PDC Previews first quarter 2009 Microsoft has scheduled the first quarter of 2009 for the first code drop of Silverlight for mobile devices. Continued

Taking the market temperature What’s special about IBM’s Quicksilver? Texas Memory Systems has launched its RamSan 5000 flash solid state storage product offering one million IOs per second - and it’s available now, not in many months time. Continued

$59m damages awarded Pioneer has prevailed in its legal battle with Samsung over who owns key plasma display technologies. Continued

Cusses out ARM core Intel has started calling the iPhone a flawed browsing experience. The chip giant attributes this to Apple’s choice of an ARM core to power its moderately successful mobile phone. Continued

Skinnier gadgets on the way Clearly unphased by the courtroom kicking its taken from Pioneer, Samsung’s display division has demo’d a bendy OLED display. Continued

Comes With Carphone Warehouse - or does it? Mobile operator 3 confirmed that it s the first UK network to offer Nokia s Comes With Music bundle directly to punters. Carphone Warehouse claims the right to be the UK s exclusive retail partner for the deal but 3 has a chain of around 150 stores. Continued

Too many mobiles Sony Ericsson plans to slash the number of handsets in its mobile phone line-up following its first quarterly loss in more than five years. Continued

Official RIM, together with Vodafone, has finally taken the wraps off the worst kept secret in handset history: the BlackBerry Storm. Continued

Civil servant, intel docs, train seat The civil servant accused of leaving secret intelligence documents on a Waterloo to Surrey train will appear in court later this month. Continued

RIM’s first HSDPA phone back on Orange UK next month Vodafone has told its third-party sales partners to use the “software issues and technical faults” it claims forced Orange to stop selling the new BlackBerry Bold to persuade consumers it has a better 3G network than its rival does. Continued