Channel News

• Intel cans first-gen Core chips

  Duo, Solo for the chop

Comms News

• Apple 'loses' iPod calendar

  A Touch too much

• Bluetooth comes to set-top boxes

  Time to rename the zapper?

• Orange to turn pink at Xmas to favour young women

  Miss Understanding

• Brussels muscles in on BT universal service rules

  Bill and Ted's Bogus Green Paper

• German Government works itself up into Wi-Fi panic

  Updated We must cleanse ourselves of this electrosmog

• US municipal Wi-Fi loses its shine

  Business models followed technology too closely

• OQO cuts UMPC prices, adds solid-state drive option

• MusicStation arrives, but will we pay for digital music?

  Vodafone thinks so

• Ratings volunteers to be spied on by mobiles

  Blowers to rat out guineapigs 24-7

Developer News

Hardware News

• Dell unveils Big Mike for iSCSI storage box party

  We told you so

• AMD finally goes native with Barcelona

  Preps pair of Octals

• VMware unveils 32MB version of ESX Server

  Hypervisor flash

• Procurve goes for the core

  Network switch first with lifetime warranty

• Wyse strips down thin client computers

  Thinks PCs are a fatty, fatty 2x4

• LeftHand flings SAN at cash-striken virtual servers

  Virtual SAN Appliance for VMware ESX

• NetApp cooks up meatier low-end NAS appliance

  FAS200 line goes down low

• Sun launches Eco Innovation Initiative

  Extends Eco Responsibility Initiative

Management News

• Who said the internet was getting boring?

  Reg Technology Panel For business or pleasure?

• Secretive FBI 'National Security Letters' to ISPs, Telcos halted

  'Legislative equivalent of breaking and entering'

• IT shouldn't cop all the blame for wrecking environment

  Quocirca's changing channels Green IT use by businesses matters too

• 'All-in' DNA database plan hinges on human rights case

  Updated ECHR could make DNA retention without conviction illegal

• 10,000 .eu names suspended amid cybersquatter allegation

  Owner files retaliatory suit

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• US outfit whips out mp3 vibrator

  NSFW 64 megabytes of Ram - phwoooar!

Reg Hardware News

• Europe's largest phone recycling centre to open in Wales

• SanDisk guns for iPod Nano with slim video viewer

  Long player

• Icron WiRanger Wi-Fi connected USB hub

  Review USB-over-Wi-Fi, anyone?

• Wednesday's Palm launch not Centro, firm claims

  Same design though?

• Sony rolls out roll-along music player

• Intel to drop bottom-of-the-range gaming CPU

Science News

• Solar spyp*** stays up for two nights

  Needs no fuel, only money

• RFID chip implants linked to cancer in animals

  Not fit for dogs?

• Pinwheel galaxy boasts edgy star formation

  Most unusual

• Viking ship resurfaces under Merseyside boozer

  Plans to raise unique surviving wooden hull

• Expedition to hunt Amazon 'yeti'

  Heart of barkingness

• Mars rovers dust-free and on the move

  Opportunity peers into crater

• Team XMM-Newton on data-sharing mission

  X-ray source catalogue released

• Fossett 'may never be found'

  Search continues for missing adventurer

Security News

• Man charged over P2P ID theft scam

  $oulseek

• AOL restricts free security software to members

  Freefall

• The Times: PLA war-hackers can switch off US navy

  Yellow Peril causes wet knickers among excited scribes

• Trojan-fuelled botnet menaces UK eBay users

  Updated Going, going, own3d

• Tor at heart of embassy passwords leak

  Popular privacy program (mis)used to spill state secrets

• ISPs turn blind eye to million-machine malware monster

  Cablevision and Comcast coddling criminals?

Software News