Channel News

• AMD begins to ship ATI Radeon Uber Edition bundle

  Fanboys' dream

• Phoenix IT confirms talks to buy ICM Computer

  Up against a management buyout

• Dell growth slows to crawl in Q4

  HP takes top spot again

• ICM Computer mulls management buyout

  Mysterious second offer too

• Big TVs and small computers turn on DSG

  Computer growth lags electricals

• Intel completes 45nm 'Wolfdale', 'Yorkfield' architecture

  'Penryn' platform boots Vista, OS X, Linux

• Gigabyte, Asus JV pitches 'next-gen' gaming mobo

  Quad-everything

• Hamsard picks up the rest of CSF

  Buys services biz

• Scottish IT firms hit by Dell effect

  Staff jumping ship

• PCI Express 2.0 released

  Twice the bandwidth

• HP bundles business desktop with free country

  Remarkable Computacenter deal

• Intel's Flash cache module wins PCIe thumbs-up

  Stage set for Robson's Centrino debut

Comms News

• Palm patches Treo 680 camera power bug

  Battery boost

• 1and1: readers stick the boot in

  Letters Email host apologises (again)

• Motorola makes Linux breakthrough with RIZR Z6

  Could gain a headstart on low-cost smartphones

• Signs that Sky will go mobile?

  Raising the bar

• Virgin Lobster fails to spawn

  Less then 10K sold, mobile TV not a hit

• Father of internet warns against Net Neutrality

  No Kahn do

• 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

• Carphone Warehouse reviews Big Brother sponsorship deal

  'Clearly we are against racism'

• New ITU head has no ambitions to run internet

  Megalomania denied

• Apple's iPhone: theoretical risks of unreleased handset

  Symantec stokes Apple hype engine

• US Navy seeks help in developing e-warfare systems

  Come jam with me

• 1and1 says problems are over

  And relax...

• US man badly burned by self-combusting cell phone

  Mobile provokes serious fire

• 3 culls roaming charges

  Make yourself at home

• Skype boys christen video venture

  Start-up formerly known as Venice Project

• Avaya agrees offer for Ubiquity Software

  £74.3m for SIP developer

• Ovum and BT in war of words

  VoIP figures disputed

• Open Phones with Open Moko

  Can an open Linux phone platform change the mobile application game?

• AT&T razes the Cingular brand

  Branding iron

• Cisco on brink of losing iPhone name in Europe

  Legal loophole

• Falling margins spell doom for carrier diversification

  Telcos should stick to their knitting

• Mobile operators lose millions to SIM boxes

  But it's all their own fault

• iPhone locked down, Apple confirms

  We approve the apps, OK?

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

• What makes a 5GL?

  Comment Impossible, but ...

• Vacuum firm wants to clean up with DIY robots

  Rolling your own gets easier

• A picture paints a thousand words

  Moving multimedia into the mainstream

• Survey shows hole in asset management market

  Centennial sees dollar signs

• Microsoft picks IBM top brain

  Grey matter land grab

• Ajax on Rails

  Bringing together Ajax and Rails with Prototype

• We are all Agilists now

  Software agility is a tricky beast to pin down, due largely to its 'fluffy' nature

• Confering developers

  Two talkfests for your diary

• Free Vista test

  Can you do Vista?

Hardware News

• EMC bans Retrospect 8.0 from the big Dantz

  VMware adds backup talent

• Sun squares up to Oracle with Red Hat challenge

  Take Solaris, please

• Rackable gets racked by investors

  Q4 earnings miss mark

• LaCie Ethernet Disk RAID 2TB entry-level NAS box

  Review Nice price, shame about the performance?

• LaCie Ethernet Disk RAID 2TB entry-level NAS box

  Review Nice price, shame about the performance?

• Seagate ships 'world's fastest' hard drive

  15,000rpm

• Seagate ships 'world's fastest' hard drive

  15,000rpm

• HP gets denser, faster...

  With nanowire chip advance

• IBM offers storage kit to tiddlers

  How low end can you go?

• Mac gets first RAID storage server

  iPhone? Pah!

• SMBs offered virtually cheap disaster recovery

  DataCore repackages storage for invisible data replication

• Dell accused of selling defective notebooks - again

  Motherboards conveniently go kaput after warranty expires

• Dell accused of selling defective notebooks - again

  Motherboards conveniently go kaput after warranty expires

• EMC's Insignia brand here to stay, despite layoffs

  Until it isn't

• Print is dead, long live the printer

  Comment Dot that in yer matrix

• Apple iPhone costs $246-281 to make, analyst claims

  Very nice margin

• Apple confirms $2 fee for 802.11n upgrade

  Accouting rules indeed to blame

• 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

• Apple to license FairPlay DRM?

  Hi-Fi vendors queueing up

• Sony offers eBook reader leather-bound edition

  Valentine's Day special

• Dell debuts semi-rugged laptop for survivalists

  Commando line interface

• Vodafone starts McLaren Mercedes handset line

• Apple's alleged 802.11n enabler fee: blame Enron etc.

  Sarbanes-Oxley Law imposes weird accountancy rules on Mac maker

• Nvidia reportedly readying 320MB GeForce 8800 GTS

  Less memory for cheaper DirectX 10 cards

• Tul preps Vista-friendly entry-level PowerColor cards

  Silent, PCIe, AGP X1550s

• UK consumers bought 200,000 Nintendo Wiis over Xmas

  Even more DS consoles sold

• Apple attacks iPhone UI emulators

  Look'n'feel wars... round 99

• AOpen readies Car PC for Mitsubishi motors

  Voice-activated navigation, entertainment centre

• Sony PS3 sales pass 2m mark... two weeks late

  Still on course to sell 6m by April?

• Apple to charge for 802.11n Mac enabling software?

  Want faster Wi-Fi? Then cough up

• Sony readies CompactFlash card line

  Ready for digital SLRs

• Asus revs second-gen Lamborghini laptop

• Toshiba touts 51GB HD DVD

  Three-layer player

• Devolo dLAN 200 AVdesk HomePlug AV network adaptor

  Review HD-ready wired networking over your home's powerlines

• Xbox 360 dominates US next-gen console December sales

  Advantage of good supply?

• O2 delays XDA Zinc roll-out

  Release slips

Management News

• Minister warns against IT defeatism

  Invents 'default nostalgia'

• California pitches plea at accused HP probers

  How does guilty and a handshake sound?

• For Sale: p2pnet.net

  Cash crunch

• 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

• Apple channels iPods for record Q1 run

  Pod-au-Plenty

• Piratebay's sovereign ambitions blasted

  One Nation under a groove

• Can Apple manage without Steve Jobs?

  Column Yes but, no but

• EC preps Intel antitrust charges - report

  Six-year probe drawing to a conclusion?

• Judge sentences 'hacker' PIs, clients

  BT tipped off by mis-billed customers

• Wal-Mart ads pop up on Pirate Bay

  Oops

• Google erases British bases in Iraq

  Terrorists planned attacks using Google Earth, Army says

• Info Commissioner: Too late to stop school fingerprinting

  Not that we really tried in the first place

• Lost: 30,000 Bulldogs

  Pipex trading update shows punters unleashed

• MySpace passes age verification buck to parents

  Teen tabbing spyware

• Brussels weighs up Intel action

  Neelie decides whether to put the boot in

• Prosecutions unlikely in water drinking contest death

  Radio station fires 10

• Cisco's iPhone trademark also under threat in US

  Defective Declaration of Use?

• Survey shows data sharing intent

  Public sector ponders possibilities

• Gambling enabler Neteller craps out

  Hippie Canuck founders busted as DOJ rampage continues

• Intel makes income disappear in Q4

  Copperfieldian quarter

• Transmeta clocks another CEO

  Crudele's Rule

• Symantec blames deferrals for missing Q3 target

  Analyst says there's more to it

• Page 3 girl in net sex vid shocker

  Keeley Hazell a 'sobbing wreck' after leak

• Apple has toxic core: Greenpeace

  Still not green enough for greenies

• Pretexting banned in the US

  Privacy gets its Act together

• Doctors urge action on gambling addiction

  Ten to one nothing happens

• MI5 security alert finally runs on secure server

  Rush job patched up

• Bebo poaches Google exec

  Strategic partnerships ahoy!

• The 'mob' to advise PM on gov data sharing

  String 'em up!

• France and UK discussed 'merger'

  Secret documents reveal 1950s talks

• Siemens ex-CFO named in bribery probe

  Telco contracts under microscope

• US wants all your fingerprints

  Digital crackdown

• Disclosure of government data mining could become US law

  Snooping bill revived

• AOL flogs MusicNow to Napster for $15m

  Napster gains 350,000 rentiers

• Oracle forgives $6.9m in fees to Philadelphia

  Contract for water utility project down the drain

• Feds scrutinize backdated options awarded Steve Jobs

  Bogus grant date, non-existent meeting

• SGI hermit crabs over to Sunnyvale

  Thanks for the memories, Mountain View

• iPhone frenzy, Vista ahoy and SAP

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Music and Media News

• IFPI hails piracy crusade for selling more music downloads

  Onwards and upwards

• DRM threat to net radio returns

  You cannot be Sirius...

• First HD-DVD film appears on BitTorrent

  Serenity broken

• Joost - the new, new TV thing

  The Venice Project unveiled - we take a look

• Nepal, the new gambling mecca? Maybe not

  House of Cards Gambolling among the online gamblers

• Tradedoubler shareholders snub AOL's $900m bid

  Has the world gone completely mad?

• Netflix puts the Net into Flix

  Instant playback for 1,000 movies, TV progs

• Water drinking death contest show taken off air

  Fatality over Wii to be investigated

• Sundance shorts debut on iTunes

  iFilms

• Woman dies after Wii competition

  Radio station water drinking wheeze goes awry

• 19th century Britain goes online

  History Today

• You want a $100 computer? For $300? No sale!

  No Laptop per Rich Child

• Civil rights groups slam San Francisco surveillance expansion

  Urge opposition at next week's police commission hearing

• Spods find God ... in Sadville

  Plus: the first plea for corporate welfare

• The Pirate Bay plans to buy Sealand

  Pirates get sea base

• UK to review school fingerprinting

  Leave them kids alone, as they say

Odds and Sods News

• Spice Girls movie voted worst ever

  Titanic also sunk

• Net wags pile into Jade Goody

  NSFW Big Brother housemate crucified online

• Stormy weather brings down Southern Railway website

  Wrong kind of bandwidth

• Shoecam man accused of filming up women's skirts

  It's a wrap...

• Burger King rampage teen posts footage on YouTube

  Amateur sleuths finger wee ned tube

• Beatles lyrics auctioned for $300,000

  While My Wallet Gently Weeps

• You've left your prints all over that flaming Mac

  Letters And is this your crispy mole?

• Naomi Campbell up before the beak

  Updated Pleads guilty to 'reckless assault'

• Celebrity Big Brother in racism rumpus

  Ofcom probes 2,000 viewer complaints

• Woolworths punts must-have kids' book for £99m

  Plus £2.74 delivery, naturally

• N Korea puts giant rabbit on the menu

  German überbunnies à la Kim Jong Il

• EU goes mad for Bulgarian breast-boosting beer

  Alcohol-enhanced airbag frenzy

• 'We've reinvented the phone ... as a wheelbarrow'

  Letters Feel those paradigms shift

• Gay sheep face neutral net censorship plot

  Letters iPhone, uPhone, we all phone together

• BOFH: It's a funny old world isn't it?

  Episode 2 Adventure time!

Science News

• China rattles America's cage with satellite shot

  Look what we can do

• Salesforce.com goes carbon neutral

  No, they're not killing the staff

• 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

• Japan scales back lunar ambitions

  Spaceship fails MOT

• Scientists bring forward nuclear holocaust

  The Final Countdown

• Japan confirms H5N1 bird flu outbreak

  Nationwide farm inspections ordered

• German fried in mole-electrocution experiment

  380V garden mishap

• Two years on, Huygens data still delivering

  Titanic probe

• Scientists probe space origin of rare black diamonds

  'Carbonado' gems under scrutiny

• Why do we open our mouths to yawn properly?

  An open and shut case

• Why is it absolutely impossible to sneeze with your eyes open?

  The eyes have it

• Is it true that a woman's breasts can grow enormously overnight?

  Mammoth mammaries

• Why do some people have three nipples?

  The Scaramanga defect

• Comet McNaught prepares show for Soho

  Nice ion-tail, eh?

Security News

• ID theft nets £85,000 a head: study

  Lawyers a prime target

• Myspace sued for failing to protect minors

  Predators, phishers lurk in dark corners

• 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

• AOL phishing fraudster found guilty

  Conman faces up to 101 years in jail

• Lottery fraudsters exploit 070 personal numbers

  You have to be in it to win it

• Oracle blocks 51 security holes

  Patch bandwagon heralds busy week for DBAs

• Worms own Symantec users

  Punishes sys admins too lazy to apply patch

• X-ray exposes ring-swallowing thief

  With this ring, I thee nick

• Cattle branding comes to the 21st Century

  High-tech tattoo more than a pretty picture

• Trojans fuel ID theft boom

  Phishing season

• Fact, fiction or bioterror drill? How to cook up a ricin scare

  Take one reservoir, two tons ricin mash, stir vigorously

• Could invisibility beat encryption?

  Canadians add cloaking device to Windows files

• FBI warns of assassin spam scam twist

  Probe fairytale targets gullible

• Spammers get bullish on stocks

  Pump-and-dump pumped

• Security, privacy and DRM: My wishes for 2007

  Scott Granneman sets out his stall

• Man-in-the-Middle phishing kit netted

  Sinister haul

Site News

Software News

• SCO punts on Novell bankruptcy claim

  Swerves the verge

• Of spooks, security and Vista

  Comment Where's my tinfoil hat?

• SAP in Salesforce.com thunder-stealing exercise

  Competitors any day, now

• Open source is good for the economy: report

  Worth €2bn a year