Channel News

• Payroll specialist fails to pay staff

  Mission critical, you say?

Comms News

• Firm offers Indian maths graduates by VoIP

  All-the-the-boffin-you-can-take at a flat rate price

Developer News

• The Screwpole Emails: Fytte the 5th

  Mugwort gets into training.

• A hosted 'Web 2.0' requirements management experience

  Xeau-eee

Hardware News

• Apple releases MacBook battery update

  Rest easy, not the explosion-preventing kind

• Reg readers total 3,238 years against cancer

  The final score as grid.org closes shop

• HP: 'IT, as we know it, is over'

  Analysis Ships same new products to prove it

• Acer acquisition will be bigger than a breadbox, smaller than Gateway

  Oh, you tease ...

• IBM servers get 10 Gig boost

  TCP offloaders aim to sharpen BladeCenter

• IBM touts complete IPTV systems

  You want it really, you know you do...

• US Army to fund Stanford-led supercomputing team

  Plastic tanks, trouser-launched flying spy bots

Management News

• Schools ban iPod cheaters

  Broke the first rule of Cheat Club

• BT slammed in broadband cut off battle

  'Victory for consumers', claims mortgage firm

• Fujitsu threaten one redundancy

  Union baffled and baited

• Spectrums and Sea Harriers: ah, those were the days

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• 'Traffic Taliban' moots speed cameras in cats' eyes

  Richard Brunstrom's latest cunning plan

• From managed chaos to coherent infrastructure

  Reg Reader Workshop Poll results: The management information journey

• MPs warned about e-health records

  Government 'pressuring' patients to not opt out

• Survey: young Brits ready to embrace evoting

  The over 55s, not so much

• Rep. Barney Frank takes a gamble on online wagering

  House of Cards Sticks it to the UIGEA

• Dell finally switches on PC network in Glasgow schools

  177 schools left without computers for weeks

• Nominet board election is go

  The runners and riders

Music and Media News

• Sky+ Anytime, but not last time

  Upgrade deletes recorded shows from some Sky+ boxes

• MPAA veteran Jack Valenti dead at 85

  Champion of free speech, and DRM

Odds and Sods News

• Virtual overdoses of chocolate WiFi

  Letters As well as trains, drunks and exoskeletons

• Enraged AC Milan fan eBays goalie Dida

  €71 top bid for blundering Brazilian

• BOFH: Fishbowl this

  Episode 14 Glug glug glug

• 'As I watch England turn into a quivering pile of dung'

  FoTW Reasoned analysis of Iranian nuke claim

• Man snaps up Sea Harrier on eBay

  A piece of Falklands history for £10k

Reg Hardware News

• Wal-Mart denies cheap HD DVD deal

  Scheme simply hadn't got that far?

• Free BBC HD satellite TV service given green light

  Sky alternative to launch 2008

• Apple TV hackers called to create open source set-top

  You have nothing to lose but your CableCards

• iSymphony tunes up Bluetooth wireless hi-fi

• Sony snapper to see further with 6x optical zoom

• Nintendo pledges to pour out more Wiis

  Admits demand-anticipation failure

• PlayStation pioneer hangs up his joypad

  Exit comes as Sony projects $2bn loss

Science News

• Hawking amazed by weightlessness

  Next stop, space

• Japan wants levitating trains by 2025

  Feel the force

• Engineers write defence against aliens manual

  NASA consultants advocate sci-fi mujahideen tactics, call Sagan 'total jerk'

• UK airline pilots spot giant UFO

  'Mile wide' mystery object hovers off Channel Islands

• Canada announces monster solar plant

  40MW from one million panels

Security News

• Nominet gets academic on abuse

  Boffins take aim at scammers

Software News