Comms News

• Verizon launches US appeals court at Google-backed wireless plan

  Throws Jello at Congress

• Judge OKs Sprint's $30m overcharging settlement

  Pre-paid

• O2 takes it to the EDGE

  We don't need no stinkin' 3G for our iPhone

• The trusting, the diligent and the downright paranoid

  Mobile Workshop The notebook security poll numbers are in

Developer News

Hardware News

• Brazilian physicists boycott Dell

  'Don't ask, don't Dell' policy

• SanDisk subpoenaed in US antitrust probe

  Canada, US courts want a piece too

• Root-locked Linux for the masses

  The future: managed desktops?

• PC shipments set to jump

  Notebooks and laptops show biggest growth

Management News

• Care home workers in web campaign victory

  Small mercies

• It's virtually all about virtualisation, EDS job cuts and EMC court cases

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• Google touts Asian privacy model

  What? Protecting personal data, Beijing style?

Music and Media News

• Universal charges into legal P2P

  Then charges back out again

• Philips looks to build 'huge' video database for video ID service

  Aims to fingerprint all video

• Revolutionary label to focus on streaming as downloads falter

  'How much do you want to pay for music?'

Odds and Sods News

• Tech gets steamier with mp3 vibrators and strap-on kit

  Comments And idiots break themselves against martial artists

• Great British fry-up under threat

  Getting eggspensive

• BOFH: Building changes

  Episode 31 Gotta watch those professionals...

• Retail giants to crack whip over digital dawdlers

  Dropping analogue kit early

• Kung fu monks battle Colombian karate assassins

  Reader poll Who is the hardest of them all?

• McLaren fined $100m for spying

  Kicked out of constructors' championship

Reg Hardware News

• Take pot luck with the USB Greenhouse

• Sony dumps DVD for Blu-ray Disc

• Webcam conundrum

  Q&A

• Samsung iPhone rival to hit UK in November

  Vodafone gets the gig

• TwinMos Boom 1 2.1-channel iPod audio system

  Review This could be the walrus

• Want a free iPod Shuffle? Ask Tesco

  Rent DVDs, get a Shuffle

• AMD Phenom CPUs to support DDR 3?

• Intel readies successor to unlaunched gaming chipset

  X38 to launch next week, X48 by year's end

• Sony pitches Blu-ray deskops, laptops

  Countering Toshiba

Science News

• Senate to call Boeing's 2009 raygun nuke-zap bluff?

  We'll see your $0.5bn, and raise you a laser jumbo

• Pentagon to hold event prior to battery tech prize

  Million-buck battery-bomb bonanza beano

• Opportunity rolls into Victoria

  Checking out the rocks

• Japan, Google head for the moon

  Probing X-Prizes

• Czech falls off motorbike, wakes up with British accent

  Bohemian rhapsodises in cut-glass English

• Be kind to your stomach: eat chilies

  A curry a day keeps the doctor away?

Security News

• Hackers infiltrate TD Ameritrade client database

  Backdoored

• Attacking multicore CPUs

  Get exploited on time

• Quantum computing spectre looms over ecommerce

  Factor 15 protection

• Germany nets ten phishing suspects

  Trojan spam scam nipped in the bud

• Storm Worm linked to spam surge

  Russian teens fingered as likely suspects

Software News

• Next generation BBC iPlayer gets MS man on board

  Billingsgate

• Microsoft awaits European Court decision

  Split decision possible

• Facebook gags verbal dissent group

  'Quit it! You're mean!'

• Open source prima donnas to crush IBM, BEA and MS in 2008

  Meat Cast And David Beckham's issues with FLOSS