Channel News

• Flextronics falls for rival Solectron

  $3.6bn marriage made in tron

Comms News

• High-flying Nokia now dependent on cheapies

  Exclusive Phones? They're what phones will become

• Pipex clings on to former customer data

  Ex-Pipexers discover banking details on new website

• Vendors lining up to meet APACS challenge

  We're all going contactless

• Google is Europe's most visited site

  While America prefers Yahoo!

• O2 trials one off the wrist for VIP access

  Wireless music festival gets crystal-studded treatment

• 855,000 new phones end up in the bog

  Almost as many left in the pub

• Carphone Warehouse coffers hit by broadband rollout

  Claims troubles behind it

• Amp'd volume fading

  Content-driven MVNO files for Chapter 11

Developer News

• Perforce collaborates with open source

  Editors' Blog

Hardware News

• Siemens shows 1Gbit/s over plastic fibre

  Alternative to glass and copper appears in a POF of light

• AMD, Cray and reporter in Barcelona caper

  Colonel Mustard in Q4 with a processor

• Google shivs server crowd with PeakStream buy

  Exclusive Keeps performance gains to itself

• Silicon offsetting - the new green saviour?

  IT's positive environmental impact

Management News

• Joost replaces CEO with Cisco veteran

  Mike Volpi usurps YouTube rival

• Is the modern mobile biz living up to its rep?

  Effective or not?

• BMA calls for unity amidst MTAS fallout

  Watch out, the men in white coats are coming

• UK gov skills shortage jeopardising IT projects

  PAC issues damning report

• Pirate Bay founders host paedophilia site

  It's a freedom of speech thing

• Israel deploys robo-snipers on Gaza border

  Man still in the loop...to begin with

• The growing pains of RFID

  Manufacturers issue call for help

• TV ads too loud, industry watchdog says

  Moves to 'minimise annoyance', save eardrums

• Amazon ups spending in China

  Fastest growing market

• MySpace seeks Judge's input on sex offenders purge

  How to hand over the details

• MPs demands controls on Euro police databases

  Co-operation needs human touch

• Norfolk schools install kid-monitoring software

  Makes children play nice on school network

• Google Checkout downchecked by UK users

  Fast and easy? Er, maybe not yet

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

Reg Hardware News

• Sony cuts price of Blu-ray player

  Another battle in the ongoing Format War

• Intel power PC platforms: Core 2 Extreme QX6800 and V8

  Review Blistering performance?

Science News

• Porton Down bio-terror tech re-used in odour-proof pants

  Defending against the enemy within

• Boffin debunks Bush's climate claims

  Not greener than green, after all

• El Reg 'buys' acre of Brazilian rainforest

  Helping Cool Earth 'keep carbon where it belongs'

Security News

• Chinese user sues Symantec over dodgy updates

  Unpalatable

Software News

• Microsoft threatens its Most Valuable Professional

  Who said you could improve our software?