Channel News

• Interim revenues slip at Business Systems

  Hardware hard to punt, solutions is solution

Comms News

• WiMAX licence owner wins right to be a mobile operator

  Celebrates by dissing the competition

• O2 has Wigan-sized iPhone problem

  Exclusive Just 26,500 activated, lots of stock

Hardware News

Management News

• Missing data found on mysterious comet, Darling

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• Information Commissioner pokes kids on social networking privacy

  Listen to The Man, kids. He knows how to look after data

• Met Police to pilot Tasers

  Electric justice for London

• Inventor of revoked payment patent says UK system is a joke

  It's not for the little guy

• Employee sacked for texting in sick

  Dismissal 'petty and unfair', tribunal says

• Watchdog raps MoD over Qinetiq sell-off bonanza

  Analysis Eyewatering Stealth raid by pinstripe execs

Music and Media News

• Save the BBC - by setting it free

  Beeb Week A Modest Proposal

• England flops shafted by enormous todger

  Croatian national anthem gaffe delights the crowd

• MS drifts towards over-the-top Java services with Musiwave buy

  Comment Takes a leaf from Nokia's book

Odds and Sods News

• Aston Martin to build new model abroad

  Manufacturer outgrows UK plant

• MS Explorer foundering after UFO strike

  Flagship crashes, freezes after unknown vuln penetration

• BOFH: Spreading the festive cheer

  Episode 39 On the first day of Christmas, BOFH gave to me...

• Star Trek boldly goes on demand

  Virgin Media inks VOD deal with CBS Paramount

• Air France compensates 170kg passenger

  Big chap forced to cough for extra seat

Reg Hardware News

• Gamer takes Microsoft to court over Halo 3 'errors'

  Poor playback causes fury

• Poll confirms Brits believe Jesus Phone salvation too costly

  US-centric strategy failing in UK. Shock.

• Sat Navs

  Top Five Today's hottest GPS gadgets

• Palm Treo 500v smartphone

  Review Palm's best smartphone yet?

• Nintendo Wii: the world's greatest console?

  Sales skyrocket

• Nokia cranks up twisty-turny phone design

  Crank-based handset

• Blu-ray dominates Japanese HD recorder sales

  Can HD DVD catch up?

Science News

• Russia plans manned space launch centre

  Two fingers up at Baikonur?

• China condemns high-tech outsourcing

  By the Chinese space programme

• El Reg fires up online standards converter

  Want to know your height in linguine? Click here

• Researchers find massive mud flow off African coast

  Sediment slunk 1,500km

• Hitachi 'collision avoidance' bot does a Ballmer at press do

  Furniture-smashing robot rampage blamed on Wi-Fi

Security News

• Win XP also prone to random number bug

  Not hard to guess

• Secure Java coding course aims to push best practice

  Mind the skills gap

• Skype crypto stumps German cops

  Police boss attempts to justify Trojan plan

• Rogue nodes snoop on TOR traffic

  Noise on the wire

• EC report warns governments on e-trust

  'What trust?' asks IT security firm

Software News

• Mind the Gap Saturday: Forums East and West

  Part two: Are you GG or PPMM?

• Linux desktops grow and grow and grow

  A dream no more

• Really, really big systems coming by 2027

  Less porn, more work