New phone features 'baffle users'

Research suggests the complexity of modern mobile phones leaves users frustrated and angry, reports The BBC.

Some 61% of those interviewed in the UK and US said setting up a new handset is as challenging as moving bank accounts.

Compiled by mobile firm Mformation, the survey found 85% of users reporting they were frustrated by the difficulty of getting a new phone up and working.

The Vatican this Friday will announce details of a partnership with Google to launch the Holy See's own YouTube channel, says The Register.

According to The Telegraph, the channel will offer "video footage and audio of addresses by Pope Benedict XVI," the current occupant of the Papal Apartments in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace.

This won't be the Vatican's first foray onto the Web. In 1995, it unveiled its own Web site, which is one of the few online places where there is a section entirely in Latin.

Within the next few months, Cisco Systems, the largest maker of networking equipment, plans to release a product that threatens to shake up the technology industry and put the company on a collision course with traditional partners like Hewlett-Packard and IBM, reports CNet.

The product, a server computer equipped with sophisticated virtualisation software, is a bold but risky move by Cisco into an unfamiliar, intensely competitive market that typically produces far lower profits than Cisco makes from network gear.

But it reflects the company's ambition to grow beyond its roots as the so-called plumber of the Internet, to offer everything from instant messaging software to digital stereos.