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Event of the Week

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Channel

D-Link calls for Brits to help find stolen routers

7,000 go walkies

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/d-link_router_theft/
Sapphire out to shock with overclocked Toxic cards

Radeon X1950 XTX on board

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/sapphire_toxic_radeon_cards/
Siemens Business Services rejigged again

It's like Trotsky's permanent revolution...

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/sbs_restructured_again/
The Danes are coming...

And they're looking for resellers

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/danes_reseller_search/
US DoJ probes SRAM pricing cartel claim?

Cypress, Samsung say they'll co-operate

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/doj_sram_probe/

Developer

Migrating Access to SQL made (almost) easy

Very useful, apart from the dumb bits

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/10/13/access_migration/
The Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF)

Comment At your service

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/10/14/id_wsf/

Enterprise

Dell kills Overland storage tie-up

Thanks for the hard work

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/dell_cans_overland/
Sun turns to EMC and HP for help selling storage

Virtual tape good to go too

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/sun_vtl_partner/

Hardware

Red iPod Nano ships

Updated Charity's US launch official too

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/10/13/red_ipod_today/
Sony launches Walkman, wireless accessory cornucopia

Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to beam out music

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/10/13/sony_walkman_wireless_accessories/
Sony Ericsson 'Q's up Bond-branded camera phones

'You expect me to talk?'

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/10/13/sony_ericsson_k800_bond_phones/
Moto ships battery-based battery recharger

Recharge your mobile on the fly

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/10/13/moto_ships_p970/

Internet and Law

Yahoo!'s pyramid scheme collapses

Guardians of Mexican heritage say no to laser beam time capsule

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/yahoo_time_capsule/
Can you pimp an inflatable sex doll?

South Korean cops ponder plastic prozzie poser

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/korean_legal_poser/
Bombless dirty bomber pleads guilty, press spreads the fallout

Major terror probe nets improbable mastermind...

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/barot_dirtybomb_trial/
Vietnamese death row prisoner escapes the chop

By getting pregnant

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/death_row_mum/
Florida judge orders copy of Bully for review

Free speech implications

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/judge_orders_bully_for_review/

Management

EU e-Borders spending to rise

Eats into public sector IT budget

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/eborders_spending_rising/
HP's Hurd appoints old mate to ethics officer

HP ethics boss...irony-free zone

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/hp_new_ethics_boss/
Sportingbet flogs US arm for $1

But keeps European and Australian businesses

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/sportingbet_flogs_us_biz/
EU launches online gambling restrictions probe

Jeux sans frontiers

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/eu_online_gambling_probe/
This Goo is on You, or at least some call centre worker

To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/all_wrapped_up/
AMD waves the Maple Leaf for Canadian regulators

O ATI, we stand on guard for thee

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/canada_approves_amd-ati_takeover/
HM Treasury unplugged - Government's IT late list

Analysis Why does it always go so wrong?

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/14/it_tyranny/

Mobile

HMRC poo-poos tax on BlackBerries

Shame...

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/rev_wont_tax_blackberries/
Sony Ericsson deaf to P990i woes

Complaints outsourced to limbo

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/poor_p990_support/
Hope for Vodafone as staff cuts loom

Analysis But no hope for 'dead man walking' Arun Sarin

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/15/vodafone_reshuffle/

Odds and Sods

BOFH: Let the games begin

Episode 34 'Building the perfect games beast on the company dime'

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/bofh_2006_episode_34/
Students protest balluting Vista?

Letters Getting bibilical on blogs

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/letters_1310/
Collective intelligence consultants feel Reg readers' lash

Letters Culling recommended

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/collective_intelligence_consultants/

Science

NASA to test space airbags

Not the Bulgarian kind

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/space_airbags/
Taliban monster dope plants defy Canadian military

Fireproof Afghan marijuana

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/fireproof_forests/
Norwegian museum champions gay animals

'It is not against nature'

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/animal_exhibition/
Hubble pictures an emerging super galaxy

Little galaxies trapped in the Spiderweb

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/emerge_galaxy/
Why do we doodle?

Senseless scribbling or individual insight?

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/the_odd_body_doodling/
Can stun guns and tasers cause death?

Danger: high voltage

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/the_odd_body_taser_stungun/

Security

Software

Apple in code search profanity outrage

NSFW 'Register the f**king window class'

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/code_outrage/
Microsoft tells EC it will ship Vista

EC says: On your head be it

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/ms_tells_ec_vista/
Oracle to provide clearer vulnerability ratings

In at number one it's the latest Buffer Overflow...

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/oracle_revamps_security_update/

Telecoms

Europe's IT sector outpacing telecoms

And growth gap may become a chasm

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/eu_it_outstrips_telecoms/
Telefonica Germany gears up for quad play assault

Scene set for VoIP invasion

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/telefonica_germany_iptv_play/
SMC seeks Cloud cover for Euro Skype phone

Free calls from any Wi-Fi hotspot

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/cloud_smc_partner_for_skype/
Ireland off the hook

As EC ponders action against other Euro telcos

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/ec_telecom_action/
Rooney scores!

Sadly only his domain name

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/rooney_wins_dotcom/
Netgear SPH101 Wi-Fi Skype phone

Review VoIP without a PC

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/review_netgear_sph101/
FCC pulls AT&T-BellSouth merger vote (again)

Political hot potato

http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.com/2006/10/13/fcc_delays_att_bell_south_merger_vote/

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