Channel News

• Microsoft fires cannon at counterfeiters

  Walk the plank, arr

• Insight profit down nearly half in Q3

  Blames pesky staff wages for $$$ dent

Comms News

• AT&T bestows international wireless plan on American iPhoners

  Takes pity on jet-setters

• ICANN annoints Vint Cerf's successor

  ICANN 2007 Los Angeles ICANN icon moves on to intergalactic internet

• SaveTheInterneters to save the internet from Comcast

  'No more BitTorrent busting'

• Immigration minister fined for car mobe chat outrage

  HELLO! I'M IN THE CAR!

Developer News

Hardware News

• Asus' Eee PC laptop so small, buyers sent boxes of five

  Shipping blunder

• Canadian firm sues 22 firms over Wi-Fi patents

  J'accuse... everyone

• Big Blue gets into greenwash

  Data centres to get green certificates

• Seagate's US customers get refund

  When is a Gig not a Gig?

• VMware douses open source with waterfall of nonsense

  Peace, love and lack of innovation

Management News

• No email privacy rights under Constitution, US gov claims

  You pronounce it 'sä-fə-strē'

• Downing Street's web site, the e-petitions hit tart

  Large tail wags boring, unsuccessful dog

• Dutch gov spies on Dutch newspapers (not true)

  Storm in a Delft tea cup

• EU cracks down on fake blogger astroturfing

  Socks it to the sock-puppets

• Yahoo! says! sorry! to! Senate!

  For being economical with the actualite

• CA reaps benefits of reaping employees

  Triple bubble

• VC legend Perkins regrets HP debacle and taunting the poor

  Lamentation bonus pack ships with new book

• Teflon top cop evades justice, responsibility

  Comment Menezes Met trial unsatisfactory on all counts

• Mac users get a new OS, and a Trojan for good measure

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• MiFID: Financial borders fall but small firms must beware

  Minnows won't benefit much

• Shills protest Paris Convention on IP

  ICANN 2007 Los Angeles Why does commerce get second class trademark treatment?

• Law Lords back protection for credit card purchases abroad

  Status quo preserved, peace reigns

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• Ming the clam battles wolfman over Jordan's jubs

  Comments And man's best friend goes in, guns blazing

• Oz motorist reacts rather testily to small todger slur

  Road rage attack provoked by 'little pinkie' gesture

• Cops expose cross-dressing Catholic school principal

  Misdemeanor prostitution citation for leather-clad Kentucky educator

• Demon satnav imprisons plucky trucky in pasty hell

  Yokels fed trapped driver of 'wedged' truck local diet

• BOFH: Budget cuts

  Episode 37 But how will we buy beer?

• Website battles to free Oz barmaid's jubs

  Net exposure for Luana De Favari

• Satanic car key traps 12 motorists in car park of horror

  Weeping drivers rescued by exorcist Ofcom

Reg Hardware News

• Sony said to have sub-$100 PS2 in the pipeline

  Cheaper, smaller

• Navman S30 satnav

  Review Cheerful as well as cheap?

• Parallel ATA version confusion

  Q&A

• Sony PS3 narrows gap with Nintendo Wii

  Xbox 360 in the ascendant as others fall

• Better plate than never: sign up now for the gold iPhone

  Hardware Widow Diamond-encrusted version coming too

• Manhunt 2 hacked open to reveal 'removed' gore

  Hot Coffee-like controversy brewing?

Science News

• Living with robots: The $3.5m DARPA Urban Challenge

  Diary of a human The race is on

• California inches toward 300 megawatt solar plant

  Ancient Mayans could care less

• Beer better than water: Official

  Hell no, H₂O

• African human-powered lighting plan announced

  People. Is there anything they can't do?

• Oz Army eyes electric vibro vest to replace batteries

  To 'harvest' power Matrix style from wobbling body parts

Security News

• Masked thieves storm into Chicago colocation (again!)

  Think your data's secure. What about your data center?

• Task force aims to improve US cybersecurity

  'This is not a tech focus; it is a Washington focus'

• Security experts knock spots off Mac OS X Leopard firewall

  Even when you turn it on it's no good

• Scepticism over cyber-jihad rumours

  al-Qaeda (still) can't hack

• Hackers field malware from fake US election sites

  The Trojan Candidate

• Web security glitch derails TheTrainline.com

  Points failure

Software News

• Confused BBC tech chief: Only 600 Linux users visit our website

  'Umm... or it could be 97,600'

• Friends Reunited considers dropping pay walls

  Stalking is a right, not a privilege

• Minor Firefox update addresses stability glitches

  Nothing to see here, please move along