Channel News

Comms News

• Startup brings free Wi-Fi to the streets of San Francisco

  A noble experiment

• Sky's the limit as firm rakes in 400,000 new customers

  Good times all round

• UK phone records to be kept for a year

  But internet activity let off the hook

• Google leaps into new Sprint portal

  Apps for WiMAX

Developer News

• Business intelligence needs business backing

  Reg Technology Panel report Solving the problem of fragmented information

• IT pros give thumbs up to online communities

  'It solves problems and it's accurate'

Hardware News

• Oracle's got a giant Red Hat fork coming, says spaceman

  OSCON While Microsoft has an 'extortion habit'

• Isilon narrows losses, but growing pains abound

  Reduced expectations send stock tumbling

• Intel responds to EU's anti-trust statement

  AMD puts the boot in as well

• Cisco buys a hunk of VMware

  Can't resist

• Sysadmin Day 2007: still time to get the beers in

  Hug a hacker

• Western Digital profit rises on tax benefit

  Revenue up 26 per cent

• Man still top dog at poker

  Man vs Machine redux

• OSI evacuation begins over 'badgeware' license

  OSCON The few and the furious

Management News

• The terrorists I party with

  Part 3 Another round for my friends

• Microsoft goes Google, Google goes shopping, and Apple loves its Macs

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• DHS working on pocket puke-ray

  'Light-sabre' to battle alien hordes

• Is more bandwidth really the answer?

  Money can't fix everything

Music and Media News

• Second Life turns on screams of horror tool

  OSCON AKA Project Booming Echo

• Wikia snatches open search software from LookSmart

  OSCON Will deliver Grub to mankind. Or whatever

• Society of Jesus calls missionaries to Second Life

  Saving virtual souls from 'erotic simulation'

• BBC iPlayer launches, but with limited viewer reach

  There must be Heroes, just for 30 days

Odds and Sods News

• PSP owners to get Lost early 2008

  Sky punts content to Sony

• El Reg issues Satan word alert

  'Mobisode'? WTF is a 'mobisode'?

• BOFH: Moving faster than blame

  Episode 26 It's got to be somebody's fault

• Muffy Mount voted ultimate 'nom de sex'

  Poll result Coming soon on a screen near you?

• Stripogram councillor rocks Devon Lib Dems

  Click here for 'multi-talented' politico

• Fort Bragg grunt in gay porn vid shocker

  Marching orders for latest grumble flick scandal

• Jerry Garcia's jacuzzi washes onto eBay

  Deadheads click here for rock bathroom memorabilia

• Reader succumbs to apostrophe apoplexy

  FoTW Misplaced punctuation outrage

Reg Hardware News

• Sony Vaio reborn for the living room

  More than just a white box manufacturer

• Only 'major' EU countries to be in second iPhone rollout

  Is your country 'major' enough?

Science News

• Light-feasting bacterium found in Yellowstone

  Yogi's picnic baskets not implicated

• Fatal explosion hits Virgin space programme

  Three workers killed, three injured at Mojave spaceport

• NASA: Space station computer sabotaged

  Meddling miscreant snips wire in space member box

Security News

Software News

• Fotango COO quits job during keynote speech

  OSCON Give me free Zimki or give me unemployment