Channel News

• Best Buy eyes up Europe, buys into Carphone Warehouse

  Paint it yellow

• Creative to free Audigy Windows Vista compatibility app

  And buyers to be refunded

• Sage sees flat US market

  But Europe helps boost first half

• Nvidia paid the right amount for 3dfx, court affirms

  Long-dead GPU brand exhumed, swiftly re-interred

• BestBuy blasts into UK with Carphone Warehouse buy

  Phone chain sells 50 per cent of retail business

Comms News

• ITV fined millions for phone fraud

  Unprecedented Ofcom smackdown

• Apple out to recruit 3G-savvy iPhone field testers

  Engineering posts offered in Oz, UK, Germany

• Philips hops on 'iPhone killer' bandwagon

  A sexy little number

• Bournemouth floats UK's first 100Mbps sewer broadband network

  Insert fibre/ Wii/ pipe/ download / backdoor/ flush/ log pun here

Developer News

Hardware News

• Hitachi slips past Fujitsu with speedy 320GB laptop drive

  7,200rpm, 2.5-inch drive out-firsts 'world's first'

• Surprise, surprise: F5 is doing something

  A storage de-dupe and network acceleration box

• iPlayer to tart up Freesat

  Beeb and ITV square up to Sky

Management News

• Murdoch sees MySpace miss targets

  Something about chickens and roosting

Music and Media News

• MySpace revs profile transfer engine

  Down with the walled garden

• MEPs back sports 'intellectual property' landgrab

  Own(ing) goals

Odds and Sods News

• I want a baby, coos broody Paris Hilton

  Bless

• Lithuanians whip out their WILI-S

  Cheap innuendo heads for Wireless '08

• Isabella Rossellini romps with praying mantis

  NSFW Bizarre 'Green Porno' trailers hit YouTube

Public Sector News

• India and Belgium decry Chinese cyber attacks

  Join the ranks

• Ofcom lays out wireless roadmap

  P***s, trains and automobiles

• Lancashire plodcopters in laser dazzle outrage outbreak

  Blind justice meted out to presentational-aid yob trio

• Washington cops may be compelled to use gun-cams

  GunTube shoot uploads to 'improve community relations'

• Extreme porn bill gets final reading

  Brace for dirty book burnings, smut amnesties

• Home Secretary goes crazy on drugs... policy

  Comment Cannabis abuse prompts irrational legislating

Reg Hardware News

• MSI releases £235 desktop Eee PC rival ahead of Asus

  Ready for Linux

• Carphone Warehouse, O2 to continue to offer 16GB iPhone

  Still demand for it

• Id Dooms gamers to new shoot-'em-up sequel

  Dive into the melee. Deploy superior firepower. Endure

• Samsung slips out skinny phone

  Pocket friendly

• TomTom plots UK flagship satnav range

  Mirror, signal, satnav

• Peekaboo pledges pole-dance kit for Wii

  Will do for pole-dancing what Guitar Hero did for rock'n'roll

Science News

Security News

• Facebook agrees to child-safety measures

  Reining in Web 2.0 predators

• Interpol appeal unmasks US actor as child abuse suspect

  Operation IDent-ification

• Renault F1 comp site spills entrants' details

  You will never break the chain

• HSBC in further data loss

  Stolen Hong Kong server contained data on 159K

• Firefox language pack provides adware back-door

  Ho Chi Hack trail

• Rare SCADA bug poses power plant risk

  Wonderware scare

Software News

• Salesforce boss Benioff pushes cloud

  Pours scorn on Microsoft, bear hugs Sir Stelios

• OpenOffice.org 3 beta lands

  Flex your fingers