Channel News

• Computacenter jumps on good interims

  Revenues and profits up - except in UK

Comms News

• Premium rate Virgin Media cuts tech support jobs

  Exclusive 'Let's right-size our associate headcount!'

• Kingston: nobody else wants to provide broadband round here

  Fiefdom upon Hull?

• Nokia Portal: A Force For Good, or Finnish Folly?

  Letters A mobile mailbag, no less

• Juggle those connections

  Mobile Workshop It’s a multi-protocol world

• Nokia enhances free-to-download satnav app

  Software 'streamlined'

Developer News

• BEA: meet the new platform - same as the old platform

  BEAWorld Looks like a duck

• Serena banks on Microsoft workplace challenge

  Pay to play

• Open source suppliers offer SaaS challenge

  Talend joins SugarCRM, OpSource joins Boomi

Hardware News

• MS threatens to ship new hypervisor preview

  VMworld While it smooches Citrix

• General Dynamics offers rugged UMPC

  Laughs off nerve gas and even coffee

• Dell's 'Veso' appliance runs on four-core Opterons and thin VMware

  VMworld Two minutes to ESX Server

• VMware consumes Dunes

  VMworld Not a tool

• HP inks deal for micro-needle skin patch

  Now it's not just HP's prices that'll get under your skin

• AMD's tier one partners sing homage to Barcelona

  Analysis It's history, perched on a fence

• Hitachi scales Universal Storage Platform for the midmarket

  HDS Virtual storage gets thin provisioning

Management News

• Patent law passed in US, but Presidential veto could follow

  House of Reps. approve smaller fines in copyright spats

• South Korea chucks antitrust charges at Intel

  Joins worldwide crusade

• Oyster card evolves into OnePulse

  Teams up with Visa and Barclaycard

• Britannia triumphs over Johnny Metric

  Pints all round as EU crumples before imperial forces

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• London council to use lie detectors to finger benefit cheats

  Calling call centres is stressful already

• Fancy an invisible dog that dances on stilts?

  eBay can oblige, and then some

Reg Hardware News

• DLO HomeDock Music Remote wireless iPod dock

  Review The answer to the iPod owner's hi-fi dreams?

• Retailer reveals new Palm is the Treo 500v

  Vodafone will launch it tomorrow

• DVD Forum gives three-layer, 51GB HD DVD the thumbs up

  Format's fans must buy new players?

Science News

• Met Office plans next five years in climate science

  An aide to policy makers, no less

• Connoisseurs go mad for £1,000 ham

  Pure Iberian porker's leg at a price you can't afford

• Public rejoices at new 'green' nukes

  Time for that nuke ferry across the Mersey

Security News

• Trojans besiege online gamers

  It's warcraft out there

• Typo-squatting grifter faces the slammer

  Bogus attorney pleads guilty to domain scam

• Skype worm blows bubbles at victims

  Lithuanians and Jacko's chimp top suspects

• Home PC users at risk: CA

  Need to be wary of online threats

• Fujitsu unveils palm-reading security mouse

  Vein pattern scanned for authentication

Software News

• IBM signs-in to OpenOffice.org

  Waves software sabre at Microsoft