YouTube moves to US mobile phones

Verizon Wireless, the US telco, has announced that it will deliver selected video clips from YouTube to mobile phones starting in December. It is a bid to increase subscriptions to the company's mobile media service. YouTube, the leading online video sharing site which was bought by Google earlier this month, said it hopes to expand beyond computers to phones. ...more

UPDATED: O2 to trial GPRS-based music service

O2 is to trial a new GPRS-based music service. Users will select and store songs, via their handsets, on a proprietary digital music player. mmO2 describes it as the world's first 'music over mobile' service using existing mobile data networks. ...more

Tapwave zaps Zodiac with PSP looming

Tapwave has discontinued its innovative, PalmOS-based handheld gaming device. Introduced a little over a year ago to favourable reviews, the Zodiac was always going to find it hard to break into a market dominated by Nintendo and excitedly awaiting the released of Sony's PlayStation Portable. Just ask Nokia. ...more

IBM subpoenas major tech firms over SCO dealings

IBM has subpoenaed major tech firms and investors to come clean about their relationship with SCO, hinting at a revelatory period in the multi-billion dollar Unix IP suit. SCO, which alleges IBM has improperly used Unix intellectual property it claims as its own, forged a series of agreements that added confidence to its position in the years before and since it launched its suit. Now, as the two adversaries enter the final period to assemble their evidence, IBM has called upon Microsoft, Sun and HP, as well as investors BayStar Capital to reveal the fine detail of those communications. ...more

Government to pay for search engine listings

The UK government is turning to paid-for listings with search engines to help drive traffic to its flagship website. Directgov has not had the pulling power previously hoped for, and now the government is turning to Google, Overture and Espotting to help boost its figures, reports the BBC. Launched at the beginning of March this year, Directgov is a one-stop-shop for online government services, simplifying access to various Whitehall departments. ...more