Comms News

• Dear ISP, I am not a target market

  Comment Phorm ain't the pimp here, people

Developer News

Hardware News

• LSI buys Infineon's disk biz

  Serves Hitachi with second-hand platter

• IBM's charming smile attracts Hitachi to 32nm research pact

  Let's get small together

• Sun and Microsoft confirm data center lovechild

  Mankind now writing emails to Redmond

• NetApp changes name to NetApp

  Now 37% easier to say than Network Appliance

• Iomega says no to EMC

  Drives unsolicited bid outta town

Management News

• HSBC forgets to renew its digital certificate

  Can I forget about my overdraft then?

Odds and Sods News

Public Sector News

• Look out Al Qaeda bitches, Facebook's comin' atcha

  Fundamentalists, drug lords quiver before mighty Zuck

• ThruVision camera shows weapons, not bodies

  Home Office gets first demo

• UK presses car ferry to ship powdered plutonium

  What could possibly go wrong?

• IPCC's 'evil twin' launches climate change sceptic's creed

  Manhattan Declaration demands abandonment of emissions reduction efforts

• UK government data protection is a shambles

  Freedom of information? We've heard of it

• McCain taps Fiorina

  'Bloated executive salaries can fix the economy'

Reg Hardware News

• Amazon spills beans on upcoming SanDisk MP3 player

  Whooops

• Sony readies multi-room music streaming stereo

  Giga Juke range extended

• Ten years old: the world's first MP3 player

  Forgotten Tech Who remembers the MPMan F10 now?

• HP Compaq 2710p tablet PC

  Review Could be a contender?

• Wii gamers draw bead on laser-sight crossbow add-on

  Stick 'em up

• Asus CEO: Eee PC to get HDD options, Intel Atom CPU

  Company still backing Linux

• Man webcams butt in Burnout Paradise prang rage

  12-year-old mooned

• What's the best way to digitise VHS tapes?

  Q&A

Science News

• Software engineer builds straw house for £4k

  Cheap and cheerful Scottish ecogaff

• Plastic bag campaign falls apart at the seams

  Marine life killed by nets not bags shock

• Hacking for public health

  Etech Open sourcing brain scans and mapping the flu

• MIT plans to roll out 'folding' car

  'We have reinvented urban mobility'

• Brit apiarists demand £8m to save honeybees

  Gone within 10 years, without urgent research funding

• South Korea grounds astronaut for security gaffe

  No Soyuz gig following 'innocent mistakes'

• ESA's space truck heads for ISS

  Automated Transfer Vehicle is go

Security News

• Make vendors liable for exploits

  EU agency calls for feedback on economics of security

Software News

• Microsoft reveals its database for the cloud

  SQL Server, not as you know it

• Microsoft Office Online falls into Halloween time vortex

  Redmond really is spooked by the web

• US gives thumbs up to OOXML for ISO standard

  Sticks to approval

• Microsoft's Yahoo! takeover faces technical challenges

  Different platforms, different cultures

• 10 ways to improve your code

  SD West 2008 Think outside the curly brackets