Channel News

• IBM prelims beat the Street

  Europe pushes strong fourth quarter

• Coda in takeover talks with Agresso

  SAASy move

• Intel pitches low-cost PC platform at Eee PC rivals

  'Shelton' not just a desktop platform

Comms News

Hardware News

• HP punts four new ProLiant servers at SMBs

  Mixes-up mid-market merchandise

• EMC does flash drives on big storage

  Symmetrix goes solid

• NEC pops PA Semi chips into storage gear

  It's a low power thing

• Drobo storage box gets NAS add-on

  'Infinitely expandable' capacity now on the network

Management News

• US buys in to QinetiQ's millimetre wave technology

  Only 12? SPOs it's a start

• Immigrant ID cards and border checks slip towards 2009

  Byrne's 'challenging targets' challenge belief

• Number 10 spinner fingered in NTL investor 'bullsh*t' suit

  Points for honesty, allegedly

• Tag-a-lag: Chip implants mooted for UK prisoners

  Wishful thinking to solve prison crisis, apparently...

• Hoax: German IT boss sacks three non-smokers

  'It's time for revenge'

Odds and Sods News

• BOFH 2007: Road trip

  Park up

• Banksy artwork tops £200k on eBay

  Portobello Road wall attracts hot bidding

• Bjork lays into NZ snapper

  When elfin chanteuses attack

• Village shaken by GPS-driven tank invasion

  Sat nav panzer army

• Hannah Montana fails to defy laws of physics

  Body double outrage rocks cyberspace

• Batman logo manifests in tomato

  Holy edible simulacrum!

Reg Hardware News

• Apple tells iPhone vendors not to reveal sales figures

  Updated When I say jump, you ask how high

• Solwise extends powerline with pass-through mains option

• Wave goodbye to sweaty 'laptop thighs'

  A laptop carry case that's also a fan, sort of

• MS demos smart-cam phone software

  CES on Video

• LG's Prada phone goes silver

  A new face for the new year

• Sony tells LCD TV consumers to get a grip

  Pick-up a TV today

• USB Missile Launcher gets integrated spyscope webcam

  Drawing a bead

• Nokia N95 8GB smartphone

  Review Hardcore handset?

• Sony, Nintendo sued in console controller patent clash

  Up to a point, Lord Copper

• Sony beefs up bottom-end Alpha DSLR

  Alpha 200 created

• Creative Zen aux output quality glitch?

  Q&A

Science News

• Royal Society: UK gov needs to grow a biofuels policy

  Making a bad problem worse

• Giant hydrogen cloud menaces Milky Way

  Coming (relatively) soon to a galaxy near you

• California to snatch control of citizens' air-con

  Cooking the public for the public good

• Alcohol enema bloke wins 2007 Darwin Award

  Two bottles of sherry, the rest is history

• Tesla hits ejector button on staff

  Jobs go at 'leccy car co.

Security News

• Browser vulns and botnets head threat list

  Shifting SANS

• Spam spewing printer attack pulps security

  Cross Site Printing for Spamming

• Confidential details fall off the back of lorries

  Brace of breaches

Software News

• Latest Vista SP1 tweak open to everyone with a week to spare

  Install, spin three times, buy a monkey and wait

• Microsoft hit by two more EC probes

  Stop me if you've heard this one before

• MP accuses BBC chief of illegally championing Microsoft

  Blinded by novelty