Channel News

• Hitachi presses shut-down on PC line

  So how many companies are still making PCs?

• CSC announces another round of UK job cuts

  Government unit targeted

• EDS beagles blast 'absurd' BSkyB

  Murdoch and the wizard's sleeve

Comms News

• Ballmer: Microsoft will power the mobile revolution

  CTIA 'Not Apple. Not RIM.'

• Microsoft to reach out and take control

  ...of Windows Mobile devices, at least

• Gosling ready to kill-off lame duck J2ME

  One Java to rule them all

• BT tells staff to shape up in anti-cancer push

  Fewer pies = fewer dies

• Dot, squiggle, plop

  Column Unencoding the web

Developer News

• Hands on with MDX

  Dimension and measures (yes, but can it handle cubic furlongs?)

• Microsoft sharpens Visual Studio with functions

  Academic respectability from a version of a CAML?

Hardware News

• El Reg goes virtual with e-Symposium on virtualization

  Site News VMware impressed

• IBM goes crazy with storage system updates

  DS8000, DS4000, DS3000, TS2240, TS7520 please come to the red courtesy phone

• Sun introduces first Intel workstation in two decades

  Ultra 24 line enters Intel box fray

• Dell to embed Xen hypervisor in PowerEdge servers

  HP has moment of Xen as well

Management News

• Pentagon hacker wins right to UK appeal

  Law Lords agrees to hear his appeal

• Jailed terror student 'hid' files in the wrong Windows folder

  And 'provided terror instructions' via web links

• Europe considers blue card for immigrants

  Like a green card but it's...you get the idea

• Darling won't move over gains tax

  Small biz is heard, but ignored

• Cops crash invite-only BitTorrent network

  A win for Media Defender?

• TV-Links man was arrested under trademark laws

  Curiouser and curiouser

• 2012 Olympics to be 'car-free'

  Except for Olympic officials

• iSales prop up Apple results

  Fruity one nears a billion in fiscal Q4

• Gang attempted to pass £500,000 notes, court told

  Do not collect £28bn, do not pass go

• Technology is root of all evil, says IMF

  Proposals for tax on engineers, compulsory arts degrees

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• Paris Hilton heads for the cryogenic freezer

  'It's so cool,' enthuses immortal heiress

Reg Hardware News

• Sonos brings wireless to multi-room music rigs

• Sharp to show world's skinniest phone display

• Amazon leaks US Zune launch date

  Microsoft forced to confirm

• Microsoft opens Xbox 360 Arcade

  Core dumped

• Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot K850i camera phone

  Review So cutting edge you could shave with it

• Greenpeace: iPhone crit makes for more headlines

  And the bromine business fights back

• Transformers sets hi-def format sales record

  But 300 still ahead on first-week sales

• Apple: 1.4m iPhones sold, 250,000 unlocked

  Big demand for untethered handsets

Science News

• UK gov advisor proposes 'licence to smoke'

  Obligatory £200 addict permit

• US Border Patrol laughs off spyp*** prang wristslap

  Burgeoning drone flotilla to meet huddled-mass threat

• NASA lights blue touchpaper on Discovery

  And China eyes the moon

• Government plots escape from renewable energy targets

  As CO₂ build-up accelerates

Security News

• Facebook bug dishes out notes designated private

  Company reps keep the flaw secret

• Austria OKs terror snooping Trojan plan

  Silly idea gains steam

• Fight malware by upgrading to Vista, urges MS

  Really fighting fire with fire

Software News

• ODF calls time on da Vinci coding

  Still seeking OASIS approval

• Google takes Docs on the road

  Look, but don't touch, on a mobile phone

• Open Season exposes the real price paid for Radiohead's new album

  Radio Reg While Steve Ballmer threatens to buy O'Reilly's leftovers