Updated: Laptop ban no barrier to government’s data giveaway A senior civil servant has been suspended for leaving top secret intelligence documents on a Waterloo to Surrey train. Continued

Exclusive Yet GPU launches in… er… laptops Toshiba has announced a pair of laptops that use its Cell-based SpursEngine graphics chip. But don’t expect the chip to work when the notebook’s on the road - SpursEngine consumes too much power, Register Hardware can reveal. Continued

We don’t need no stinkin’ licences China’s deployment of TD-SCDMA, its own incarnation of 3G, is well underway despite the fact that the government isn’t expected to issue any 3G licences until after it completely overhauls the industry later this year. Continued

A phone for the paparazzi? Sony Ericsson has blurred the line between handsets and compact cameras even further, with the unveiling of an 8.1-megapixel phone-camera… no… camera-phone… er… Continued

One for gaming, two for movies Toshiba has dipped its toes into the mobile HD market, with the launch of three Qosmio laptops equipped with the manufacturer s dedicated HD content processor. Continued

UK carrier takes an early bath O2 has lost its appeal to the European Court to prevent a competitor using bubbles to represent the company when comparing prices, in a ruling that will have implications beyond the mobile-phone industry. Continued

But you’ll have to speak German Germany’s T-Mobile is to sell Apple’s new 3G iPhone for as little as 1. Continued

France Telecom offer rejected TeliaSonera has turned down a $42bn offer from France Telecom, owner of the Orange brand, after the board decided unanimously that the company was worth more than that. Continued

Only €1 on contract T-Mobile is to offer Germans Apple’s 3G iPhone for just 1 ($1.54/ 0.79) - provided they sign up for a new 69-a-month contract. Continued

Still hovering around the Samsung stand at 3GSM like a hobo ’round The Ivy’s garbage cans, Ashley has his mitts firmly clamped on the F300 music phone from Samsung. This hybrid of a mobile phone, and music player on the… Continued

Cboss is a Russian company that specialises in converged billing, end-to-end solutions and value-added services. It also has a troupe of teenage dancing girls in hotpants. One of those sentences is the reason why once an hour, the Cboss stand… Continued

‘Please switch off your mobile’ enforcement Depending on your point of view, it s either intensely annoying when someone uses their phone in a train s quiet zone, or very annoying when you re in one and want to use your phone. Continued

Opteron and GPU will conquer all IBM’s Cell chip will struggle to woo server customers looking to turbo charge certain applications because the part has a fundamental design flaw, according to AMD fellow and acceleration chief Chuck Moore. Continued

This is the extremely smart, ultra-mobile, HTC Advantage not to be mistaken with a UMPC because, y know, it actually has a keyboard. It also has Wi-Fi and HSPDA connectivity and will be selling for around a thousand Euros when… Continued

Sarin makes one last lunge Verizon, the US mobile operator part-owned by Vodafone, is in talks to take over Alltel, America’s fifth largest operator, with a view to snatching the number-one spot from AT&T. Continued

Economic woes beget mid-range lane-hoggers It had to happen sooner or later - handset sales in Europe and Japan have dropped for the first time, and growth in the US is looking a bit sleepy too. Continued

LG has launched a sliderphone handset with an integrated Bluetooth earpiece - a world first, the company claimed. Continued

Review Media monster mobile Mk II It’s take two for Motorola’s kick slider concept. With the Z10, the phone maker has refined the back-bending sliderphone quirkiness of last year s Z8 with an upgraded features list and a more sober design. Continued

3G on its way TeliaSonera today announced it will bring Apple’s iPhone to all Nordic and Baltic countries, including Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Continued

Groan The virtual world used to be one of the few places where we weren t continually blasted with adverts, but no longer. Sony has announced plans to introduce “dynamic” in-game advertising on the PS3. Continued

Which one of you has an Orange account for press calls? Vodafone has joined the select band of tech giants that have been outed for spying on board members contacts with journalists. Continued

Diamond + keyboard Touchscreen typing isn t for everybody, so HTC has remodelled its new Touch Diamond handset to create one that also has a slide-out Qwerty keyboard. Continued

Deal will jump Voda forward in broadband market The Italian board of Tiscali will tomorrow approve a Vodafone offer to buy its broadband businesses outright, according to a report. Continued

All not well in the silicon rose garden STMicroelectronics NV plans to close or sell another 10 to 15 per cent of its operations as Europe s largest chip maker attempts to cut costs up against a strong euro. Continued

Which one of you has an Orange account for press calls? Vodafone has joined the select band of tech giants that have been outed for spying on board members contacts with journalists. Continued

First the Home Office, now local plods This is starting to get a little tedious. The Bedfordshire Police website has just been taken down after it was discovered that every page had been replaced by an animated man carrying a Tunisian flag. Underneath, according to the BBC, was a green symbol and a Muslim prayer written in Arabic. Don t bother clicking on the link: as at mid-day, it is still not back up. Continued