Channel News

• Indian dealers are squealers over Microsoft piracy raids

  Feel OS vendor has them by their Rupees

Comms News

• Vodafone claims Spanish ISP in quad play push

  Comment Will it beat Orange to the punch?

• Jajah calls patent big brothers for global VoIP domination

  Meesah wanna takem over dem telephones

• 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

  Wireless Event Westminster offers prizes to get citizens using city Wi-Fi

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

  Wireless Event Extricom's channel blanket wins friends

• Why we hate the modern mobile phone

  Letters Phone fury (and carrier cringes)

• Siemens to resell Wi-Fi locator tech

  WLANs can track laptops, PDAs...

• Premium-rate scams prompt licensing proposal

  ICSTIS moves to clean up industry

• EU approves roaming tariffs

  Just in time for summer hols

• Another ISP throttles bandwidth

  Updated Nildram applies the brakes

• Brit makes world's highest mobile call

  I'm on Everest...no Everest!

• Half of Wi-Fi hotspot money is wasted

  Wireless Event Rip-off Britain goes wireless

• Ofcom fills Local Loop Unbundling loophole

  One regulator to rule us all

• Ireland gets wireless broadband

  Well Belfast anyway...

• Symbian signing is no protection from spyware

  One man's Trojan is another's legitimate app

• BT, Sony to turn PSP into a phone

  Ringing the changes

• Deutsche Telekom eyes Orange Netherlands

  Merger with T-Mobile on the cards?

• Just one VoIP service to SIP from?

  Gizmo scores Nokia coup

• EU poised on roaming agreement (again)

  Compromise rates annoy everyone

• How the mobile phone biz lost the plot

  Opinion Will the iPhone save the mobile industry?

• Can we have a proper study of Wi-Fi, please?

  Column Paging James Randi

• Virgin Media still claiming no usage limits

  Updated Transparency? They've heard of it

• Profit margins sway the mobile hit parade

  Pay to play

• Thus results paint rosier picture

  We'll make a profit this year

• Mobile TV will reach 244 million by 2011, says report

  Huge leap expected in 2009

• Apple gets go ahead for iPhone launch

  Slams 'false rumours' of delays

• Mobile blocking helicopter to trail Bush in Sydney

  Fighters, SAS on alert as 'Blue Luminary' goes Down Under

• Post Office to resell BT broadband

  Lost packet experts of the world unite

Developer News

• CMSG gets ITIL

  Editor's blog A belated postcard from the BCS CMSG Conference

• Compelling Linux server slithers into the open

  Get Slugged

• NetSuite goes pocket-sized

  PDAs could have a real use after all

• Microsoft's Somasegar shares his vision for Visual Studio

  Beyond Orcas

• Grappling with eels - second wriggle

  Planning: (mostly) harmless

• Salesforce.com gets that old SOA religion

  Cosies up to Adobe, but doesn't get down with Google (yet)

• Microsoft launches no-code mashup tool

  Visual mashups for the MySpace generation

• Of colour schemes and cognitive dissonance

  Comment Grey matter

• Telelogic models SOA look

  Common touch

• British Film Institute's Mediatheque presents a great opportunity

  If it wasn't for the rights holders

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

• Cisco and RSA work on recipe for SAN encryption

  Security heaven without all the seams

• NetApp profits up, forecast down

  Punished by March and investors

• IBM builds alliance to tackle 32nm design

  Impacted with Chartered and Samsung

• Microsoft and Juniper pledge to simplify NAC

  Network Access Control made easier

• IBM, HP dominate server market

  Sales lull has ended

• IBM pAVEs the way for x86 Linux apps

  Comment Tackling performance and portability

• Cringely catches IBM trying to hire 15,000

  Comment Apocalypse nears

• Sun to do Xeon and Niagara blade thing next month

  Too much, too late?

• Sun finds Hitachi's fresh, fat storage box

  Thin on the inside and on details

• Cisco borgs BroadWare Technologies

  Now shipping with more eyes

• Logicalis eyes UK acquisitions

  Got the green

• EnterpriseDB ramps up focus on Europe

  Open source database firm seeks European partners

• IBM goes big green with Big Green

  Comment $1bn efficiency drive

• RM Group spends £4m to get into Europe

  Lego and Wi-Fi are addressed

• EMC announces data protection house party

  Rocking with the VTL in the VIP costs you plenty

• Symantec and Huawei partner to secure and store China

  Joined at the venture

• IBM grills HP with 4.7GHz Power6-based box

  But BBQ starts in November

• Negroponte slams Intel over OLPC competition

  Won't somebody think of the children?

• Phoenix maintains gentle ascent

  Continuity business

• Zeus virtually ports traffic manager to Windows

  Wrapped app conceals its Penguin nature via Virtual Server

• IBM's Power6 spotted bashing Oracle at 4.7GHz

  Sweaty database

• HP garage becomes national landmark

  So you'll just have to park in the street

• Tandberg touts VXA to Euro channels

  Fighting over the tape drive crumbs?

• Project Hybrid: Dell's transformation begins

  Hunting the Butterfly Effect

Management News

• The flaws in the control order 'fantasy prison' mind game

  No bars, no release date, no point staying

• G8 ministers call for IT biz help against child porn

  Interpol reveals enormous database of illegal images

• BetonSports pleads to racketeering

  House of Cards Sells executives down river

• Info chief to clamp down on silly FOI requests

  'No, we won't tell you how much toilet paper is used at Number 10'

• Attack of the terror casinos, volume 2

  House of Cards Please step away from the slides

• Revenues up at C&W

  No, we're not for sale. No, really, we're not

• MP's son guilty of VAT carousel fraud

  Dad will 'contest the verdict'

• 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

• Apple's Jobs urges Gore to run for President

  US in ladder building crisis

• Police database delayed indefinitely

  Response to Soham murders canned

• Minister goes mad for Web 2.0

  Comment Miliband drinks the Kool Aid

• Home Office moots 'Precrime' agency for future serial killers

  Analysis But wacko ideas don't fix dud IT systems

• Antigua calls for pirates to return to Caribbean

  House of Cards If US ignores our laws can we ignore theirs?

• Europe votes to restrict police data sharing

  Data protection reinstated

• Google's search dominance continues to grow

  Clocks up 3.8 billion searches in April

• NHS completes London roll out of Pacs

  A tonic for sickly NPfIT

• Pay-as-you-drive roads coming to the UK

  'Trojan horse'

• Intel frees Flash biz

  Goes Swiss with STMicroelectronics

• Google pulls essay adverts

  Universities 'warmly welcome' ban

• Gambling and prediction markets gamble on growth

  House of Cards Reg hack ponders mysterious whiteboard symbols

• Amnesty Int to hold web censorship conference

  Activists unite online

• University moves to hush Facebook criticism

  Keele teaching, administration slammed by students

• Siemens names new CEO

  Loescher steps up as bribery probe continues

• Parliament IT dept is rubbish

  Westminster help desk gets slated by MPs

• Public-private shoe-in wins Birmingham contract

  Capita's second foothold in Europe's largest council

• Google and Salesforce.com, sitting in a tree

  A little bird told the WSJ

• Alltel in multi-billion dollar buyout

  TPG Capital and GSCP tag-team mobile operator

• Liverpool police get mini-Black Helicopter

  Cyber-copters pack whisper mode, nightsight CCTV

• US Marine murder trial will use Google Earth

  Prosecution witness to make 'computerised map'

• Citadel, FirePay asset seizures pay out for the DOJ

  House of Cards DOJ approaches climax with UIGEA in wings

• HMRC claims IT successes

  VAT fraudsters still as slippery as eels, though

Music and Media News

• UK arrest gives AllofMP3 touts the fear

  Euro touts lose bottle

• iPod generation can get Lost

  TV-based game comes to fifth generation iPods

• Internet radio stations rebuff pigopolists' 'compromise'

  The future of online radio in jeopardy

• Madchester 2.0

  But will Tony Wilson reform a virtual New Order?

• Battle for EMI hots up

  ... while EC approves BMG deal

• Home Office wants officials to watch more TV

  Power to the subbies!

• Royal Marine helmet-cam auteur hit during Afghan gunfight

  'You've been shot in the arse, mate'

• Police raid ends allofmp3.com vouchers

  Put down your MP3s and come out with your hands up

Odds and Sods News

• If Google is a Russian spy op, when will it buy U-Haul?

  And Ninthly The Parboiled Age

• 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'

• Apple moans over sex toy ad

  iGasm gets lawyer's knickers in a twist

• Sin City director to remake Barbarella

  Hollywood finally run out of ideas?

• Belgian bj politico reneges on election pledge

  NSFW Sends Japanese assistant to pleasure voters

• German cops will track G8 crusties by their smell

  Public stink over 'scent profiling'

• Greek cops to paintball rioting fans

  Colourful Champions League final plan

• Exploding curry menaces 747

  £20k of damage in microwave mishap

• Norman Tebbit to play Iggy Pop

  Poll result The people have spoken

• Naked doctors eat vultures in front of Freeview

  Letters Was that a Yeti?

• Paris and Lara share a cell with rude speeder

  Comments Bubba the Kid still at large

• Belgian politico to orally pleasure 40,000

  NSFW Senate hopeful's election campaign really sucks

Reg Hardware News

• Sonos slims multi-room digital music bundle price

• Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive

  Review Hitachi unleashes TB on the world - that's terabyte

• Apple set to axe Mac Mini?

• QWERTY keypad, HSDPA Walkman phone surfaces

  GSM Association spills Sony Ericsson beans

• 'Partial nudity' said to hinder M-rated Halo 2 release

  'When we asked for exciting Vistas, this is not what we meant...'

• Elgato Turbo.264 H.264 encoder

  UK-first review Vroom, vroom

• 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

• Evesham eyes Vaio with Zieo monster laptop

• Sony Ericsson beams in 'iTrip-equipped' Walkman phone

• iLuv 9200 iPod-friendly four-disc CD player

  Review Sonic stunner

• USB Mini Fridge drink chiller battles booze?

• Frag Fatal1ty and win big, kit makers pledge

• Dell deploys overclocked, liquid-cooled gaming PC

  Superior firepower?

• Sony speeds up Vaio BX laptop line

  Centrino revamp but no 802.11n

• VIA samples first Pico-ITX mobo

• Sharp Aquos LC32RD2E 32in LCD TV

  Review Exemplary?

• Alcatel debuts fashion mag friendly ladyphone

  Hardware Widow Elle's belles...

• Casio 12Mp compact cam comes to UK

• Apple to revamp iMac line next month?

  17in model for the chop, it's claimed

• RIM BlackBerry Curve 8300

  Review Dial C for Consumer

• LG unwraps dual-display Chocolate laptop

• Sony announces 80GB PS3

  But only in Korea

• Griffin shrinks iTrip

• Fujitsu 'first' with single-chip H.264 video processor

• Lawsuit targets Apple over laptop display dithering claims

  PCs now better Macs than MacBooks are?

• Nokia launches, doesn't show 'traditional' talk phone

• US company touts Windows Vista fridge magnet

Science News

• Brown dwarf cools its jets

  Cool pic too...

• Studying Venus from the ground up

  A helping hand for Venus Express

• 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

• US Army funds Prius-style hybrid battlewagon

  'Aggressor' could ease US forces' thirst for fuel

• Greenland zinc mine warms to retreating ice

  The economic benefits of global warming

• Aquarium chips fish

  Finding Nemo via RFID

• Europe gets a space policy

  Defence or exploration?

• Panama spits out 'poison' Chinese toothpaste

  A brighter smile with diethylene glycol

• Scotty: ashes located and heading home

  Hurrah!

• Mars: more evidence of a watery past

  Rover's broken wheel digs deep

• Viagra reduces jet lag in hamsters

  But only from Paris to New York

• Europe's mission to Mars hangs in balance

  Key meeting tomorrow

• China will head for the moon this year

  Space racing begins in earnest

• US and UK unite for $100m telescope

  Atacama, here we come

• Cars could run on aluminium, say US boffins

  'Violent poof' in Purdue lab inspires scientist

• Gorilla rampages through Dutch zoo

  Four injured in cafeteria carnage

• Hatchling stars revealed in new Spitzer snap

  Check out the polycyclic aromatic compounds on that one...

Security News

• Strange spoofing technique evades antiphishing filters

  Targets include PayPal, eBay and others

• Brinkster.com battens down the hatches

  We're gonna need to change your lost password. Thanks

• 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?

• Network security vulns keep sysadmins busy

  Can't parse that

• House taunts Senate with anti-spyware bill

  Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

• Drive-by Wi-Fi 'thief' heavily fined

  Michigan man busted for failing to buy coffee

• Abbey online banking takes 24-hour lie down

  Money marooned

• Torrent overflows Opera

  Browser maker lances file download bug

• Microsoft releases security tool for Office 2003

  Defangs Office doc, spreads the XML love

• Crypto boffin: writing is on the wall for 1024-bit RSA

  But nobody can read it yet

• Telegraph floored by DDoS attack

  Bowled over

• Magical elf jailed for lifting women's knickers

  Shadowrun-inspired knife heist ends in chokey

• New York set for terror-proof 'leccy

  'Project Hydra' to keep capitalism running even with its head cut off...

• Gozi hybrid Trojan menaces the net

  Key-logging, SSL-sniffing malware surfaces

• Malware targets OpenOffice users

  BadBunny

• MySpace to turn over sex-offender data after all

  The Complying Game

• Norton's firewall not fiery enough

  Pegasus takes fright

• Symbian malware escapes Russia

  Cash from chaos

• 'Data storm' blamed for nuclear plant shutdown

  Malfunctioning control device causes fatal spike in traffic

• Adware firm sues over adware classification

  Zango fights spyware software again

Site News

Software News

• Vista upgrade revisited

  Comment The good, the bad, and the ugly

• Facebook taunts MySpace with open book policy

  Social operating system

• MySQL chief: being open source is not enough

  Scandinavian, socialist, party people

• Google wants to really get to know you

  Which database would you like to be stored on?

• Microsoft too busy to name Linux patents

  OSBC Reworks definition of visibility

• Open Source may be cheap - but we still want support

  OSBC Eating the cake

• Red Hat chief tells start ups to grow, not cash out

  OSBC The romance is gone

• Italians sink Ellison's America's Cup bid

  'Hurts big time' admits BMW Oracle team

• Microsoft vouchers undercut patent claims

  No best before date on Novell vouchers

• Microsoft squares up to Google with $6bn buy

  Bill's most expensive ever purchase