Kaspersky false alarm quarantines Windows Explorer

Accidents will happen

Lenovo insists EMEA retail expansion still a goer

Expects to swerve any economic slowdown

Intel P45 chipset to support AMD's CrossFire X

Gamer's delight, apparently

Microsoft spits out final XP service pack, beta version

Nudges users with Vista talk, again

Intel delays quad-core Penryns to pummel Phenom?

Can't hit AMD while it's down...

Best Buy churns out the profits in Q3

Burnt out in Q4?

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

Nvidia 'nveils nForce 7 chipsets

Tri-SLI time

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

France Telecom sees rivals teaming up

SFR to take control of Neuf Cegetel

Ofcom investigates X-Factor debacle

'Please try again later'

Drivers on the phone face the slammer

It's the only language they understand

N95 struggles to find itself

What Nokia gives, Nokia can take away

Ofcom urged to clamp down on broadband speed deceit

Updated But 8Mbit/s could happen...theoretically

700MHz attracts Paul Allen

Chunk of spectrum latest must-have accessory for the super-rich?

Centro a bright spot in Palm's quarterly results

Record sales, but numbers still down

3G still trapped at 2.1GHz

EU deal for low frequency 3G delayed

T-Mobile (temporarily) halts Web 2.0rhea

Dry heaving Twitterites

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

Rumors swirl in WiMAX world

Sprint-Clearwire detente?

O2 to join IPTV fray next year

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

Sun spikes Java IDEs

NetBeans or bust

IBM forges Solid acquisition

Xmas shopping for in-memory database software

MIT in pedal-powered 'super' computer stunt

'Maybe a solution for alternative energy, or something'

Chambers number 2 walks out of Cisco

CEO wannabe Giancarlo not a team player

Who's archiving IT's history?

Column The mishandling of Babbage's baggage

Intel gears up for for 45nm frenzy in 2008

Processor, platform and chipset roadmap

AMD lays down laptop platform plan

Mobile roadmap 2008-2009

Graphene breakthrough threatens silicon's chip glory

This time they mean it

Dell spills its Guts over Ubuntu gear

Upgraded and pitchy

Mainframe hopeful PSI sends lawyers at IBM in Europe

Itanic fired up for EC gripe

Remembering the browser wars with Netscape's ex-CEO

Radio Reg Barksdale: The Microsoft splitter

Validus backers banking on swing to DC

Data centres should convert or take Highway To Hell

Milton Keynes council embraces WiMAX

ConnectMK connects MK

Intel flips optical bits and bobs to Emcore

$85m in transponders

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

Sys admin admits trying to axe California power grid

Homer Simpson-style rage attack

Cisco to get API-happy

Putting the family jewels on display

Intel gets all HUGI

Chipzilla announces announcements

Sharp, Toshiba to share LCD TV toys

Plan to buy each others' kit

Microsoft goes beta for Xmas as CSC leaves staff pie-eyed

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Gov departments need better data systems, NAO says

8% 'not fit for purpose'

DCMS inks IT deal with Atos Origin

Overcomes seven year itch to sign £14m contract

FTC rubberstamps Google DoubleClick merger

But not without dissent

US 'robot surge' deal re-inked after droid piracy fracas

Roomba maker set to build mechanoid legions

MoD sorts out 'turkey' helicopters for Xmas

That's Xmas 2009, sadly

Info chief prescribes shock therapy for health dept

Scathing judgement on junior doc debacle

How green is your business, exactly?

Reader poll Are you a tree-hugger or a Brazilian logger?

Sky told to flog ITV shares

Monopoly watchdogs don't like the smell of big stake

Apple mugs Think Secret

Site to close after legal settlement

Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! settle un-American activity claims

$31m appeases gambler-hating government

Fire stations too much like fire stations, says Govt

Fire Minister unveils weird green community outreach plans

TorrentSpy hands Hollywood victory

'Fair trial impossible'

Philips sells set-top box biz to Pace

IPTV kit too

Police shut non-urgent crime reporting portal

'Serious defects and delays'

US warrantless wiretapping predates 9/11

Fuel to the fire

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'

US fails to reverse online gambling ban

EU bone thrown

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

Americans can swear at toilets, judge rules

First Amendment protects Pennsylvania bog-cuss woman

Microsoft delays reduced, Dell goes to the High Street and all is well with AMD

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Digital music: Go legal, get screwed

Sign your own death warrant

TV licence fee 'to fund Welfare For W*nkers'

Ofcom's Nathan Barley Quango flies again

Truth, anonymity and the Wikipedia Way

Comment Why it's broke and how it can be fixed

BBC redesigns and 'widgetizes' homepage

What would Lord Reith make of The Daily Me?

BOFH: The trivia quiz

Episode 43 Test your skill. Place your bets!

CNET blogger in self-righteous crash-and-burn

Idiot 2.0 passes judgement on idiots

Tekken set to kick big screen ass

'Martial arts spectacular,' promises director

Facebook accuses MP of impersonating MP

Account suspended following complaints

US surgeon snaps patient's tattooed todger

Disciplinary hearing for 'Hot Rod' mobe pic sawbones

Smurf gives Paris Hilton a mouthful

Shock scenes at Berlin Xmas market

Rio drug traffickers take exception to Santa's chopper

Open fire on flying Saint Nick

Concerned comrades floor China's anti-graft website

Falls over on first day

US tech support outfit seeks pocket sniffer

Highly-specialised freelance gig

Peter Jackson to lord over 'Rings' prequels

More than one way to skin a Hobbit

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

Gollum to play Haddock in Tintin

Andy Serkis reteams with Peter Jackson

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

Paris Hilton goes for gold while crims are pretty in pink

Comments w00t!

Brit workers: The Xmas skive starts today

Work? Stuff that

Handhelds dominate Japanese pre-Xmas console sales

DS rules the roost

Sony Ericsson Walkman W910i motion-controlled phone

Review The shake of things to come

Monitor maker aims s.book sub-notebook at Asus Eee PC

Better spec, higher price

Palm to unlock Treo 500 next month

De-Vodafoned across Europe

Invisio G5 'world's smallest' Bluetooth headset

Review Truly tiny... or truly tinny?

Sony updates PS3 protein-probe program

Folding@Home tweaked for firmware 2.10

Canon PowerShot A460 compact camera

Review Cheap and cheerful

Asus Eee PC as 'hard to get your hands on as a Wii'

Meanwhile, Japan's getting a 16GB version

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

Firewire to gain 3.2Gb/s bandwidth boost

If it weren't for those pesky kids and their USB 3...

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

First 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

Nintendo Wii said to 'attract cockroaches'

Cue predictable gag from PS3/Xbox fanboys

US switches off the incandescent lightbulb

Energy bill marks end for Edison's bright idea

NHS frets over Brits' genitalia

To pixelate or let it all hang out?

Supersonic stealth jumpjet rolls off production line

Harrier successor: very cool, but is it useful?

Israeli eggheads in pinhead bible publishing breakthrough

Working towards books readable 'with the naked eye'

Arthur C Clarke lists three wishes on 90th birthday

Would like a call from ET ASAP

Japan scores ballistic missile shootdown bullseye

Navy Self-defence force in 100-mile-high skeet shoot

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

NASA's Deep Impact mislays comet

Boethin goes awol

Space brains resign over efforts to attract ET attention

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

Russian Feds close in on Pinch Trojan authors

Tales from the Underground

Anti-virus protection gets worse

What is this thing you call heuristics?

TJX settles with banks over credit card breach

Now it only has to worry about disgruntled punters

Adobe plugs multi-platform Flash vulns

A patch in time...

Indonesian hacker touches souls by bringing down police website

Transmigration of the SQL

Dutch arrest 14 mules in ABN AMRO scam

Money wired to Russia and Ukraine

Counterfeiters told to pay Symantec $21m

What chance of collecting?

Portuguese-speaking worm attacks Google Orkut users

Over 655,000 served?

Tiger Team brings haxploitation to TV

Penetration testing telly show up against the Queen

Man siphons info for 300 credit cards from hotel kiosks

Not bad take for three days work

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

Heavily armed cops raid IM chat

Closet swatting

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

Apple keeps critical security fixes to itself

Insecurity through obscurity

S&M blogger outs web host malware attack

When Google meets kink

Botnets linked to political hacking in Russia

Traceroute

Vista sets 2007 land-speed record for copying and deleting

48167 Days and 23 hours to create CD

Slow death planned for Sun's Java IDE biz

Solaris tools breath easy

Oracle slaps SAP in the chops

And slaps $1.3bn on Q2 bottom line

Viacom shuns Google's DoubleClick for Microsoft

Yes, they say, it is Google's DoubleClick

Open Office standards row heats up

Wag the dog

Confusion marks StarOffice anniversary

Anything but Microsoft

Why Borland trashed its spreadsheet

Myths and legends Finds hidden meaning

How to avoid the model quagmire

Part one: Analysis paralysis

Get stuck in to Visual Studio 2008

Review LINQ big, better teamwork needed

Amazon SimpleDB: a database server for the internet

Disorganized for a chaotic world

The year's biggest big thing? You be the judge!

Festive hustings

Why simplicity starts with design

Four top tips

Jiwai.de or Twitter?

Mind the Gap Saturday Variations on a meme

Skills shortage: it's mind over matter

Aptitude beats experience

Groovy: XML without the bloat

Hands on, part 1 Flexible strings

Google kicks Wikipedia in the googlies

Move over, Jimbo - we're in the content biz now