Channel News

Comms News

• Google buys voicemail firm for $50m

  Loose change for Grand Central

• Riverbed dives into certification territory

  Teams up with Pearson Vue

• Virgin: Take the money and run, Beardie

  Analysis: Carlyle's cash could come in handy

• Stingy AT&T spoiled the iPhone party

  Why the Jesus phone couldn't perform miracles

• Customers give new ISP market thumbs down

  Consumer casualties on broadband battleground

• Never say sorry I'm late again

  Have your phone say it for you

• Downing Street dodges 'unlimited' broadband debate

  The latest victory for people's paralysis

• Wireless gadget maker to offer on-the-move internet for free

  DataWind blows in to Blighty

• Global mobile subscriptions hit three billion

  Multiple SIMs boosting numbers

• Eircom injects €5m in Northern Ireland network

  More good news for the job market

Developer News

• Institutional idiocy in IT

  High tech narcissism or old fashioned stupidity?

Hardware News

• SAP confesses to 'inappropriate' Oracle downloads

  Ooo-er

• SEC chases former Veritas execs over cursed AOL contract

  Watchdog still bugged by year 2000 deal

• Dell provides software assurance to Special Ops Command

  SEALs deal with snake-eaters

• Autonomy forks out $375m for US expansion

  Eats Zantaz Inc

Management News

• Gates loses 'World's richest' crown

  Slim only in name

• Whiteboards could damage kids and teachers' eyesight

  Razzle dazzle 'em

• MEP plans EU build ban on cars faster than 100mph

  Committee considers tech-lite plan to save p***t

• London NHS paper reveals plans to share patient data

  Social services and ContactPoint included

• 'Effete' Europe useless in GWOT, says bin Laden man

  Declining continent - we don't need them anyway...

• Internet Governance Forum still searching for something to govern

  ICANN San Juan 2007 In the beginning was the...uh...

• Banks want data pulled from US

  Swift told to retreat all but US data

• Digital divide becoming chasm, research reveals

  Work on bridging the gap has stalled

• UK gov fights public spending website

  Says it'd 'cost too much'

• EU launches EUtube with a bang

  NSFW Minor kerfuffle over soft-core shagfest

• GSMA tackles 'innovation bottleneck' on mobile phones

  More innovation needed, and quickly

• Slot machine inventions denied patents

  Game over

• Possession of extreme porn to become criminal offence

  Perpetrators face three years in chokey

Music and Media News

• New ASA boss targets bogus web sites

  Advertiser websites in his sights

• Russian copyright wars to continue despite AllofMP3 shutdown

  iTuneski RIP, but more where that came from

Odds and Sods News

• Pensioner used live shell as doorstop

  Bomb disposal disarms 'family heirloom'

• Website honours battling Glasgow baggage handler

  Buy a pint for 'BAA's answer to Jack Bauer'

• Kylie confirmed for Who Xmas special

  Oz popstress embarks on Voyage Of The Damned

Reg Hardware News

• Carphone Warehouses picks BlackBerry

• Holux says balls to GPS

• Six Wiis sold for every PS3 purchased in Japan

  We want Wii, say consumers

• Defend your home with a walking webcam

  I, Robot

• Philips parades gem-like gadgets for luxury loving ladies

  Hardware Widow Look, girls, sparklies

• Vibrator speaker system causes a buzz

  You hum it, I'll play it

Science News

• Inflated real-estate market goes ballistic (in space)

  You can afford to build it: can they afford to come?

• Starburst snap holds clues to galactic evolution

  Hubble's still got it

• Europe and Russia plan next generation spaceship

  Parallel to Orion

• Swiss take on North America at nano-droid Subbuteo

  'Sh*t, I've dropped the Annapolis football team down a drain'

Security News

• Fidelity employee steals 2.3 million consumer records

  Database administrator hustles info to marketeers

• MPack malware exposes cheapskate web hosts

  Apache and the Domino Effect

• Talking Trojan taunts victims

  Everything must go

• Hacker stalked Linkin Park frontman

  Musical discord

• Malware scammers target iPhone

  iFraud

Software News

• Yahoo! Unveils! New! Banner! Ad! Engine!

  It knows what you want

• Palm OS II launch date delayed again

  Not dead, just sleeping