PictureBook revival? Sony is now teasing Japanese punters about what could be a new, tiny Vaio notebook, having begun baiting New Zealanders earlier this week. Continued

Review Will the first real iPod Touch beater step forward Monopolies are never a good thing and, frankly, Apple’s iPod Touch has had things its own way for rather too long. Continued

Review Get a 3D music soundscape wherever you go Music production has quite an armoury of spatial effects to tease the ears with but, typically, for the best experience, the listener needs to sit in the sweet spot. The Orbitsound range is designed to deliver a spatial soundfield anywhere in the room and now, with the T3 mobile stereo speaker, you can take that soundscape wherever you go. Continued

Review Still sexy, but rather faster now The MacBook Air is a quintessential Apple product, one that demonstrates both the company s strengths and weaknesses. When it was launched at the beginning of 2008, the Air was admired nay, drooled over because of its elegant, ultra-portable design. Continued

Co-CEOs take 25 per cent cut Motorola has announced that many of its workers won’t get pay raises next year, that it’s freezing US pension plans, and that it’s suspending contribution-matching for employee retirement funds. Continued

Handset designs leaked online Motorola has been pretty quiet of late, but the discovery of pictures of four potential new models could mean the manufacturer s looking to kick-start 2009 with a bang. Continued

Review Rollin’, dancin’ music thang The silence at the end of the phone was unusually ominous. We’ve got something for you, said the voice from Vulture Central. Great - what is it? Silence, then: Just open the box when it arrives… Continued

Review The biggest names’ top-of-the-line satnavs slug it out Want more than simple A-to-B navigation? We put two top-end models from TomTom and Navman - respectively, the Go 540 Live and the S100 - head to head to see how they match up. Continued

Kit of the Year Apple. Nokia. Sony Ericsson. Fight, fight, fight The mobile phone may not have killed the MP3 player, as some pundits prediced, but that hasn’t stopped it trying. So if you’re going to put music on a mobile, which give the best performance? Continued

Pass go, do not go to jail Operating or installing an unlicensed radio transmitter can get you a year in chokey, or six months if you’re lucky enough to be in Scotland, and El Reg would never condone such activity - so please enjoy the following work of speculative fiction. Continued

Kit of the Year Apple. Nokia. Sony Ericsson. Fight, fight, fight The mobile phone may not have killed the MP3 player, as some pundits prediced, but that hasn’t stopped it trying. So if you’re going to put music on a mobile, which give the best performance? Continued

Orange is jumping on the talent show bandwagon, but on mobiles phones with Play-Off, which claims to offer the nation s never-ending queue of wanabees a platform to pit their talents against one another. You need to submit 10-15 second videos… Continued

Vodafone aims to encourage customers to sign up to its family tariff by selling two Samsung C300s, or two Nokia 1600s, in a single bundle. The Samsung deal costs 75, and the Nokia deal costs 50. They’ll be sold in… Continued

If you’ve been holding a meeting and found you’ve had to compete with the allure of mobile email for your colleagues’ attention, you’re not alone. A survey of senior executives found that 86 percent said it was common for people… Continued

Research in Motion (RIM) has said that it plans to port software to devices running the latest Windows Mobile 6.0 operating system, allowing more devices to run like BlackBerries. The software would allow people who don’t want to lose their… Continued

Anything you Kindle, I Kindle better Orange is pondering a foray into Kindle territory. Innovative network application is all very well, but the company wants to go further and make innovative devices to allow its customers to run up their bills in new and interesting ways. Continued

No no there’s no convergence limit Orange is bringing the Technocentre concept to London, citing the success of the existing centres as proof that the company can take the best of the internet and make it work for a telco. Continued

Looks like purple is the new black, or is it the new pink? Whichever way, Motorola has put out a MOTORAZR V3i in striking mauve livery just in time Mother’s Day in the US (May 13 in case you were… Continued

Co-CEOs take 25 per cent cut Motorola has announced that many of its workers won’t get pay raises next year, that it’s freezing US pension plans, and that it’s suspending contribution-matching for employee retirement funds. Continued

Ashley and Shiny Shiny’s Susi put the Nokia N95 through its paces. Nokia… Continued

Could be worth £170m to everyone except 3 The Office of Government Commerce contracts arm, OGCbuying.solutions, has negotiated new contracts with communications suppliers that could save public-sector organisations 40m. Continued

When Nokia says it has teamed up with one of the UK’s most influential bands, I’m guessing not many of you out there would think of Travis. Well amazingly, that’s who they mean. Nokia has done a deal with Sony… Continued

Review An easy-to-use offering for the non-techie in your life So what if you re after a phone that doesn t have an eight-megapixel camera, smartphone functionality or touchscreen tech? LG s been busy of late speccing up and serving out a pick-and-mix of eye-catching and - occasionally - innovative mobiles, but they’re not for everyone. Continued

Ashley and Shiny Shiny’s Susi put the Nokia N95 through its paces. Nokia… Continued

Review Ready for any disc format. Ready for your netbook Apple’s MacBook Air may have put off some potential purchasers by eschewing a built-in optical drive, but it’s not the only laptop to do so. The whole new wave of Small, Cheap Computers skimp on opticals for size and price reasons. Continued

Review Surprisingly above-average sound quality Once a real power-player in the world of hi-fi micro systems, LG’s standing has suffered as portable players have grown in popularity. In a spirit of ‘if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em’, LG is now looking to unite the world of portable MP3 and the micro. Continued

Rocketing iPhone, Blackberry growth Nokia smartphone sales fell during Q3, marking the phone giant’s first global smartphone sales decline, market watcher Gartner said. Continued

Like Facebook, only with maps Nokia nuts now only have one excuse left for getting lost: their phone running out of power. Why? Because the Finnish phone firm s updated its mapping software to include every navigation tool the urban adventurer could possibly need. Continued

Mock-up for UI improvements, claims Nokia Speculation s rife that Nokia has developed a stylish touchscreen talker, following publication of a leaked teaser image. Continued

Mobile browser war opens new front Skyfire, the mobile browser for Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile devices, has broadened its beta testing to include the UK and no longer requires users to register with the service. Continued