Channel News

• ICM Computer mulls management buyout

  Mysterious second offer too

• Big TVs and small computers turn on DSG

  Computer growth lags electricals

Comms News

• 1and1 email takes a dive again

  But...you said the problems were over!

• Skype slaps charge on non-'Pro' customers

  But hasn't actually launched Pro service

• Carphone Warehouse hangs up on Celebrity Big Brother

  While Jade Goody's gob crashes Ofcom website

Developer News

• Venerable DataFlex goes visual

  20 years to get to Version 12

• A holistic view of second generation BI

  Comment Houston, we have a problem

Hardware News

• Orb brings iTunes to Wii console

  Convergence on the cheap

• RIM readies new UI, CPU for 3G BlackBerry 9000?

  Back-up to memory card feature too, report claims

• LG, Prada parade iPhone-like KE850

  Separated at birth?

• Sony opens shutter on 7.2Mp compact digicam quartet

Management News

• Stuffed investors refuse IBM's chipper Q4

  Belch over bite

• Bush performs wiretapping U-turn

  Courting the opposition

• San Francisco expands public surveillance

  Public smackdown over civil liberties

• UK refuses to extend legal protections for search engines

  Pointless, it says

• Parents gain MPs' backing over school fingerprinting

  Westminster lifts a finger

• Government launches data free-for-all

  In the name of fraud prevention

• UCLA Taser victim sues university

  'Excessive force' lawsuit

• Iranian teen spared the rope

  Campaign continues to secure Nazanin Fatehi's release - you can help

• Dishonest data protection notices could earn jail time

  Possible, but not likely

• EU to look at violent video games

  Producers invited to one-way debate

Music and Media News

• DRM threat to net radio returns

  You cannot be Sirius...

• First HD-DVD film appears on BitTorrent

  Serenity broken

Odds and Sods News

Science News

• NASA to demystify atmospheric storms

  Mission launching in February

• Scientists solve 1918 bird flu mystery

  Monkey see, monkey flu

• Solar system braces for brightest ever comet

  Nothing to see for 2m years

Security News

• Four arrested in Japan over dating site spam blizzard

  Love sick

• Cookie monster menaces Google

  Search giant battles brace of bugs

• ID theft fears over Hampshire hospital PC theft

  Patient peril

Software News