Channel News

Comms News

• Virgin Media tech support goes premium rate

  'How do I send an email?'

• Skype goes out to mobile phones

  Assuming you know who you're going to call

• These LiPS are made for talking ... and texting ... and ...

  Version 1 Linux ready for mobile phone use

Developer News

• Latest Artix model grows flexibility

  SOA without a stack of stacks

• BrainAcademy 2007: are you smart enough?

  No winners last year, the gauntlet is down

• IBM Jazzes up Eclipse

  Open source support

• Adobe turns Apollo into AIR

  And developers into AIR-heads

Hardware News

• One billion PCs in use in 2008

  Landfill operators of the world, rejoice!

• Citrix eats dead NAC vendor assets

  Tastes like chicken, SSL and IPSec VPN functionality

• Keep backup simple and do it well

  Comment A storage vendor lesson

• Quova tracks mobile net users

  They know where we are - and it's for our own good...

• Supermicro knocks big boys with Superblades

  They're super. Thanks for asking

• Red Hat makes a security bundle with Symantec

  A muscular appliance

Management News

• Google Maps aids terrorists, NY lawmaker warns

  'It's only a matter of time'

• UK importing Army spy-drones to replace losses

  Can't wait for British-badged ones

• Privacy International accuses Google of smear campaign

  Bottom for privacy, but top for smearing

• eBay jewellery store fined $400,000 for shill bidding

  eBay reports offender to authorities

• Chinese reporter targets Yahoo! from prison cell

  Court! action! against! collusion! with! Beijing!

• Scotland ranked 'worst small country'

  Gloomy conclusion of business probe

• Congressman seeks exemption for games that mix skill and chance

  GIGSE 2007 Skill games redux

• FCC's ban on 'fleeting expletives' ruled unconstitutional

  TV's over-zealous profanity police rebuked by court

• RIM's growth to 'outstrip Apple'

  Reg Technology Panel BlackBerry demand looks set to continue

Odds and Sods News

• Thailand sacks randy sniffer dogs

  Mounting trouble for Mok and Lai

• Iran releases detained telecoms workers

  Gulf fishing trip goes Pete Tong

• Robots en route to Dublin car parks

  Droids to park your car

Reg Hardware News

• Marks & Sparks to sell iPod suit this weekend

• Next-gen Palm Treo spied on web... twice

  Offspring of union twixt phone and Creative Zen media player

• HTC Touch Window Mobile 6 smart phone

  Review Look but don't - despite the name - touch

• C of E blasts 'sacreligious' Sony shoot-'em-up

  Resistance: Fall of Man in virtual cathedral shock

• VMWare offers Windows-on-Mac tool at half price

  Fusion due in August

Science News

• Robot gender-bending reptile is a lover, not a fighter

  Animatronic droid lothario goes undercover to help breeding programme

• Puddles on Mars, aerospace boffin claims

  NASA to allocate wellies budget?

• Shuttle docks with ISS after 'almost flawless' launch

  Torn thermal blanket not a problem

Security News

• Large-scale DOS attack menace continues to grow

  Cyber warfare's collateral damage

Software News

• US gov rejects Google's Microsoft complaint

  Pot calls kettle...

• Can intelligence really help business get out of a hole?

  Whitepaper BI want to break free