Channel News

• AMD to hire TSMC to fab 'Fusion' CPUs?

  Major foundry deal in the offing, moles claim

Comms News

• Dallas kids tracked for their own good

  No more playing by the ol' water hole

• HomePlug retakes lead in powerline Ethernet standards race

  Once more unto the vote, dear friends

• UK punters love Nokia, hate McDonalds

  Still buying more burgers than phones though

• Brits favour ASBOs for unruly mobile users

  A step too far?

• Tiscali crosses Carphone Warehouse from bidders list

  Dance card amended

Developer News

Hardware News

• Sun gives servers an Opteron quad job

  Three new boxes and a five-pack refresh

• IBM's Cell blade boosted by memory and floating point gains

  Now shipping with more relevance

• Next Ubuntu LTS in 2010, unless Linuxes synchronize

  Common components

• Brocade cranks its Fibre switches and HBAs to 8Gb/s

  Speedier SAN selection sighted

• Vendor touts notebook as desktop server replacement

  Marvel at its quad-core processor! Gasp at its one-hour battery life!

Management News

• HP pays $13.9bn for EDS

  Updated Silicon Valley opens a branch in Texas

Odds and Sods News

• Son of 419 victim contacts El Reg

  Dad taken for $70k, pondering suicide

• Oz driver sticks seatbelt on slab of beer

  Do I buckle up the tinnies, or the 5-year-old kid?

• Kiwi airliners converted into giant iPod docks

  'Your aircraft becomes an authorised Apple accessory'

Public Sector News

• SOCA denies ditching crime boss hunt

  Still seeking Mr Big

• Becta asks EC to probe Microsoft school deals

  Unfair licensing for non-interoperable products

• Ofcom sharpens cutlasses for pirate radio assault

  Internal docs expose plans for fines, surveillance

• Taser rolls out taser-on-a-roll, new military zapbomb deal

  Stunning new technology

• Computer Misuse Act changes are delayed further

  DoS attacks not criminal till October

Reg Hardware News

• Gizmondo console revamp 'on track' for Q4 launch, claims boss

  Only here for the Freer

• Grand Theft Auto IV sales drop fails to shake title's pole position

  UK sales more than halve

• LapDome P***t Business laptop bag and shade

  Review Now you can type and tan

• Sony OLED TV longevity claim challenged

  Quoted lifespan not realistic, claims analyst

• USB 2.0 - or not?

  Q&A Q&A

• Japan's ciggie machines to sniff out buyer's age

  All smoke and mirrors?

Science News

• Heathrow 777 crash: Siberian cold to blame?

  Probe into 'reduced fuel flow' considers possible freezing

• Airbus revises A380 delivery schedule

  Further delays

• UK's tallest bovine soars to 6ft 6in

  An awful lot of bullock

Security News

• Debian fixes serious crypto bug

  Locksmith overtime for sys admins

• Lewis Hamilton and friend targeted in computer blackmail plot

  Unwiped disc palaver

Software News

• Google and Facebook socialize world+dog

  Having faces is not enough

• Google Android winners shun publicity

  No, I don't want to be your 'friend'

• Windows Server 2008 bundles get first 'public' airing

  Taking care of the little guy

• Microsoft slams OEMs over XP SP3 install cock-up

  Suffers serious image problem

• MS whips lens cap off WorldWide Telescope

  To reveal? The inexorable blackness of space