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Channel News

PC World, Currys staff to be dumped in DSGi rescue plan?

Best Buy could bid for electrical retail giant

RM must try harder in second half

Full year expectations unchanged
Qimonda puts 4.5GHz graphics memory into mass-production

Calling all GPU vendors...

Comms News

Business suit tailored to reflect phone radiation

Something more stylish to go with your tinfoil hat

How ComScore can track your mouse clicks

Explores stream of unconsciousness
RIM pitches 'power user' tri-band HSDPA BlackBerry

Bold sneaks in ahead of 3G iPhone

Hardware News

Intel feeds Google solid state disks

SSD shortage coming?

AMD excises two senior execs, while promoting server chief

Central Engineering roadmap task force formed
Babbage's Difference Engine hits Silicon Valley

Wafers? Nah. How about bronze and wood?
Data Domain guns de-duping gear

Quad-core injection
Fedora 9 - an OS that even the Linux challenged can love

Plenty of muscle for hard core nerds too
VMware ships disaster recovery and testing software

Plopped into two new management bundles
HP tipped to take over BT's datacentres in £1.5bn deal

CEOs plan back-scratching calls this week?
AMD grabs for the data centre with low-power server chip

Pushes thermal envelope
Nvidia CEO says 'no' to VIA acquisition

Graphics company doesn't need in-house CPU tech - for now...
Facebook CTO logs out

Co-founder off to the beach

Management News

HP in talks to buy EDS

Hurd's big bite

Microsoft Office chief to manage Bill Gates

Well, his foundation
Perot Systems buys into Ireland

Writes Limerick developer a big cheque
El Reg shares the knowledge

Reg Research Primed for business
Google-Yahoo! collects some strange enemies

Advocacy groups and rural voters

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Odds and Sods News

Burma 'Gone with the Wind', suggests Telegraph

Cyclone orphans - the musical

ITV challenges Beeb for cheap innuendo crown

'Butt seized by terror police'
Mounties taser bed-ridden octagenarian

Knife-wielding old-timer in hospital shocker

Public Sector News

Microsoft denies Zune copyright cop

Innovation '08 We play both sides of the IP fence

USAF Colonel goes on the offensive with botnet destroyer plan

Enemies reduced to 'hunks of metal and plastic'
British Gas sues Accenture

Ahh... they deserve each other
Taser gun usage soaring among UK cops

Proportion of actual shockings down, though
UK.gov solves pensioner crisis by wiring them up to the net

Poking oldsters to check they're still alive
Web cam images undo MacBook thieves

You've been iFramed

Reg Hardware News

Man makes table-sized NES controller, complains about mug-marks

Don't spill your tea here

Cruciform MP3 player wins hearts of goths, god-rockers

Audio enlightenment
Apple to announce handheld games console at WWDC?

Comment 3G iPhone launch a decoy
Toshiba to mass-produce mobile-friendly fuel cells in 2009

Assault on batteries
LG KF700 slider phone

Review Triple-action, touch-screen handset
Optus named second Oz iPhone carrier

Multi-network sales approach confirmed

Science News

Weapons, oil prices driving worldwide atom ambitions

Join the Nuclear Club, get a nuclear club

Shuttle astronauts: Aliens are definitely out there

Haven't personally seen any - it's more of a feeling

Security News

TJX credit card heist suspect, 2 others, accused of new scam

Dave and Busted

Researchers dig into x86 chips for stealthier rootkits

Hiding under the radar
DVD smut malware blights US forces in Iraq

A different kind of insurgency
Hacker posts personal details of 6m Chileans

I told you it was insecure
Set-top box modders sent to prison

Teach telly hackery, go directly to jail

Software News

Back to the future: the Java client’s second go-round

Following the fads

Windows XP SP3 blame game begins

AMD feels the heat as Microsoft goes AWOL on fix
Hippies reclaim summer of code

Overthrow the soft-o-crats!

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