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SIIA slaps lawsuits on eight eBay Adobe sellers

'Aggressive new campaign'

Asterisk mauled by buffer overflow bug

Are IP PBXs the next hacking battleground?
HP and Microsoft plan Taiwanese R&D centre

Going where the partners are
Critical bugs bite Kerberos

Hell's fire
AMD readies third Radeon HD 3800-series GPU line

3830 to take on Nvidia's 8600 GTS and 9600 GT
Botnet farmers play the international exchange game

Oz installs worth 30 times more than Asia
WD puts twin-platter 640GB HDD into mass-production

Space efficient
Dell gets in a state over SSD claims

Slams 'wholly inaccurate' report
EDS hoovers up Reading networking firm

Nexagent says yes to EDS
Shell says still 'undecided' on massive offshoring plan

Outsourcing document full of ifs
Intel prices up four wireless modules for 'Centrino 2'

Not all WiMax modules are created equal
Nvidia rolls out 'world's fastest' graphics card

GeForce 9800 GX2 takes fight to AMD's 3870 X2
Intel tweaks SSE 4 to speed text processing

String theory
Sage settles on US head

Telecoms player gets the nod
EC tries to get on top of carousel fraud

Wants more timely reports from missing traders

Comms News

Android tunes into OSGi

EclipseCon Mechanized, mobile modularity

AT&T and Verizon thrash rivals with $16bn spectrum swipe

FCC Chair pleased with ~~lack of~~ diversity
E-Plus kills i-mode service

German mobile operator bangs in penultimate nail
Virgin Media in premium rate U-turn

25p per minute tech support to be dropped
Comcast accuses FCC of impotence

'Your policies mean nothing'
Mobile termination fees go to Competition Commission

Tribunal passes the buck
Phorm agrees to independent inspection of data pimping code

But what's a privacy group doing in bed with it anyway?
US 700Mhz auction raises $19.6bn

But winners yet to be announced
How the BBC plans to save your ISP

Auntie's next big iPlayer gamble
Motorola to offload half its Birmingham staff

Job losses to stem money losses
Ofcom to hold operators responsible for dodgy dealers

Voluntary code of practice not working
Vodafone axes 450 at Newbury HQ

Never mind, have some Hard Candy
ISPAs 2008: Music can save broadband

Feargal applies a Positive Touch
DVB-H is the official mobile-TV standard

Business model still AWOL though
Handango shakes on Carphone Warehouse deal

You can't do everything on the internet
Your iPhone Wish-List

Andrew's mailbag Making the most of MultiTouch
Net think thank: Phorm is illegal

FIPR shells embattled ad targeting firm
Free voice and video firm plans April 1 UK launch

Red letter day for ad-funded Voixio
Microsoft Mobile presses Flash

What no silver(light) lining?
Japan turns its back on 2G

3G takes over
Japanese ISPs agree three strikes-style anti-piracy regime

Ippon Ippon Mate
HTC applies for multi-keypad sliderphone patent

Thumbs at the ready
BT admits misleading customers over Phorm experiments

We know what you pimped last summer
Your business communications are a mess

But is Unified Communications the answer?
China has world's largest online population

US to revoke one baby per click policy

Hardware News

IBM waterboards PA-RISC Superdome from HP

Power6 charged with crimes against hamster wheels

Toshiba goes multi-cell with new flash drives

Cheaper, fatter, slower
Ex-FCC chair vows government control over the Google Brain

Wrapping the cloud in red tape
Dell flees sinking US economy on quick boat to China

PCs tailored for migrant workers
HP stuffs XenServer into ProLiants

iThe iVirtualization iIdentity
Apple's Time Machine now works as advertised

USB drive backup from Airport base station
Cisco-baiting security co goes titsup

Lockdown shutdown
DroboShare network storage 'robot'

Review Can network storage really be this easy to use?
Ericsson CMO says Wi-Fi hotspots' days are numbered

'The telephone boxes of the broadband era'
Colonel EMC...in the data center...with a Quantum software?

The Cluedos appear to follow
Solaris SPARC to x86 software highway opens

x86 to SPARC highway planned
EMC spoons Brocade's Backbone

OEMs big switch and sprinkles IntelliMagic
Sun invites VMware to virtual desktop dance

VDI goes all 2.0
Microsoft's Hyper-V release threat level reaches RC status

The virtualisation journey continues
Toshiba touts laptop refresh buts keeps mum on specs

Glossy black Satellites coming
Video conferencing gets cheaper, ~~nastier~~ easier

Poor showing precipitates price cuts
Apple US retail sales leap past PC par

MacBook Air driving demand?
Avaya banks on recession to push cheap comms kit

Drops price into bargain basement
Symantec shines storage management software for Server 2008

Five point — oh, it'll be out in June
Brocade puts file virtualization in a pricey box

StorageX gets metallic coating
Dell quads up single-socket rockets

SMB sampler
Vyatta blows out Cisco routers with study

The OPEC of networking
Intel and Microsoft dump $20m on researchers to avert software crisis

To your Ivory Towers!
HP to ship SuSE on India PCs

No plans for EMEA... yet
Cambridge brain touts wind-n-server combo farms

Thin-client spinoff bizprof spins skinny as green
IBM dreams of optical chips with tiny light pulse device

Your server will be all 'bew bew bew bzzzap'
HP wants to get physical with virtual servers

We'll touch you in one, special place
HP out and proud with 8-socket server beast

Reenters the bigosphere
Intel 'Nehalem' CPU 'borrows' AMD Phenom cache plan

L3 promoted, L2 demoted
Iomega wooed by new EMC offer

Unzips superior proposal
Juniper routers get firewall service in Junos upgrade

J-series boxes take on security duty
BMC spends $800m on server admin firm BladeLogic

BLOG writes itself out of history
Buffett falls for free ride Google

Er, data smelters aren't cheap, Mr. Oracle
Telehouse plans £80m London data centre expansion

Bigging it up

Management News

Ariane 5 and the Denver luggage handling system

Reg Tech Panel And other unheroic failures

Vista SP1 launched as Phorm declared illegal

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FSA acts as rumours send bank shares crashing

Dealers dealing, traders trading
HP CEO asks investors to do more

Be rich like me
Ex-Brocade HR chief gets four month prison sentence

$1.25m worth of sadness, humility and regret
Yahoo! tries to whip investors into line

Promises moon on a stick
NASDAQ delists Bell Micro for late filing

Shares sink like a stone
US court protects Craigslist from housing suit

Don't call it immunity, though
Google's riches rely on ads, algorithms, and worldwide confusion

Special Feature 'Please ignore the cash machine behind the curtain'
Online banking payment system aims to reduce fraud

Cunning Aussie fix for online payments
Why would someone toss $1.35m at Wikipedia?

Updated Jimbo Wales catches VC from Bono on Mexico City rooftop
eBay dumps ValueClick

ValueClick pays FTC $2.9m over misleading ads
Futurists predict a world of IT fairy tales

Easier to manage? And the three bears...
How big an eco-hazard is IT equipment?

A hard charge to make stick...
Google-Doubleclick clicks as Phorm loses form

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Music and Media News

Esther Dyson clones self

'Genetics just got personal'

Woman accuses RIAA of killing dolphins

'You treated me like a dead person'
Apple 'mulls all-you-can-eat music plan'

iTunes Unlimited: A lock-in for life?
Korea's P2P pirate goes legal, targets Europe

Free bundled P2P: The shape of things to come?

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