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Morse snaps up consultancy firm

Goes after financial services X factor with Xayce

EDS shows one in four staff the door

Early retirement for 12,000 US staff

Nvidia fills out Quadro DirectX 10 line-up

Entry-level and mid-range cards added

US allows import of Qualcomm chips

As long as they're in someone else's phone

Ofcom fails to prevent release of cell locations

But operators might not play ball

World's smallest economy dives into web scrum

Tiny Pacific islands target TinyURL territory

Hypercard tool gets Linux leg up

Runtime Revolution responds to Linux growth

Flash memory makers propose common card

Or maybe the market's 20th card format...

Azul smacks down Reg claims with $40m

All funded up with somewhere to go

IBM holds 128-thread 'Q7' variant of Power7

Exclusive 2010 super booster?

PC superstore unhinged by Linux

'Like buying a BMW and putting a Ford engine in it'

Led Zeppelin reunion opens with Communication Breakdown

Website goes down like a...oh

MPs criticise e-health record progress

Better planning and more consultation needed

Online car tax saves p***t from carbon hell

One stamp at a time...

Religious hatred a crime from October, but exemptions are wide

Closes one loophole but opens others

Fujitsu Services ends union dispute

Responds to union's demands

L'Oreal sues eBay over counterfeit goods

Says tat bazaar is not doing enough

IT overruns costing business €375m a year

A quarter run 50% over budget

Report backs mobile IT for police

Could cut red tape

YouTube, Viacom bow to light-sabre-wielding defender of online justice

Jedi Knight saves the world

Keeping a Hawk-Eye on those miserable Wii kids

Column Technology is bad, m'kay

Enraged bee bursts Taiwanese woman's breast implant

Swarm in a B cup

Navman queues up flagship satnav range

Boffins develop Terminator-vision goggles

Acid trips without the... er... acid

RIM colours up BlackBerry Pearl

Pick a colour, any colour

African lumber, beaches inspire Sony's autumn Vaios

Hardware Widow

Surge protection for Powerline Ethernet products?

Q&A

Wii becomes best-selling next-gen console

Early forecast confirmed

Apple invite brings UK hacks out in iPhone fever

Editors' Blog Not us, sob

Motorola transmits dual Walkie Talkie range

Come in Whisky, err, Vodka, Baileys, foxtrot, over

Sony to roll out four Blu-ray recorders

Strategy to cement the format's popularity

Shuttle debuts 'deluxe, glamorous' SFF PC

Belkin, SanDisk launch charity kit

Apple iPod Classic

Review In a metal mood

Sod robots, send people into space: report

Manned missions will inspire the nation

Cassini reveals two faces of Iapetus

Weird black and white moon

Reference kilo shows mysterious weight loss

First Lindsay, then Nicole, now the standard unit of mass

NZ surveillance target attempts to flog tracking kit

Kiwi 'Keystone Cops' uncloaked

Trojan planted on US Consulate website

Russian roulette

Cybersquatter storms the Bastille (Linux)

Prompts rebrand

Bebo fingers Yahoo! for display ads

Hey! Kids! Buy! This!

Virtualization standards becoming a reality

Virtual reality, oh ho ho