Electronic reader
Sony is finally taking pre-orders for its Reader ebook handheld in the UK at £199, ahead of the Amazon Kindle.
Orwell, the blog
The Orwell Prize website is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the release of George Orwell's diaries by republishing them as a blog.
Big Brother for birds
German researchers have developed a voice detection system that can recognise the songs of different species of birds, which enables population tracking.
Breast pink
Samsung is promoting its U800 Pink mobile to women by donating £10 to the Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity for each phone sold.
Hello Tosh, gotta Camelio?
Toshiba is competing in the HD camcorder market with the "palm-shaped" £180 Camelio H10.
Google in London
Google is holding a Developer Day in London on September 16.
Game to watch
Warner Brothers is releasing "an episodic downloadable game" based on its forthcoming Watchmen movie of the DC comic.
Free ESX!
Facing competition from Microsoft, VMware has made its ESXi virtualisation software available free.
