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Channel News

Apple pushes past Toshiba in US

But not on the world stage

Intel: laptop/desktop crossover coming sooner than expected

Small, Cheap Computers™ driving demand

Comms News

Microsoft teases mobile developers with 'big' Silverlight deals

ReMix 08 Proof/pudding scenario

Truphone adds £16.5m to global operator hope chest

I wish I were big
Nokia's Comes With Music 'comes without profits'

Has world's biggest paytard left brain in sauna?
Orange eyes up TeliaSonera

Superpower or super bloat?
BT's secret Phorm trials open door to corporate eavesdropping

Government bumbling exposes oversight gap
The iPhone learns to read

Let your fingers do the writing

Hardware News

Fujitsu and friends arm four-core Opteron servers

Volume turned up

Hitachi to go it alone on discs after all

Hard driving to self-sufficiency

Management News

Google and Yahoo! 'move closer' to ad wedlock

Microhoo Know Ballmer is watching

Nokia takes a Q1 tumble

Blames everything it can think of for mobile woes

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Music and Media News

This DVD will self-destruct in 48 hours

It's smokin'!

Odds and Sods News

Oldham murders owl with whalesong

LogoWatch Spunks £100k on 'circle of unity' logo

Brit tourist blags his way onto Iron Man set

Lands a scene with Gwyneth Paltrow
YouTube divorce rant vid wows the crowd

Missus lays into Broadway exec, and then some

Public Sector News

SQL string in URL exposes sex offender data

And much more, in Oklahoma coding fiasco

Feds to collect DNA of every person they arrest

Creepy mission creep
Harvard bitch seeks to strip Zuckerberg's Facebook trademark

De-friending your classmates
US courts erode protections for online publishers

Liability for user-posted content in question
Pirate Bay offers uncensored, ad-backed blog hole

Vows to protect 'uncomfortable thoughts'
US law makers seek ban on in-flight calls

'Noisome disruption in search of further revenue'
Anti-paedophile group targets child abuse sites

Calls for 'global attack'
French Colonial Marines to get Aliens medic-datalink

Nukez-les de l'orbite - c'est la seule manière d'être sûr

Reg Hardware News

Yes! It's the sawed-off USB key!

Practical IT jokes

Sony shaves OLED panel to 0.3mm

Non-fattening TV
The telly's an Armani, dahling

Smashing! Super! Sweetie!
Music biz proposes 'iPod tax' in return for format-shift freedom

Pay for the CD, pay again to rip it
Intempo Rebel DJ and ad-zapping FM radio

Review Most definitely with a cause
Man proposes to prospective partner with games console

Wii'll you marry me?
Hauppauge pitches PC TV tuner at Freesat punters

Freeview by satellite

Security News

Miserly marks get smart to UK phishing fraudsters

Attacks up, but losses down

Firefox and Safari updates tackle alternative browser bugs

Mozilla garbage function gets trashed

Software News

Sun may shut off high-end MySQL features

Pay-to-play fires up grassroots hoots

Microsoft soothes Vista pain with Bossploitation flick

Tired of being taken seriously
Red Hat scurries away from consumer desktop market

Pesky Microsoft just won't play ball
eBay Australia faces competition probe

PayPal only policy backfires
Pump some IronPython with Studio IDE

Hands on part 2 Visual Studio stripped for action

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