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Channel News

Ingram Micro slams credit crunch 'negative thinking'

Cheer up, it may never happen

Comms News

ICANN to throttle domain tasters

With apologies to people who can't type

Submarine cable cut torpedoes Middle East access

Web slowdown hits India, Pakistan too
Ofcom boss demands action on data roaming charges

Tries to cut down price hurdles

Hardware News

Dell torches US kiosks

Direct Stores scorned for retail relationships

NetApp invents new jobs for its executives

Click and become vice chairman of readership opportunities
~~SWsoft~~ Parallels does Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 thing

Hypervisors are for the weak
Is this the world's most expensive desktop PC?

You'll need plenty of 1s and 0s to afford this digital delight
Intel to tell all about roaring 96GB/s QuickPath interconnect

Faster than Opteron sockets on steroids

Management News

Amazon to sell more stuff in 2008

Just like 2007

Bill Gates advice to UK wannabes? Don't get sued

Says he won't run for US president – then heads to No. 10
VOIP and the web baffle Brit spook wiretappers

MI5, GCHQ bemoan 'biggest change since telephones'
Judge sits on Redmond for two more years

Extends terms of anti-trust decree to late 2009

Odds and Sods News

Tolkien-inspired oil painting 'immortalizes' Silicon Valley rich people

Six VCs to rule them all

Michael Bay to relive A Nightmare on Elm Street

Slasher classic franchise ~~reglove~~ reboot
Blade Runner replicant checks into rehab

Sean Young proves herself 'more human than human'
Ryanair battles ASA over 'saucy schoolgirl' ad

Refuses to withdraw 'offensive' image

Reg Hardware News

Samsung gears up to battle Cystic Fibrosis

Left, right, left, right...

Sony sensor paves way for 24-megapixel SLRs

35mm ~~frame~~ CCD
HD DVD fights back in the US

But not for long?
Colour comes to the Wii ~~Remote~~ Riimote

Play on words
PS3 capacity boost claims are claptrap, says Sony UK

No more storage for you
Toshiba HD-EP30 HD DVD player

Review While the format war rages, movies must still be watched
Sony posts Skype-packing PSP firmware update

Go!Messenger teaser included too
Asus unveils 42in Linux-based Eee TV

Updated Two desktop models too
Concept MP3 player is a real sweetie

Science News

US Navy to test-fire electric hypercannon

Record-breaking railgun crowdpleaser

US military prepares for plummeting spy satellite

Military opt to act...now that crash is imminent over US soil
Chinese make Olympic weather bow to Party's will

Rain-prevention experiments 'satisfactory', claims Beijing
Sociologists: Studying engineering turns you into a terrorist

Oxford prof cites Google and Wikipedia as proof

Security News

Rogue ads infiltrate Expedia and Rhapsody

When legit sites attack

Low-tech hack was behind $7.2bn SocGen fraud

FSA warns City on risks
Spammers dive into Google's lucky dip

Feeling phished?

Software News

Tech support gets religion

Monk and his IT junk

Polished NetBeans means Ruby

NetBeans and Ruby, part 1 Eclipse beater?
EnterpriseDB goes large on simplicity

Pushes the blue elephant
How to speed up Windows Vista: official and unofficial tips

Strip, shutdown, repeat
French police plan Windows-free jails, offices

Microsoft hasn't got a Clouseau

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