Channel News

Comms News

• Firms lust after mobile access

  But spurn the advances of social computing

• BT prepares for superfast broadband investment chinwag

  Bland on the run

• Is your mobile tech creaking at the joints?

  Mobile Workshop Time to replace those legacy solutions

• Apple turns to Orange in France

  Mobile operator wins iPhone deal

Hardware News

• EMC jettisons $76m into web 2.0 storage cloud

  Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells

• Lockheed gives FBI a hand on fingerprint database

  Extra grunt for G-men's server farm

Management News

• Blogosphere shouts 'I'm Spartacus' in Usmanov-Murray case

  Uzbek billionaire prompts Blog solidarity

• Judge parks 172mph Porsche driver for 10 weeks

  Boy racer also gets three year ban

• Pirate Bay sues media giants for 'sabotage'

  Counterstrike follows Media Defender email leak

• US patent programme must be compulsory to work, says project leader

  Opt-in won't work for Peer to Patent project

Music and Media News

• Virgin unplugs music download service

  Apple 1, Branson 0

Odds and Sods News

• Chuck Norris to do battle in El Reg Arena of Death

  And his opponent?

• Czech Olympic Committee annihilates English language

  'Previous two advances arrange games are over always inglorious'

Reg Hardware News

• Starbucks to give away 50m iTunes songs

  I'll have a latte, danish and slice of Bob Dylan please

• Samsung, Armani launch designer vibro phone

  Suits you, sir

• Energizer powers-up iPod pack

  And the beat goes on...

• OLPC to offer consumers $400 two-laptop bundle

  One for you, one for them

• Toshiba readies Cell-based graphics engine

  Watch out, Nvidia, here comes... er... SpursEngine

• LEGO-like Halo 3 figures land in UK

  Pack includes 'invisible' Master Chief

• Crysis demo delayed

Science News

• Second Galileo satellite delayed 'til 2008

  Spectrum placeholder held up by Russian rocketry

• Martian south pole: water, not dry ice

  Bad news for aliens in charge of special effects

• Caves spotted on Mars

  But where are the cave-Martians?

• US Army dalek assassins to pack mini-missiles?

  Terminator 3 Pringles-tube ordnance in the offing

• World leaders meet to tackle global warming

  But dear old Dubya has other plans

• US teacher fired for non-literal bible reading

  Of course there was a talking snake, stupid

Security News

• NY probes Facebook over pedophile controls

  Questions social networker's commitment to protecting underage users

• Unholy trinity of flaws put Google users at risk

  Doomwatchers count the ways

• VMware updates take aim at bug swarm

  Flaw filler

Software News

• Red Hat plots re-org to deal with JBoss woes

  Bad Java aftertaste

• Free-market think tank urges EU to unbundle Windows

  'No natural monopoly'