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Comms News

Everyone's a winner in the Comcast - BitTorrent detente

Analysis Everyone except the Neutralists?

Mobile phone stress stalks quivering nation

Press one for heart attack
Virgin Media in talks to trial three strikes regime against P2P

Second time lucky for the BPI?

Hardware News

Dell axes 900 jobs in Austin plant shutdown

But hey, $3bm in savings!

HP intros midrange, easy-on-the-grid servers

Energy efficient rack and blade, plus Linux love
Citrix debuts XenServer 4.1 with simpler pricing

Per server pricing outpaces punctuality?
Creative threatens developer over home-brewed Vista drivers

Fans say 'give the man a job'
Blighty's Museum of Computing forced to go mobile

Down and out and about in Swindon
HSBC e-payments system goes titsup

Banking bamboozled for whole weekend
Exec sounds death knell for games consoles

R.I.P
Pentagon in QuEST for quantum-teleport spooky IT

Well, some crypto-cracking hardware anyway
Elpida hikes DRAM prices 20 per cent

Will others follow?

Management News

Amazon smacks little people with BookSurge

On-demand Battle of the Bulge

Microsoft EULA lands it with $175m Indian tax headache

Words are cheap, until the lawyers get to work
Shell waves goodbye to 3,000 IT staffers in $4bn outsourcing gig

Oil-y company
Sage annexes construction software firm

Tekton lays new foundations
Credit crunch hits finance sector - small biz next?

Bankers slash IT spend
Apple 'most successful world brand'

Cillit Bang doesn't get a look in

Music and Media News

LiveLeak pulls anti-Koran documentary

But movie has gone viral

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Odds and Sods News

Need a new duster? Avoid Woolies

NSFW Spring cleaning filth and fury shakes Middle England

Ohio man cuffed for shagging picnic table

Furniture-based public indecency caught on camera

Public Sector News

IBM blackballed in US federal ambush

One way to find out your customer has an issue

Tory tackles Whitehall on Wiki-updating spooks

And exposes Adonis amending himself
US allows visual inspections of nipple rings

TSA ditches pliers after Texas airport piercing rumpus

Reg Hardware News

Tengu - the PC pal

You talk, it grins back

Vivitar unveils N93i-esque camcorder

A few specs released
GTA IV coming to the DS Lite?

Stylus at the ready
LG's ice cream phone

Sundae dialer
3rd Space FPS gaming vest

Review Could've been a great gaming accessory, but came up short
Sony's 'energy saving' TV

Power down, not off

Science News

Japanese boffins could save UK from economic doom

Bacon sarnie'n'beer induced rat liver failure reversed

Jules Verne creeps up on ISS

Space truck struts its stuff prior to docking
Assyrian clay tablet points to 'Sodom and Gomorrah' asteroid

29 June 3123 BC starts with a bang

Security News

Apple lags MS in security response

Fear of a Black Hat

Poisoned websites staying contaminated longer

Booby trap threat
Euro 2008 sales site in drive-by download attack

Caught offside with Trojan downloader code
Adware slips between pages of e-book

Iliad reader carries unwelcome surprise

Software News

Snitching is less than golden for piracy informers

We're in the money. Not really

Early calls to simplify Eclipse

Do it or lose it to NetBeans
Adobe cuddles up to Linux Foundation

Slings out AIR test version
OOXML approved as international standard?

But voting process slammed
Build and manage large-scale C++ on Windows

DLLs versus shared objects

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