Channel News

Comms News

• O2 signs up with Napster

  iTunes is not our only option

• Indian gov says no plan to squeeze out BlackBerrys

  'At this point'

• Ofcom maps out next spectrum auction

  Where the rest of the world puts its DAB

Hardware News

• Telehouse plans £80m London data centre expansion

  Bigging it up

Management News

• Google-Doubleclick clicks as Phorm loses form

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• Yahoo! leaves! London!

  But talks to Microsoft!

• Small biz groups give Darling Budget a wary sniff

  Chancellor takes 'credible first step'

Music and Media News

• BBC's download iPlayer goes titsup

  Updated Kontiki FAIL

Odds and Sods News

• Lonely Paris Hilton seeks new best friend

  Web trawl dredges up candidates for MTV reality show

• Al-Qaeda seeks geek fanatics for Jihoo!

  Ricin mashup 2.0 in a cyberjihad stylee

• MPs get £2k home cinema on taxpayers

  All back to Prezza's

• Richard Gere not obscene, rules Indian court

  Shilpa Shetty kiss outrage case shown the door

• BOFH: On the brink

  Episode 9 Every time a bell rings an SCO disk gets its wings

• Times pledges allegiance to Web 2.0

  Virtual fridge magnet exercise in democracy

Public Sector News

• US Army funds $10m bat-droid

  Make it up you could not

• MPs and Lords turn on government over data protection

  'Insufficient respect'

• UK gov unveils 'Innovation Nation' plans

  Innovationation™? Innov(ation)²™?

• Syria orders cybercafe owners to ID customers

  'Iron censorship' extended

• Gates calls on Feds to plug tech investment gap

  With more H-1Bs if neccessary

• N3 dominates NHS IT savings

  Broadband network contributes £192m of £208m cost cuts

• Watchdog gets new powers for public sector data mining

  Fraud 'fishing expeditions'

• Eurosecurocrat plans EU-wide stop'n'scan plodnet

  Analysis Frattini: 'Compliance will come with time'

Reg Hardware News

• Manhunt 2 gets green light for UK release

  Axes controllers at the ready

• Gibson and Activision duel over Guitar Hero

  Wah-wah

• Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX33

  Review Not a camera for control-freaks?

• Microsoft denies Xbox 360 is Blu-ray bound

  We're not talking to Sony

• Acer unwraps 'hologram'-clad Blu-ray laptops

  Aspire rational

Science News

• Astronauts in seven-hour ISS construction session

  Canadian robot grappled by spacegoing veterinarian

• Japanese boffin designs glasses for the absent minded

  Find forgotten items

• Cassini survives 'in your face' Enceladus flypast

  Returns pics from close encounter

• Google Sky brings the heavens to a browser near you

  Unshackled from Google Earthly bounds

• Bag tax recycled into eco-PR slush

  Your taxes at work

Security News

• Russian serfs paid $3 a day to break CAPTCHAs

  Semi-automated attack or chain-mail gang

• Security firms split over Phorm classification

  Pushing onto the borderline

• Convicted cybercrook stands for election in the Ukraine

  At last a politician you can trust

Site News

Software News

• Zend stacks PHP for work and play

  SLAs for your fave Paris Hilton clip

• Microsoft can pound sand with its IP - my grandma runs Ubuntu

  Radio Reg Go on. Get your Coté

• Other languages key to Java's future

  QCon 2008 Platform play nice with others

• XP daddy: go incremental on design

  QCon 2008 Safe steps for hectic times

• French Googleslayer gets the green light

  No longer Chirac's pet project

• Next Eclipse platform could slip IBM's grip

  Blood letting is good

• Time for genuine 'write-once, run-anywhere' Java

  Oracle and BEA: a new hope?