Comms News

• Ofcom auctions off high frequencies

  Bargains snapped up by companies with no firm plans

• Asia-Pacific research network gets €18m fund

  EC and Asian partners tie-up TIEN3 deal

Hardware News

• Gawker - Texas's supercomputing Ranger

  60,000 cores of justice

• US, EU seize counterfeit computer goods

  First joint operation for fake chips

• EMC orders Pi Corp for its cloud

  C/2r in the sky investment

Management News

• EU data guardians: search engines must obey our rules

  Which we will issue very soon now

• EU wants RFID tags turned off

  Turn off tags at the till

• BAE bulging with cash and wardroids, worried about future

  Arms biz nervous as MoD finances circle the drain

• Reins put on key Vista SP1 update as Microhoo! is released into the wild

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• Doctors back more tax on booze

  BMA urges life-saving price hike

• Government rattles 'three strikes' filesharing sabre (again)

  'Change of tone' signals no change in reality

• Taking IT security to task

  Sleepwalking from bad guys to big brother

• Euro MPs want criminal penalties for downloaders

  But harmony will be hard fought battle

• Solicitors fined under Data Protection Act

  ICO gets litigious on London lawyers

• Deloitte flags risks of UK child database

  No such thing as a secure database

• Netbanx fixes payment processing glitch

  Failure to communicate

Odds and Sods News

• The amazing, imploding ISP business

  Andrew's Mailbag Not much sympathy for the tubes operators...

• BOFH: Insecurity complex

  Episode 6 Been there, done that, got the bullet holes

• Turkmen prez sacks 30 for TV news cockroach outrage

  State station purged

Reg Hardware News

• Bluetooth headset boasts integrated storage

  It won't improve your memory though

• Toshiba rolls out HD handycam

  The Oscars, here we come

• Pentax Optio E40 compact camera

  Review This snapper needs to sharpen its teeth

• Global LCD TV sales overtake CRT

  CRT who?

• Designs displayed for iPhone clip-on speakers

  Tune in...

• Toshiba unveils picture frame-styled ZF TV range

  As pretty as a picture

• Entry-level and mid-range TV market targeted by Toshiba

  CV and XV range unveiled

• Best keypad-less phone?

  Q&A

Science News

• Treehuggers lose legal fight to solar-powered neighbour

  Environ-mental Prius pair battle plugdrive sun-chum

• Hefty black hole weighs in at 33 Suns

  Record-breaking stellar-mass heavyweight

• Virgin biofuel jumbo trials won't use algae

  As UK.gov reviews food-powered fuel policy

• China plans 'deep-sea base project'

  Manned submersible test pioneers oceanic programme

Security News

• cDc automates Google Hacking

  Kewl for cats

• Former HP boss in the dock over call centre murder

  Held to account over taxi killing

• Essex youth's cop headbutt heads for YouTube

  Pleads guilty to ABH following 'happyslap' incident

• Jailed Japanese net mogul launches appeal

  Livedoor saga continues

• HMRC data debacle used to bait phishing lure

  Poetic justice restricts success of feeble ruse

• VMWare update lances virtual bugs

  Samba and Python bugs wiggle into virtualisation software

Site News

Software News

• Sergey Brin: 'Microhoo! makes me nervous'

  Prefers unnerving others

• Open sourciness

  Red Hat's JBoss conundrum

• Vista SP1 kills and maims security apps, utilities

  Check security software before installing

• Put some MVC in your PHP

  Hands on Trial by separation