Channel News

• US backs whistleblower suits against HP, Sun and Accenture

  Kickback Rodeo

• Sun injects NetBeans into Ubuntu

  Spreading the word

• FSA lumps £81m appendage on Fujitsu

  52 staff outsourced

• PC shipments are buoyant, says analyst

  Troubled waters for Dell, though

• XP buried as users roll over, play dead for sex and choccy

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• Quad-core won't make it big until 2009 - reseacher

  IDF Intel agrees

Comms News

• Vodafone explains N95 crippling

  It's for your own good, apparently

• Sky recruiting to fill Sky+ customisation gap

  New product due in 2008

• Hi hon, I'm on d p***

  n flyt fons cum 1 step closer

• Breathe coughs to email upgrade bodge

  Nobody mention PlusNet

• Samsung adds picture-in-picture to DMB phone

  Postage stamp 'o vision

Developer News

Hardware News

• Survey: Storage users seek interoperability

  Want products more interoperablebleblerer

Management News

• Ads surge secures Google earnings

  CEO 'ecstatic'

• Imation buys TDK's recording media biz

  And they can prove it: they've got the whole thing on tape

• Operation Ore: evidence of massive credit card fraud

  Innocent until accused of paedophilia

• Yahoo! China! sued! in! US!

  Human rights case

• MP plans Bob Mugabe body-blow

  Motion to strip tyrant of honorary degree

• Tag dementia sufferers, says minister

  'Freedom to roam'

• Unions propose global action

  Merger eyes up multinationals

• The politics of email in the workplace

  Mixing business with pleasure

• Microsoft to fork out $180m to Iowa

  Anti-trust settlement

• Worker sacked on day before age law took effect is reinstated

  But deadline has passed for similar cases

• Copyright protection warning for Web 2.0 start ups

  Web 2.0 Expo Stand by your lawyer

Music and Media News

• Beeb extends download trial to Macs

  Apple DRM not helping

Odds and Sods News

Reg Hardware News

Science News

• Musteline menace tests Sheffield steel

  Badger orgy of destruction threatens city

• US 'Land Warrior' wearable-computing headed to Iraq

  Despite programme cancellation, poor user reviews

• Canadian seal hunters trapped in ice

  100-boat ice jam delays cull

• Did Herschel discover the rings around Uranus?

  1797 vs 1977

• Boffins to test Star Trek space shield

  Set deflectors to maximum

Security News

• US State department rooted by 0-day Word attack

  An accident waiting to happen

• European e-crime portal scheme floated

  Lending Voice to cybercrime victims

• Counter Strike firm in credit card hack claim

  Hacker, customers accuse Valve of coverup

• Scumbag malware authors exploit Virginia Tech tragedy

  Camera phone footage ruse leads to Trojan depository

• Phishing attack evades bank's two-factor authentication

  Man in the middle

• Data theft replaces malware as top security concern

  Reality check

Software News

• Thunderbird 2 is go

  Scrubbed up version takes flight

• Ubuntu launch marred by website woes

  Open then shut

• Google bugles death of Froogle

  Do no punning

• Oracle scoops up AppForge assets

  Mobile apps go west

• Which games console is most web 2.0-friendly?

  Surf's up for the Wii and the PS3