Channel News

• BT gets cool with Fresca

  Not just frothy man

Comms News

• Pipex Business calls in the strategy boutique

  Joss-stick session produces Latinate rebranding

• Carphone Warehouse boss shuffles off the net

  Blog off Charlie

• Motorola poised to offload mobile biz

  Sell it or spin it off?

Developer News

Hardware News

• Geeks fight the smelter with embedded processor-based box

  The Climate Computer

• Quantum computing firm bags $17m more in funding

  D-Wave talks big, investors impressed

• Alcatel-Lucent confirms 400 job cuts in France

  All part of the same cull

• AMD adjusts three-core Phenom roll-out plan, moles claim

  Quad-core roadmap revised too

• Rock reveals graphics benchmark beating monster laptop

  Scores almost 15,000 on 3DMark06, vendor claims

Management News

• Angry investor offers to buy Transmeta

  We can whip it into shape

• Lessig gives up on Free Culture

  Aims Ivory Tower at 'Corruption'

• Euro lawyers see tortuous road ahead for Microsoft's Yahoo! bid

  !!!!! Antitrust-ageddon

• Ballmer! explains! hostile! Yahoo! bid!

  !!!!! 'We've been engaged for months'

• ID cards target the young, MySpace targets MySpace

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• Microsoft! bids! $44.6bn! for! Yahoo!

  Update 3 F*ck! me!

• Euro privacy chief predicts Google policy flip

  EU-Google negotiations going swimmingly

• Shell IT staff disgusted at mega profits

  Union demands talks over job cut plans

Odds and Sods News

• Blue-eyed schoolgirls headshot vegetarians

  Comments Save the world from the likes of Alicia Silverstone

• Hamster-in-rain emergency prompts 999 call

  Weary South Wales cops finger phone timewasters

• BOFH: Carbon neutrality

  Episode 4 This is what we think of carbon credits...

• Parent power pulls Woolworth's 'Lolita' kiddies' bed

  Online child temptress furniture outrage

Reg Hardware News

• Sony shows off new shooters

  Photographers have never had so much choice

• Man buys MacBook Air, pulls it apart, takes pics

  Inside Apple's latest

• Nokia N82 smartphone

  Review Don't judge this book by its cover

• SanDisk prices up 32GB SDHC memory card

  Capacious but costly

• Japanese geek trio blow up mice

  The inflatable input device

Science News

• Nobel Prize winner demands more honesty from peers in green debate

  Truth before fear

• VCs navigate cash vs. carnage scenario with green tech

  Swarming to the next new thing

• Rocket train smashes world land-speed record

  Secret warhead tested in helium-filled polytunnel

• All blue-eyed people share one common ancestor

  Genetic mutation responsible for Sinatra

• NASA to beam Beatles song into deep space

  4 Feb marks 'Across The Universe Day'

• Scientists create 'no-tears' onion

  Bad for crying, better for frying

• US navy electro-cannon test successful

  Video Hypersonic railgun slug breaks Mach 7

• Boffin shortage will blight Blighty's prosperity

  Report: Soft PhDs no way to earn hard currency

Security News

• 419 scammers plead guilty in US

  20 years' prison time?

• Image uploader bug blights MySpace

  Nasty ActiveExploit

• Banks need to learn to keep their own data safe

  Quocirca's changing channels Vaulting ambitions

Software News

• Gov. war gamers hack servers to stay ahead

  Mock cyberwar turns devious

• Gurus answer MapReduce young turks

  Database blues and grays

• Beeb iPlayer gets Firefox-friendly

  Auntie's IE hegemony broken for download client