Channel News

• Toshiba 'world's lightest' laptop wafts down

• UK firm pays biggest ever fine over 'pirate' software

  Keel-hauled

• VoIP firm launches headset smashathon

  Jajah deploys leggy SWAT team

• CSC to slash hundreds of jobs

  Blue Monday

• Torex takeover angers shareholders

  Banks win, we get nothing

• Sun loses UK head

  Surprise departure

• Who needs an iPhone when you can get married by a robot?

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• Intel to chop 1066MHz FSB CPUs earlier than expected?

  Big push for 1333MHz FSB chips

• Computerland racks up profits

  product margin dip

• One in four web merchants do not know web shopping laws

  Most e-shoppers unaware of right to cancel

Comms News

• Teenagers prefer mobiles to sex

  But what if there wasn't a vibrate function?

• Ofcom responds to threatened luvvies

  But still wants free market to decide on wireless specs

Developer News

• NetSuite pitches at being easy

  Everyone's a 'developer' now

Hardware News

• SiCortex sticks to Summer supercomputer ship

  USENIX Ready to wow

• Police deploy thin Bluetooth line

  Lock your doors and windows, criminals are everywhere

• Nvidia GPGPU line sparks into life with Tesla

  GeForce 8800 to power engineering apps

Management News

• Congress chops economy-class nuke programme

  Cheap, reliable atom bombs strangely unpopular

• Israeli futurologist predicts terror horror

  Run for the hills

• United grounded by computer failure

  Unfriendly skies

• Councils need performance management buy-in

  Report recommends private sector input

• Companies failing to exploit value of IP, says PwC

  While tech execs think lawsuits are harassment techniques

• American gamble or bluff: WTO members bet on Antigua

  Analysis EU, Japan, and India join sanctions call against US

Odds and Sods News

• Citizen Kane declared greatest US movie

  Godfather pipped into second spot

• NZ couple fight to name kid '4Real'

  Are you for real?

• Yahoo! buys! Rivals!

  No, not the Jilly Cooper tome

• Harry Potter and the Pedant of CIX

  Column Psychic spoilers

Reg Hardware News

• Wind-powered phone-charger coming to market?

  Designer gauging interest

• Dell's vertical line issues lengthen

• Sony NAS-50HDE Gigajuke audio system

  Review If stereos were Stetsons, this would be a ten gallon hat

• LG locates Google phone in Europe

  Vodafone gets first shout

• Manhunt 2 rated 18+ in US

  Slasher game maker wanted 17+

• Levi's announces mobile phone

  But is it pre-shrunk?

• Toshiba laptop line to go totally HD DVD in 2008

  Counter to PS3?

Science News

• Alaskan man guilty of flogging seal penises

  Illegally handled aphrodisiac 'oosiks'

• Registration open for reality TV style Mars mission trial

  ESA offers £29k pay for 17-month Big Brother simulator ordeal

• Atlantis ready to come home

  Dodging thunderstorms en route

• Chileans mislay large lake

  Last seen in March, current whereabouts unknown

• Eta Carinae brightens Chandra's day

  New pics of an old explosion

• Bush kills stem cell research bill

  Debate will now be political

Security News

• About those 844 security breaches... 'fess up, Congress tells DHS

  Once more unto the security breach, DHS

• Austrian domain registrar 'aids' phishers

  Spamhaus gives black mark to Nic.at

• Iraq collapse may pose new WMD threat, say UN monitors

  Failed state plus expertise plus insurgency equals...

• US car thieves floored by manual gearbox

  Stick shift dummies

• No BlackBerries for Sarkozy cabinet, say French spooks

  Nous crachons sur la baie noire - tool of Anglo spies

Software News