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Avnet to gobble up Acal

Eyes up EMEA market

FCC wireless plan torpedoed by Google-loving mega-startup

Frontline takes a hardline

Verizon lifts pro-abortion text message ban

Declares 'great respect for this free flow of ideas'

A little more Conversation, to get in on the action

Symbian handsets get threaded messaging

VoIP says hello to the iPhone

Ready to develop, if users want it

Hynix leaves DRAM market spotless

Falling prices causes memory loss

Two US computer engineers charged with espionage

Seeking to sell chip designs to Chinese military

Cisco borgs call center software maker Latigent

Tastes like Web 2.0, chicken

D-Link switches to green to make more green

Everything's gone green

Hospital's brand new '£1m' server room goes up in smoke

Money's too tight for air-con?

Tulip tries to buy back Commodore brand

Wants to get back into 'entertainment' products

Blueberry heir loses libel suit against drunken lothario

Gorilla-fisting comment didn't sit well, apparently

Cambridgeshire letter bomber found guilty

Bedroom bomb factory in mother's house

Note to despots: You can't kill the internet

Burma's wave of dissent floods through firewall

IT vendors: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Reg Technology Panel The industry with no shame

Federal judge slams Patriot Act

Feds push for new, zestier Fourth Amendment

Lobby group calls for police database access for prisons

Hopes to reduce in-custody death toll

Adopt this dog or we'll kill it

The no-nonsense approach to rehoming mutts

Magazines go online in iTunes-esque move

Read all about it in PDF

Foam hinders Halo 3 disc scratching down under

MS foam home

BenQ touts skinny, touchy-feely digicam

Sharp rolls out latest Blu-ray recorders

Four new models to watch

Samsung SGH-G600 mobile phone

Review All camera and no connectivity?

Hint of next PS3 spied on web

FCC website gives tantalising glimpse... sort of

US retailer Target lines up pink iPod Shuffle for charity

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

SlingPlayer Mobile released for S60 phones

NASA holds vomit-comet docs v robosurgeons trial

Bones McCoy jobless before even born

Dawn on its way to the asteroid belt

Lift off, at last

Japanese to patent transparent frog

Boffins in mutant albino batrachian IP brouhaha

Space station barney kicks off in India

Constructive debate, we're sure

Experts fret over credit card compliance

PCI DSS fails to settle SMEs

Jailed worm author offered job by victim

$133K salary awaits Fujacks fiend

Canadian privacy commissioner slams TJX data policy

Record-breaking data leak was 'foreseeable'

Stats office deal sparks confidentiality fears

Possible Patriot Act entanglement raises hackles

Microsoft: New Live Search 'as good as Google'

'And better than Yahoo!'

Yahoo!'s insanity over Zimbra and Google's plan to rule open source code

Audio Oh yes. It's Open Season