Channel News

• Phoenix shareholders say yes to ICM bid

  Thunderbirds are go?

Comms News

• Home Office discusses thief-proof phones

  Solution for problem that doesn't exist

• 'Last man standing' flees AOL Europe exec team

  LLU pioneer Sky-bound?

• Mobile phone rays paralyse cars

  If that's not sinister, we don't know what is

• Vodafone claims Spanish ISP in quad play push

  Comment Will it beat Orange to the punch?

Developer News

• A primer on SOA governance

  Interview The ground rules

• CMSG gets ITIL

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

Hardware News

• Opteron hero Newisys goes titsup

  Thanks for the hyperies

• HP, er, raids partner Hitachi for storage chief

  Here's to you, Mr. Roberson

• Interoute sells virtual servers

  Even virtualisation's gone virtual

• IBM flaunts green credentials

  Cool, but efficiently so

Management News

• RegisterFly domain transfer imminent, ICANN reports

  Unnamed registrar rides to rescue

• Google plays cat and mouse with regulators

  Privacy questioned

• Abbey in bank holiday meltdown

  Taking 'bank holiday' too literally

• Microsoft vouchers, Cisco security, and throttling Branson

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• Your space, MySpace, everybody's space

  A closer look at the privacy issue

• 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

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• Dominatrix steals 'Sex Hacks' show with live demo

  NNNNSFW Taking the innuendo out of back-end IT

• Missing German doctor reappears after 22 years

  Dead, in his garage roof

• YouTube pulls London rooftop shag vid

  Al fresco rumpy-pumpy caught on camera

• Oz Big Brother in dead dad ding-dong

  Contestant unaware father has died

• Telstra in Second Life 'Ayers Rock' kerfuffle

  Aboriginal owners probe virtual Uluru

• Oz cops cuff Darth Vader on his 30th birthday

  While LA celebrates Star Wars anniversary

• BOFH: Lost licences

  Episode 18 Now, if we all just work together...

Reg Hardware News

• Intel shows skinny laptop, world's media goes ape a month later

  Keep up, you lot at the back...

• Toshiba, Canon delay SED TV debut - again

  Canon can't produce the panels in time?

• 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...'

Science News

• Why do robot experts build such lousy robots?

  We meet the nerds with the world's cleanest floors

• Mercury astronauts join al-Qaeda?

  Rather unflattering NASA Image of the Day

• Florida battles rats the size of cats

  Gambian pouched rat menaces Keys

• Father of LCD dies at 74

  Obituary Tribute to the 'modern day Isaac Newton'

• Brown dwarf cools its jets

  Cool pic too...

Security News

• Gone phishing with eBay

  Why is there a naked woman in that Bentley?

• Pirates Trojan keel-hauls surfers

  Thar she blows

• Notorious car clamper facing Asbo

  Due in court for immobilisation

• MS update patches patching

  A stitch in time...

• Internet users unfazed by spam: study

  Are we bovvered? No, we're not

• Strange spoofing technique evades anti-phishing filters

  Targets include PayPal, eBay and others

Software News

• Dragon marauds London, escapes arrest

  Voice recognition mascot no threat

• Sage names new chair

  Hobson gets the nod

• 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

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