While we bask in the relative comedown of the slowdown of news from IFA in Berlin, Gareth Beavis considers the good, the bad and the downright weird from this year's show.

IFA 2008 was the show of SO MANY TVs, where we heard some pretty interesting OLED news from Sony and Samsung, marvelled over Panasonic's 150-inch plasma screen and T-Mobile's great 'Minority Report' style touchscreen wall and moaned a little about the Samsung Omnia.

Meanwhile, back in normal-land, it's officially Google Week on TechRadar as this Sunday sees Google, Inc hit its tenth birthday. Remember life before Google? Difficult to even get your head around, isn't it…Take our Life before Google quiz to see how you fare.

In the world of mobile phones, Microsoft is set to rival Apple and Google with a Skymarket app store and there are finally some proper pics of Google's Android phones doing the rounds. It's going to go to T-Mobile, likely under the G1 guise, and judging by the quality of the handset on display, should be coming in time for Christmas.

Next up, Adobe has announced it will be revamping its Photoshop Express system, including a Photoshop Mobile application for Windows Mobile smartphones. Meanwhile, over in the US, Mark Harris considers if the Nokia Tube is already outdated before it's begun?

It's a massive week for PC gamers this week, with Will Wright's magnum opus, Spore, finally releasing this Friday. Also, much to nobody's surprise, Microsoft has yet again slashed the cost of the Xbox 360 console – this time in the hard-to-crack market of Japan, where you can pick up a 360 for around the equivalent of £100.

Finally, it seems the UK is going to be made to wait for the updated version of Amazon's Kindle e-reader, not currently due for release until some unspecified point next year. Bah! (Though if you really are desperate for an e-reader, Waterstones is currently doing promotions offering Sony's latest device.)