Channel News

• Resellers get shirty over FixITlocal

  'This is a local job for local dealers'

• Trading Standards comes a calling on Cardiff's software sellers

  Pulls a FAST one

Comms News

• Tumbleweeds outnumber punters, as iPhone's First Night flops

  Let me through - I'm a journalist

• WiMAX woes as Sprint dumps Clearwire

  Never mind the finishing line, where's the start?

• Mind the Gap Saturday: The mobile worlds of China and the West

  Program accordingly

• Analysts talk telephone numbers on mobile games

  Dot-com again

• Battery firm: iPhone could melt your brain

  If only it had a removable battery

• The iPhone: Everything you needed to know

  The tears, the laughter, the previous coverage

• BT Vision misses customer targets (by a shedload)

  We call shenanigans on IPTV numbers

Developer News

Hardware News

• Remembering the Commodore PET 2001

  This Old Box Don't trust anything over 1MHz

• AMD datacenters more loyal but rare

  Intel allegiance a matter of metrics

• AMD hit by birth defects lawsuit

  Ex-employee alleges chemical exposure damaged son

• Asus to launch desktop Eee PC next year

  Laptop replacement?

Management News

• Home snoop CCTV more popular than Big Brother

  Forget the web, we want to watch real crims

• I'm a walking billboard .... bitch

  Don't be bluffed by Facebook's bluster

• Ballmerized Nigerian PCs might run Mandriva after all

  Despite $400,000 Microsoft whatchamacallit

• Synergy gone mad - travel agents to enrol for £100 ID card?

  Ideal if you're planning a getaway...

• Only the iPhone can save mankind

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• Warner Brothers snaps up UK gaming firm

  TT Games joins the big league

• UK gov offers £100m for innovation

  Political points make prizes

• Mandelson tells US to change online gambling laws

  Stop discriminating

• Apple hit with another class action

  iTunes gains another enemy

• BitTorrent site Demonoid.com downed by Canadian record industry

  'Your move freeloaders, eh?'

• Nvidia doubles profits as sales exceed $1bn

  Outpacing arch-rival

• Blank media levy breaches should be criminal, say authors

  Report tries to stop EU scrapping levy

• Tech spending fears hit Qualcomm shares

  Profits up but shares fall

• Dublin designer branches out with 'tree' PC

  Cultivates award

• Government postpones company law reforms

  But some parts may still arrive October 2008

• 16,000 namesakes cry foul over US terror watch list

  TSA dedupers are slower than a slow thing in slow town

Music and Media News

• The Government wants to copyright my thoughts!

  Hive Mind Healthwatch No.1 All that is solid melts into air

Odds and Sods News

• Winona Ryder to suckle Spock in Star Trek XI

  Talented thespiatrix confirmed as Vulcan's mum

• BOFH: How dangerous are your users?

  BOFH Userometer Click here to find out

• Lily Allen gets 'social networking' TV show

  'An important voice of her generation'

Reg Hardware News

• Iomega eGo 160GB external hard drive

  Review Hard drive meets hip-flask

• iPhone 'killers' stand up and be counted

  Samsung? LG? HTC? Who'll crucify the Jesus Phone?

• Vodafone dials up 7.2Mb/s HSDPA USB dongle

  On contract and PAYG

• RIM sues LG over Chocolate, Shine brand

  'Black Label' too close to 'BlackBerry', firm claims

• O2 relaunches XDA Orbit smartphone

  Orbit 2 faster, adds 'super 3G'

• Queues start a day ahead of UK iPhone arrival

  Two for a pand...show us ya money

• Sony CEO: format war in 'stalemate'

  We were winning until Paramount got off the fence...

• 15 years ago: the first mass-produced GSM phone

  Forgotten Tech Happy Birthday, Nokia 1011 (almost)

Science News

• Dwarfs threaten Kepler and Newton

  Dark matters

• Christmas Doctor Who exhibition at UK Space Centre

  Diary marker Inner children jump up and down

• Orbital tourism industry holds spacewear fashion show

  Space crumpet Client base chiefly comprising scantily-clad babes, seemingly

• Black holes blamed for super-charged cosmic rays

  That's 'active galactic nuclei' to you, sonny

• Second Skynet satellite to launch tonight

  Pay-as-you-go satcomms for the UK forces

• Wave power prototype sinks after seven weeks

  AquaBuOY 2.0 'highly successful', says developer

• Bacteria to blame for global warming?

  Nifty little hoax doing the rounds

• Six-month hangover for 60-pint Scotsman

  Ow ow owww my head

• Chinese boffins in copper nanotubes acronym outrage

  What a bunch of...

• Living brain in powerful robot body tech goes live

  For moths

Security News

• Botmaster owns up to 250,000 zombie PCs

  He's a security consultant. Jail beckons

• Alicia Keys hit by MySpace Trojan hack

  Fallin'

• Zero-day bug hangs over Oracle database

  Forget about it

• UK anti-fraud firms pool resources

  3rd Man takes Early Warning to the checkout

Software News

• Fedora 8 spins into action

  For the Electronic Labs buff in you

• Oracle hunger fallout: Will Red Hat survive?

  Radio Reg Ex JBoss CEO says IBM might do the eating