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Gartner says offshore work is booming

Don't put all your eggs in one basket

C2000 hires storage Crew

Climb aboard
Microsoft fires broadside of writs at China pirates

Genuine disadvantage

Comms News

Skype confirms / denies job cuts

Yoda statement

Google flaunts white space wireless magic

'This is not Russian Roulette'
Ofcom tells BT to buck up on unbundling

Good progress but Openreach could do better
LiPS Forum completes mobile Linux spec

Everybody's API nowadays
Ofcom offers more spectrum

Auction ahoy

Hardware News

EMC and VMware perform virtualization upgrade together

ESX Server and Invista get tuned

HP plots path to server accelerator madness in '08

Radical conservatism

Management News

Megan's Law snafu fingered in rapist's murder

Big Brother makes a clerical error

Merseyside health authority gives away staff data

Union calls for investigation
Windows Service Pack refuseniks offered temporary respite

Testing time
Daring Register raid snatches key government URL

Updated May swap for bag of crisps or similar
UK claims millions saved by scrapping redundant regs

Issues redundant report on the redundant regulations
Smut vid outfit sues PornoTube

'Profiting from piracy'
Netsuite goes Dutch on IPO

What credit crisis?
Info chief calls for data safeguards in wake of HMRC debacle

You gotta protect your personal data

Music and Media News

BBC's iPlayer launches Christmas Day

What do you mean you're busy?

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Odds and Sods News

Sat nav fingered in shock Arsenal defeat

Wrong turn

Steve McClaren secures 2007 Foot in Mouth award

The only trophy he's ever likely to lift

Reg Hardware News

When Commodore ruled the world

And programmers talked to rabbits

Nokia develops eco phone concept

Would you buy it?
Japan launches parent-proof phone

Know where your kids are, always
US HD hardware sales 3:1 in Blu-ray's favour by year end

But HD DVD wins on players
Manhunt 2 UK release edges closer

Post a plea to Santa
Solwise Simple Connect powerline Ethernet adaptor

Review Can protecting a network really be this easy
Wii buyers follow French Connection for consoles

How much? Sacre bleu...
Researcher: 'Second wave' HD adopters favour HD DVD

But rather a lot of people couldn't care less

Science News

Boffins slashed in big-science budget blunder bloodbath

Enormous magnetic doughnut devours physicists

Frenchman calculates 13th root of 200-digit number

In a record-breaking 70.2 seconds
Boeing announces 'Laser Gunship' completion

'Tactical' raygun weighs only 20 tonnes
NASA Mars droid in ET life discovery shock

Possible habitat for Martian microbe-men. If any

Security News

Rogue servers point users to impostor sites

'DNS-liars'

UK.gov loses driver ID data

More unencrypted CDs go walkies
Santa putting children's information at risk, warn experts

Kriss Kringle failing to comply with data protection laws
Citizens Advice coughs to laptop loss

60,000 records go astray

Site News

Geek gifts for Christmas

Site offer Part 3: This is the end, my geeky friend

Software News

Full Oracle Fusion due 2009, beta 2008

Exclusive Customizations will break

JBoss serves stuffed Eclipse IDE

New name, old support model

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