Channel News

• Capita to provide Southampton 'Gateway'

  Despite concerns over procurement process

Comms News

• AwayPhone aims to slash mobile roaming costs

  Review Are you local?

• Kingston Comms loses BT connection

  World cut off from Hull

• iPhone unlock procedure posted

  Video shows it working?

• 3 Ireland's broadband (nearly) back on its feet

  Update: FTP, VPNs and Outlook should now be working

Developer News

• Governance in the Web 2.0 world

  Everything over http

Hardware News

• Coming to terms with Raon's Everun tiny, Lolita-based PC

  Review It's a goer, if you hate keyboards

• Data center efficiency - the good, the bad and the way too hot

  Meat Cast Avoiding crisis in the rain-forest

Management News

• Nokia battery recall to cost Matsushita up to $172m

• Firms get cozy, play nice - must be something in the air

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• Website addresses health inequalities in England

  Lists details of unhealthiest areas

• Businessman loses battle for gripe site domain name

  Fails to sway WIPO

Music and Media News

• BioShockers delivered from DRM hell

  Rapture on up to five PCs

• iPhone sparks counter measures from Verizon, RealNetworks and MTV

  Handset-to-handset fighting

• Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government

  'The end of anonymous blogging'

Odds and Sods News

• London man coughs to 172mph Porsche jaunt

  Sets new UK record for illicit excess velocity

• Channel 4 cans Celebrity Big Brother

  There is a god, evidently

• Bank holiday transport farrago

  Oyster cards and TomTom are no-go

• IBM faces Second Life strike

  Flying furry penis pickets

• Nicole Richie does 82 minutes hard time

  'Treated like any other inmate' during prison hell ordeal

• National Guardsman suspended over personal website

  No holds barred on howtokillpeople.com

• Teen sticks Xbox 360 power supply in bowl of water

  Result? Hospital for Darwin Award near-miss

• US customs bust coke-smuggling 'submarine'

  Stealth vessel packed with $352m of Colombian naughty salt

Reg Hardware News

• Spare some change - for the sub-£10 mobile

• MS warns gamers: steer clear of Xbox racing wheel

• Dell laptops not in the pink after all

• Xbox 360 Elite games console

  Review Small tweaks, big difference?

• Wii wins console war, market watcher claims

  Nintendo next-gen sales surpass Microsoft's

• Sony scientists develop sugar-fuelled power pack

  No low-cal versions in the pipeline though...

• Japan to get ultra-dinky Bluetooth USB dongle

• Razer, MS each pitch the peak in gaming mice

  Scroll through the enemies

Science News

• Uranus strikes a pose for Hubble's camera

  Edge on view of the rings

• So, what's the velocity of a sheep in a vacuum?

  Plus, the size of Wales in cubic furlongs

• Queen's axe-man wins his PhD

  Viva put him under pressure

• Rentokil to set Q Branch on UK's rats

  'James Bond-style technology' to battle rodent hordes

Security News

• Movie pirate forced to ditch Linux

  House-arrest Ubuntu fan left staring at Windows

• Google changes Street View privacy policy

  Blurs faces and number plates on request

• 'Microsoft' to compensate 419 victims

  Been scammed? Claim your £100,000 here

Software News