Comms News

• Court finds Qualcomm guilty of standards abuse

  First create a standard, then sue the adopters

• Cisco's Web 2.0 enthusiasm helps profits climb

  CEO hails second major internet phase

• Customer exodus hits Virgin Media

  Sky gloomy

• Line rental cost a barrier to broadband

  Most would forgo DSL if price increased

Hardware News

• Novell squirrels its way into the virtual datacenter

  LinuxWorld Zen for Xen

• Novell CEO confirms that Microsoft is a reality

  LinuxWorld Come to our world

• PC buyers: 'Vista Capable' machines weren't Vista capable

  Judge calls for trial

• Dell UK dances with Linux

  Open source touches down

• USAF seeks control of aerial kill-bots

  Pilots love drones? Something's fishy here ...

• It's not easy being green

  Minimising heat and power waste

• Sun adds bargain line to StorageTek family

  Thumper given SMB storage duty

Management News

• Cameraman drops first YouTube suit to join class action

  While Google maintains its innocence

• Biometrics tackle immigration abuse

  Fingerprint visas 'first line of defence'

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• We'll never get alien telly, says Zagreb boffin

  Tentacle'n'slime smut bonanza hopes dashed

Reg Hardware News

• Samsung phone offers easier messaging

  Wil it rly wrk?

• Sharp sues Samsung over patent claims

  Another day, another patent dispute

• Apple unwraps trio of aluminium iMacs

  Good news for Apple fans?

• Sony VGN-TZ11XN/B laptop

  Review Gimme, gimme. Wait... is that the price or my phone number?

• Toshiba touts third-generation HD DVD

  Whatever will Blu-ray say?

Science News

• Yangtze river dolphin is an ex-cetacean

  Nature pays the price of progress

Security News

• 419-lite scammers target pet lovers

  How much is that doggy?

• SurfControl dips into the red ahead of WebSense takeover

  All under control

• UK VPN security is outstandingly mediocre

  BOFHs struggle with TLAs

• FaceTime exposes customer contact info

  Red faces over coding snafu at IM security firm

• Merchants remain angry over Protx outage

  Analysis Root cause analysis

Software News

• IBM and Novell team up for chunk of open source market

  Tout free app server software, taunt Microsoft

• Microsoft defends vendor standards lead

  LinuxWorld Interoperability by another name

• Programmer granted royalties from commissioned software

  Despite no copyright agreement