Channel News

• Snubbed shareholders slam Atos Origin

  Rebels demand boardroom sitdown

• Fayrewood gains pounds from new skinny look

  Lifts pre-tax profit out of the red

• AMD readies two-GPU Radeon HD 3850 X2

  3870 X2's younger brother

• Spending slowdown hits Oracle third quarter

  Buy more companies!

• UK to fly the flag for OOXML

  Exclusive Source: BSI gives file format thumbs up

• World's slimmest 256GB SSD unveiled

  Lose pounds, not gigabytes

• Attackers hose down Microsoft's Jet DB Engine

  Cabbages decided no patch needed

• Laptop vendors burned in battery plant blaze

  HP, Dell and Asus struggle to plug supply hole

• Microsoft tries to talk its way into VoIP

  What's that? Speak up

• Dell signs Croma to sell PCs in India

  From US gloom to Asian bloom...

Comms News

• Phone loss equals social catastrophe, claims carrier

  Lock up your datas

• Ofcom climbs on Byron bandwagon

  We blame the parents

• Comcast admits it can do the impossible

  'We will stop busting BitTorrents'

• Tokyo 250Mbps mobile supernetwork speeds into life

  Did you see it? There it goes again....

• Ticked-off former Motorola 'insider' gives his two cents

  'If only you had listened to me'

• Bell Canada chokes BitTorrent traffic on someone else's ISP

  Rocky VII: The Throttling

• WiMAX has 'failed miserably'

  Aussie pokes WiMAX bubble

• Premium rate watchdog primes 'Miss Bimbo' probe

  PhonepayPlus thinks of the children

• Domain hijackers forced to return numeric names

  007.nl is taken

• Motorola cuts off gangrenous right arm

  Mobile division left to fend for itself

• Ofcom hits green on in-flight calling

  EU price caps won't apply 3km up

• Teachers crucified by coughing pupils

  I'm Spartacus. No, I'm Spartacus

• The Guardian ditches Phorm

  Updated Newspaper dumps its data pimping Valentine

• Mobile snap murderer jailed for life

  'Gross levels of depravity', says sentencing judge

• BT 'security upgrade' causes email headaches

  If your domain's not down, you're not sending mail

• Dear Hull, all your typos are belong to Karoo

  Something fishy about DNS hijacking

• FCC opens curtain on Google puppetmaster

  Comment Verizon plays the puppet

Developer News

Hardware News

• How safe is VMware's hypervisor?

  CanSecWest The debate rages on

• AMD announces tri-core, tweaked quad-core Phenoms CPUs

  But why buy an X3 now when faster ones are a month or so away?

• Rambus wins big in monopoly ding-dong

  But must still overturn FTC ruling

• IBM's cloud computer drifts over Georgia and Ohio

  Future of admin sanity at stake

• Sun's chip boss fertilizes budding Juniper branch

  David Yen enters the bush

• Atrato unveils super fast SAID storage unit

  Cleans up after itself

• Parallels pads hosting play with ModernGigabyte buy

  AntiqueGigabyte already taken

• Four 1TB hard drives on test

  Round-up A quartet of desktop drives compared

• Yahoo! cuddles Google's bastard grid-child

  Stuffed Elephant Summit Gets 'butt kicking' from Microsoft

• Intel slims low-power Xeon chips to 45nm

  New 50W chips bump clock speed and cache

• Laptops and developing countries drive strong PC growth (maybe)

  Gartner reads the entrails

• NetApp and Halliburton: going further, faster, together

  But there can be only one

• Dell enters PAN Manager's Labyrinth

  Egenera makes a new friend

• WD touts 320GB 'elite' pocket hard drive

  Status warranted by encryption app and capacity readout

• Fujitsu fetes 'first' 320GB, 7200rpm laptop drive

  Or will a rival ship first?

• Juniper acquires Sun's chip chief with one Yen

  Routers prepare for delays

• VMware and Dell on the road to India

  Like Sulekha Yellow Pages, they're Bangalore bound

• Marathon ships He-Man virtual machine protector

  Power of Grayskull results in everRun VM

• Yahoo! outsources! India's! giant! supercomputer!

  14,000 Pig-powered processors

• DARPA funds Sun's optical chip chatter magic

  $44m mulligan

• Verizon makes nice with P2P

  We can help ISPs turn internet into big TV set

• Intel wants to get into heavy petascaling

  Xeon topping

• SGI slots 'Seaburg' chipset into blades

  Adds Altix ICE casings

• ClearSpeed floats - ouch - 3.0 flagship code

  For the Random Number Generator Librarian in you

• Bain and Huawei bail on 3Com buyout

  You can't fight city hall

• Ubuntu does bird beta

  Hardy Heron all Wubily

Management News

• Amazon's cloud now less prone to failure

  EC2 adds more elasticity and zonality

• EU marks Visa's cards for anti-trust probe

  Formal proceedings launched

• Citigroup jacks up Yahoo! rating

  And social networking gets open API

• Reg readers want to work for Google

  Reg Technology Panel Salary survey results are in

• Big cheeses rolled into Vista-Incapable lawsuit

  Intel, Dell, IBM, HP, Wal-Mart etcetera etcetera

• Wikipedia scores $3m donation

  Which is nice

• DOJ blesses XM/Sirius marriage

  Smacks lips at a la carte menu

Music and Media News

• Can 1,000 fans replace the music business?

  Analysis Kevin Kelly's recipe for broken dreams

• Geert Wilders faces legal threats over footage copyright

  Violation adds badness

• Dutch MP releases anti-Islam movie

  NL gov in emergency talks

• Picketers maul IBM in Sadville

  One virtually out - all virtually out!

• MPAA copyright punch up knocks out TorrentSpy

  Former BitTorrent champ throws in the towel

• Sony confirms Son of Connect

  Antitrustware, or third time lucky?

• Kids brought up by technology not parents, quango claims

  Robaux pairs, anyone?

• The LSE's Freetard fiasco

  When creator-haters flock together

Odds and Sods News

• BOFH: Fun with automatic doors

  Episode 11 If it can recognise the Boss...

• Wombat rape ordeal turns NZ man Australian

  Traumatised victim spouts Strine

• T5 opening turns into Airp*** 3.0

  Bags lost, flights cancelled, coffee runs out?

• DIY satellite TV installer shoots wife dead

  .22 handgun - not the best way to drill through walls

• Kent bloke buried under 3,000 congestion charge receipts

  Paper tsunami swamps Swanley

• Gilded Perkins puts ego yacht up for sale

  Turns to phallic underwater craft for compensation

• Oregon man stripped by Craigslist looters

  Fake ads provoke giveaway stampede

• British youths think Churchill went to moon

  We will fight them in the craters...

• SP1 drops, iPlayer falls over and Phorm is less than legal

  Comments And bees as far as the eye can see

• BOFH: Impatience

  Episode 10 The PFY goes nuclear

Public Sector News

• Hounslow health trust blasted for FOI failings

  'Totally unacceptable...'

• Denmark signs up for wind powered electric car switch

  A double deck of green...

• The Baying of the Hounds

  Book extract Headspace: How the state is leading us by the nose

• MPs: Axe Nimrod subhunters to balance MoD budget

  Rogue dinosaur project for the chop?

• China takes big (yard)stick to mapping websites

  Clandestine cartography threatens state security

• First 'Facebook harassment' defendant cleared

  Friend request not proved

• Privacy chief says biometric concessions not good enough

  'Kids and the elderly should be exempted'

• DWP extends staff criminal record checks

  Will check all successful candidates

• Hutton: UK must become world No 1 in nuclear power

  Gov's nuke push gets warm reaction from unions

• Byron review calls for computer game ratings

  Which games ARE mad, bad and dangerous to play?

• US Navy sails the open seas

  To empower the fleet, our networks must empower Sailors

• BAA grounds Heathrow T5 fingerprinting system

  Data protection forces 11th hour climbdown

• Boeing faces jumbo problem over US aerial raygun fleet

  Airbus A380s with frikkin' lasers on them?

• Bladerunner and biometrics: Heathrow T5 unveiled

  No bag or being knowingly under-scanned

• Army says farewell to UK's 'bugger-off' airbag drone

  Droid suicide flotilla wiped itself out in 7 years

• UK.gov urged to adopt web-friendly legislation format

  'We can't let you parse XML, Dave Cameron'

• BAA boots Vulture from T5 frequent flyer club

  You are not suitable - step this way please

• Pork and politics energise the biofuel delusion

  Comment Costly, counter-productive, eats all your food. What's not to like?

• US mistakenly sent nuke-ICBM parts to Taiwan in 2006

  They only wanted some batteries, apparently

• American tech spy gets 24 years in cooler

  It's a family affair

• Religious MPs get free vote on hybrid embryos

  Brown compromises following Church pressure

• Awed fraudsters defeated by UK's passport interviews

  No fakes detected - terrorists all move to Belgium

• Israel won't buy US laser cannons to defend borders

  Toxic-waste 'Nautilus' raygun plan dumped again

• China unbans the Beeb

  English language news available for first time

• Civil Serf blogger faces disciplinary action

  Suspended pending investigation into conduct

• Majority of NHSmail accounts are inactive

  And few employees even have one

• US Wi-Fi piggybacking won't put you in pokey

  Proposed bill likely to be blown down

• Turkey bans Facebook app

  Insults to Ataturk not welcome

• MoD opens pork incubator in UK 'Golden Triangle'

  Incubate, unlock, harness, gorge - your taxes at work

• US airline pilot pops a cap in cockpit

  'Accidental discharge' of terror-busting pistol

• Network Solutions pulls anti-Koran website

  Breaches Ts and Cs of course

• UK CCTV numbers 'may be overstated'

  Police seek electronic access to council cameras

• US government cools on Real ID threats

  That's Uncle Sam in the corner

• ICO queries Heathrow T5's huge fingerprint scam scan

  National security now wholly funded by shopping

• Of laptops and US border searches

  Feds seek unfettered access

• State Department workers snooped on all three prez candidates

  'Imprudent curiosity' runs amok

Reg Hardware News

• Levi's rivets up limited edition handset

  Only 100 available

• HD DVD promo body dissolves itself

  Format's life-support facility unplugged

• Asus releases application kit for Eee PC coders

  SDK to boost Xandros app list

• Blu-ray 0, SDHC card 1, THX Chief Scientist predicts

  In-store downloads, not discs, the future

• Apple orders 10m 3G iPhones - analyst

  June release scheduled?

• First permitted in-flight mobile call made

  Hello? Yeah, I'm on a p***...

• Wii Remote raised to defuse explosive situations

  Robot loves WiiMote

• Blu-ray 'to bloom', now HD DVD's dead

  Will you be one of the 18.8m people buying into BD this year?

• Telly addicts developing web addictions

  Time to go cold turkey?

• Cheap as chips wind-up MP3 player

  Batteries not included, or required

• Wii 2.1 sound system

  Review Nothing wee about this sound system

• Modern technology killing seaside postcards

  Open sauce

• Psychologist calls for movie-style ratings for games

• Asus Eee PC 900 flips one at MacBook Air with multi-touch input

  Two fingers to Apple

• LG brings 6x Blu-ray, HD DVD drive to Blighty

  Cure for format war hangovers

• iPhone to get haptic feedback, sort of

• Asus admits big global Eee supply-demand imbalance

  Only 30 per cent of customers able to buy one

• Keyboard PC design recalls Amiga era

  All-in-one

• Samsung shifts 22-vibrate-mode handset

  Throbbing technology with lots of useful applications

• Seagate CEO flips patent finger at SSD makers

  But now's not the time for lawsuits, apparently

• Ahoy! What's the best in-boat TV streaming system?

  Q&A

• Wii Remote controller gets cradle

  Clear the clutter

• Wanted: AMD Athlon upgrade advice

  Q&A

• Chinese drivers get rear-view satnav

  It's got audio too!

• Yes! It's the handgun camcorder!

  Point-and-shoot photography given new meaning

• VuPoint Solutions FS-C1-VP slide scanner

  Review Bring your old snaps out of the analogue era

• Sony rocks en route with Bluetooth car stereo

  In-car audio

• LG's slider promises 'feel of human skin'

  Well, silicone...

Science News

• Boffinry bigwig puts another boot into biofuels

  All UK farmland would barely run Heathrow

• Brit TV company blamed for Peruvian tribal deaths

  Researcher carried flu, claim indigenous locals

• Boffin seeks US Blu-ray, mobile phone import ban

  Alleges mass infringement of blue-laser diode patent

• Transgender man prepares to give birth

  Oregon couple redefine the division of labour

• XCOR challenges Virgin with the Lynx effect

  Suborbital tourist vehicle aloft within two years

• Cassini sniffs Enceladus's 'surprising organic brew'

  Saturnian moon spews building blocks of life

• Endeavour space shuttle returns home

  Florida touchdown under cover of night

• Canadians go out clubbing

  Annual seal cull provokes annual protests

• UK's biggest meteorite impact rocked Scotland

  Prehistoric Ullapool enjoyed 'quite a show'

• Laser designated step'n'fetch wrinkle-robutler shown

  In-home pachyderm tech enters grey lifestyle sector

• Virgin taps Boeing for 787 compensation

  Rattles tin over Dreamliner delays

• Soot almost as bad as CO₂ for global warming

  Smoke gets in eyes of climate boffins

• Endeavour undocks and heads for home

  Touchdown tomorrow

• US auto-emissions cleansed in urine-tech shower

  Mercedes basks in blue-green-golden glow

• X Prize comes to earth

  $10m for most efficient car

Security News

• Next time you go to the loo, bring your locked laptop with you

  CanSecWest DaisyDukes brings memory sniffing to the masses

• US state outlaws RFID data theft

  Card crackers shown red

• Mac is the first to fall in Pwn2Own hack contest

  CanSecWest Safari's bad-hair week

• Buggy Flash code continues to plague the web

  CanSecWest Cost and laziness fuel Evilness' assault

• Cisco unleashes IOS patches

  Fixes five 'moderately critical' flaws

• Mozilla plugs 10 security holes in Firefox

  Thunderbird not go with latest updates

• Spyware 'scammer' sued over PC pop-up invasion

  Washington state cracks down

• Facebook security hole exposes Paris Hilton's . . . um, pics

  Zuckerberg's private moments on display too

• Mozilla CEO blasts Apple for putting security of the internet at risk

  'Really. That's the issue. Not market share'

• Enraged AT&T spam filter eats legitimate mail

  Aims too high to please

• Cyber attacks target pro-Tibetan groups

  Barrage of the trojans

Site News

• IT Culture In Business Performance

  RegCast: Got plans on April 2nd? Cancel them.

• Reg Jobs gets a facelift

  Nip and tuck for a fresh new employment outlook

Software News

• Open AJAX frameworks not fit for 'power users'

  AIR and Silverlight better, says analyst

• OpenOffice update released

  Targets Microsoft Office

• Reality crashes Google hippie code fest

  Disappointing results, rejected projects

• Adobe opens Photoshop for freetards

  Express yourself, online

• Dump IE 6 campaign runs afoul of dump IE 6 campaign

  Accusations, denials, tee-shirts

• Apple forbids Windows users from installing Safari for Windows

  First they mock web security. Then EULAs

• Red Hat criticizes 'lousy' open source participation

  OSBC CEO wants to define 21st century

• Microsoft and JasperSoft connect on Excel

  OSBC On-demand service taps power of desktop

• Vista SP1 customers get free support

  Microsoft responds to grumbles

• IBM chips into EnterpriseDB love fund

  OSBC GridSQL for all

• Cuba, India vote no on OOXML

  Aligning up against Microsoft

• AJAX patent threat to giants under the hammer

  IP 101 for Web 2.0

• The secret to evolutionary code

  Book extract, part one Emergent Design: basic principles