Channel News

• VAT fraudsters 'laughing all the way to their offshore tax haven'

  Explosion in carousel fraud

• Game shares bounce as competition probe launches

  Regulator says deal unfairly squeezes market

• Nvidia MCP73 'to debut 25 September'

  Entry-level parts to pave way for DirectX 10 version?

• Intel cans last Pentium 4s, Ds

  Farewell, pre-Core past

Comms News

• BT rubbishes BBC bandwidth throttling reports

  Swift denial 'We're not part of the iPlayer gang'

• Sprint helps fuel parental panic

  Search local sex offenders from the palm of your hand

• Smart radios still too dumb

  TV white space defies boffins

• US punters gobbling up mobile data

  And it's not all SMS

• ISPs hijack BBC in tiered services push

  How much would you pay your ISP for iPlayer?

• iPhone thumb trim hoax gets online media buy-in

  Satirical commentary taken as fact

• Vodafone turns to eBay for handset supplies

  Largest phone network reduced to searching largest flea market

Developer News

Hardware News

• SCO 'disappointed' as shares plunge 70 per cent

  Sue it forward

• Intel guns one four-core Xeon, cools another

  AMD talks to OEMs

• Citrix set to snatch XenSource

  Hypervisor grab

• Silent bandwidth battles at BT

  Column You will not unplug that ISDN

• Fujitsu creates readable, writeable 'nanohole' hard drive

  Step toward 1TB per square inch data density

• First two AMD 'Barcelonas' due 10 September?

  A third coming the following month, apparently

Management News

• Las Vegas judge sacked for MySpace page

  Foot stuck in mouth - and elsewhere

• Telstra sex romp woman back on the job

  Wins bath rumpy-pumpy unfair dismissal case

• Tories aim to ditch data protection laws

  And scrap Ofcom

• US Customs gets kill-droids for Caribbean

  Booze cruise bloodbath likely as excise feds tool up

• Boots, House of Fraser not renewing IT director posts

  Comment Short-sighted or smart move?

• Virgin Media to mount French invasion

  Channel hopping

• Future looks bright for video ads

  Runt of the advertising litter to grow up fast

• Council employs automatic PC shutdown

  Will save £50,000 a year

Music and Media News

• Blue Note label to offer downloads'n'social on web

  Wrinkle-funk bonanza foretold

Odds and Sods News

• Drunken German joyrider totals 300 chickens

  Poultry pandemonium

• Cops taser crap-smeared Oz clubber

  Nasty shock for dirty protestor

• Peterborough bloke warned over 'offensive' t-shirt

  'Don't piss me off', declares pissed-off perp

• Halo 3 hits one million pre-orders

  Smashes all records

Reg Hardware News

• Blu-ray 300 outsells HD DVD version 2:1

  Clash of empires

• Blu-ray meets tiny PC

  HD from another weeny box

• Samsung powers ahead with fuel cell tech

  Will it set the world on fire?

• All you wanted to know about Wii

• Brando sniffs out USB new agers

  Smells pretty sweet

• Trevor Baylis cranks multimedia up a notch

  No we're not winding you up

• PlayStation 3 a-plenty...

• Build up to UK Xbox 360 Elite launch...

• Total world Wii sales close in on Xbox 360 tally

  Next-gen console winner

Science News

• Gull triphibiandroid sold to Welsh gov

  Part p***, part boat - all robot

• Welch on renewables deal, UK government told

  Where did I put that get-out clause?

• Boffins simulate plasma-eating dusty 'life-forms'

  Dust to dust, etc

• NASA examining Shuttle's dings, extending mission

  All go up on the space station

Security News

• Firefox leak could divulge sensitive info

  How to remotely share your settings with people you've never met

• Facebook quells fears over code leak snafu

  More of interest to lawyers than hackers

• Germany enacts 'anti-hacker' law

  Will the last security expert to leave Germany turn off the lights

• Hacktivists attack UN.org

  All we are saying is give hacking a chance

• Spammers debut FDF spam

  Rising tide as stock markets fall

• Net bride Aussie kidnapped in Mali

  Lovestruck farmer's fiancée actually armed gang

• IT bosses: directors don't take security seriously

  Their fault for not talking the board's language?