Channel News

• America is under siege. Do we blame IBM or Cringely?

  Analysis 150,000 staff fired. -20,000 left ...

• Phoenix closes in on ICM

  New offer rises from Fawkes' ashes

Comms News

• Need emergency contraception? Just text

  Oops, I did it again

• Tiscali nets big broadband additions

  Italian stallion holds its own

• Orange Value Promise not as much value as promised

  We'll match any tariff as long as it's not too low

• T-Mobile eyes hotspots and Sprint femtocells

  As Alltel scores points

• Motorola tells developers to think small

  JavaOne Get connected

Developer News

• The four pillars of Katmai

  Microsoft BI conference Dispatches from the front

• Programming for Silverlight: a Q&A with Microsoft

  We ask what it’s for and where it runs - and get several different answers

Hardware News

• SanDisk and Microsoft BFFs around software stuffed memory

  Cruzer replaced by new entity

• Alcatel-Lucent results impress investors

  Merger drops 1st quarter revenue

• Tokyo team busts the Ethernet speed record

  Fastest IPv6 network in the world

• Terminator kill-bots to be run by system called 'Skynet'

  How many hints do we need? Flee while you can

Management News

• ICANN pushes for public participation in top level domains

  Internet universe just keeps expanding

• Google orders Thai takeaway

  Four king-bashing clips removed from YouTube

• Half a million kids' DNA on UK police database

  Innocence is an old-fashioned word

• Labour goes Brown while US Army invades YouTube

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• Prof advocates digital forgetfulness, calls Google 'Soviet'

  But can't quite remember why

• Nvidia Q1 yields big year-on-year gains

  World+dog wants graphics chips

• Capgemini exec salaries divulged in annual report

  Analysis As staff vote on below inflation pay rise

• Deutsche Telekom profits plunge 58%

  Local loop unbundling hits where it hurts

• Communist spy ring tried to steal Space Shuttle plans

  Feds swoop as Chinese agents lift submarine and spaceship blueprints

• Minister defends UK government reforms

  Says growth of online services will not lead to discrimination

• New, New Labour gets new logo and website

  Blimey, that was quick

• Mumsnet settles with Gina Ford over defamation claims

  Calls for change in libel laws

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• Radio RTFM: The Falklands War remembered

  Windows for Warships? Huzzah!

• Paris takes on Ubuntu in techno celebrity clash

  Letters Well, not really...

• BOFH: OutBOFHd

  Episode 16 He's good, he's bloody good

Reg Hardware News

• Logitech Alto keyboard and laptop stand

  Review Posture improver?

• Hitachi spins up fastest encrypted laptop drive

• Apple invents novel back-to-front iPod control

  Touchpad on the back of the device

Science News

• Doohan's last landing party missing in mountains

  Probably gone where no one has gone before

Security News

• Roche exposes medical details on website

  Testing times

• Exam papers tagged to deter cheats

  Chips go to the top of the class

• Malware authors subvert Windows Update

  BITS and pieces

• Experts scramble to quash IPv6 flaw

  'Can be exploited by any greedy Estonian teenager with a $300 Linux machine'

• Memory sticks top security concern for firms

  But most have no safeguards in place

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