Channel News

• Intel to revise mobile CPU naming scheme

  'Montevina' adjustment

• New York launches antitrust probe against Intel

  Another day, another investigation

• ACS pays $60m for Syan

  From Dallas to Telford in one leap

• Horizon downplays drop in profits

  Blames Xmas and stricken UK customer

• Revealed: USB 3.0 jacks and sockets

  CES Next incarnation of the bus standard makes an appearance

• Computacenter shrugs off economic fears

  But dealer's shares follow market down

• Nvidia plies Hybrid SLI

  CES Mix'n'match graphics tech goes official

• DisplayPort to incorporate USB

  CES One cable, multiple roles

• AMD offers glimpse of DisplayPort enabled 'RV635'

  CES ATI Radeon HD 3600 makes an appearance

• Xerox boss says credit crisis could crunch IT budgets

  Yes, no, maybe. Can you repeat the question?

• Sony launches low-price Blu-ray drive

  How low can you go?

• Intel coughs up EC anti-trust furball

  Update Monday blues

• Samsung spins 128GB SSD

  CES Half-a-terabyte laptop hard drive too

• Systemax saves CompUSA from knacker's yard

  Cherry-picks 16 stores

• Evesham Technology goes into liquidation

  Lights go out

• Atos wins Highways Agency £75m contract

  Trumps rivals in IT deal

Comms News

• Sprinting towards a WiMAX future

  CTO outlines future of WiMAX in the USA

• Want faster broadband soon? Move to Kent, says BT

  A little piece of South Korea in the garden of England

• 3 to carry MVNO

  Just like a real network

• Broadcom hooks up with Trolltech for Linux VoIP

  Riding the LiMo

• Google's Android - big name, big question on payment

  Inside the mobile matrix, part 2

• Feds to probe Comcast's BitTorrent busting

  What is "reasonable network management"?

• T-Mobile bundles Wi-Fi with Web 'n Walk

  Don't be using Voip though

• US mobile hero Frontline Wireless goes titsup

  Only Google can save the airwaves

• Qualcomm guilty of exceptional misconduct

  Attorneys called to judge's chamber to explain themselves

• Government piles filesharing pressure on UK ISPs

  Minister threatens legislation deadline

• Cambridge University dials up VoIP

  17,000 users get 20,000 VoIP phones

• Nokia plays games with Vivendi

  Finnish phone manufacturer to distribute rudeware

• 'Fat PSP' owners won't get Skype

  CES Must have a slim'n'light version of the handheld

• Carphone Warehouse shares rally with buyout rumours

  Just enough to recover from Thursday's slump

• Yahoo! joins rush to get widgets onto mobile phones

  There will be platform independence, this time

• Neo1973: long-distance contender to Apple and Google?

  Inside the mobile matrix, part 1

• Why there will never be another GSM

  Comment Ofcom squares up to EU over spectrum carve-up

• Verizon sues Alltel over homicidal guinea pig

  'Our customers are not caged rodents'

• Tiscali to go mobile in 2008

  Virtually a quad player

Hardware News

• IBM no comments way to optical Power7 confirmation

  We're sure. Kinda

• HP to reduce PC energy consumption by a quarter

  Industry asks: But how?

• Nexsan gives 42TB array a make-over for picky Apple fans

  SATABeast cleans up, brushes its metal

• IBM gives Itanium five years to live

  Sun also on life support, apparently

• Aruba Networks takes to AirWave for $37m

  Will use white flag of neutrality to shoot at Cisco

• SWsoft strokes Apple with Parallels Server beta

  Into the hypervisor fray

• Ofcom's radio carve-up could cut out mesh

  Consultation doc hits doormats

• Apple guns Xserve and Mac Pro to 11

  Er, make that 8

• EMC reapplies iSCSI storage warpaint

  Courts SMBs with bigger array

• Dot Hill scores four more years with HP

  Trying to avoid Sun stroke

• Dell does four-core Xeons and Opterons with new blade box

  Project 'Copy HP' nears completion

• Intel fires up 45nm laptop chip assault

  One if by land, 16 if by CES

• EMC dangles wee NAS code at OEMs

  Tosses LifeLine to Intel, Iomega

• Hitachi picks up Brocade's file virtualization suite

  StorageX spins into HDS

• US trade body probes IBM patent grumble

  Judge appointed

• Warner Bros gives all its hi-def loving to Blu-ray

  Ditches HD DVD camp

• Remembering the Cray-1

  This Old Box When computers and furniture collide

Management News

• ODF vs OOXML - views from the coal face

  Mini-Poll Standards wars?

• Microsoft takes a shine to Logitech?

  Investors eye $8bn takeover claim

• Telcos yank FBI wiretaps

  'Your phone bill is overdue'

• Network Solutions games net domain biz

  'It's not a dirty trick. It's a security measure'

• Citizen's panels to put DNA database under microscope

  Government wants to ignore a wider range of opinion

• Ticketopolists win backing for online tax

  Analysis Online ticket levy wins MPs' blessing

• UK.Gov green lights nuclear power

  Tories give glowing reception; Lib Dems out in cold

• Judge bounces ex-Brocade chief's appeal bid

  Storage fraudster must face the music

• IT contractors cry foul over HMRC income splitting law

  'Stop crippling us, we're not tax dodgers'

• Is it or isn't it? Brown keeps bottling the ID card question

  Straight answers not compulsory either

• Parents to get classroom spynet in 2010

  Schools minister sets all-seeing-eye targets

• UK gov scraps '£1bn' prisoner tracking system

  Strategic review orders strategic retreat

• Digital cert glitch trips up UK passport site

  Secondary IPS site in shared credentials snafu

• Lord Triesman on P2P, pop-ups and the Klaxons

  Interview The Great Copyright Debate

• Union threatens Shell with legal action

  Grumbles over reduced pay-off deal for IT workers

• UK nuke-power plans leak early

  'Government has not made decision' - oh really?

• Head banker leaves job over Muslim gaffe

  Ill-advised quip

• The 'Funky Business' consultants want to poke you

  Column Back to work, back to Facebook?

• Sears sued for website that leaked customer purchases

  Hackers get what they want

• Blair's transport minister working for traffic-data firm

  Ladyman-ITIS to spread across Europe

• Microsoft pleads ignorance on 'one interweb per child' pork barrel

  Schools minister said what now?

• 2007 worst ever year for data protection

  Data on 37 million Brits mislaid

• And when did you you stop beating your CO₂ cap?

  Reader survey Enviro survey redux

• How to delete your DNA profile

  A cut-out-and-keep reference guide

• Schools minister touts 'one interweb per child' pork barrel

  BT 'keenly welcomes' more money shocker

Music and Media News

• Beeb's iPlayer reaps streaming traffic dividends

  Viewers skip swarms to join streams

• Don't shed any tears for Pandora

  Guest Opinion The Web 2.0 darlings can't pay - won't pay

• Beware the populist mash oozing out of Facebook and YouTube

  And Ninthly Lies better served as solids

• Sadville bans usury

  Virtual money-lenders must go

• Apple cuts UK iTunes prices

  Heads off EC investigation

• Ofcom boardroom musical chairs runs out of seats

  Watchdog maxes out bigwig ration

• CD copying OK, DRM circumvention not OK

  Copyright reform unveiled

• Pandora UK closes after royalties demands

  Collection agencies land kick in the box

• Canuck record labels accuse tunesmiths of smoking opium

  'Flat-rate music-swapping is a pipe dream'

• Napster looks to de-tether downloads

  'We hear the kids like these MP3 things'

• BT Vision targets Xbox gamers for growth

  Philips ditched for next gen set-top boxes

• Radiohead top UK album chart

  Thom Yorke proved right about physical 'artefact'

• Sony BMG to drop Custer stance on DRM

  And then there were none

Odds and Sods News

• BOFH: Memory short circuit

  Episode 1 And my password is... damn it

• Facebook checks for Cambridge applicants

  Good lord, you can just type their names in!

• Bloke finds missus working in brothel

  'I was dumbfounded'

• YouTube biker clocked at 189mph

  'Lets av sum fun!!'

• Aussies whip out their a*se antlers

  Hot competition for word of the year

• Cash-strapped NHS seeks Project Manager

  Modest salary for Leeds IT gig

• NY corpse attempts to cash welfare cheque

  Two cuffed for wheeling dead pal to Pay-O-Matic

• I am Legend hints at Batman-Superman movie

  Release date 15 May 2010?

• Brit violinist does a Radiohead

  Free download to 'popularise classical music'

• Dearly departed to heat Manchester crematorium

  'A final act of generosity' to chilly mourners

• School-dodging Mexican lad glues self to bed

  'I didn't want to go'

• Taser unleashes leopardskin C2 and MP3 holster

  Ladies to pack 'fashion with a bite'

• Bond stamps mark Fleming centenary

  Expect correspondence For Your Eyes Only

• 'Dangerously alluring' Ukrainian joins Bond 22

  Olga Kurylenko confirmed as 007's sidekick

• Naomi Campbell chews fat with Hugo Chavez

  Prez disses US and Duchess of Cornwall

• Why do women get plastered at fancy dress parties?

  No idea, admit US researchers

• Chancer! eBays! Yahoo.is!

  $100,000 to declare yahoo.is/shite?

• Is this the first Human-Martian hybrid?

  It's amanfromWiReD!

Reg Hardware News

• Casio readies launch of 'world's fastest-shooting' digicam

  CES But scales back 300fps mode

• Micro SD spy gadgets spied on web

  MI6 storage

• Samsung rolls out Croix-based F490

  CES The F700's younger brother

• Samsung YP-P2 personal media player

  Review iPod Touch beater?

• Best wireless VoIP phone?

  Q&A

• WowWee wheels in Tribot

  CES on Video Your plastic pal who's fun to be with

• The MP3 speaker jacket

  No headphones here

• DisplayLink demos multi-monitor USB dongle

  CES on Video How to connect six screens to your PC

• Microsoft backpedals on Blu-ray for Xbox 360 comments

  HD DVD or die!

• Everex targets Eee PC with higher spec mini laptop at same price

  CES Mini PC launched too

• Guitar Hero gets true air axe

  CES on Video Spank a really virtual plank

• Casio broadens its Exilim range, again

  Even more models to choose from

• WowWee demos FemiSapien robotrix

  CES on Video With a wiggle in her walk...

• Voltaic solar bag steps up to laptop size

  CES Power of the sun harnessed

• Sensory jacket simulates the speed experience

  CES Designed to be used with racing games

• Japan to lose 20GB and 60GB PS3

  It's goodbye from him, and it's goodbye from me

• GPS finds its way onto the PSP

  Find your way, another way

• Does the Creative Zen work with Mac OS X?

  Q&A

• The cordless phone is reborn for the IM era

  CES VTech LS6117 launched

• Eye-Fi pitches camera-friendly memory card with... Wi-Fi

  CES on Video Take pics, copy them to your computer wirelessly

• The Eee PC cuts the mustard at CES

  Editors' Blog Leaving Las Vegas

• Panasonic unveils web-enabled Plasma TVs

  CES Telly-based surfing

• LG shows gadget based on next-gen Intel UMPC chip

  CES 45nm 'Silverthorne' not even out yet

• Lenovo waves around ultra-light sub-laptop

  CES on Video Pitching the IdeaPad

• Wii Fit sells 1m copies in Japan

  The virtual flab fighter

• Toshiba raises colours in portable storage battle

  320GB 2.5in HDD

• Alienware heads off on a curve with gaming screen design

  CES on Video PC maker makes its pitch

• A Bluetooth headset just for women

  It's not for girls - oh wait, yes it is.

• LG laptop goes up in flames

  Journalist on the scene in less than seconds

• Qualcomm quietly buys up Bluetooth experts

  While everyone distracted by patent spats

• Blackberry Pearl 8120 smartphone

  Unwired Video Review Now with Wi-Fi and other refinements

• Noxon 2 and iPod Touch trouble

  Q&A

• Ion readies USB-connected VHS player

  CES Rip your old tapes

• LG lifts skirt, reveals watchphone

  CES But don't tell anyone...

• Covenant energy sword added to Halo 3 replica arsenal

  CES If we could get the Chief's MA5K carbine too...

• Xbox 360 could back Blu-ray

  CES Microsoft covers its high-definition derrière

• Paramount puts down HD DVD dump rumour

  Not following Warner

• SanDisk unveils 12GB Micro SDHC card

  CES

• Mk II... er... Tank Chair trundles into Las Vegas

  CES For when Rambo retires...

• Slash, Bill Gates and rock chick trade Guitar Hero licks

  CES on Video Careful with that axe, Eugene

• Samsung shows very skinny telly

  CES on Video Paper thin

• Exposed! Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft

  CES on Video Graduation Day

• Samsung shows second-gen dual-format HD disc player

  CES Will it ever arrive?

• Creative blasts out MP3 players with speakers

  CES Sounds good

• Taser touts MP3 player that's a real shock to the system

  CES Make my day, punk

• Sony beams down wireless data transfer

  CES Touch, transmit and go

• Digital camera promises musical photos

  Make your own music videos

• Samsung touts tiny HD digital camera

  CES Megapixels up, physical size down

• Microsoft previews TellMe phone voice control

  CES on Video Vocalisation. Vocalisation. Vocalisation

• DVR reception problems

  Q&A

• 3M develops mini projector

  Let it shine!

• Revealed: Skype on Linux-based Intel mobile internet gadgets

  CES VoIP on the go

• Paramount poised to drop HD DVD

  The beginning of the end for the high def format?

• Pioneer Project Kuro 'Extreme Contrast' first look

  CES Pitch Black

• Second-gen Eee PC a CES no-show

  CES But bigger displays and WiMax coming in Q2

• Motorola motivates movie makers with mobile

  CES 'Kick slider' successor, the Z10, kicks butt

• Sling reschedules, redesigns SlingCatcher

  CES SlingPlayer-for-TVs finally coming in Q2. Hopefully...

• GorillaPod guys slide out boom-equipped Bluetooth headset

  CES

• Linksys ships sleek Wi-Fi routers, ExpressCard

  CES

• Sony drives back into sat navs

  Find your way, with style

• Belkin wireless HDMI box spied at CES

  CES Cable-free link for HD TVs

• One loves the Wii

  Wii are quite amused

• Logitech touts Harmony One remote control

  CES Direct touch? Wires? Pah!

• Logitech touts armchair keyboard

  CES Never leave the house again

• Samsung ML-1630 laser printer

  Unwired Video Review Sexy, sure - but is it any good?

• How can I get better browsing with a smartphone?

  Q&A

• Sony ships 11in OLED TV in the US

  CES Yours for $2500...

• Sony revamps Mylo mobile internet device

  CES More teen friendly

• CES moots move from expensive Las Vegas

  CES 'The rates have become astronomical'

• Toshiba remains upbeat about HD DVD

  CES And launches Low-def models

• Samsung enhances Q1 Ultra UMPC performance

  CES Premium model gets longer battery life too

• CES 2008: Complete Coverage

  All the stories, all the best kit

• Logitech revamps Squeezebox as Duet

  CES Harmony-influence remote control comes to the fore

• Panasonic preps Blu-ray, iPod-friendly home theatre kit

  CES

• Sennheiser to show 'CD quality' wireless 'phones

  CES Lossless Kleer technology better than Bluetooth, apparently

• Panasonic shows 32GB SDHC at CES

  CES

• Netgear preps power-passing powerline adaptor

  CES

• Pioneer presents first ever 'hybrid' navigation system

  CES Sat nav with iPod link

• Netgear extends next-gen Wi-Fi into 5GHz band

  CES Courtesy of 'metamaterial' antennae

• HD DVD bash knocked on the head

  CES

• Sling unveils 1080i-streaming Slingbox ahead of CES

  Integrated HD TV tuner on board

• My iPod Classic won't charge up

  Q&A

• Nvidia nForce 780i SLI chipset

  Review PCIe 2.0 and Penryn - bring 'em on

Science News

• NASA's Messenger closes on Mercury

  Arrives Monday for a first fly-by

• Atlantis to blast off on 7 Feb

  All being well

• Sir Edmund Hillary dies at 88

  RIP conqueror of Everest

• DARPA whirly-wing jet gyrocraft hits noise snags

  Pentagon retrocopter sent back to drawing board

• Super Soaker inventor touts solid state heat-2-leccy

  Ex-NASA boffin could kill off wind and tidal

• Government rejects elephants for pets e-petition

  Pachyderm disappointment

• GM sees future: Cars and drivers full of booze

  Autopilot alcomobiles for drunk drivers

• Reaper airborne war-droids to patrol 2012 Olympics

  Now we could all be Olympic torches

• Fluorescent sow drops glow-in-the-dark piglets

  China hails transgenic porker breakthrough

• Dengue fever threatens continental US

  West Nile virus - the sequel

• US Marines: Osprey tiltrotor doing OK in Iraq

  V-22 p***-chopper combo finally working?

• UK wants more Reaper drones, large package of extras

  Interesting bells'n'whistles on MoD shopping list

• Meteor shower traced to 1490 comet break-up

  Quadrantid mystery solved

• China ramps up space programme

  15 launches planned for 2008

• DHS to fit airliners with laser beam defences

  Forget inflight internet, you want raygun missile dazzlers

• Nature sticks entire archive online

  Digitisation project concludes

• Home turbines can't light a candle

  A puny wind

• Academics kick off nuclear power war of words

  Greens see red over Brown's reactor plans

• Solar Cycle 24 is go: Official

  Sunspot 981, come on down

• Oz drafts 'batter an orphaned roo' guidelines

  Failing that, try a shotgun

• Bill Gates gives $10m to probe the universe

  Large Synoptic Survey Telescope donation

• Hundreds of US fighter aces reassigned as drone pilots

  Rise of the machines

Security News

• Polish teen derails tram after hacking train network

  Turns city network into Hornby set

• LA grand jury probes MySpace teenage suicide case

  Fake user said: 'World would be a better place without you'

• FTC issues ad-tracking guidelines

  Let 'em know they're being watched

• UK spooks deliberately leaked 'Squidgygate' tapes

  So says Diana's bodyguard

• Xbox Live account takeovers put users at risk

  Celebrity gamer wants his virtual armor back

• Fully patched PCs are a rare breed

  Security: We've heard of it

• SoBig anniversary marks birth of the botnet

  Five by five

• Sys admin jailed for 30 months over failed logic bomb

  Tick, tick, tick, tick... oh

• RSA loses sales and security jobs in EMC restructuring

  Corporate indigestion

• Email security: Where are we @?

  Reg Guide It's trouble, but we love it anyway

• Excuse me sir: there's a rootkit in your master boot record

  Undetected by most AV apps

• Microsoft plugs 'critical' hole in Vista

  'Secure Development Lifecycle' only goes so far

• Facebook blocks Secret Crush over adware row

  Spurned Zango pleads innocence

• German hackers fight electronic voting

  It'll end in tears, warns Chaos

• Hackers turn Cleveland into malware server

  And Computer Associates too

• Stay ahead of Web 2.0 worms

  XSS marks the spot

• 'First' iPhone Trojan rolls into town

  More a prank than a threat

• US laws restrict computer forensics to gumshoes

  Jobs for the boys?

• Clarkson's 'steal my ID' stunt backfires

  Top Gear chap shoots self in foot

• US regulator raises Dreamliner hacker risk fear

  Unfriendly skies

• Contest seeks the most diminutive XSS worm

  Let the hacking begin

• Camouflaged code threatens security apps

  Evil twin hash bash

• McAfee spies malware in legit JavaScript apps

  More anti-virus false alarm madness

• Firefox spoofing bug raises phishing fears

  Basic authentication sucks

Site News

Software News

• Becta excludes Vista, Office - again

  Shouldn't be running in our classrooms

• Microsoft's Raikes leaves

  Office software exec will retire in September

• Light reading for XML with Groovy

  Hands on, part 2 Intuitive, naturally

• Academics slam Java

  Learn a real language

• Microsoft set to milk mobile Messenger mavens?

  'We don't want your money now. But we might sometime soon'

• Build a Silverlight media player

  Hands on Going for gold

• Amiga explains AmigaOS 5 AmigaAnywhere

  CES on Video Bill McEwen's elevator pitch

• Google turns Irish town 3D

  Whatever next?

• Six firms cough for unlicensed software

  BSA hands out the fines

• Uncertainty for Ruby and Rails despite changes

  Zed rails, Bray dizzy

• Write once, run anywhere: a lesson for digital TV

  Simple programming

• GPS is killing children

  Report highlights rat-run fear

• Microsoft bids $1.23bn for Norwegian search firm

  Wants to mine web with Fast buy

• Mozilla pulls offensive viral campaign

  Firefox Users against Bad Taste

• Wikia unsheathes antidote to 'unhealthy' Google

  Jimbo: 'I am your spiritual leader'

• Eclipse gets Fishy on SOA

  Hype hangover

• Gates kicks off farewell tour in Vegas

  Getting ready to spend more time with his fridge

• AmigaOS 5 surfaces... sort of

  CES Amiga launches AmigaAnywhere 2

• 'Draconian' Microsoft promises to make Office work again

  Update Busting through SP3

• Google preps Street View Big Mac search

  Privacy be damned

• Microsoft opens Server 2008 licensing a smidge

  Apache warrior

• Linux squeezes into connected devices

  But Android is nowhere to be seen