Channel News

• Blu-ray drive maker slashes burner price by €100

  Blue-laser diode famine over

• Intel roadmaps laptop-friendly 45nm CPUs

  LV, ULV versions coming too

Comms News

• Logica reports revenue slump

  Looking for new CEO

• Official: BlackBerry gets Wi-Fi, VoIP

  32GB memory card support too

• Moving mobile numbers should be instant

  Ofcom calls for mass debate on central database

• Non-SMS revenues top £10bn

  While SMS traffic increases too

• Survey lays bare people's phone habits

  25% of Brits will answer the phone while on the toilet

Developer News

• An embedded XML Database: Oracle Berkeley DB XML

  Tutorial There is more to life than RDBMS

• Web 2.0 shows its data muscle

  Building mashups gets faster

• Oracle signs Symantec to ULN

  Big trio

Hardware News

• Dell buys SilverBack on road to recovery

  Managing managed services

• Software team codes IBM higher in Q2

  Expenses surge

• Juniper Networks gets its Q2 profit back

  Shrubs off last year's loss

• BT to drag T-Mobile onto 21st Century

  Network that is

• German hurls computer from apartment block

  'Who hasn't felt like doing that?' admit police

• Cyborg-style 'iLimb' hand a big hit with Iraq veterans

  'Soldiers love the robotic look'

• How green is my V-word?

  Does virtualisation = energy savings?

• Burned by a MacBook

  First Person In more ways than one

• AMD goes after AppleTV

  iTV Con Calls for Canadian curling channel

• North Wales Police gets unified IP comms

  Gives a whole new meaning to 'copper networking'

Management News

• Whole Foods CEO sorry for message board trolling

  SEC investigates grocery store fanboy

• US cons attempt copyright-based prison break

  FBI thwarts audacious criminal masterplan

• Pirate pitches DVDs to Trading Standards

  Porn flick cock-up

• Derbyshire cops get into deep water

  Van + flood = YouTube smash

• Second Life gets its first copyright law suit

  Sex bed tussle leads to court

• PAC slams exclusive DoH deal

  Where was the tender process?

• Terror-cops get realtime Congestion Charge database link

  Updated Home Office gives dunce-bombers a victory after all

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• Indians slip on tobacco-flavoured condom

  Fancy a chew on my betel nuts?

• UK p***spotters to battle al-Qaeda

  Anoraks man front line in WOT

Reg Hardware News

• Ion mixes it up with second-gen USB turntables

• PS3 outsold Xbox 360 2:1 in Japan

  And Wii sales micturate on both

• Wave goodbye to your TV... literally

  Out goes the remote, in comes gesturing tech

• Tomato ripens dinky digital device

• 'World's most capacious' mobile HDDs come to UK

• Leaked 'PSP Slim' manual reveals fresh tweaks

  PSP-2000 details emerge

Science News

• User panel says US should scrap GPS off switch

  Sat nav industry reckons degrading sat nav is bad

Security News

• Google's Lemon squeezes out web app bugs

  Hot Fuzz

• Oracle drops litter of summer patches

  Forty-five fixes out. One missing in action

• Firefox lances IE bug

  Pass the parcel bug binned

Software News

• Microsoft rigs Live Search traffic

  The power of Dingbats

• Yahoo! buys Indian ad firm

  Yes, there's still money to spend

• Expand gives Oracle a boost

  Claims big speed-up for apps over WANs