Channel News

• AMD confirms short-term GPU roadmap

  Dual-GPU 3950 X2 monster planned

• Dell parks itself in PC superstores across Europe

  Picks DSGi for retail love-in

• Laughing Squid squirts ink at Best Buy

  Chain backs down in T-shirt/First Amendment spat

• Northgate looks to private equity

  Possible buy-out in the pipeline?

• Opera hits Microsoft with EC complaint

  Accuses Redmond of illegal bundling, breaking standards

• AMD ATI Radeon HD 3850 graphics chip

  Review AMD back on top

• M&S ties up managed services deal with Computacenter

  Will also handle knicker giant's WEEE issues

• AMD's CrossFire X to enable integrated, discrete GPU co-operation

  Working together

• PC World parent awaits FTSE 100 relegation

  Vista to blame? 'Absolutely not'

• Microsoft squeezes out early release of 2007 Office SP1

  Don't mention the word open, ok

• 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

• CompUSA goes titsup

  'Orderly wind-down'

• Microsoft wins seven figure sum from distie

  Large settlement agreed

• Toshiba roadmaps 128GB SSDs for March '08

  More laptop-friendly versions coming soon after

• Nvidia G92-based GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB

  Review The 8800 GT and then some

Comms News

• Ofcom puts digital dividend on the auction block

  Will stage small beauty parade for luvvies

• O2 names UK boss

  CFO to CEO

• Fasthosts primes another password reset

  Third time's the charm

• Nokia wins in Qualcomm case

  Another round in world's longest court battle

• Canadian cable giant slips Yahoo! name onto Google home page

  Rogers and out

• Orb opens up iPhone

  Exclusive Placeshifting comes home

• Tiscali sets 200,000 TV subscriber target

  Thinking big, starting small

• Ofcom will probe UK mobile market - again

  The market's changing, so the regs will too

• 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

• Virgin Media eases off bandwidth throttling

  New big cheese feels need for speed

• We can reQall it for you wholesale

  Voice memos transcribed by new service

Hardware News

• Microsoft surprises itself with six-month late Hyper-V beta

  Easy to impress

• AMD to experts: Experts don't know jack

  Lobbing olive branch to Wall Street

• Dismantling a Religion: The EFF's Faith-Based Internet

  An Expert View

• Code morpher Transitive dives into Red Hat Exchange

  Proprietary chums meet open sourcers

• Cisco punts buzzword bingo 'OS'

  Tivo meets Nascar

• SWsoft to abandon itself and become Parallels

  One name, lots of products

• City to Intel: Kick the rest of the tech industry into line

  What's the point of a (near) monopoly otherwise

• Western Digital's 'crippleware': Some lessons from history

  The panic that wasn't

• EMC and VMware perform virtualization upgrade together

  ESX Server and Invista get tuned

• HP plots path to server accelerator madness in '08

  Radical conservatism

• IBM to get high-k with all its friends at 32nm

  Hafnium forever!

• Violin plays AMD for memory monster

  10TB of DRAM? Why not?

• Got a supercomputer in the closet?

  Mini-poll

• AMD anoints Accelerated Computing chief

  Uhler, Uhler, Uhler

• VMware clobbers the world, while big, solid disks rise

  Year in review IBM, Intel, AMD - all there

• New 3D chip transistor may reach 50GHz

  Japan and Singapore firms make R&D pact

• Western Digital drive is DRM-crippled for your safety

  Because you are a dirty criminal scumbag

Management News

• BBC pinches hot new columnist from Microsoft

  Sizzling secrets with Billy G

• Police give up on lost CDs

  Maybe Santa will bring them

• MEPs slate EU's terror assault on our data rights

  As EU charter proclaims respect for data rights

• Brown quizzed on gov IT failures

  'We've got a long way to go...'

• IT errors continue to plague EU single payments scheme

  Farmers still short changed

• eBay to appeal patent decision

  $30m patent claim

• New European Patent Convention kicks off

  Got there in the end... w00t

• AMD braces for financial mayhem from ATI acquisition

  In search of life raft

• HSBC pins hopes on Borat and IPO-pimping ATMs

  For make benefit sub-prime crisis

• Rubbish UK management crushing creativity

  UK tops negative management league

• UK.gov data review calls for... data

  We'll hide all the blank disks, promise

• Six in ten UK punters fear what gov will do with private data

  The other four believe the moon is made of tasty cheese

• DHS accepts buggy Eye-o-Sauron™ border scan towers

  Chertoff to Boeing: 'You don't own this border'

• McKinnon extradition drama turned into radio play

  Haxploitation

• 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

• Small IT biz gets voice in Europe

  Euro trade body

• Forces pay mess blamed on human error

  £250m EDS system or MoD bureaucrats - who to trust?

• Football horns could spread Black Death, says Interpol chief

  Crackers? No, he hasn't thought of them yet...

• Labour hit by another anonymous donor scandal

  And this one's got an IT angle

• Qinetiq wins Watchkeeper drone test contract

  Flying porkbarrel-bot heads for Wales

• Brown knew data loss was disaster waiting to happen

  Weak procedures highlighted in 2004

• The biz of biz in China (Part 2)

  Mind the gap Saturday Find a friend

• Codemasters pledges to stay civil on file-sharing

  What, you mean the police have better things to do?

• UK gov: Feds will get BAE bribe files when hell freezes over

  Six month stonewall 'shows we know how serious this is'

Music and Media News

• Terry Pratchett has Alzheimer's

  An embuggerance

• Recording industry puts stake in ground with Jammie Thomas case

  Copyrights and wrongs

• BBC's iPlayer launches Christmas Day

  What do you mean you're busy?

• Zep fans warned off touted tickets

  Don't even think about it

Odds and Sods News

• Warner Bros to remake Clash of the Titans

  New ideas? We've heard of 'em

• BOFH: Balancing the budget...

  Episode 42 With an end-of-year purchasing frenzy

• Jackass 2.5 to premiere online

  Straight-to-internet release bypasses cinemas

• NeoScale web man posts Better Off Dead invoice

  'I want my $4,400'

• Drink-drive chain gang obliged to bury dead alcoholics

  Don't mess with 'America's toughest sheriff'

• Knickerless celebutards: the secure data centre connection

  Discarded panties threaten national security

• Social networking and pron - together at last

  Penthouse buys AdultFriendFinder

• Paris Hilton cavorts naked in middle of desert

  NSFW Nothing but gold paint to protect her famous modesty

• Lily Allen to judge Orange women's fiction award

  Royal Society of Literature unimpressed

• w00t voted 'Word of the Year'

  In the US, we hasten to add

• Kylie wraps herself round Dalek

  'Much bigger than I’d expected,' admits Oz popstress

• 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

• Fark attempts to trademark NSFW

  WTF?

• Microsoft, antitrust and blogtards

  Mailbag Beast 2.0

• How to stuff all of Silicon Valley in a stocking

  Exclusive The ultimate geek gift

Reg Hardware News

• The transistor turns 60

  Forgotten Tech Birthday on Sunday

• UGC Renegade gaming chair

  Review Sit on this...

• Microsoft unveils Xbox 360 HD DVD drive emulator

  To the HD disc format what IE is to the web?

• Wii shortage costs Nintendo dear, analyst claims

  Demand - supply = profit lost

• Nokia to turn cameraphones into foreign food finders

  They'll help you shop too

• Retailers: Xbox 360 to win next-gen console war

  And they're pee'd off with the Wii

• Budget HD DVD player to include even more free discs

  Not much stick, plenty of carrot

• Test your liver... with your phone

  Dial-a-Doc

• Greenpeace slams next-gen consoles

  Gaming not green enough

• Toshiba tech paves way for 100Gb Flash chips

  Massive capacity iPods coming... but not for a few years yet

• Tosh promises March '08 launch for super batteries

  Five minutes' charging yields 90 per cent capacity

• HD TVs

  Top Five Read about watching

• Designer pitches PSP phone

  If Sony won't, someone else will

• Orange unsure of own upcoming smartphone

  Too much Egg Nog?

• Toshiba delays OLED TV development

  But not for mobile phones

• Nokia 6500 Slide mobile phone

  Review Nothing slippery about this one...

• PS3 sales to surpass Wii's... in four years' time

  An analyst writes...

• 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

• Warner to back a single HD disc format?

  Sony, Toshiba eager to get it off the fence

• Digital Compact Cameras

  Top Five

• Sony website leaks PS3 DualShock debut date

• Samsung's Wi-Fi VoIP mobile pops up on T-Mobile

  UMA, eh?

• Asus: memory upgrades will not void Eee PC warranty

  Well, in some countries, at any rate...

• Nintendo kills Wii ads due to console shortage

  But eBay's got plenty

• Sega denies Dreamcast revival

  Trademark mysteriously updated

• Eee PC: better with Windows?

  Editors' Blog Eking out the power with XP

Science News

• Geminids warm up for annual light show

  Conditions promising for meteor shower spectacular

• US gov silent robot white (?) helicopter prangs itself

  Groundbreaking technology

• Shell in Hawaiian algae biofuel pilot

  Sees big future in green scum

• NASA aims for 2 Jan Atlantis launch

  Further tests on pesky fuel tank sensors

• China pretty chuffed with lunar probe

  'Another landmark achievement' declares prez

• Boeing confirms revised Dreamliner schedule

  First delivery late 2008

• Honda shows off space-dwarf robot butler capability

  Also plans droids to 'work on street corners'

• 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

• ESA hoping for Galileo sat nav on line in 2013

  Brussels still predicting 2008... oops

• Radiohead backs WW2-style austerity program

  Music for a new society?

• MoD: Frontline troops must have silent Xmas crackers

  Exploding p***s yes, exploding cargo no

• MI5, EPA clean up dirty bomb dirt

  Spooks vanquish phantom menace

Security News

• Update glitch derails Kaspersky

  Updated Lock-up issues

• Privacy storm descends on Dutch health care database

  Details about every citizen revealed

• Facebook takes the Captcha rap

  Stop the word verification madness

• Cybercrooks lurk in shadows of big-name websites

  Phishermen redirect via Google Maps, AOL et al

• Hey, HP laptop owners: click here to get hijacked

  Pwnage made simple

• 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

• 'Extortionist' turns Wi-Fi thief to cover tracks

  Oz police set a trap

• Media player users beware: more vulns ahead

  Targeting Windows Media Player and Winamp

• Ministry of Defence leaks counter terrorism traffic

  Bulgarians lurking

• Ex-Microsoft manager in $1m expenses fraud rap

  Alleged domain name scammer denies charges

• Skype update plugs critical bug

  On the QT

• Top-secret US labs penetrated by phishers

  Coordinated attack

• MySpace celebrity hacker downs hacking forum

  Friendly fire

• Police launch hunt for bogus bobbies

  Raiders used roof ruse to dupe data centre staff

• Data centre looted in multimillion pound overnight heist

  Updated Bogus bobbies raid King's Cross site

Site News

Software News

• IBM digs in with Eclipse for weapons

  It's... 'complex'

• Flash-based iPlayer is go

  Simmer down, zealots

• Ordnance Survey rescues rural towns from juggernauts

  Keeping local shops really local

• Latest NetBeans thinks big for scripting

  Migrate and be damned

• Microsoft folds-in Multimap for '$50m'

  Redmond fights Google, one grid at a time

• Three critical fixes star in Patch Tuesday update

  Among the unmagnificent seven

• Full Oracle Fusion due 2009, beta 2008

  Exclusive Customizations will break

• JBoss serves stuffed Eclipse IDE

  New name, old support model

• Build your PDF and Excel reports with PHP

  Hands on Office 2.0 without the fluff

• ITIL deeds don't go unpunished

  Of carts and horses

• Gates' spontaneity highlights IE data gap

  Strategy on the fly

• Mind your languages with Microsoft LINQ

  Data-access sticking plaster?

• Novell, Red Hat and Gartner war with Facebook for PR flop award

  Radio Reg Save the fear leader. Save the hurled

• Google's next web toolkit thinks it's better than you

  GWT Conference Fastest fingers in the West

• Microsoft wriggles on Volta concerns

  No Google clone

• MS rejects Web 2.0 moniker for IE

  As you were

• Verizon sued for GPL naughtiness

  Where's the source?