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Channel News

Stock market breaks out mistletoe for Microsoft-SAP

Old chestnuts, get your old chestnuts

Acer gives Dell notebook business a kicking

Taiwanese firm buys way into second place
Less cash for more chips

Consumers gorge on silicon
Intel roadmaps P45, G45 chipsets for Q2 '08

Fully Vista-friendly integrated GPUs too

Comms News

Verizon fondling Google Android?

Strange bedfellows

iPhone's visual voicemail ain't so new

Patent holder sees Apple in court
iPhone tops mobile browsing charts

Interface driving usage?
How to carve up the Digital Dividend?

Ofcom consults the public while the EU mulls mandates
Ofcom announces microwave spectrum auction details

Britannia sells the waves

Hardware News

Cisco grabs ex-Motorola technology chief

After one grueling day of unemployment

VMware parades virtualization for the SMB masses

Squirt the virt
Sun itching to release its virtualization platform

xVM Ops Center gets a price tag

Management News

Privacy breach nuked in Canadian passport site

Applicants' intimate details free for the taking

Xmas hangovers to cost UK biz £790m

Puking, shattered employees menace economy
Information Commissioner faces MP grilling

Committee hearing this afternoon
MPAA's uni piracy-busting toolkit forced offline

Copyright violation surveillance suite in potential pot/kettle fiasco
Google slightly less open than Interpol

Do no evil, but keep very, very quiet about it...
Appraisals are dishonest, waste of time

Staff put a cross in the box
Poor take-up of e-tax system

Biz won't fill in returns electronically, say MPs
Ex-HMRC boss gets shiny new civil service post

DWP adds to UK identity crisis?

Music and Media News

LimeWire gets schooled in law by RIAA members

Antitrust? Fuhgeddaboudit!

Murdoch puts faith in online religion

LinkedIn damned to hell

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Odds and Sods News

Microsoft kills Santa Claus

Christmas canceled due to salty tongue

eBayers offload eBay Xmas prezzie on eBay

Unwanted gift, going cheap
World's oldest Roller goes for £3.5m

1904 10hp two-seater
Brits declare Paris most pointless celeb

Talented heiress fails to impress

Reg Hardware News

Asus dropped hard disk from Eee PC at eleventh hour

Exclusive Manual reveals all

T-Mobile wins right to end sale of unlocked iPhones

German Court rules against Vodafone
Nokia to offer unlimited music downloads... for free

NokiaWorld If you buy a phone...
Nokia pumps up headphone pair

NokiaWorld
Is Apple coding Leopard to run Windows apps natively?

Or just making life easier for Parallels and VMWare?
Nokia N81 8GB smartphone

Review You wait ages for an 8GB Nokia then three come along at once
Creative ups Zen mem to 32GB
Nokia unveils eco phone and p***t-friendly charger

NokiaWorld The mobile Evolves
Oz video rental giants go Blu-ray only

HD DVD camp 'missing the boat' Down Under

Science News

Wernher Von Braun's 1934 PhD thesis auctioned

Declassified early work of Nazi/NASA rocket granddaddy

Acute virus outbreak hits Tristan da Cunha

'World's most isolated settlement' awaits urgent medical supplies
Beer makes people have sex with you

US trick-cyclists in shock booze-nookie linkage

Security News

Tracking down the Ron Paul spam botnet

Elephant Viagra

Experts paint bleak picture of security in 2017

Cyberterrorists and software stalinism
Win 2000 anti-virus products fail independent tests

Polymorphic virus fools mediocre security packages
Mum defends suspected Kiwi botmaster

Misunderstood youth
DARPA seeks network firing ranges for cyber weaponry

Keep out, war-warez test in progress

Site News

Geek gifts for Christmas

Site offer Part Two: Please your geek

Software News

Winners and losers in Sun's OpenDS spat

Not sticking it to the man

Vista vs XP performance: Some informal tests

Who's the daddy?
Counterfeit Vista rate half that of XP

And not for the reasons you think

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