Channel News

• Ingram Micro profits drop, COO quits

  HQ pulls in Monie and more money

• Dutch telecoms firm to bid for Getronics

  Relief in the air?

Comms News

• ICANN opens registrar reform up to public comment

  No time like the present

Developer News

• Microsoft seeks divine help to boost XNA

  Guildhall to the rescue

• Smarten up your virtual security posture

  Securing virtualised environments

• Vague and ambiguous use cases revisited

  Join Camp Gritty

• Introducing Microsoft LINQ

  Book review A new approach to data query in the .NET world.

Hardware News

• Investors stunned by Sun's apparent health

  Q4 pumped full of black ink

• Documentum 6 goes flexible

  Proprietary leash loosens for EMC platform

Management News

• Bush to Congress: streamline star-chamber spy court

  I've already tried ignoring it

• Woz backs internet video start-up

  With his mind not his money

• Do IT chiefs lack vision?

  Reg Technology Panel Performance review

• Terra Firma tightens grip on EMI

  Awaits 90 per cent backing, given extended deadline

• DVLA turns censor on grubby number plates

  '57': this filthy integer must be stopped

• Cisco disconnects Linksys brand

  The network is the SMB router

• Disability question turns on employee's abilities

  Could they do better without the disability?

• ICO scamster jailed for 20 months

  Stole £400,000 with data protection fraud

• IBM: technology will ease travel woes

  Cars to get cat-like reflexes

• Toshiba raises forecast as profits surge

  PCs and semiconductors lead the charge

• E-petitions could be debated in the Commons

  Uk gov gives the nod to report

• Council worker develops PC energy-saving program

  Could save £40,000 per year

Music and Media News

Reg Hardware News

• Denon sits on the fence in HD war

  Denon hedges its bets over HD DVD and Blu-ray

• Toshiba's burning desire for HD DVD

  Toshiba says no way to Blu-ray

• Logitech keyboard rides the Wave

  Touchy feely...

• 32GB storage to go, please

  Portable storage goes XXL

• 7 BlackBerry 8800 smartphones & Jem Navigation bundles to be won

  Register Hardware daily draw £3k worth of prizes to give away with Register Hardware

Science News

• Boffins use nets of carbon to snare toxic gases

  Catching nano-butterflies

• Boffins trial cheap landmine sniff-tech

  Technology helps people shocker

• Europe's floods and fires snapped from space

  All looks rather small

Security News

• Mario worm targets retro gamers

  VXers deploy Donkey Kong ruse

• Carousel fraud jumps to record high

  VAT merry-go-round

• VXers publish blog poisoning tool

  Script kiddie tool foils captchas

• US denies entry to security researcher

  Fear of a Black Hat

Software News

• Fotango in state of shock, as Canon Europe plots escape

  Exclusive Zimki - a crisis platform

• MS-DOS paternity suit settled

  Computer pioneer Kildall vindicated, from beyond the grave

• New tool enables loading of unsigned drivers in Vista

  Use at your own risk