Channel News

• Intel plays down Viiv entertainment PC brand

  Now that all PCs are media PCs

• Intel pushes back X48 release?

  Mobo makers want to sell a few more X38-based boards first

Comms News

• O2 to join IPTV fray next year

  'I want a piece of that non-action!'

Developer News

Hardware News

• Cisco to get API-happy

  Putting the family jewels on display

Management News

• MIA in Iowa - personal data on 3m UK driving test candidates

  Prestige contract goes Pearson shaped

• Surprise: Ohio's e-voting machines riddled with critical security flaws

  Vendors make plea for reality

• UK driver details lost somewhere in America

  Transport secretary says data drive unparked

• Darling plays wait and see on HMRC disc loss

  No intelligence pointing to fraud - no intelligence at all

• Norwich Union Life fined £1.26m for security holes

  Bullet proof policies - if you're a director

• Microsoft to eBay name for $1m

  That's Microsoft Lda, we hasten to add

• IT chiefs demand centralised e-crime unit

  Cybercrime reporting confusion

• Parliament's security staff lose parliament security data

  Laptop goes MIA from Westminster

• Credit crunch cranks up pain for SMBs

  CBI, Bank of Scotland play the grinch

• HMRC manual on data protection was protected data

  Juniors kept in dark, then hung out to dry? Yes Minister

• Dutch gov blows open standards raspberry at Microsoft

  Sweeps software monopoly off the board

• Talking to themselves - how uk.gov 'consults' on IT exports

  Comment Transformational hamster wheels...

• Technical problems mar Barclays' PINSentry roll-out

  The tricky business of thwarting online fraud

Odds and Sods News

• US woman launches 'Taserware' parties

  We've protected our food, now let's protect our lives

• Cambs cops podcast 999 timewasters

  'I can't find Homebase and I'm very distressed'

• London PR outfit in sex-on-desk email shocker

  NSFW Security penetrated, knickers downed

Reg Hardware News

• Sonnet readies ExpressCard 21-in-1 card reader, writer

• Toshiba unwraps 'world's first' HD DVD-RW laptop

• UK censor to appeal against Manhunt 2 verdict

  Wants High Court to enforce original ban

• Hauppauge XFones PC-2400 wireless headphones

  Review Dolby technology built in bundled

• Old Sony console outsold PS3 in US last month

  While demand for DS Lite, Wii soars

• Orange France says 'testicules' to unlocked-iPhone-not-unlocked claim

  Of course you can use an unlocked iPhone anywhere, carrier states

Science News

• Space brains resign over efforts to attract ET attention

  Yoo-hoo! Primitive race here, ripe for conquest/harvest!

Security News

• New Trojan preys on commercial banking customers

  Feeding on fat cats

• Facebook sues Canadian smut firm over hacking

  Nice N' Sleazy

• Turkish s'kiddies deface security forum

  F-Secure scalped

• Security fears stymy online sales

  Nothing to fear but fear itself

Software News

• Amazon SimpleDB: a database server for the internet

  Disorganized for a chaotic world