Channel News

• Sage clocks £1.16bn revenues

  Expects US biz to lag behind in 2008

• Capita-Lincolnshire IT venture scrapped

  'Deal not right for taxpayers'

• Fujitsu promises 320GB laptop HDD next year

  Rivals are already selling similar products

• Dixons grinches Christmas

  There may be trouble ahead

• Intel 'Moorestown' UMPCs to feature single-chip CPU/GPU

  Will you please welcome 'Lincroft' and 'Langwell'

Comms News

• O2 gets 225 guinea pigs drunk by phone

  London NFC trial gets underway

• Ofcom and EU face off for high speed broadband row

  Bureaucrats and Eurocrats set to butt heads on fibre investment

• Virgin Media strategy boutique boss quits

  New strategy: Find a job

• Verizon opens network in historic move

  GSM flexibility on CDMA network

• ICANN gets test results on internationalised domains

  Mao's model communist beta testers step it up

• Regulator can chase liquidator over phone scam fine

  Premium rate watchdogs score High Court victory

Hardware News

• P2P file-sharing recognizes no borders

  Everyone is doing it

• Nigerian keyboard firm sues One Laptop per Child

  No hugs and kisses for XO Laptop

• Virgin Mary appears in Google's Iowa data center

  Blessed be thy server

• Microsoft funds object of IBM's mainframe fury

  PSI pockets $37m

• Dell fills out XPS laptop line

  Debuts 15in model

Management News

• Brit office Xmas parties going to the dogs

  Bah humbug attitude killing festive joy

• UK database of children delayed

  Till we find those pesky discs...

• Tories: Europeans could get access to UK ID database

  Updated Project STORK. Not STALK.

• Google agrees to cough Israeli blogger's IP address

  Anonymous defendant in 'slander' case

• Audit commission tells councils to get competitive

  If you're going to save £4.9bn, it's time to get creative

• The Romantics sue Guitar Hero for sound-alike imitation

  Cover version was too close to original

• Businesses blind to the security risks of temporary staff

  Access without accountability

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• Declare Steve Fossett dead, asks adventurer's widow

  'We must accept that Steve did not survive'

• Firm punts RaidSonic NAS server for £6.2m

  Inc VAT, we hasten to add

Reg Hardware News

• My new PC can't see my old iTunes downloads

  Q&A

• US HD DVD player sales pass 750,000

  Demand accelerating

• Orange to offer unlocked iPhones for €749

  Updated €250 less than T-Mobile wants

• Apple Macs

  Top Five Getting to the core of the line-up

• Nintendo DS Lite sets UK sales record

  PSP left for dust

• Greenpeace slams Apple Nintendo over eco-credentials

  Apple off the hook, a little

• AMD ATI Radeon HD 3870 graphics chip

  Review Watch out, GeForce 8800 GT

• Toshiba to sell trees with laptops

  Branching out

Science News

• UK's toads menaced by fungal attack

  'Severe decline' likely, scientists predict

Security News

• Inside job suspected in email database hack

  Red Cross leak tied to attack on marketing firm

• BEA portal product springs a leak

  Think Dumpable

• Reported malfunction in PayPal Security Key

  False sense of security

• Miscreants subvert search results to punt malware

  Using botnets to plant links and nurture zombie farms

• Celebrity spam gang whips up a storm

  Stealth botnet responsible for huge spam surge

• Online sellers warned on UK cheque clearance changes

  On the seventh day banks guarantee payments

• Rare bug blights Lotus Notes

  1-2-3 hack risk

• America's 8m victims of identity theft

  And that's only in 2005

Software News

• Novell vs SCO will go to court after all

  Chapter 11 immunity lifted

• Google adds terrain to Google Maps

  Light relief for users