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'Difficult not to be pessimistic' says veteran IT distie

Cash reinstalled as legitimate monarch

Computacenter coughs to gloomy first quarter

So who is buying IT these days?
Nvidia, AMD to launch next-gen GPUs next month

GeForce GTX 200 and Radeon HD 4800 series

Comms News

US Congress questions legality of Phorm and the Phormettes

'Talk to us first'

Qualcomm splurges on UK spectrum

Just bag up the whole lot for me, please
Orange signs multi-nation iPhone distribution deal

Jesus Phone coverage spreads
Activist coders aim to deafen Phorm with white noise

Updated Faking it for data pimps

Hardware News

World economy group gives IPv6 big push

Warns about depletion of IPv4 addresses

DNS gaffe leaves spy agency totally under cover

Big website knickers round ankles
OLPC and Microsoft punt Windows-only XO laptop

Odd couple shack up
OLPC's a con - former insider

Departing software chief stings Negroponte
Verizon lands 10-year deal to unify DHS networks

One net to rule them all - and in the darkness find them

Management News

PayPal meltdown wreaks havoc on some ecommerce websites

'Bring me the head of the IPN admins!'

Is Vista ready for Business?

Reg Tech Panel Reboot, then tell us what you think
Yahoo! strikes back at Icahn

Thanks but no thanks

Music and Media News

P2P soars, licensed music flatlines

Today is a good day to ~~die~~ download

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Odds and Sods News

Jihadis: We turned hacked killbots against US troops

ROTM fever spreads to mujahideen press office

Thus spake the Moderatrix

Your problems solved, the world set to rights
The Moderatrix: Exclusive boudoir snap

You've been a naughty, naughty commenter...
BOFH: The PFY's comeuppance

Episode 18 He got a bit zap-happy
Captain Cyborg creates human bat with Reg baseball cap

Ahem...

Public Sector News

Intel chastises AMD for 'scorched earth' anti-trust attack

AMD vs Intel Multi-threaded deposition squadron needed

Privacy? Forget it. Sell your brain and desires to the highest bidder

Comment Web $9.95
UK Carriers safe: Other war-tech ripe for the chopper

Analysis Why won't our flat-tops have catapults, anyway?
Legal experts wary of MySpace hacking charges

'We are all felons if this flies'
Can't decide how to vote? Publicwhip.org will tell you

Machines show you how to vote - you know how this ends
AMD cries foul over Intel's 'river of cash' flowing to Dell

AMD vs Intel Shows Intel Chairman begging for forgiveness
High Court orders MPs to 'fess up on expenses

Show us how you've spent our money
Number crunching knife crime and online ID verification

Legislating in a data-light zone
Government orders data retention by ISPs

Keep it for 12 months for the plods
NHS IT four years late and over budget

Outlook uncertain but expensive

Reg Hardware News

Xbox 360 'eaten' by alligator

Beast of a box

Singapore Airlines docks with Apple

A taste of the high-fi life
What's the best compact camera?

Q&A Q&A
Bill Gates unveils interactive wallpaper

Predicts all walls will become touchscreens
LG and Samsung shake hands over LCDs
Pentax Optio V20 compact camera

Review Sweet and simple?
Wii controller lawsuit costs Nintendo $21m

Texas firms sues Nintendo, and wins!
Sharp claims record mobile fuel cell power density

Shrink it a bit, and it'll replace laptop batteries
Aliph shrinks, polishes bone-conduction Bluetooth headset

The new Jawbone
Samsung handset promises audio bliss

Hip Hop still won't sound any better though
PS3 update fails to fix Grand Theft Auto IV woes

But Sony has a solution, apparently

Science News

'Crazy rasberry ants' target Texan tech

Electronics on the menu for rampaging nutter insects

Security News

'Secure' PayPal page is... you guessed it

Extended SSL no match for the power of XSS

SANS sounds alarm on Debian OpenSSL flaw

Lockpicking script prompts alarm
Outback hack suspect denied bail

Strewth he's deleted the system

Software News

W3C 'clarifies' HTML 5 v XHTML

Vendors moving too fast on RIA

HP begs AMD PC owners to put XP SP3 on ice

Wait for ~~sticky plaster~~ patch
Google Translate speaks in (more) tongues

Adds 10 new languages
Virtual Earth puts human face on data

Project Watch: Microsoft 2008 Lightweight programming, minus Google

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