For anyone shopping around for a new handset in the coming weeks, three Sony Ericsson handsets should now be available with your operator of choice - the W810i, K510i and Z530i phones.

The W810i is a Walkman phone, featuring a digital music player, FM radio, music management software plus 20MB of memory for storage, which you can expand with a Memory Stick. In addition, this quad band EDGE phone with 262.144 color TFT screen features a 2MP camera, full internet browsing and Bluetooth. Talk time is up to 8 hours, with standby of up to 350 hours.

The folks over at HDTVUK have been amongst the lucky ones to have got their Sky HD installation and have spent a gruelling week watching it, taking notes about the merits, noting their gripes and pondering whether it's a better investment than the Telewest option.

If you hop on over there now for first impression of Sky HD over Telewest, thoughts on the Sky HD box, the merits of documentaries in HD, the current crop of movies being shown in HD (including Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith),  plus the shows you can catch up with over the bank holiday weekend.

For all this, plus all the latest news on everything high-def, head on over to HDTVUK.

Getting tired of plastic? Want to get back to nature with your computer peripherals? You can now swap plastic for wood, thanks to Swedish company Swedx, which has introduced a range of wooden computer keyboards and mice.

They might look like a vintage throwback, but there's nothing old about the technology. The keyboard features 104 keys, has a USB interface and is available in three languages - English, German and Swedish. There's also a choice of wood - ash, beech or sapele.

Sony has announced the launch of a new Memory Stick Data Rescue Service, which enables recovery of photography and data files which been lost or deleted. And it's fred to download and use.

The online tool requires customers to register the Memory Stick model name and serial number before download of the recovery software can begin. The software can recover .jpg (DCF format), MPEG1 and .mp4 (MS Video File Format) files, plus most office data files including Powerpoint and Word documents. Once the Memory Stick is plugged in, the software guides you through seven steps, during which the files are verified, recovered and resaved.

There's no need to rush back home for your World Cup news and punditry - you'll soon be able to get it on your 3G phone, with 3 set to launch the first commissioned  sports programme for Mobile TV - Berlin or Bust - which airs on 5 June.

The company claims it will be "an irreverent and entertaining look at the tournament", with previews and reviews of each day's World Cup action. Hosted by Sam Delaney, the show will feature celebrities, including the likes of the Kaiser Chiefs and Ray Winstone and everyone between, plus analysis from former England star Ray "Butch" Wilkins. Except he doesn't use the "Butch" bit anymore.

BT has unveiled the BT Glide - the UK's first Bluetooth home phone, allowing you access to all your latest contacts on your phone as you enter your home.

Using Bluetooth technology, the Glide allows your landline handset to communicate with your mobile phone, headset, PDA, laptop or camera, so you can roam around your house and garden without having to carry additional handsets. You can also transfer contact details and updates quickly, so as soon as you enter your house, data from your mobile is synched onto the BT Glide - you might never lose a number again!

Ever wondered where your dog has got to? Well you won't have to for much longer. According to Mobile Marketing, Finnish GPS company Tracker has just what you need in the form of My Way, a 3-in-1 GPS navigation system for your mobile.

The system consists of a Bluetooth GSP receiver which displays road, topgraphical (hills etc.) and nautical maps on your handset, providing you have a Symbian Series 60 (mainly Nokia) phone, though it will also work on some Sony Ericssons and Motorolas. Road maps for the country you buy it in are supplied on a memory card. The topographical and nautical maps are downloaded from a dedicated web or Wap site as and when you need them.

But where things get really cool is when you buy a second GPS receiver that attaches to a dog collar to enable you to keep tabs on the whereabouts of your pooch, or even the local Vicar come to that. There's also another version that attaches to a belt for child monitoring, and a magnetic one that fixes on to the underside of your car. And if a mate has the same system, you can use it to play find-a-friend. Handy if it's their round and they have misteriously disappeared.

My Way is expeted to go on sale in the UK in the next four weeks, priced at around £240. Get the full story here.

Contrary to popular belief Microsoft Word doesn't have an automatic backup facility, features like Save Auto Recovery info (Tools > Options) merely save your document as a temporary file, which may get you out of trouble if Word or your PC crashes, and you know where to look for it, but it is not permanent and the recovery files are automatically deleted when Word, or the document are closed. There is no substitute for manually saving your work every few minutes, and the Ctrl + S keyboard shortcut is easy to remember, but Propellerhead has found a better way.

We've all heard about the online musical success stories - bands like the Arctic Monkeys, who used the net to build a following, without the need for the record label publicity machine. Yet they still needed a label to sell some records. That could change if the newly-launched indiestore.com is a success.

indiestore enables artists to build their own download store, earn cash from the sales of their tracks and secure a chart position in official charts in the UK, US and 20 other countries. In addition, artists can promote their gigs and stay in touch with their fans on their own indiestore. Bands receive 80 per cent of money from sales through indiestore.

Many of us walk round with a host of gadgets about our person - but could these be causing harm for the companies we work for? According to new research, more workers than ever are plugging portable devices into company networks - with the resulting risk of viruses and the threat of data theft.

The DeviceWall Security Attitudes Survey 2006 from Centennial Software revealed that 70 per cent of workers now plug a USB drive, MP3 player, PDA or other portable device into a computer connected to the company network on a daily basis and 88 per cent plug in a portable device at least weekly. And not many firms are paying attention to it. The most common device to be connected to the network was the USB drive - used by 38 per cent of respondents. Also popular were PDAs (21 per cent), digital cameras (15 per cent), mobile phones (14 per cent) and MP3 players (7 per cent).

Plantronics has launched the Voyager 510 USB Bluetooth VoIP headset, aimed at busy business people who want a Bluetooth headset for their mobiles, but also something that will allow them to connect to VoIP services.

To use it, just plug the Bluetooth adaptor into your computer ( or the USB port of your laptop) and you'll be able to take your VOIP calls without having to play around with an additional headset. When you're done, a push of a button will switch to incoming calls on your Bluetooth mobile phone.

Not content with pointing us in the direction of a solar powered battery charger earlier in the week, Hippyshopper now has the solution to charging larger items when you're on the move - on an eco-friendly way of course. It's the Sunlinq folding solar power panel.

Available in sheets of 6.5, 12 or 24 panels, they're weatherproof, UV resistant and flexible, which gives you plenty of scope to attach to a variety of things, including clothing and backpacks. And when you're done, it folds up into said backpack easily. There's a whole host of connectors to connect to a range of devices - all included in the price, which is from around £85.

Want to know more? Find out about this and loads more green solutions over at Hippyshopper.

No matter what model of iPod you have, Marantz claim their IS201 docking station will integrate it with any home cinema or hi-fi system, or even your PC.

With a raft of connections and a self-generated on-screen display, the IS201 takes your music and video from your iPod and into your living room - play music through full size speakers and watch videos and view photo albums on your screen of choice. The IS201 docking station includes stereo phono, S-Video, RC-5, IR-Flasher input and RS-232 connections, as well as one for an external power supply, which means the dock can be connected to several different components at the same time.

For anyone looking to dip their toe into the world of digital movies (after all, what could be better than catching your mates making fools of themselves and sticking the film on YouTube for all to see), the Mustek DV5300SE digital video camera seems an affordable way to give it a try.

The Mustek DV5300SE is a digital video camera and digital still camera in one. It has a 3MP CCD sensor and a maximum resolution of up to 5MP. There's 1.5 inch TFT-LCD swing display to capture those short films in MPEG4 format. The DV5300SE also features automatic exposure, while different settings for white balance can be set to daylight, cloudy, fluorescent and tungsten or automatically adjusted.

These accessory companies certainly waste no time. Hot on the heels of the white Sony PSP are white accessories, including this Home Theatre Sound System and Remote Control from 4gamers.

It's a white PSP docking system with built-in speakers (12 watts RMS) and subwoofer, plus a tilt mechanism for optimising your movie viewing to you liking. Your PSP will be charging whenever it is docked, so you can listen to music, play games or even watch movies while it gets ready to be set free again.

And still the leading names in fashion clamour desperately for assocation with the iPod. This time it's Nike with their Nike+iPod Sport Kit.

It's actually of more practical use than most - it's a wireless system that allows Nike+ footwear to transfer workout data to your iPod nano. The kit consists of an in-shoe sensor and a receiver that attaches to iPod. It collates information on time, distance, calories burned and pace, which is then stored on the iPod and displayed on the screen.

We're all using USB flash drives these days, and very useful they are too, for transferring data from one PC to another. But the next time you plug your drive into someone else's PC just ask yourself, am I going to get infected? The ease with which you can move data around also makes it simple for viruses and malware to hitch a ride on your flash drive and back into your PC. The first thing you should find out when copying data onto your drive is whether or not the PC you are connecting to has anti-virus protection, you will be surprised how many don't.

The Propellerhead solution is to carry some protection with you, the freeware anti-virus scanner AntiVir can be run from a flash drive and it only takes up around 30Mb of space, which is nothing in these days of 1 and 2Gb drives.

Ok, so there might be a lot of World Cup competitions around, but this is the coolest by far. How would you like to write for Who ate all the Bratwurst? as well as be the first footy blogger in the UK to go mobile?

And guess what we'll pay you £500 to do it.

We are looking for four bloggers to write for both Bratwurst and our mobile sister blog Germany 2006 which will be available via the fantastic Mobizines. We want bloggers who can great write great short posts about anything and everything to do with the World Cup. There are four spaces up for grabs and you can find all the details here.

The basics though is that you need to write up to 300 impassioned, maybe witty words about something to do with football or the World Cup.

Germany 2006 will be on Mobizines, which is a fantastic new mobile phone application that offers magazines to go on your handset.

You can read all about how Mobizines work here and what sister blog Tech Digest said about it when it launched here.

So £500 and you could be on your way to be the next Motty. What have you got to lose?

Competition entry form

We've covered Flybooks in the past, most recently the  V23i and the V33i, which introduced Intel processors and EDGE connectivity, for speeds approaching (but not quite) 3G on a number of GSM networks.

Certainly if you want a very small notebook that doesn't skip too much on the features, it's worth a look. And if you're a football fan and want to get in the mood for the World Cup, here's something that might appeal - you can now get your ultraportable laptop wrapped up in the England flag.

Big Brother has certainly embraced all manner technology - you can get clips online, clips to your mobile, "live" action on E4, live coverage to your PC (for a price) plus an endless stream of highlight shows on Channel 4.

However, if you want the most incisive commentary on the show, you need to head over to TV Scoop, where the team has been glued to their sets, watching every move, predicting the next move and (like the rest of us) waiting to see who pairs up and if Shabaz really will carry out his threat of suicide live on TV.

Make sure you stay up to date - visit TV Scoop.