Channel News

• Brussels mandates Energy Star for green procurement

  Cooling the continent

• Intel readies 16GB SSD for UMPCs

  Smaller-capacity versions coming Q1 2008

• Fayrewood in talks with North Atlantic Value LLP

  Possible bid to follow?

• CSC throws mince pies at diminishing workforce

  Fruit and nutty bonus scheme

Comms News

• Ribbit leapfrogs into Web 2.0

  Voice 1.0 is so 20th century

• Watchdogs probe Sky dominance on pay-TV

  Should we be able to watch the football how we want?

• T-Mobile and 3 hook up for 3G coverage

  Taking the best from both and still failing to cover the UK

• Virgin Media network collapses nationwide

  Updated Silent night

Hardware News

• BusinessWeek novel turns Google's cloud into epic hero

  Comment Search giant invented science and the future

• Google spanks memory, disk and networking vendors

  Calls for proportional response

• Toshiba borgs into IBM's 32nm alliance

  Intel stays outside the tent

• Ethernet dances the light fantastic

  Fibre protocols over Ethernet for the Linux set

Management News

• eBay: A tale of two listings

  A balancing act deciding what auctions get pulled

• Data breach officials could be sent to the big house

  No, we don't mean a conference centre with golf course

• EU mandates electronic IDs for sheep and goats

  Pilot program for the last judgement?

• MoD trumpets 'Innovation Strategy' for buying kit

  Analysis 5 pillars, 6 towers, 4 centres and 'ginger groups'

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• HMRC mislays 1.5kg of Bolivian marching powder

  Child benefit claimants not at risk, however

• Beeb censors Fairytale of New York

  'You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy f-----'

• Bikini-clad pin-ups cover old school jailbreak

  New Jersey lags do a Shawshank Redemption

Reg Hardware News

• Mio intros 'true' 3D GPS

• MP3 players

  Top Five Music to your ears

• Samsung YP-T10 4GB MP3 player

  Review Another solid shot at the title

• Sony posts PS3 DivX firmware update

  Better Blu-ray support too

Science News

• Germans debut kitesurf-powered autonomous windjammer

  Avast there, Mr Computer, unfurl the sails

• 'Death Star' galaxy blasts neighbour

  Black hole death ray caught on camera

• Do composting toilet worms get the blues?

  NZ council probes 'psychological impact' of crap job

• New DARPA scramjet-drone contract award

  'Hypersonic tech vehicles' for test in 2009

Security News

• Dutch regulator slaps spyware purveyors with €1m fine

  Millions of PCs infected

• Man uses networked 'crazy' toaster to hack PC

  Then gets grilled at hacker fest

• MS to bundle 'broken' random number tool in Vista SP1

  Developers urged to avoid built-in backdoor

• Ichitaro vuln used to launch Trojan

  Latest regionally-targeted attack hits Japan

Software News