Channel News

• Channel carousel sees resellers, execs change places

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• Dixons Store Group loses head

  Clare to retire in September

• 'Brown should rethink EU proposal on VAT'

  Could be open season for fraudsters

Comms News

• Motorola lays off another 4,000

  RAZR phones fail to slice into new markets

• Vodafone data bundle pricing slips out

  120MB a month for £7.50...ho hum

• Jobs waves iPhone, talks applications

  June launch still go

• Eircom to slash up to 400 jobs

  Cost-cutting move not unexpected

Developer News

Hardware News

• Brocade barges into HBA market

  Flashes Silverback at Emulex and QLogic

• OpenSolaris fans in a tizzy over 'Project Copy Linux'

  Distro dysfunction junction

• Fedora 7 suppresses Red Hat separation anxiety

  So communal it hurts

• US Stingray style sub motherships test missiles

  But SEALs' ritzy mini-sub slated for defects, cost overruns

Management News

• Freescale scales back staff

  Frees up thousands of pink slips

• Brocade and Mercury rain cash on SEC to settle charges

  Don't mention the stock

• Dell cheers Q1 with workforce decimation

  2.0 - 8,000 = more money

• Tories appoint former tabloid editor as chief spin doctor

  Untainted by Royal phone-tap resignation

• Clarity lacks, er, clarity over CEO

  'Should I stay or should I go now'

• DHS calls in sci-fi writers as consultants

  You couldn't make it up - maybe they can

• Google ducks angry authors

  CISAC Misses opportunity to enlighten

• Larry Lessig in the lion's den

  CISAC Net guru takes on the authors: Love is just another lawsuit

• Facial drones spot passport frauds

  UK.gov's own facebook

• EU on web-terror: Something must be done

  I didn't get a 'harrumph' out of that guy ...

• eBay makes another baffling buy

  StumbleUpon snapped up

• Another day, another UK newspaper website goes down

  Today's failure: The Independent

• Data protection watchdogs' letter to Google goes public

  Questions length of storage time before anonymisation

• Westminster street lamp pay-back cut to 750 years

  Now just £15m to save £20k a year

• EU OK's Welsh Assembly Wi-Fi

  Prague OK too, with modifications

• CD WOW! vows to take £35m High Court defeat to Europe

  'We make tiny margins on our goods and it is the consumer who benefits'

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• Doctor Who faces extermination

  Time's up

• Hot babes cruise p***t Google

  Viva Street View and Viva Las Vegas!

Reg Hardware News

• Sharp Aquos LC37XD1E 37in HD TV

  Review There's high-definition and then there's high-definition

Science News

• New theory for sun's ring of fire

  Sound, not Johnny Cash, responsible

• Finding missing galaxies: Spitzer triumphs again

  No word on how they were lost

Security News

• PC Tools snags behaviour protection tech

  You know I'm no good

• Spam King arrested in Seattle

  Grand jury indictments

• Security analogies: the key to educating laymen

  Comment Explaining tech concepts to the masses

Software News

• Google Gears up for offline web apps

  Steps on Microsoft's toes...again

• World fails to implode during Gates-Jobs gagfest

  We led as two kings