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Channel

Q1 laptop demand dips below vendor expectations?

Buyers said to be awaiting Core Duo price cuts

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/q1_notebook_demand_dip/
AMD falls in world chip maker rankings

Sales down 23.3 per cent between 2005 and 2004

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/top_world_chip_makers_2005/

Developer

Interviewing C++ developers with extreme prejudice

Clever ways to find clever people

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/03/17/cplusplus_interviewing/
Improving on optimisers

Comment 'Clever' enhancers up performance

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/03/17/improving_optimiser_performance/

Enterprise

Cisco's Chambers touched by telepresense

Let me hear your body talk, body talk

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/cisco_video_conferencing/
Cray to woo DARPA and others with server candy store

'Give us one of those, 200 of those . . .'

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/18/cray_cascade/

Hardware

Verbatim to offer 'reincarnated floppy disk' in Europe

Looks familiar?

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/17/verbatim_flashdisc/
eSATA ExpressCard debuts

Links fast external drives to new notebooks

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/17/ratoc_rex_esata_expresscard/
Sony names Blu-ray disc kit ship dates

Disc player, internal drive and Vaio PCs detailed

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/17/sony_blu-ray_hardware/
Warner HD DVD debut delayed

Slipped discs

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/17/warner_hd_dvd_roll-out_delay/
Samsung SH-B022 Blu-ray Disc writer

First UK Preview Blu-ray finally arrives - does it live up to the hype?

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/17/review_samsung_sh-b022/
Sony unveils 20in LCD TV-monitor combo

Movies and games and back again

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/17/sony_mfm-ht205_tvpc/
Razer readies iPod dockable keyboard

iTunes-friendly media keys included too

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/17/razer_pro-type_ipod_dock_keyboard/

Internet and Law

Date set for global net body's first meeting

Athens: 30 October to 2 November 2006

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/igf_date_set/
Asian police target movie downloaders

Investigations shifting from servers to clients?

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/korea_police_question_downloaders/
Google wins Usenet copyright case

Search engine allowed to search

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/google_wins_usenet_copyright_case/
Microsoft's new DRM Plays For Sh... Shorter

Gifts Apple a tonic

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/18/ms_drm_plays_for_shorter/
Google chief dampens Office hype, allays net future paranoia

We're boring, really

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/18/google_schmidt_speaks/

Management

Voda flogs Japanese arm

That's that then

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/vodafone_japan/
Lenovo wields knife, cuts 1,000 jobs

Begins to woo partners

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/lenovo_job_cuts/
Doubts over Home Office e-tagging

Testing 'woefully inadequate', MPs told

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/etagging_slammed/
BT unveils fixed-mobile combo

Has a pop at Orange

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/bt_orange/
BT's new fixed-mobile combo NOT available yet

'Hasn't actually come out yet'

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/bt_calls/
'Break up Amazon.com'

Analysis Glorified catalog, or tech platform? Time to decide

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/18/amazon_should_split/

Odds and Sods

Star Wars TV series in 3D

Geek TV Time to get your glasses on

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/star_wars_in_3d/
Left-handed men are gay: official

Letters But do they drink Guinness?

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/letters/
Frozen French couple go up in smoke

Faulty freezer forces cryogenics' cremation

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/french_cryonics_cremation/
Swedes plan to colonise Moon

Flat-pack lunar base

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/swedish_moon_base/
Nude nonna in roadway romp

What on Earth is wrong with Europe's pensioners?

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/italian_grandma_thrillseeker/

Science

Raoul blows its top

One missing as Ring of Fire rumbles

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/raoul_eruption/
Astronomers glimpse newborn universe

13.7 billion-year-old microwave

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/wmap_data/
'Now that we have a map, let's start colonizing outer space' - expert

Only women willing to read maps invited

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/space_ames_world/

Security

US gang members get GPS tagged

High-risk parolees tracked

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/gang_members_tagged/

Software

Ballmer pushes Vista and Office vision to businesses

The future is IBM. No - wait, it's people

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/microsoft_people_ready/

Telecoms

Telecoms spending to decline

But broadband still to boom

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/telecoms_spending_forecast/
UK broadband speed clocked at...

A stunning Friday factoid

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/broadband_speed/

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