We’ve got a lot of time for Sky Player. Many hours, in fact. Not only does it make your Sky package available to you over the Internet, it’s also integrated into both Windows Media Center and the Xbox 360 dashboard. Until now, live channels have been rather limited, but yesterday Sky launched Sky One as …

At last year’s CES trade show, we drooled all over our favourite Christmas jumper when we caught a glimpse of LG’s OLED TV, with its slender proportions and insanely colourful pictures. Now LG’s got us all slobbery again, announcing that the 15-inch 15EL9500 OLED TV is heading to Austria in May, before it presumably ventures to Blighty and the rest of Europe. …

Fortify for frenetic phone fanboy fighting — as part of a series of in-depth investigations into the screen quality of the iPhone and the Nexus One, the visual experts at DisplayMate have claimed that, scientifically speaking, the iPhone’s LED display is a clear winner. A tip of the hat goes to OLED-Display for tipping us off to the study. Examine the …

Motorola has officially acknowledged the issue surrounding the recent over-the-air (OTA) update that was sent out to Moto Cliq owners. For those unfamiliar, the update was created to improve the performance for the touch screen, battery, and GPS functions on the T-Mobile handset. Unfortunately, a handful of users were reporting a variety of issues once they installed the patch. Today …

It’s a good week to be a gamer. We’ve rounded up five just-released titles that offer a little something for everyone: 3D platform action, a space-themed take on Facebook fave FarmVille, havoc-wreaking airborne zombies, and more. Take a look: Assassin’s Creed II: Multiplayer is an online-multiplayer assassination-fest–with top-down, 2D graphics. Ubisoft Assassin’s Creed II: Multiplayer Created exclusively for the iPhone …

With all-singing, all-dancing new operating system Windows Phone 7 grabbing the headlines, it looked like Windows 6.5 was a lame duck. Microsoft is desperately hoping to change that perception by rebranding WinMo 6.5 as Windows Phone Starter Edition. The boys and girls at Redmond made things clear as mud in an interview with our sister site ZDNet’s Microsoft maven Mary-Jo …

Following a tariff overhaul by T-Mobile last month, O2 is the latest network to revamp its monthly contracts. The original home of the iPhone is launching a new SIM-only tariff and updating its contracts for phones and mobile broadband dongles. If you’ve already got the phone you want, SIM-only deals tempt you with cheap rates for just the SIM card …

What do you call a Windows Phone 7 Series phone? We’re going with ‘WinPhoSev phone’, but we’re open to suggestions. Whatever it’s called, LG has chucked the first branded WP7S-p into the spotlight on Engadget‘s video podcast. Aaron Woodman of Microsoft showed an early prototype of an LG phone sporting Windows Phone 7 Series, showing off the Start screen, Bing …

Editors’ note: Sprint also advertises on CNET. We’ve always followed Sprint’s television ads with interest, primarily because they’ve been a roller coaster ride. We were never fans of the black-and-white spots with CEO Dan Hesse, but we liked the most recent campaign that tried to demonstrate what users could do on the carrier’s network at that given moment. Now Hesse …

The U.K. government will not exempt universities, libraries, and small businesses providing open Wi-Fi services from its Digital Economy Bill copyright crackdown, according to official advice released earlier this week. This would leave many organizations open to the same penalties for copyright infringement as individual subscribers, potentially including disconnection from the Internet, leading legal experts to say it will become …