Govt ponders proof-of-ID law for future phone purchases

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