Channel News

Comms News

• Qualcomm to sink €100m into European SMEs

  Form an orderly queue

• RAF builds massively multiplayer flight sims

  World's greatest LAN party is go

• Desperately seeking WLAN apps for London

  Westminster offers prizes to get citizens using city Wi-Fi

• Four-radio AP touts high-density Wi-Fi

  Extricom's channel blanket wins friends

Developer News

Hardware News

• Dell goes direct into Wal-Mart's clutches

  Low prices meet always low prices

• Lenovo swallows tasty profit

  Waves goodbye to Mary Ma, says hello to US

• HP escapes fine for boardroom spying scandal

  Promises not to do it again

• Server market continues to thrive

  HP and IBM jockey for first place

• SME sector to 'explode with blades': IBM

  Blade server market to be worth $11bn by 2010

Management News

• Expel the IT bodgers, says Microsoft

  If you can't stand the heat, you'll get thrown out the kitchen

• Mayor Ken's Low Emission Zone - a load of hot air?

  Analysis Motorist surveillance goes orbital

• Big brains gather to ponder future of UK security

  Ashdown, Robertson, to head panel of cops, spooks, peaceniks

• Fancy a nuclear power station in your backyard?

  A southern nuclear explosion

• Business Objects gobbles Inxight

  Shoulders its way into search tech

Music and Media News

• iPod generation can get Lost

  TV-based game comes to fifth generation iPods

Odds and Sods News

• Pupils flog public school on eBay

  Updated 'Not quite as good as it used to be'

• Ofcom rules on Celebrity Big Brother racism rumpus

  C4 forced to broadcast apology

• Competition Commission to probe Sky's ITV buy

  Sky says: 'Bring it on'

Reg Hardware News

• Sony goes Bose with teeny-tiny home cinema rig

• Monster mashes iPod Shuffle, 'phones

• Sony to release PS3 firmware update today

  Upscaling comes to old games, movies

Science News

• Bird flu confirmed in Wales

  Not the really scary one, though

• Robot gunships join US Army

  Airwolf cyber-copters ready next year

• Chimera bill: consultation begins

  Select Committee wants evidence

• Straight blokes best at reading maps

  But don't ask them to find the car keys

• Enormous vulture menaces home counties

  Do not approach a 'very large bird' called Emmy

Security News

• Skype worm leaps onto MSN

  IM in peril

• PlusNet blames itself for webmail spamfest

  Russian connection in hacking investigation

• Europe mulls anti-ID theft law

  But doesn't expect it to be useful

• Ryanair check-in site exposes data

  Doors to manual

• Spyware bill seeks Senate approval

  Third time lucky?

Software News