Fail and Yahoo! Maybe he shouldn’t have bought all this s**t Yahoo! is firing a bunch of people to cut $400 million from its budget. That sucks for the people who work there, but the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who hustled Yahoo! out of more than $2.5 billion in the last 4 years probably aren’t terribly concerned. Continued

Wireless Groundhog Day To the surprise of no one, engineers representing America’s incumbent wireless carriers and broadband internet providers have attacked the FCC’s plan to grace the country with a free “third pipe.” Continued

O2, Be Broadband network slowed Workmen in London’s Docklands sliced through a major fibre optic trunk yesterday, forcing businesses and ISPs nationwide to reroute internet traffic. Continued

Review Samsung’s best smartphone yet It may be the first eight-megapixel cameraphone to hit the UK, but Samsung s i8510 does more than simply take nice snaps. Much, much more. Continued

Exclusive Not true, claims carrier O2 has pooh-poohed claims that it has signed a deal with Apple to offer new broadband customers MacBook laptops. Continued

Cookie Monster’s ideal phone? LG has finally taken the lid off of the biscuit tin and revealed the specifications and price of its latest cost-conscious caller: the KP500 Cookie. Continued

‘Explosive’ growth a year on from Eee PC’s arrival First Gartner and now IDC has highlighted the rise of the Small, Cheap Computer as one of key product categories keeping the European PC market afloat. Continued

Here is your new BlackBerry, Winston Smith The bother of choosing between an 18-month contract or a high up-front price may soon be the least of your worries when buying a new mobile phone, because you may soon be required to prove your identity before you’re allowed a new handset. Continued

Launch date still unknown The BlackBerry Storm handset is as good as confirmed now, following the airing of a Storm advert on US TV and the leak online of a promotional Storm video. Continued

Fail and Yahoo! Maybe he shouldn’t have bought all this s**t Yahoo! is firing a bunch of people to cut $400 million from its budget. That sucks for the people who work there, but the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who hustled Yahoo! out of more than $2.5 billion in the last 4 years probably aren’t terribly concerned. Continued

Video software problems to blame? Software issues affecting the BlackBerry Bold appear to have spurred Orange to suspend all UK sales of the 3G handset. Continued

Closedzone BT Openzone customers will next week be cut off from public Wi-Fi provided by The Cloud, and will lose coverage at thousands of hotspots as a result. Continued

Flight firm to launch in-plane mobile calls Ryanair is just weeks away from letting its passengers make in-flight calls using mobile phones. Continued

Take that Samsung! LG isn t going to let Pixon make Samsung the only phone manufacturer able to offer two eight-megapixel handsets. So the South Korean firm s created a second super-snapper phone of its own. Continued

Launch date still unknown The BlackBerry Storm handset is as good as confirmed now, following the airing of a Storm advert on US TV and the leak online of a promotional Storm video. Continued