Channel News

• Microsoft strips Office from charity PC scheme

  App-free Windows coming to a poor community near you...

• AMD's Phenom to arrive in time for Christmas?

  Schedule tweaked, moles claim

• Evesham poised for buyout as senior execs walk

  Exclusive: Boss says 'every man has his price'

Comms News

• 3 looks to Brew up applications

  Qualcomm finally gets Brew apps into the UK?

Developer News

• How to counter premature optimisation

  Is optimisation the root of all evil - or, at least, many bugs

Hardware News

• IBM launches MySpace for mainframes

  Discuss your addiction to Big Iron here...

• Welcome to Xanadu-on-Thames

  O2's big wireless tent

• Japanese firm exhibits droid construction worker

  Features 'cantilevered crotch joint', potential for bot-crack in future

• Intel chip boffins in litho brainstorm

  Intel R&D Day Let's gets pixelated

Management News

• Team America to launder $24m North Korean cash through Russia

  From Casino Pyongyang with love

• Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale

  Sim Strife

• Windows Vista aligned with good management practice

  No, really!!

• BlackBerry squeezes MS on security, management, and control

  Poll results The benefits of maturity?

• Harry Potter, the NHS, e-voting and Amazon

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• Cornish separatists torch abandoned brewery

  CNLA 'apologises for the inconvenience'

• UK Gov seeks 'scientific' basis for nationality

  Didn't we hear that one somewhere before?

• Web users get a finger language class

  Say more with your fingers than just 'Up yours!'

• Business.com: yours for $400m

  Party like it's 1999, multiplied by 53

• Orange and Littlewoods breach Data Protection Act, says ICO

  Not keeping customer information secure

Music and Media News

• Open sourcers rattle EU sabre at BBC on demand player

  Anti-competitive DRM accusations ramped up

Odds and Sods News

• Unplugged life supports and padlocked manhoods abound

  Comments Rival wiki smackdown slated on World of Warcraft

• BOFH: Printer cartridge? What printer cartridge?

  Episode 22 Framed

• Britney's album: Hair Of The Dog or Revulva?

  Reader poll The people must decide

• Rufus fights back

  Battling tech support hero's right to reply

• 'Shut your head and be pheasant'

  FoTW A friend of Rufus writes

• Internet users living secret lives online

  Irish users 'fess up to their web shame

Reg Hardware News

• Vibrating cube brings music to your ears

• Here comes the summer - holiday kit on test

  Round-up The gadgets you shouldn't leave home without

• Sling tosses in Windows Mobile 6 player app

• Wii gets wee add-on screen

  What, no telly?

• Manhunt 2 shut out by Sony and Nintendo

  Refuse to release game unless it gets a lower rating

Science News

• Atlantis touches down in California

  Brief Safely back after two-week mission

• Unmanned aircraft rubbish, says senior US pilot

  And don't waste my time with your roadside bombs

• US gov in Bill Gates inspired robot probe

  Is sex with robots legal if they aren't turned on?

• Making a splash in academia with open access

  Let them read journals

• Icebergs collect mini ecosystems, lock up carbon

  Nifty

• NASA to unleash 'mind meld' intelligent machines

  RoTM neoLuddite Resistance Army to Defcon 'Armageddon'

Security News

• Digital data can bite you in the ass, researcher warns

  Usenix Beware of those contributions on Flickr and Myspace

• Pump-and-dump scammers issue German prospectus

  PDF ruse attempts to smuggle junk past spam filters

• Ohio data leak was 'accident waiting to happen'

  Warning unheeded as thousands of records exposed

• For sale: Herman Munster's MasterCard number

  ID thieves duped by TV fan

• Fake flash player site used to spread malware

  Shockwave horror

Software News