Dare we say it? The latest iPhone killer? The touchscreen mobile market has expanded yet again, following Motorola s introduction of the MotoSurf A3100. Continued

First tech casualty of 2009? UIQ has finally thrown in the towel and reportedly applied for bankruptcy in the Swedish courts. Continued

Review Remembers the login details you can’t Whether you re logging on to a computer, withdrawing cash from a hole in a wall or reviving a comatose mobile phone, passwords are a daily nuisance necessity. With so many mundane tasks requesting usernames and passwords, a possible solution to this ongoing memory game is the Atek Logio Secure Password Organiser, which acts as the keeper of the keys and nothing more. Continued

US firm seeks gadget import ban Gadgets made by a host of big-name manufacturers, including Nokia and HTC, could be banned from import into the US, if a patent violation investigation being conducted the US International Trade Commission (ITC) rules in the claimant s favour. Continued

Review A very well-connected handset Hot on the heels of the Touch Viva - the budget Touch - comes the 3G version. Smaller, neater, and with more features, including - of course - 3G connectivity, Assisted GPS and a 3.2Mp camera, this is the next stage up the Touch ladder. Continued

Review Nokia takes on the iPhone in its own way It s hardly a surprise that Nokia s first post-iPhone foray into touch-controlled mobiles has drawn massive amounts of interest. Nokia may have dabbled briefly with touch-operated handsets before, with its 7700 and 7710, but the 5800 XpressMusic is certainly year-zero as far as Nokia devices designed to take on Apple s game-changer are concerned. Continued

And how many freetards are there, really? Nokia and other gadget manufacturers face an uphill struggle getting people interested in music services - even if they’re “unlimited”. Punters would much prefer such services come from their ISP, according to a survey of attitudes in the UK, France and the USA. Continued

Review An HTC for touchscreen-phobes At first glance, HTC’s S740 looks like a revamped version of the slim’n’sexy Touch Diamond, but with a numeric keypad and a pull-out Qwerty keyboard. Even the angled back is similar to the Diamond’s. But when you pick it up, it soon becomes clear that the differences go much deeper. Continued

Lays off another 4K as company bets on Android Motorola is to lay off another 4,000 staff, totalling more than five per cent of the workforce, in the face of still-declining sales attributed to the global financial position and the fact that no one wants a Moto phone these days. Continued

Staff, not patents, this time Research in Motion is suing Motorola for not allowing laid-off employees to seek work with the owner of the Blackberry brand, who is hoping to scoop up some cheap engineers now that Motorola is shedding so many. Continued

Tough times ahead? Global mobile phone shipments fell ten per cent during the final quarter of 2008, and 2009 s overall shipments won t be very good either, a market analyst has forecast. Continued

Comment Returns only in profit Microsoft decision to kill its flagship $1bn investment in US cable-TV giant Comcast is a sign of strategic prioritization and financial necessity. Continued

A secure phone fit for the pool? Pin numbers are generally about as secure as most mobile phones get. But Fujitsu has launched what it claims is the world s first waterproof handset with an embedded biometric sensor. Continued

Dad left ’speechless’ by one-month marathon Greg Hardesty of the Orange County Register has described himself as “speechless” after his 13-year-old daughter “racked up 14,528 text messages in one month”, as the shaken dad himself put it last week. Continued

Serving overseas? Sorry If you’re planning to take part in any of the various wars in which the UK is embroiled, you might like to make sure your mobile phone contract isn’t with O2 or Virgin - they alone amongst UK operators don’t offer serving military contract suspensions by default. Continued

Workshop Essential or luxury For some, the freedom and flexibility of a laptop PC is essential to getting the job done. For others, having the latest piece of mobile kit is perhaps more of a luxury, or even, dare we suggest, just a status symbol. Either way, there is no disputing the shift in emphasis from desktop to portable machines in a business context. Continued

Review ‘Poke that thing someplace else…’ Big-name film directors Steven Spielberg and James Cameron seem to think that 3D is the future of the film industry. Sky predicts that it’ll be broadcasting programmes in 3D within just a few years. And now you can get in on the act as well, thanks to Minoru the world s first 3D webcam. Continued

Review Big camera, low price LG s making a habit of this. Having taken touchscreen phones into the mass market with the release of the Cookie, the maker of the upscale Renoir is now aiming to do the same with eight-megapixel handsets, with the help of its more affordable KC780. Continued