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Channel

Foxconn calls for new benchmarks

Industry needs to agree on a standard bench first

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/foxconn_benchmarks/
Channel Warriors: it's survey time again

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http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/channel_survey/

Developer

PHP project follows script

Easier, simpler

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/03/09/php_framework/
Professional .Net 2.0 Generics

Site offer And many more with a 34% discount!

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/03/09/bookshop_march_8/

Hardware

Benq intros GPS-enabled Wi-Fi smart phone

CeBIT P50 updated for Siemens era

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/09/benq_p51_gps_phone/
Panasonic points to Autumn Euro Blu-ray debut

CeBIT Makes blank BD media pitch too

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/09/panasonic_blu-ray_autumn/
Panasonic preps 4GB SD HC card

CeBIT Based on SD 2.0 spec

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/09/panasonic_4gb_sd_card/
Samsung readies 10mp, satellite TV phone

CeBIT SCh-B600 does it all

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/09/samsung_sch-b600/
Logitech Cordless Desktop S530 for Mac

First UK Review Something for your Mini, sir?

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/09/review_logitech_s530/
Not CeBIT

Tech Digest Sod the techie stuff - the iPod shower system is fun!

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/09/not_cebit/
Panasonic adds Skype to DECT cordless phone

CeBIT Landline or VoIP - it's your choice

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/09/panasonic_skype_dect/
Apple TV: wait and sue

Analysis Why bother with work

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/09/apple_tv/

Internet and Law

Google offers MS-style Seattlement for click fraud suit

$90m in credits, no more questions

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/google_click_fraud/

Management

SCO spends $4m to make $30k in Q1

Bad math bigger problem than IBM

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/sco_q1_drop/
Cheeky BT tries to poach 'displaced' C&W punters

Helpline for 'anxious' SMEs

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/bt_cable_wireless/
Shared services become hard to swallow

Government force-feeding councils anyway

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/shared_services_coercion/
The ambassador's IT angst

'Unfortunately, Prism has gone wrong'

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/prism_delayed/
PC World Business wins Catalist status

Not much surprise here

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/pc_world_business_catalist/
Fujitsu Siemens sets massive growth target

CeBIT They must be really high

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/fujitsu_siemens_growth/
Entrepreneurs hail launch of IP centre

Opportunities abound for start-ups

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/ip_centre_launched/
BT spooks SMEs over mis-selling fears

Let's be careful out there

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/bt_mis_selling/
Novell rearranges the brass after Q1 bomb

Out with the new

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/10/novell_management_shuffle/
Google counters Microsoft's search with a Writely

The hosted word

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/10/google_writely/

Mobile

Voda's top marketing man clears desk

Toodle-oo

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/vodafone_cmo/
Voda outlines timetable for HSDPA trial

Testing, testing...

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/vodafone_hsdpa/
Vodafone ends cross-border roaming charges

Ireland now one island

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/vodafone_ends_ireland_roaming_charges/
Fujitsu Siemens dangles wireless lappy for €1

CeBIT Strings attached, naturally

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/fujitsu_siemens_tmobile/

Odds and Sods

Mum's a junkie whore and dad got devoured

419 email classic

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/manchester_419/

Science

Global warming may kill ground-based astronomy

Forecast for 2050: cloudy

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/astronomy_menaced/
Galaxy-chasing nebula caught on camera

Dramatic image of 'cometary globule'

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/galaxy_chasing_nebula/
Ancient cosmic signal decoded

It's from near the dawn of time, man

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/ancient_crb/
Boffins produce plasma at two billion kelvins

Very hot stuff from the Z machine

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/hot_plasma/
NASA finds a gusher on Saturn moon

Water and life on tap

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/saturn_water/

Security

Work-at-home mum in net filth conviction

From MommyJobs to JoeJobs

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/housewife_net_filth_conviction/
ISPs must take lead in fighting spam

ITU calls for action

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/itu_spam_report/
UK supermarket trials fingerprint payment tech

Just put your dabs here, love

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/fingerprint_shopping_trial/
Plug pulled on Mac hacking challenge

OS X security debate rages on

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/mac_hacking_challenge/

Software

Linus, GPL 3.0 and sharks with lasers on their heads

Yeah, baby

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/10/torvalds_gpl_drm/

Telecoms

Number of premium rate complaints dip

Still work to do to combat scammers

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/icstis_complaints/
Industry goes mad for IPTV

London forum feeding frenzy

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/09/iptv_forum/

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