Channel News

• Silly season starts early as IT goes strictly business

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Comms News

• Cigarette fire takes out Internet2

  Redundancy is so net 1.0

• Granny waxes lyrical in 'txt laureate' challenge

  'O hart tht sorz, My luv adorz...'

• 3 CEO to retire in June

  Deputy steps up

• Orange simplifies data charging

  Unmetered access for all

Developer News

Hardware News

• IBM claims self-assembling chip leap

  Steals idea from nature

• Sir Alan Sugar unveils East End supercomputer

  Amstrad boss on 'robot prisons', boozy pilots and BBC's 'different brain sets'

• Intel consigns Cornish town to oblivion

  Panic in Penryn at Google search relegation

Management News

• Registrars victims of latest UK.gov IT fiasco

  IT modernisation abandons registrars at altar

• Google resumes linking to Belgian newspaper sites

  Cash from cache

• Murdoch makes high premium bid for Dow Jones

  $5bn surprise offer could tempt Bancroft

• Cash machines get a voice

  But it's in Swedish...

• US flies visa control kite over Pakistani Brit 'terror suspects'

  Tough talk cloaks the next data grab?

• Northgate continues shopping spree

  Mangetout

• 80% of complaints to EU privacy watchdog are misdirected

  Should have gone to national bodies instead

• Living on the wrong side of the technology tracks

  Computers, Freedom and Privacy Digitally disenfranchised

• Google asks court to dismiss Viacom suit

  Floats 'safe harbour' defence

• Capgemini and HP gain ground in public sector marketplace

  Two winners in ICT supply battle

• Sealand dismisses McKinnon asylum offer as 'rumour'

  Sanctuary at sea plan sunk

• Researchers, spooks favour satnav-based road pricing

  Could be popular - easiest to hack

• Euro Data watchdog warns of database creep

  Unbridled development a problem for EU

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• Gutsy eBayer touts 'Royal Marine surrender kit'

  Just as commandos return en masse from Afghanistan. Oops

Reg Hardware News

• Slam out power chords like Hendrix

• HTC S310 Windows Mobile smart phone

  Review Entry-level handset

• Nokia unveils 'emerging market' handset septet

  clamshells and candybars

• Creative slings Stone at iPod Shuffle

  Zen and the art of digital music

• AMD picks Phenom, axes Athlon as high-end handle?

  Uninspiring

• RIM reveals BlackBerry Curve

  More consumer than corporate?

• Apple pledges green glasnost

  But eco-activists still not satisfied

• Intel preps lower power Core 2 Quads

Science News

• US missile defences in successful Pacific test

  Aegis cruiser knocks down regional-power-type threats

• Poisonous spiders invade Britain

  Global warming sparks arachnid warning

• NASA to go into the space business?

  Advertising space, that is

• Mars is caked in patchy ice, say NASA scientists

  Not a god awful small affair, scans show

• Oz boffins unleash the power of beer

  2kW microbial fuel cell to run on brewing waste

• MoD to publish secret UFO files

  Tinfoil mob likely unruffled by flimsy cover story

Security News

• Microsoft preps seven bulletins for Patch Tuesday

  Critical fixes for Windows, Office, Exchange and more

• Rivals dismiss MS Forefront security push

  Business OneCare

• Time for new network security certification

  Comment Since GIAC messed up

• Tesco teams up with MyThings to 'trace' your valuables

  Online item registry

Software News

• Google says iApologise for iGoogle cockup (again)

  Data still AWOL