Apple invite brings UK hacks out in iPhone fever

Not us, sob UK hacks have begun receiving invites to an Apple event scheduled to be held at the Mac maker’s Regent Street, London store on 18 September. Headed “Mum is no longer the word”, the email has already got journos forecasting the UK debut of the iPhone. Continued

Canada, US courts want a piece too SanDisk and its CEO Eli Harari have received grand jury subpoenas from the US Department of Justice for possible anti-trust violations in the NAND flash memory market. Continued

To subscribe to Channel Register’s weekly newsletter - seven days of channel news in a single hit - click here. Some people complain that the IT industry can be a bit colourless and grey, but we can’t agree. There’s quite a bit of colour around. Let’s start with Orange. Nice colour on the whole, unless you happen to be Jem Telecom, a Lancashire-based reseller specialising in BlackBerrys, which went into the red and administration, blaming an outstanding debt from Orange of several hundred thousand pounds - enough, according to the administrator, to keep the company solvent. Orange recently terminated relationships with 150 resellers following an investigation into data leakage from the Orange extranet, stating it had decided not to deal with many resellers, preferring to deal with customers directly. It declined to comment when asked if the policy included refusing to pay money owed to existing resellers. Continued

SIM city Calling all iPhone owners. The first free easy to use - well, relatively easy to use - software to unlock your Apple handset has arrived, mere hours after a rather more tortuous process. Well, almost. It’s not quite ready for release, but folk who have seen it claim it does the business. Continued