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Channel News

USB 3.0-sporting devices start to appear... sort of

New-style portage spotted

Comms News

Sprint axes 4,000 jobs, closes 125 stores

Workers tumble through gaping subscriptions hole

Skype blocks poison movie peril

Video pwnd the radio star
Carphone results flat but outlook unchanged

Don't mention the iPhone
HTC Pharos smartphone lit up on web

Sleek GPS handset revealed

Developer News

Her Light Materials, Volume I

Stob The Lost Magic Golden Closing Curly Bracket

Hardware News

Remembering the Commodore SX-64

This Old Box 'Check out my new portable computer! HUUGHGHHHGHHGFFFH!!!'

Rackable kicks Xeon 7000 chips into fresh, beefy server

Now with 25 per cent more teal
Supermicro plays Earth-child card with SAS storage chassis

Save the caribou via disk
From water wheels to the Google brain

Radio Reg Nick Carr's scary take on the future of computing
Sparks fly over electric shock dealing Dell laptop

Has your XPS M1530 given you a tingling sensation?

Management News

Join the army, get your ID pinched - MoD laptop goes AWOL

Ten years supply of applicants swiped from car

Chinese firm sets legal dragons on Microsoft

Pay up, please
EC goes after Microsoft, Sun buys MySQL and Oracle buys BEA

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Mickey Mouse CIO joins Microsoft

Replaces one Scott with another
Finance watchdog warns about being 'seduced' by IT partnerships

Don't fall for smooth talk
Your views on the Green debate

Poll Results The Americans are ahead again
Software firm bills council over high website traffic

You're not Entitledto free service...
Seagate posts good-ish quarter, fuels Wall Street jitters

Ain't no pleasing some folk

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Music and Media News

BBC: Death by a thousand top-slices

Share the dosh, says Culture Minister

Digital deals screwing the indie labels?

Stick together, advises IODA chief

Odds and Sods News

Alcohol where the sun doesn't shine, and nanotubes darker than that

Comments Long legs and friendly bums appreciated

Vote for the World's Worst Unboxing

Competition Unveiling the Golden Goldfish
Lindsay Lohan packed off to morgue

Close brush with death for DUI thespiatrix
Germans send teen tearaway to Siberia

Boot camp cure for violent youth
Bobby Fischer checkmated at 64

Eccentric grandmaster dies in Reykjavik
BOFH: Defusing the enthusiast

Episode 2 We don't need Linux's best-kept secret
Nude Italian models in kit-on protest

Strike over pay and conditions
Got an amicable a*se? We have the job for you

'Generous package' for right set of buttocks

Reg Hardware News

Controlling XP's pagefile.sys on Eee PC

Q&A

Electrical contact lenses created for in-eye displays

Life through a lens
Apple MacBook Air wins Greenpeace's approval

Not just a load of hot air, it seems
Revo pitches wireless internet wireless

Radio ga-ga
AT&T to replace 17,000 IPTV box batteries

Explosive TV
Epson Stylus D120 colour inkjet printer

Review See Em Why Kay Kay
Apple MacBook Air

Unwired Video Preview How skinny is that?
Wii Fit gets mat

End Balance Board slippage misery
Carl Zeiss tries its hand at iPod-friendly video goggles

Watch TV with your specs
Jobs: Blu-ray wins HD format war then loses to downloads

Physical media out-evolved, apparently

Science News

Pentagon in $75m electropulse blast-ray programme

Terawatt RF zap weapons sought

Heathrow 777 crash flattens servers

Pilot service PPruNe downed
Researchers share video contact lens vision

Rabbit beta testers demand wider content selection
US biotech firm in new human cloning claim

Hwang on a minute...
US Army proto-Dalek combat robots enter testing

Flying wastebin wardroids a taste of things to come?

Security News

Perl.com sends visitors to porn link farm

Perl necklace

Yahoo! backs! OpenID!

Password complexity be damned
Personal data for 650,000 customers vanishes into thin air

Bad timing for J.C. Penney CEO
Storm Worm turns one

Many unhappy returns
Arbor snaps up Ellacoya to move out of security ghetto

Look deep into this packet and tell me what you see
Mexico and Africa to become malware hotspots

It's the socio-economy, stupid

Software News

Mashups haunted by past exprience

User-generated IT support

Microsoft puts dusty, old Office code on web

ODF fans say, 'we're not simple, we're elegant'

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