Channel News

• Intel preps low-cost two-, four-core challenge to AMD's Phenom X3

  New entry-level CPUs near release

• US PC sales sputter amidst economic gloom

  But laptop shipments boost worldwide growth

• Data breaches easily prevented - report

  And often undetected for months

• Global semiconductor sales forecast slashed

  A wee DRAM problem

• Intel pledges free USB 3.0 chip spec 'early H2'

  Tells grumbling chip makers to pipe down

• AMD pooh-poohs dual-core 'Kuma' cancellation claim

  Allegation is bollocks, company states

• Toshiba readies 'highest capacity' 1.8in SATA hard drive

  Only 8mm thick

• Microsoft struggles to rid US shores of pesky pirates

  Walking the plank - again

• RM boss says school's out forever

  Quits 'demanding' role after six years

• Toshiba Cell-based GPU trounces quad-core CPU

  SpursEngine 1, Intel Core 2 Quad 0

• Trend withdraws from 'irrelevant' VB100 anti-virus test

  So last century

• HP settles patent row with Acer

  Buries hatchet in secret deal

Comms News

• LG premieres world's first phone with built-in Bluetooth headset

• Google preps net neut dowser

  Innovation 08 'If Comcast won’t tell you, find out yourself'

• Irish mobile numbers just too portable

  Easily stolen, quickly recovered

• Free Wi-Fi still a goer in San Fran'

  Free love, free Wi-Fi

• EU to 'guide' local regulators on digital dividend

  Mme Reding readies big stick for Ofcom

• Bubbles mean O2, but anyone can use them

  UK carrier takes an early bath

• Property slump hits Carphone Warehouse

  Broadband deployments drag down figures

• France gets closer to 'three strikes' downloader web ban

  International war on pirates part deux

• Canadian spectrum auction brings in the bacon

  Up to $3.4bn and rising

• T-Mobile calls it a day for WAP

  No more circuit-switched data tariffs

• Apple takes the operator's shilling

  You are no longer the customer

• ASA slaps down Vodafone 'unlimited' data claims

  Plus ça change

• Blue Whale pushes email for free

  Only it's really pulling, obviously

• Government backs Ofcom against EU regulator plan

  No to EU overlord regulator

• New York talks net giants into child pornography crackdown

  Time Warner torches newsgroups

• O2 prices up the latest iPhone

  You might need the calculator

• MPs urge action as spooky caller ID-faking services hit UK

  Exclusive 'Be anyone you want to be'

• EU mulls intervention over BT's secret Phorm trials

  Your views sought

• Afghan cellco accuses rivals of funding Taliban

  Why else are we being attacked?

• Making the mobile web ubiquitous

  New wizards to take idiots onto phones

• Apple's 3G iPhone to launch 11 July

  WWDC Price halved

• FCC free wireless scheme trapped in lobby limbo

  Interference hits 'lifeline broadband'

• Apple under the gun to master the iPhone's 'second album'

  Comment We know near. Show us far

• Competition watchdogs urged to act on 'commercial iPlayer'

  'snot fair

• Vendor punts coin-operated Wi-Fi base-station

  Slot machine

• Samsung sneaks out snazzy 3G iPhone rival

  Omnia first phone to integrate Windows Mobile, haptics

• Ofcom slices up the digital dividend

  Hurry, before Brussels finds out!

Hardware News

• Copan's bid for greatness

  Analysis Ward's way for relief from data obesity

• UK prisoners offered data cabling training

  Cat Burglar 5 specialists?

• IBM traps Captain P***t in a container

  Shrink wrapped data centers all the rage

• IBM's SVC gets thin provisioning

  Pillar patted

• Scalent strokes physical to virtual to whatever you like play

  V/OE 2.5 - a real-time swapper

• Apple chucks PA Semi at Jesus Phone

  'We will build our own mega-chips'

• Red Hat cancels one-click world domination effort

  Now banking on enthusiasm

• Symantec pays $123m for consumer online storage house

  Symantec Vision '08 SwapDrive swaps owners

• IBM's Power6 slaughters world+HP in transaction cranking

  5.0GHz and $17m run to glory

• Fujitsu gives Solaris x86 the big squeeze

  HP now the lone OS holdout

• Windows Server 2008 cuts power costs, claims Microsoft

  Compared to Windows Server 2003 that is

• Market watcher warns of 'Nehalem' slippage

  Customer expectations high, Intel told

• NetApp adds girth to its midrange storage

  Cache-serving modules and appliances for HPC

• Symantec fluffs up its backup getup

  Symantec Vision '08 Netbackup integrates de-dupe and CDP

• Symantec tools up with Xen for VMware assault

  Symantec Vision '08 Storage management with a server virtualization twist

• VMware turns Thinstall into ThinApp

  Probably didn't get the name from Thinair

• AMD inks aid for HPC parallel code hounds

  Deals in multiple multi-threaded apps

• AMD pitches latest Opterons at swollen boxen

  Time to roll scale up the data centre

• US nuke boffins smash petaflop barrier with 'Roadrunner'

  Cell/Opteron chimera supercomputer whups 44 mouse brains

• Fellow from AMD ridicules Cell as accelerator weakling

  Opteron and GPU will conquer all

Management News

• eBay told to stop forcing Aussies to use PayPal

  Temporary suspension on competition grounds

• Edinburgh Fringe ticket site dead as a parrot

  Whoops, there go my trousers customers

• Edinburgh Fringe box office system goes titsup

  No laughing matter

• British workaholics win EU opt out deal

  Agency staff granted more equal rights

• Icahn spews green ink at Yahoo!

  Enough with the letters Carl, get yourself a penpal

• Labour isn't working for IT contractors

  Leave my heap of cash alone

• Yahoo!'s latest letter warns of letters

  irritating lack of capitals ahead

• Icahn laughs at Yahoo!

  Details Googlicious takeover plan

• Amazon.com's US site KO'd!

  Updated Assailant unknown

Music and Media News

• Radio's click-to-buy music service goes titsup

  Another DAB failure

• Country mice oppose Yahoogle

  'A threat to the dusty back roads of the information superhighway'

• EMI hires the Biggest Brain in Sadville

  Why?

Odds and Sods News

• BOFH: Shafting the consultants over the new layout

  Episode 22 Marking territory

• Eccentric brain-chip admiral expelled by toff schools

  Flashmob goth Nostradamus war hero goes overboard

• Bloke finds illegal immigrants living in loft

  Kosovan squatter shocker

• Oz mobe vid flasher caught red-handed

  Cracks one off for appreciative police audience

• BBC deploys the Tw*t-O-Tron

  Unholy turdspurt feedback loop

• RAF strafes Next in pirated duvet copyright rumpus

  Flyboys target bedspreads to protect brand revenue

• Pope gives blessing to anti-christ terrorist squad

  Gendarmes get Interpol link, Swiss Guards get guns

• Angry? Try the Tw*t-O-Tron

  Automated vitriol for true patriots

• US stops Optimus Prime at the border

  Comments 'We've already filled our giant robot quota'

• Taxing times for Hungary's porn inspectors

  NSFW Tax allowance claim grumble flick marathon

• Chinese 419er punts a whopping $8

  Get not-very-rich quick opportunity

Public Sector News

• Becta schools deal stuns British open-istas

  UK tech quango's 'posturings...a sham'

• Ex-Sun chief to fight Davis in '42 days' by-election

  Gordon Brown ate my civil liberties

• DARPA pilot-ware unflappable in wing-fling damage test

  Don't shoot the robots, you'll just make them mad

• EU security agency gets three more years

  Extra time for ENISA

• British pilot makes first supersonic stealth jumpjet flight

  Harrier successor's engine bother hover hold-up

• Top Tory resigns on principle over 42 days bill

  On what?

• US dominates tech R&D

  Propped up nicely by foreign scientists, engineers

• Kremlin pushes Cyrillic alphabet net

  Nationalism online

• Intelligence documents left on a train

  Updated: Laptop ban no barrier to government's data giveaway

• Congressmen say Chinese hacked their PCs

  Dissident locations, other sensitive data intercepted

• US appeals judge shares porn stash with world +dog

  Maverick libertarian presiding over obscenity trial

• UK watchdog barks at MPs' expenses

  Electoral system not too clever either

• Mobile fingerprinting heads to another 10 police forces

  NPIA raises the blue Lantern

• NHS standardisation failed, says London CIO

  'Pragmatic, rather than dogmatic'

• Ofcom swoops on caller ID-faking firm with... request for information

  Your regulator: On top of the issues that matter

• Interstate web host foils gonzo porn baron Max Hardcore

  California obscenity, Florida conviction

• Qinetiq rolls out 'third party' SDK for killer robot lines

  Droid-legion hax0r warlords should get in on the beta

• MPs call Qinetiq sellout execs 'profiteers' - no, really?

  Comment Cutlasses, parrots retrospectively seen as clues

• Google supports US privacy law

  If it stops stronger laws anyway

• Yahoo! shareholders call for Icahn preemption

  Another kick to Yang's fiduciaries

• US bars ID refuseniks from p***s - but not ID losers

  Go figure

• Another police website hacked

  First the Home Office, now local plods

• EC's 'Steelie' Neelie snubs Microsoft Office

  Choose life, choose open standards

• EU orders horsemeat and chips in equine passport scheme

  Four legs now, two legs next?

• NZ hydropower drought could see leccy rationing

  Frosty towel-rails as Kiwi juice dries up

• US Supremes limit royalty double dippage

  That's like putting your whole mouth right in the patent!

• Manchester's congestion charge: pay-to-leave

  New Order promises Confusion

• Man accused of using LinkedIn to steal clients

  Ex-employee must disclose online contacts, rules UK court

• Blighty admits 'national shortage' of nuke engineers

  Hello, is that the Pyongyang job centre?

• Climate supremo deploys knitwear in war on patio heaters

  Scratchy pullovers will save us all - Woolas

• UK is not a surveillance society, MPs claim

  Well, not yet anyway

• Cavalcade of privacy watchdogs bark for data pimping probe

  Deep packet inspection goes to Washington

• US FTC cracks open anti-trust investigation on Intel

  AMD vs Intel Alleged predatory pricing scrutinized

• US air force chiefs sacked in robot-armada brouhaha

  Bigwigs also fingered in mislaid atom bomb bungle

Reg Hardware News

• Shuttle lands one-of-a-kind Alone in the Dark PC

• Sharp pitches 'world's largest' LCD screen

  Monster

• UK appeal court dismisses mod chip conviction

  Devices not responsible for copyright infringement

• Nintendo Wii US sales 3x PS3, Xbox 360

  Grand Theft Auto IV not shifting hardware

• Asus Eee PC 901 to hit Blighty on 1 July

  Availability no problem, maker claims

• LG launches world's least power-hungry display

• Linksys revamps WRT54G wireless router

• Gamers not social misfits, after all

  Old stereotype no longer true

• Pentax Optio S12 compact camera

  Review Compelling upgrade?

• AMD to pair CPUs, GPUs with Intel's physics tech

  Cry Havok

• Motorola Z10 'kick slider' media phone

  Review Media monster mobile Mk II

• SanDisk forecasts memory-less MP3 player future

• Silver Final Fantasy PSP coming to UK

• Microsoft's own chip design blamed for Xbox 360 RRoD

  Should have gone to a specialist

• HP's VoodooPC challenges MacBook Air on thinness

• LG looks to Swarovski to bling up LCD TV line

• Canon pitches 'lightest' digital SLR at beginners

• Asus floors it with Lamborghini laptop revamp

  Pedal, as they say, meets metal

• Apple to charge iPod Touch owners for new OS - again

  WWDC Can you spare $10 for a cup of Cocoa?

• Grand Theft Auto IV Xbox extras delayed

  Released knocked back a quarter

• Best compact camera with a viewfinder?

  Q&A Q&A

• XM-I X-Mini capsule travel speakers

  Review Small, cheap and the sound's not at all bad

• Replicator maker highlights buoyant Blu-ray demand

• Police probe pirate-DVD detecting dog's demise

  The dog it was that died

• Wii Remote helps wheelchairs create virtual art

  A virtual canvas, that is

• Carphones making a comeback - sort of

  More vroom, vroom than ring, ring

Science News

• Foldable sports p*** gives Everyman a chance at crashing

  Turning jet-setters into jet-getters?

• China's spacewalk mission go for October

  Third manned jaunt confirmed

• God makes you stupid, researchers claim

  Intelligence begot atheism

• Pluto awarded celestial consolation prize

  Dwarf p***ts to be known as 'Plutoids'

• GLAST sets its sights on gamma-ray bursts

  Successful launch for universe-probing 'scope

• Phoenix eats dirt

  TEGA oven finally full

• Sergey Brin books joyride on Russian rocket

  Space merchant heads offp***t

• Northrop scoops DARPA mindreader-helmet threat visor cash

  Electrode-hat paranoia specs will detect subversives

• Dissolving the plastic bag problem

  Anton The Phage Factor

• Navy sonar dolphin 'massacre' - the facts

  Analysis Fishermen (and media bottom feeders) a bigger threat?

• iRobot Roomba 560 robot vacuum cleaner

  Review Clean quietly... or there will be... trouble

• NASA preps GLAST for blast-off

  Gamma-ray 'scope good to go

• Lunar mini-mole missile probes tested against Welsh target

  Moon darkside to be penetrated by crustbuster barrage

• Phoenix chokes on 'clumpy' Martian soil

  Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer glitch

• Third ISS space walk done and dusted

  Home stretch for mission STS-124

• What hell hath science wrought lately?

  A quick guide to man's abominations

Security News

• Scripting bugs blight security giants' websites

  McAfee, Symantec and VeriSign plagued by XSS flaws

• PayPal ambushes users with mystery Skype charges

  Glitch or breach?

• SCADA security bug exposes world's critical infrastructure

  Oil, food and p*** industries at risk

• Dodgy drug sales underpin Storm worm

  The bitterest pill

• Rubbermaid bot master sentenced to 41 months

  Adware meltdown

• OpenOffice update completes bumper patch crop

  Integer overflow angst

• Fraudsters pool data to beat plastic fraud checks

  Post code lottery fix

• Cotton Traders mauled by hackers

  Update Rugby apparel website rucked

• Security breach at Belgacom exposed

  Protest against download limits

• Hacker cops to $70k botnet rampage

  'I'll take 2 years in the clink'

• Get 'em while they're hot: critical security fixes from Microsoft, Apple

  But still no relief from Carpet bombing menace

• Cyber-fraudsters strike gold at South African government

  32 arrested but £12m missing

• Whaling fraudsters harpoon 15,000 victims

  Two gangs blamed for attacks on credulous high-rollers

• Apple's carpet-bomb Safari flaw can wreak havoc on Windows

  A tale of two security teams

• Bots to blame for Amazon.com outages?

  New glitches add to intrigue

• Browser makers throw up drive-by download barriers

  Security wrappers

• Security militia sought to brutalize ransomware virus

  Time to crack some key

Site News

Software News

• Aussies deploy bovine facial recognition

  Sorting the cows from the goats

• Sun to lose lunch money on JavaFX

  Opens wallet to tough kids

• Apple partially rehabilitates Sun's DTrace

  Sitting up, but not walking about

• Firefox record breaker sets the date

  See you next Tuesday

• Microsoft: keep your sticky mitts off our language runtime

  DLR stays closed, IronPython to accept donations

• Opera unleashes Kestrel

  What's the new browser like?

• Windows Vista has been battered, says Wall Street fan

  Solution: give them more Windows Vista!

• Google adds Firefox 3 support to Gears

  Transmission revamp

• Red Hat shoots down brace of patent disputes

  But still fighting third lawsuit

• Delayed SQL Server 2008 hits release phase

  Very close

• AJAX browser wishlist call goes unanswered

  Apathy 2.0

• Apple's Snow Leopard to cut the bloat from Mac OS X

  Separating out PowerPC and Intel code at last?

• Ingres alumnus joins DBMS scrum

  Cloudy conjecture

• Dell touts Windows XP to 2009 - and 'likely longer'

  No deadline like the present

• Silverlight 2 beta 2 - Go Live if you dare

  Review Tires hard against Adobe, must try harder

• Sun SOA launch sucks in open source

  JavaCAPS 6.0 released

• Small, awkward and looking for love: Delphi for PHP 2.0

  Review Dreams of past Windows glory

• Eclipse slams Sun for 'mockery' of a Java process

  Just like an old hardware vendor

• Google silences Android critics

  'It is an open platform. Just not yet'