‘Leccy Tech Unlikely to be a Tesla Better Place CEO Shai Agassi has outlined his ideas for the electric car future, and the good news is that we all get free cars. Continued

Review Small form-factor, hefty price tag Sony has been pitching small, slim laptops at executives for years now, packing in as much functionality into as compact a chassis as it can and charging a premium for it. Why mess with a successful formula? So the new Vaio TT doesn’t. Continued

Orange is to stop bundling a free Eee PC and 3G modem with a two-year mobile broadband airtime package and bundle an HSDPA-integrated netbook instead. Continued

Silicon Valley darling sold The low power chip company Transmeta has been sold to Novafora - the VC-backed “video processor” firm. Continued

Review A great-looking printer that’s quick and quiet Laser printers aren t the most photogenic of kit and you d usually want to relegate one to an office or workroom. Samsung has given its latest offering a makeover, though. Continued

How much will punter spend on home entertainment now they’re not going out as much? Blu-ray Disc sales won’t meet previously enthusiastic predictions, a senior Sony staffer has warned. Continued

20 million handsets down in Q4 Nokia has updated its predictions on end-of-year sales, knocking 20 million handsets off its fourth quarter forecast for the industry and promising to get rid of all those expensive external contractors. Continued

Hoping to make it big in the flicks Continuing to distance itself from boring-old mobile phones, Nokia has announced plans to open a research lab in Hollywood packed with movie executives rather than those engineers the company so recently laid off in Finland. Continued

Review Film fans and game buffs, rejoice Creative’s X-Fi sound cards have been around for a while, but with the Sound Blaster X-Fi Notebook we have the first ExpressCard 34 iteration of the breed. Continued

MacBook… or netbook? Apple should pull out the stops and release a 3G-enabled laptop for network operators panting to get their mitts on a MacBook with built in mobile broadband connectivity. Continued

Auction is on while O2 digs heels in Ofcom has issued another update on progress towards flogging off spectrum in the 2GHz band, this time stating that all the legal action should be finished off by February next year, allowing the regulator to put up the For Sale signs in March. Continued

Review Serious alternative to the you-know-what LG s successor to its Viewty focuses on imaging capabilities with a centrepiece eight-megapixel camera. Continued

Let the fight begin Kodak has filed a lawsuit against LG and Samsung in which it claims the duo have trampled over some of its digital camera patents. Continued

More than two a week If none of LG s talkers have yet taken your fancy then fear not, because the mobile maker’s inked plans to maintain its fast-paced phone production. Continued

Portable photography, pimped Sony has developed a 12.2-megapixel CMOS sensor for use in mobile phones, which will become available to mobile makers early next year. Continued

Bigger screens and keyboards for your phone Celio is convinced that some people don’t want to lug around a smartphone and a notebooks, so it s expanded its Redfly smartphone terminal range by two models. Continued