Channel News

• IBM buys Arsenal...

  ...Digital, another storage vendor

• AMD DisplayPort graphics card spied on web

  Would-be HDMI killer arrives

• Dell to dealers - you win

  Foundering PC giant launches channel programme

• Microsoft releases battling OS release candidates

  Sets date for server OS launch

• ComputerLand turns green into greenbacks

  Grows revs by cutting carbon

• Salesforce nears one million milestone

  SaaS subscriptions sweet

• First mobile Intel 'Penryn' processors to launch in January

  Laptops to go 45nm

• Dell punts $4450 World of Warcraft notebook

  Christmas shopping... for the horde

• BT goes to Asia

  Buys Singaporean reseller

• 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

• Samsung readies 'fastest' graphics memory

• Best Buy kicks out misbehaving Geek Squaders

  Video killed the downloading staff

• Dell marries WPP in big ads push

  Bachelor days are over

• Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 and X48 chipset

  Review Say hello to the 1600MHz desktop FSB

• Intel's 'Little Otter' earns $22m from Google meetings

  Living the Silicon Valley dream

• Fayrewood in bid talks

  Shares jump

Comms News

• Ofcom grabs reins on premium rate scams

  Hand-holding for PhonepayPlus

• Europe too cynical for iPhone

  Just as the uberphone gets some applications

• Leap bounds into 700MHz auction

  Cricket pounces

• Nokia sees a good future for Nokia

  Swallows red pill, sees Web 2.0 everywhere

• Ofcom wants to see more unlicensed frequencies

  Giving away spectrum?

• Fasthosts customers still frozen out of websites

  More support staff drafted over password reset cockup

• 999 comes to VoIP

  Emergency calls are go, barring break-ups

• Catholic schism over mobile icons

  Virtual saints spark litany of complaints

• 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

• Frontline Wireless matches Google with 700-MHz bid

  'We are bidding to win'

• Beeb coughs to Panorama WiFi-scare travesty

  Wrists red raw with self-administered slappings

• Nokia N95 update speeds apps with virtual memory

  Sorry, 'on-demand paging'

• New mobile app to track carbon footprints

  Walk this way

• Nokia app monitors juice

  Watch your battery fade away

• Google will chase chunk of US spectrum

  Will they? Won't they? Yes they will

• Moto says hello goodbye to Zander

  Not RAZR sharp

• 3 drags rivals into court over number porting

  As O2, Voda say latest Ofcom statement is overkill

• Nokia jumps on mobile ad-wagon

  Comment But still 'experimenting'

• Ofcom starts planning for the London Olympics

  Grab yourself a slice of free spectrum

Hardware News

• AMD's Barcelona benchmarks are a'comin down

  While virtualization code whimpers

• The world's most fantastic, imaginary server start-up

  Comment Getting rich off Google

• Acer inks Olympic partner deal

  Will supply kit, logistics and staff

• AMD denies 'stop ship' with Barcelona because chip is not shipping

  Even though it is - with a bug

• Sun warns of voracious, collapsing data centers

  McDonalds may sell them

• Netezza doubles down on data warehouse doubling

  Moore's law on steroids

• Cisco grabs Motorola ex-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

• LogLogic eyes new CEO Sueltz as IPO propeller

  Data dominatrix

• IT departments poised to fly past airlines on CO₂ emissions

  How green is your love?

• Remembering the CDC 6600

  This Old Box The Craying Game

Management News

• HMRC still looking for disks - just don't ask Microsoft's Santa

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• Italy calls for anti-counterfeit commissioner

  Real action needed on faked goods

• German Wikipedia attacked over Nazi symbolism

  Politician files charges

• DVLA coughs to data slip

  Details sent to wrong addresses

• CIA erased waterboarding videos

  'It was done in line with the law,' insists top spook

• AdultFriendFinder rapped for X-rated pop-ups

  Foisted explicit material on wide-eyed innocents

• Second ex-Brocade exec hit with guilty verdict

  The weed of backdating bears bitter fruit

• HMRC coughs to more data losses

  It fell off the back of a lorry. No really...

• Judge brands Kirsty Wark's husband a snoop

  'Neither fair play nor honourable'

• Rock managers propose tout tax

  Cashing in on the 'aftermarket'

• Codemasters sets legal dogs on file-sharers

  Colin McRae videogames firm barks cash demands

• Novell delays Q4 results due to SEC missives

  Time to count beans

• Power cut hits Rackspace UK

  Ten per cent of customers affected

• Auction watchdog says eBay is illegal in France

  Broker? Auctioneer! What's the difference ...

• 'Swiss DMCA' fears overblown, says copyright authority

  Wording is ambiguous, argues petition author

• 90mph police chief cops 42-day ban

  No excuses, admits South Yorkshire supremo

• HMRC offers £20k reward for ID goldmine CDs

  Insult, meet injury

• Net Asbo slap for boasting Bebo teen

  Bigged up criminal exploits, dissed police

• World's Dumbest File-sharer megafine gets DoJ thumbs-up

  It's what Ben Franklin would've wanted

• ICO warns of more 'datagate' breaches

  May be trouble ahead...

• Scottish Labour leader bets on email absolution

  'I raised alarm on dodgy donation'

• Information Commissioner calls for more money and more powers

  And questions use of ID cards

• 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?

• Activision and Vivendi Games merge into Activision Blizzard

  $18.9bn union to out earn EA

• What’s in a name, asks Bodog founder Calvin Ayre

  Is a seized domain worth the paper it’s written on?

• Google officially quashes PageRank passing

  Sell at your peril

• Galileo funding finally agreed

  Farm-money snatch OK'd in pork carve up

• Public says no to ID cards, No2ID says 'starve the beast!'

  Time to cut off IPS' air supply...

• MS Word edit history snares Scottish Labour on donations

  Curse of Clippy fires funding scandal

• Welcome to the El Reg bumper demographic survey

  Just who are you and what do you want, exactly?

• UK justice ministry investigates non-updating of PNC

  Warrant withdrawals and a resulting mess

• Facebook founder loses court battle to keep personal data offline

  Poked by his own petard... bitch

• Home Sec: Tasers could become standard police kit

  Whistle? Check. Truncheon? Check. Cattleprod gun ..?

• Capita targets SMEs after public sector losses

  Predicts strong performance in 2008

• Bluetooth marketing window could be shut

  Privacy regulations under scrutiny

• Quebec fights Mohawk Nation over online gambling jurisdiction

  GoldenPalace.com to cough up $2m

• The biz of biz in China (Part 1)

  Mind the Gap Saturday Avoid the fried squid

• IT Volunteers awards

  Working towards a better world

• Ex-Broadcom HR chief falls in stock options scandal

  Ready to help the Feds

• Rove investigator erases his PCs - to kill computer virus

  Outside firm performs seven-level wipe

• HMRC still looking for those disks, UK.plc looking for scientists

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Music and Media News

• Wikipedia black helicopters circle Utah's Traverse Mountain

  Exclusive SlimVirgin, naked short selling, and the end of Web 2.0

• Facebook CEO capitulates (again) on Beacon

  Mea culpa

• French high court thumps Google Video

  Video fingerprints! Or else!

• Nokia: Keep the music, pay to burn

  Analysis Reinventing the bundle?

• LimeWire gets schooled in law by RIAA members

  Antitrust? Fuhgeddaboudit!

• Murdoch puts faith in online religion

  LinkedIn damned to hell

• Secret mailing list rocks Wikipedia

  Exclusive High School Musical 3

Odds and Sods News

• BOFH: Xmas party: Get a wriggle on

  Episode 41 When the chips are waiting...

• Campaign to name US street after Douglas Adams

  42nd Avenue, of course

• 419ers flash big bucks cashcard

  $920k - coming soon to an ATM near you

• How much does El Reg cost the global economy?

  Reader poll Putting a price on Vulture Central

• Newly-homeless kids get free iPod

  Then go and live in the box - typical

• Giant athletic todger defends Pennsylvania

  Google Earth wedding tackle shocker

• Larry Page to wed on Branson's luuurv island

  Google penetrates Virgin's enclave

• Microsoft accuses kids of bullying Santa into sex chat

  When you're in a hole, stop digging

• Google Book Search reveals scanner's sleight of hand

  Rush job to digitise world's literary heritage

• Stripogram copper walks on offensive weapon rap

  'No case to answer' for prop batons

• Chancer punts 'lucky' Wii for $1,234,567...

  ...and 89 cents

• 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

• Microsoft's sex-obsessed RoboSanta spouts filth at children

  Updated MSN bot in festive fellatio outrage

• Gibson plugs in self-tuning roboguitar

  Tuning fork industry beware

• Dear customer: you owe us $211 trillion

  Wachovia Bank chases record-breaking overdraft

• Bought some uranium ore? You'll need the anal douche, then

  NSFW Strange goings on at Amazon.com

Reg Hardware News

• US Blu-ray Disc player sales pass 2.7m

  Close to HD DVD total - if you ignore PS3

• Sony exec confirms PS3 will get Blu-ray Profile 1.1 this month

  But only one, German disc uses the spec

• Sony ponders direct-to-PSP downloads

  Taking the PC out of the picture

• Logic3 SoundStation3 PS3 speakers

  Review Makes you feel like the man in the Maxell ad

• Spinning, flashing Linux logo droid comes to UK

  Geek love

• Nokia confused over handset’s features

  Too much Christmas spirit?

• Video watch: plays movies, tells time

• Mother launches attack on epilepsy inducing video games

  Wants safety checks

• World's smallest Bluetooth headset

  It's not big, but is it clever?

• Wii tops online search poll

  UK's most wanted

• Apple-Volkswagen 'iCar' talks over

  Unfruitful

• 'Heavy' handset challenges all comers to prove its mettle

  Antennas at dawn

• Via Michelin X970T sat nav

  Review Budget pricing still doesn't put this brand on the map

• Transformers director blames MS for HD DVD/Blu-ray format war

  Conspiracy theory

• DivX comes to the Xbox 360

  Video playback options widen

• Man opens Eee PC, adds internal USB ports

  Solder of fortune

• Asus P5E-VM HDMI motherboard

  Review Integrated DX10 graphics from Intel. Who'd've thought it

• TomTom shakes hands with Google

  Internet giant carves new route

• Oqo adds HSDPA to Model 2 UMPC

  When in Roam...

• 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

• Apple iPhones offered up for hire

  Try it out for 30 quid a day

• Sellers price up 8GB Eee PC

  Black and white models coming Q1 2008

• Blu-ray widens US disc sales lead

  Big share of Thanksgiving viewing

• Laptop power cranks up a gear

  Put the pedal to the... er... laptop

• Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of in-game ads analysts

  EA chief questions sanity

Science News

• Fuel sensor glitch delays Atlantis launch

  Lift-off now pencilled for Saturday

• Flying robots get aerial highway code

  Call-centres for UAV pilots on horizon?

• Sperm-derived power system for nanobots patented

  Emissions issue overcome by spunky boffins

• Robo-troubleshooters back up London fire brigade

  Bob the Builder-style droid team scoff at fleshies' fears

• 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

• NASA pondering electro-hypersonic jet boosters

  Spinoffs? Mach-7 raygun fighter p***s

Security News

• Microsoft readies seven patches for Tuesday

  Three are critical

• Software maker releases the hounds on security vuln reporter

  Too late

• Phone phreaks spoof LSD-induced multiple homicide

  Dial-a-SWAT-team

• Cybercrime fears over hi-tech cop job cull

  SOCA ruled offside

• Grisoft acquires LinkScanner

  'Antivirus is dead'

• 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

• IT pro admits stealing 8.4M consumer records

  Netted $580,000

• Canadian loses $20K in phony eBay sale

  Account hijacking continues

• TJX agrees to pay banks $41m to cover Visa losses

  Up to 100 million accounts stolen

• Pedophile gets 110 years in MySpace extortion scheme

  'Tools of Terror'

• Microsoft wireless keyboards crypto cracked

  Tapping up

• ID sales sites start loss leader marketing programme

  Journalists find thousands of IDs online

• MI5 warns over China hacking menace

  PLA implicated in targeted Trojan assault

• California gov site invaded by smut and malware again

  Feels like the first time

• Random number bug blights FreeBSD

  The devil's in the detail

Site News

Software News

• The day Microsoft 'embraced and extended' Java

  Myths and legends Infamy, infamy...

• Serena promises dev teams shorter hours

  Office managers gone wild

• EVE Online update kills Windows PCs

  Don't touch the Trinity update

• Live webcast: Helping desktop support to help their users

  Regcast Mark your diary for Dec 11, 10AM PST

• SAP curbs its enthusiasm with iPhone

  Data access without the entry

• Sun dangles cash prizes for open source projects

  Still dwarfed by Google

• 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

• Open source model impacts EnterpriseDB staff

  Workers freedomed out the door

• Bloody code!

  Multiple exit points

• XBRL could learn from XML's success - Bray

  Controlled approach stalling

• LiveJournal flogged to Russians

  Blogging problem child sent to gulag

• Mozilla rubbishes IE Firefox security study

  The fix is in

• No Fusion illumination for Oracle users

  Information company confounds

• CodeGear bets on Application Factories to transform JBuilder

  Optimus primed

• Sun accused of hardball open source project tactics

  Weighs ex-employee's claim

• Code scavenging goes formal

  Careful what you consume

• Ugly view mars Windows Vista birthday

  Reality bites

• Zoho users logging into other accounts by accident

  See and be seen