Channel News

• Clarion trumpets UK acquisition

  Snaps up The Planning Loft

• Avnet doubles Sun reseller fleet

  Hails successful channel push

• Sun wants to support everybody's boxes

  As long as they're running Solaris

• New way in for Cisco engineers

  Certifications get rejigged

• Nvidia to beat AMD to release on-the-fly GPU switching tech?

  'SLI Power' becomes 'Hybrid SLI'

Comms News

• RegisterFly: the name not to be spoken

  ICANN San Juan 2007 Notes from the root zone

• iPhone contract charges unveiled

  Brace yourself for a $2,000 phone bill

• GSMA looks to 900MHz for more 3G

  Ofcom promises to think about it

• Court rules 3G licences weren't VAT inclusive

  Mobile firms feel pain yet again

Developer News

• Open source 'leaving Asia behind'

  Novell veep warns of collaborative culture clash

• Sucky software? So add a virgin

  David Platt shows how developers get it wrong

• ITIL 3 launch: best practices at best prices

  10% off a host of ITIL books

• When acquisitions are bad news

  Vae victis

Hardware News

• Red Hat's Exchange roars like a muted lamb

  Broad and thin

• Iron Mountain buys records management firm

  Finding your data's undisclosed location made simple

• HP and Microsoft embrace and extend around HPC

  Robust cuddling leads to test centers

• America wastes gazillions with always-on PCs

  Switched off to the environment

• Netgear promises 3G femtocells by end of year

  Still hedging bets with Wi-Fi included, too

• DHS forgets to mention border WiFi spy tower bungle

  Eye of Sauron poked after dodgy debrief

• Biggest barrier to green IT is cost

  Spending green to feel green

• Soggy IT pros check in from flooded Sheffield

  Wellies and pizza keep servers running

• HP coughs up surprise update to desktop PC range

  Breeds flock of hybrid DVD boxes

• IBM turbo charges world's fastest supercomputer

  Blue Gene has long division licked. Next: killer sudoku

• Psion: the last computer

  Special Feature Secrets of the Sony we never had

• Vendors start testing 802.11n kit

  Certified by September, but spec not due till 2008

• Sun's new supercomputer and switch are bigger than yours

  Market's 90-pound weakling beefs up

Management News

• Judge rejects Google's Microsoft anti-trust plea

  Analysis Satisfaction through litigation

• BAE shares tank as US feds break cover

  The hunt is on

• IBM forks out $7m in Dollar General settlement

  Neither admits, nor denies, wrongdoing

• Google buying phone company?

  Rumours de jour

• MPs satisfied with FoI regime

  Lambasts DCA's 'unnecessary' focus on reducing costs

Odds and Sods News

Reg Hardware News

• Sharp intros four-port powerline network box

• USB adaptor helps iPod Shuffle users cut the cord

• Dell calls to consumers with coloured Inspirons

  MacBooks, Vaios challenged

• Casio Exilim EX-Z75 and EWC-10 underwater case

  Review Diving with a digicam

• iRiver shows off VoIP phone media player

• Sony clocks up PSP processor by 25%

  Hidden firmware update feature

• Analyst alleges iPhone already hitting Palm sales

  New Windows Mobile alternative

Security News

• How to sniff out private information on Facebook

  Social network makes it a snap

• Symantec offer sticks in craw of some Chinese users

  'Lacks seriousness and sincerity'

• Trend Micro boosts Vista package, extends Hotmail deal

  What's good for Redmond is good for us

• Cell hack geek stalks pretty blonde shocker

  Spookery goes mainstream as harasser hits the phones

• Voltage secures patents on identity-based encryption

  Assumes you are who you say you are

• Bush on cyber war: 'a subject I can learn a lot about'

  Real gov network strike might be scarier than botnet DDoS

• Vasco makes e-business accessible

  Secure transactions for the disabled

Software News

• TorrentSpy filters pirated videos

  Makes a hash of it

• Microsoft finds good facts to sell Windows Vista

  Driver test

• 'The 3D Flickr' is go

  French to take MS Virtual Earth into another dimension

• Microsoft shill blogs steal Reg commercial strategy c.2001

  In the blogosphere, everyone can hear you squeal for cash

• Virgin Trains's mysterious full-price ticket promotion

  'Temporary data problem' scuppers cheap fares

• HP and Microsoft take supercomputing mass-market

  Clusters for everyone

• Safari gets four new fixes

  Quick fix tames vulns