Channel News

Comms News

• Chinese supplier lets buyers design their own handsets

  Make your ZZZPhone to order

• Comcast: Our BitTorrent busting is 'best in class'

  FCC probe? What FCC probe?

• Chip heads drive Linux mobile challenge

  Apple and Microsoft share foe

• Nokia's N95 successor slips out on web

  'N96' makes fleeting appearance as spec list

• Seabed cables will be fixed by next week

  But more will break - it's normal

• Vodafone hooks up with Facebook and Match.com

  C'mere you

• Samsung bares its Soul

  Flagship handset to feature novel contextual menu control

• Faster broadband through bonding

  Does doubling up your DSL really work?

Hardware News

• New Mexico bets future on promiscuous supercomputer

  Tap our big box

• Yahoo! launches! flat!-!-rate! web! hosting!

  'Unlimited' bandwidth. Heavy on the ''

• Prince Opteron unloads on AMD, Intel and the future of memory

  Radio Reg Fred Weber removes stealth shield

• Rebit: this is your grandmother's data backup

  Simplicity has a price

• WARF raiders slap Intel with Core patent suit

  Wisconsin silicon heads

• Dell 'committed' to AMD despite consumer kit shift to retail

  Intel-only Inspirons online for now, almost

• Scientists sue Intel in Core 2 Duo clash

  Patented tech used without permission, boffins claim

Management News

• Flanagan reads riot act on police IT

  Take him down the cells. But I just closed Excel, sarge

• EFF and chums sue Feds over border laptop inspections

  Throws Freedom of Information book at 'em

• MS woos Yahoo!, bugging investigated and fraud costs skyrocket

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• Top cop urges RIPA review in coded attack on snoop code

  Less bureaucracy, more clarity, more bugging

• Smith plugs into wired police plans

  The end of Dixon of Dock Green screen

• Stopblair.eu tries to halt Tony's march on Brussels

  Will e-petition be 'President' Blair's Waterloo?

• Yahoo! shares! rise! above! offer! price!

  !!!!! Microsoft may pay more

• NPfIT director general hands in his scrubs

  Programme looks for CIO and director of IT

• Feds bat for Boeing in rendition lawsuit

  Torture outsourcing never had it so good

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• UK men would stay out of bed for 50in plasma telly

  Hot widescreen action worth six months' shaglessness

• Billg quits Facebook

  Critical friend mass

• US man threatens TV repairman with shotgun

  How to get your sat service fixed, California-style

• Brit firm levitates floating chair

  Grav-busting maglev lounger

• English language succumbs to Symbiotic Ephemeralization

  Death by a thousand innovation hypercycles

Reg Hardware News

• Zeemote unveils controller for phone games

  Mobile World Congress Sixaxis jr.?

• Apple to announce iPhone and iPod Touch price cuts?

  Hold onto your hard-earned for just a few weeks more

• Shiver me timbers! It's the wooden radio

  Keep the Woodpeckers at bay

• Baylis Eco EP-MX71 hand-cranked media player

  Review It's green and groovy - and that's no wind-up

• Holocube introduces '3D' display gizmo

  Smoke and mirrors?

• Archos advances PMP's storage capacity

  More inside, but the same outside

• Wireless signal shirt detected in UK

• Tiny, take-apart handset enters the record books

  Not so much a phone, more a USB key?

• Japanese gamers no longer delighted by DS Lite?

  Smash Bros release lifts Wii

• Big Blue talks up 45nm PlayStation 3 processor possibilities

  Higher clock speeds or a smaller power drain, Sony?

• Does the UK have an equivant of US service iFixit.com?

  Q&A

Science News

• Should the IT department be accountable for energy use?

  Reg Tech Panel Managing Watt?

• Thigh-drive phone charger put through its paces

  Let your legs help your fingers do the walking

Security News

• FBI sought approval to use spyware against terror suspects

  Analysis Magic Lantern reloaded

• Hackers seed malware on Indian anti-virus site

  Who guards the guards?

• Firefox updates, blitzes trio of critical bugs

  It's raining security updates

• Equifax asks customer to email debit card photocopies

  Sanity check please

Software News

• EU investigates Microsoft's OOXML campaign

  Did Redmond try to pack standards groups?

• Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! - the story so far

  !!!!! All our exclamation marks in one place