the networks about which lucky operator gets to carry Toucan customers. Continued