Channel News

• Bell Micro talks up record-breaking Q1

  Stock options practices under review, though

Comms News

• Palm distances itself from Windows

  May be wooing Nokia

• Nokia plunders Motorola's market share

  Mobile phone market growing more slowly lately

• Talking and driving more dangerous if you're alone

  Mobile phone use twice as dangerous as talking to passengers

• Handwrite onto your BlackBerry

  You want me to sign where?

• Cable and Wireless asks Bulldog data theft victims to get in touch

  Information Commissioner: 'whodonewhatnow?'

Developer News

• Creating a Portlet from a JSF Application with WebCenter

  Pass the portlet, dear

• Bull goes industrial with software factory

  Open source code fuels distributed development

Hardware News

• Overland feels overstaffed

  Reducing 14 per cent of its workforce

• Dell offers XP again amidst Vista complaints

  Users ask to party like its 2001

• RIM explains BlackBerry failure

  Upgrade to non-critical system led to critical failure

• Oracle shuts Windows on data integrity drive

  Multivendor data checking spec will be Linux-only

Management News

• Cheaper phones crimp Nokia profits

  North America remains indifferent to company's charms

• Texas Senate waves through cell phone wiretapping bill

  Harder to buy pre-paid cell phones, easier to bug

• Airwave strike threats as Macquarie takes over

  Aussie subtlety could leave coppers radio-less

• BT buys more of Latin America

  Comsat deal takes 21CN south of the border

• IT firms compromise on global injustice

  Unions sceptical

• Dodgy accountants sup Um Bongo from exposed holes

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• Click fraudsters flick industry the finger

  Bots still faking it with online ads

• And the centre of your desktop is...

  Reg Technology Panel The poll results are in

• ORG plots e-voting observation

  Keeping a watchful eye on things

• Suing a cartel should be easier, says OFT

  Competition rules under scrutiny

• Staff use of Web 2.0 is unseen threat, survey says

  Companies underestimating leak risk

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• Dutch escort agency to service geek virgins

  'A lot of demand' from IT sector

• 'Mary Celeste' yacht mystery puzzles Oz

  Abandoned vessel adrift off Queensland

• Chinese translation software blamed in racist sofa outrage

  'Mommy, what colour is that?'

• BOFH: Geeks on heat

  Episode 13 All's fair in love and war

Reg Hardware News

• Netgear SPH200D Skype/DECT phone

  Review New, all-white phone's all right

• Nokia boosts downloads with low-cost 3G phone

• UMPCs: still a gimmick despite Intel's best efforts?

  Analysis It's the battery life, stupid

• Medion muscles into UMPC market

  Launches GoPal S2310 sat nav device too

Science News

• Kremlin touts plan for Siberia-Alaska tunnel

  Digging for victory?

• Alcohol boosts health benefit of fruit

  Strawberry daiquiris all round

• Lyrid meteors to sear Sunday's skies

  A show for insomniacs everywhere

• NASA, DoD in underwater astronaut doc-bot trial

  IP-controlled surgery may give new meaning to the term 'hacker'

Security News

• Satnav hacking made simple

  CanSecWest Create your own traffic jam, bull fight or air raid

• Russians crack OpenOffice security

  Software utility unlocks locked documents

• Stolen laptops fuel industrial espionage fears for UK software firm

  All hands to the pump

• Disgruntled techie attempts Californian power blackout

  Counter-terror feds swoop after data centre sabotage

• Lloyds TSB certificate glitch sparks concerns

  Trust no one

• Need enhanced data security? Try a condom

  Google recommends prophylaxis

• Attackers improve on JavaScript trickery

  CanSecWest Obfuscation is my middle name

Software News

• On the Office format wars

  Analysis Politics and ODF vs OpenXML