Channel News

• Why does CSC want to stop the rescue of iSoft?

  There may be lawyers ahead

Comms News

• Tiscali locks down contracts after email disaster

  Updated Complaints roll in to ISP trade body

• Personal numbers must carry cost warning, says regulator

  Rip-off alert will give you a chance to hang up

• Qualcomm IPR gravy train hits the buffers

  Comment Biter bit

Developer News

• Balli gets heavy metal InFocus

  Case study Attunity front end for steel trader's vintage dBase application

• Binary interfaces in component development

  Part 1: Use shared objects but don't get binary interfaces?

Hardware News

• Cloudmark takes anti-spam to the edge

  Content filtering at the network edge to keep spam off the core

Management News

• Power firm plans low-energy credits

  Don't flick that switch

• Dell cuts, Google hits the street and robot-moths are go

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• Enron emails inspire GCHQ spooks

  Software to nanny for cagey corporate cops

• Cat owner protests against privacy-invading Google

  Tabby 'wants to be alone'

• Korean schools to deploy robot chaperones

  Teenage lusts curbed by remorseless German technology

• LiveJournal says sorry for blanket sex-talk censorship

  'Well, we really screwed this one up...'

• 10 signs you're in a tech bubble

  Welcome back to 1998

• Bankers see public sector as fraud target

  Better information sharing needed

Music and Media News

• EMI and YouTube shake hands and hips

  'Authorised' videos are Ok Go

Odds and Sods News

• Tom Cruise causes Wi-Fi humour blackouts

  Letters Pass us the coffee, would you?

• Twitchers in a flap over 'cock' gagging

  RSPB neuters forum

• BOFH: PFY spreads his wings

  Episode 19 And promptly has them clipped

Reg Hardware News

Science News

• Bush hugs trees in sudden policy U-turn

  Tree-noshing beetle plague in rainless Belize as NASA predicts more rain

• Belgian army faces hairy caterpillar horde

  Blowtorch weapon versus lepidoptera menace

• ET fires laser weapon on Google Maps

  Extraterrestrial Street View shocker

• Nicaragua puts the squeeze on 'poison' Chinese toothpaste

  Diethylene glycol menace spreads

• Iberian lynx offered motorway reprieve

  300km highway plan binned

• Rome's atmosphere shows signs of cocaine

  Airborne nose ajax drives la dolce vita

• Royal Society unearths top secret nuclear research

  75 years of the neutron Only 66 years late

Security News

• DHS: beware stink-bomb touting terrorists

  'Chemicals of interest' list smells fishy

• Mozilla quashes Firefox JavaScript peril

  Vista stability also improved by critical browser update

• Hardy perennials dominate virus chart

  Darling botnets of May

• Spyware mum foils pervert

  Key logging app exposes child abuse offender

• Insecure plug-ins pose danger to Firefox users

  Add-ons add security threat

• 40% of kids regularly visit forbidden sites

  Many parents unaware of their nippers' online jaunts

Site News

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Software News

• Google security vulnerabilties stack up

  Analysis With four in the last week, is Google the next security buffoon?

• Google: We like the web the way it is

  Google extends standards to the industry

• Yahoo! Europe! upgrades! ad! platform!

  No! really? Yes! really!