Channel News

• Maxima shares slide on below-par expectations

  Blames loss of big client and economic blues

• Logica boss says adios

  But sets up new division first

Comms News

• O2 sweetens its iPhone deals

  iPhone changes

• Nokia plays strong Linux hand withTrolltech buy

  Analysis Shifts towards open source for handsets and tablets

Developer News

Hardware News

• Sun open sources doohickeys

  Tiny, sensor-driven devices exposed

• Sun nails four buyers in 15 months with White Trash Data Center

  COPS: Silicon Valley

• Stellar EMC fails to impress investors . . . again

  Maybe the Hulk can help?

• Juniper jumps into Ethernet switch game

  Wags ports at Cisco

• Malaysia flirts with Google over world's biggest data center

  Hopes to taunt India and Vietnam with boxes

• SanDisk remembers how to make a Q4 profit

  Passes bump in the road, sees another ahead

Management News

• Barracuda plays the hippie card in Trend Micro patent row

  Fight with us, soldiers of open source

• EU supremes: ISPs don't always have to finger filesharers

  National beaks can decide for themselves

• UK gov issued 250k phone tap licences in nine months

  Regulator says system working beautifully

• Relieving the systems management burden

  Reg Tech Panel Where's that X?$$ing report? Oh, here it is

• MySpace wins UK domain name that pre-dated its service

  Myspace.co.uk was registered 'abusively'

• Forget passports - teachers and kids are the new ID card targets

  Trust and inclusion foregrounded in desperate rescue plan

• Sky must sell off ITV stake

  Expensive mistake

• CCTV must not record conversations, warns new guidance

  'Intrusive and unnecessary'

• IPS sticks to fingerprint plan

  Denies print register drop report

• MPs slam costly war-tech projects at MoD

  All the gear, no idea

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• California deploys dope-vending machines

  Prescription only, sadly

• Germans launch flights for nudists

  Careful with that coffee, Klaus

• Amateur code breaker honoured for defeating Colossus

  Bestride this

• Spain bows before la blogosfera

  English-derived neologism bids for world domination

Reg Hardware News

• HD snapping comes to Panasonic

  The Lumix range expands

• Device routes audio across powerline LANs

  Link PC to hi-fi over the mains

• Sharp's 'slimmest' LCD TV to hit Europe this Autumn

  Start saving up now

• Firm builds iPod speakers from packaging

  Recycling never sounded so good

• Monster-capacity PS3 in the pipeline?

  Rumours claims 120GB or 160GB version coming

• Hitachi follows Moto with e-ink handset

  Blotting paper not required

• Sony intros Intel 'Penryn'-based Vaios

  Desktops and notebooks

• Nikon's D60 digital SLR blows in - literally

  Internal airflow removes dust

• Smile! Nikon's smile-spotting camera is watching you

  Smile-recognition is the new face-recognition

• Maxdata Belinea s.book 1 sub-notebook

  First Review Hard drive-equipped Eee killer?

Science News

• iRobot inks deal for laser-radar droidvision sensors

  Now the machines can follow you into the building

• Miserable? It must be U

  44 - the most depressing age of the lot

• DARPA seeks $750m for hypersonic robop*** testbed

  Bad news for tinfoil-sporting 'Aurora' diehards

Security News

Software News

• Streamline your search with Yahoo! Web Services and AJAX

  Hands on Google - not the only fruit

• eBay: 'We will lower listing fees'

  'But we'll bilk you in other ways'

• American LaFrance blames IBM for bankruptcy

  Big Blue silences sirens

• Windows 7 fake spotted on BitTorrent

  Nothing to see here, please move along

• Penguin-powered UML modeling

  Vista relief is here