Channel News

• Video games, TV ruin Best Buy's profits

  Exercise would make it worse though

• DATAllegro: an update on Version 3

  What the Dell and EMC partnerships really mean

• Toshiba names new HD DVD laptops

• ThirdForce acquisition gets green light

  Firm casts eyes over the Atlantic

Comms News

• Opera tries to out-do the iPhone

  All it takes is a decent browser

• F-22 superjets could act as flying Wi-Fi hotspots

  Pricey stealth-fighter finally useful?

• Goodbye ICSTIS, hello PhonePayPlus

  Rebrand to beat off premium rate rip-off merchants

• Vyke moves VoIP battle to SMS

  Operators charging more than NASA for messaging

• AT&T not planning to buy Vodafone

  Or any of the other biggies, for that matter

• TalkTalk slams slamming charges

  Even if we did it wasn't deliberate

Developer News

• APS aims at 'Windows' of SaaS

  Giving SaaS providers some common ground

Hardware News

• HP's storage gets a case of the greens

  Technology Forum Think disk made out of trees

• Google cookie cuts $600m data center in Iowa

  Powered by ethanol, colored balls and love

• Start-up forced to admit that Sun invented Java

  Settling in with Azul

• Blade PC start-up manages to nail IBM, ClearCube and Verari

  Terawhatchi?

Management News

• Business getting clever about IP?

  PwC report tells a tale of two economies

• Minister: ID cards 'another Great British Institution'

  What like the Cones Hotline? Or the East India Company?

• Investigators find secret White House email accounts

  88 senior officials implicated

• Supremes back Wall Street on dot com era ladder deals

  Take it to the SEC

• MPs under fire for £3bn IT consultancy bill

  PAC decries government 'profligacy'

Music and Media News

Reg Hardware News

• Samsung grows stick-phone line

• Manhunt 2 banned

  Censor acts to prevent game's sale

• Toshiba laptop goes up in smoke

  Sony-made battery was covered by last year's recall

• Samsung parades designer sliders

• Nokia turns on to Bluetooth cans

• 'Alu-mac' iMacs due next month?

  Next-gen boxes to be pitched at back-to-school buyers

Science News

• US Army funds hydrogen-fuelled drone aircraft

  To join DARPA airship-bot flotilla 12 miles up

• German teen unplugs pensioner's 'noisy' life support machine

  Can I have the machine that goes ZZZZ

• ESA greenlights Sentinel-1 deal, inks agreements with NASA

  Official pens seeing plenty of action

• South Korean robot officiates at marriage

  Industry shift from spying and killing?

Security News

• HP buys web security firm SPI

  Crosses swords with IBM's Watchfire

• Text bug blights Trillian

  Rather Dented

Software News

• Apple GPS System rumoured to debut in Mercedes cars

  From Mac to tarmac