Channel News

Comms News

• Google readies Pacific-spanning, Verizon-battling underwater comm cable

  Can you help?

• Next generation Wi-Fi mired in patent fears

  Exclusive 802.11n standard 'at serious risk'

• One plug to rule them all

  Mobiles to adopt single connection standard, eventually, possibly

• WANs go faster Down Under

  Exinda joins the application acceleration party.

• Fed up with disjointed telephony?

  Workshop roundup Bridging the gap

• Google schtum on UK wireless spectrum bid report

  900MHz of static

Developer News

Hardware News

• ClearSpeed plots 1 TeraFlop floating point pizza box

  IDF 1U rocket ship

• Hitachi admits hybrid drives aren't all that, bag of chips

  Current capacity falls short of expectations

• Chip pioneer David Ditzel talks Transmeta, Sun and Bell Labs

  Audio What's next for the man and the industry?

• Allot intros big bandwidth shaper

  Killing off the application-independent internet

• Acer calls for profit levelling

  Fair shares for all

• Oracle Q1 profit up a quarter

  Slams SAP's 'downmarket' strategy

Management News

• MIT student walks into airport wearing circuit board and wires

  What's the worst that can happen?

• Thailand menaces YouTube - again

  'Offensive' video saga part 24

• Retailer sets legal attack dogs on protest website

  Unhappy customer didn't get permission to register "Lowe's-Sucks" site

• Welsh council workers turfed out over eBay addiction

  Going, going, gone

• No more buys from Acer

  Digesting Gateway and Packard-Bell

• Girlie website's user data blunder

  'Now where did we put that? Oh yeah, it's in my Handbag'

• BAE slimed from all directions

  Teflon deathware colossus unable to escape own smell

• From EC rules on Microsoft to a load of old bollocks

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• Balls: Schools should police the net

  Government stomps on technobullies (again)

• Man sues God

  Seeks injunction to stop Him making terrorist threats

• SCO faces financial crunch after Unix defeat

  Lodges filing with SEC

• UK e-services ranked fifth in EU

  Movin' on up

• Government outsourcing shifts to front line

  Local services for local people

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• FBI redefines length of century

  2007 whisked off in black helicopter

• 419er needs $2k to buy portrait of Queen

  Lad from Lagos in a right royal state

• Oz burglar had sex with Hoover

  DNA evidence fingers sticky perp

• Scots tell ET to eff off

  Further giant profanity merriment

• Spunky salmon return to life to gas us all

  Comments As the BOFH battles the architects

• ElReg40™ seeks the world's worst web 2.0 ideas

  Competition How hard can you blow?

• BOFH: In search of the lazy atom

  Episode 32 It's more scientific than car key gnomes

• Sony delays launch of PS3 virtual community

  Far from Home

Reg Hardware News

• Eye spied on blog

  Eye can see you, get it?

• Is eSATA really better than USB 2.0 and Firewire?

  Q&A

• Home cinema kit goes 3D

  The future is here, and it has a visor

• Portable mixing set for DJs

  Scratch, slide and fade wherever you are

• The sarcastic TV

  Harassment while you watch

• Lenovo pitches solar-powered PC

  Solar-powered computing

• TwinMos MiniBoom for iPods everywhere

  Dock, listen, sleep and wake

Science News

• Dismantling gas giants with nanotech

  Anything seems possible in Arizona

• Welcome indeed to the billionaire toyshop

  Expensive toys for very rich boys

Security News

• ABN Amro customer deets tip up on BearShare

  P2P user hygiene found lacking

• Malware spectre haunts Adobe Reader

  PDF peril

• Copyright nagware accord reaches 30

  Diamond jubilee

• Crooks try to besmirch CastleCops with fraudulent donations

  Take that

• Comodo lets consumers 'hunt' buffer overflow bugs

  BO test bit whiffy

Software News

• Why Microsoft vs Mankind still matters

  Comment The Penguin is missing, while Apple's gone to Hollywood