Channel News

Comms News

• Ad-funded mobile co gets advertisers...

  And punters too

• RIM reportedly delays 3G BlackBerry to avoid next-gen iPhone

  8900 en-route to AT&T in August?

• P2P site cries traffic shaping foul at Canuck ISP

  A question of resets

• Carphone Warehouse cleared out of 8GB iPhones

  O2 sold-out online too

• Spike Milligan goes mobile

  Goon show ringtones

• Q1 post-Xmas lull reverses iPhone growth curve

  Big names hit by seasonal dip too

• 'Safe' mobile phone battery firm goes titsup

  UK punters don't want protecting

Developer News

Hardware News

• Build a 14.5 watt data center in a shoebox

  All it takes is a buffalo and some courage

• And now it's time for Data Warehouses as a Service

  Kognitio monitors toaster inventory over the wire

• InPhase finally to phase in holographic disk

  Feels like the 900th time

• Solaris update woos elderly apps

  Intel's SpeedStep inside too

• Apple gets into mine-sweeping, missiles and storage

  General Jobs

• Nexan hopes to get rich off Beast and Boy wonders

  $81m SATA IPO to SEC

• Server makers snub whalesong for serious windmill abuse

  Crimes against clip art

• Boffins ponder 100-year archive made of TOMES

  A MAID to preserve culture and decency

• EMC's love/hate relationship with thin provisioning

  'Mandatory' and 'Overplayed'

Music and Media News

• Starbucks exits music biz

  Offloads Hear Music

Odds and Sods News

• El Reg obtains snap of OGC logo reveal

  LogoWatch NSFW Shock image of stunned staff

• Harman hack horror has blog backing Boris

  Official website hacked! Spoof posts blogged!

• Prank callers crash Dublin Zoo phone system

  Stressed operators need Amanda Huggenkiss

• BOFH: PFY's mum pays a visit

  Episode 15 You can choose your friends...

• Welsh student exposed to nude webcam operators

  'Disgusted' by kit-off job ads

• Hellboy helmsman to direct The Hobbit

  Guillermo del Toro travels to Middle Earth

Public Sector News

• Department of Homeland Security website hacked!

  Infected by massive attack sweeping the net

• 'Extreme porn' law could criminalise millions

  Analysis Here come illegal pictures of legal activity

• Securing cyberspace against war, terror and red tape

  Interview DHS's Greg Garcia in the hot seat

• Boris backs weed for pain relief

  Smoke away for chronic pain

• BAE to build DARPA's 'intrinsically secure' mobile net

  British industry money still on the cutting edge

• Scotland Yard pokes crooks on Facebook

  Policing 2.0: From Flying squad to surfing squad

• Senate outlaws genetic discrimination

  Gattaca UK

• UK airports to trial face scan passport checks

  If your face fits, you're in

Reg Hardware News

• MP3 player looks like a cassette, is a cassette

  Reel-to-real

• LG to mass-produce 32in OLED TVs by 2011

  Sony, Samsung and Toshiba close behind

• Asus Eee PC 900 Linux Edition

  Review Bigger screen, bigger disk... but bigger price?

• Sagem proffers classy caller

  Ice, ice, baby

• Sony, Samsung LCD JV to double 8G panel production

  Big demand for big tellies

Science News

• Governator outs Dubya's global-warming 'time bomb'

  'I preempt your preemption'

• Motorised meat-smoker droid vigilante patrols Atlanta

  Vagrants live in fear of the 'Bum Bot'

• DARPA wants microscopic atom clocks on chips

  To put inside brainchip zombie cyborg moths, of course

• Do biofuels cause famine? EU President opens probe

  Culprit sought for higher food prices

Security News

• MS patch system poses 'significant risk', say researchers

  The fix could automate production of the attack

Software News