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Linspire CEO defends Xandros buy-out

Hopes Linux will 'touch more people'

AMD's dual-GPU Radeon HD 4870 X2 less than a month away

Mid-August debut
Microsoft targets online Office bundle at US cheapskates

Software for Hard Times
Microsoft turns up volume with new licensing agreement

Drowned in sound
Blockbuster withdraws $1bn Circuit City bid

Help me, Ob-Icahn Kenobi, you’re my only hope...
AMD records Q1 marketshare gain

Nothing to stress Intel out, though
Leaked AMD southbridge details yield 'Fusion' CPU snippets

Deep sleeper with Dash
AMD rolls out line-leading four-core Phenom

And an energy-efficient quad-core CPU pair too
AMD chipset roadmap signals new southbridges, DDR 3

Greater emphasis on integrated parts too

Comms News

Palm, BlackBerry-beating demand for 3G iPhone claims researcher

US consumers eye Apple smartphone

Pay-by-phone commerce coming closer

Talk, text and pay
Openmoko to release Linux handset tomorrow

Open Source calling
OMTP says mobile Web 2.0 is a beach

Now to get everyone to agree what that means
Midwestern data pimping alive and well

WOW! ignores Congress
90 per cent of Sony devices to be networked by 2010

But do we need another standard?
Virgin Media ads throttled by peak time bandwidth squeeze

BT snipe on target
Cable and Wireless left cableless by double line break

Double and quits
What's going to power Small, Cheap Computers?

Atoms, dragons and Windows?
Orange tells customers they are now 'partners'

Ask not what your mobile operator can do for you
CenturyTel joins Charter in data pimping freeze

Do as Congress says
An iPhone with a keyboard?

Never say never
T-Mobile not alone in spinning price hikes

But O2 takes the disinformation trophy
Commercial iPlayer faces anti-trust shakedown

BBC, ITV, C4 joint venture delayed
Virgin Mobile USA to buy hipster operator Helio

Can the cool survive?
Sony Ericsson slumps on gloomy outlook

No love for swanky handsets
Chrysler shoves hotspots into hot rods

Well, Jeeps and pickup trucks
Airline passengers get (VoIP-free) broadband

Only in American

Hardware News

EU still greasing IBM antitrust probe despite PSI withdrawal

'Your complaint stands'

Nvidia throws itself under the bus with chip defect, delays and lost sales

The $200m laptop failure surprise
The9 exposed as China's supercomputing powerhouse

Exclusive The ninth mode of art runs on HP clusters
Parallels forms Windows containers on HP's Itanium servers

Renewed vows
IBM rids world of mainframe up-start PSI, inherits Itanium server biz

If you can't beat them, buy them
Super-safe storage surfaces

The HDD that can be soaked and burnt
Japanese military shamed by USB device

Stolen, found, loaned, lost
Pillar pumps performance in Axiom array

'We guarantee something'
KVM backer takes virtual desktops on the road

Have branch office. Will ship code
Dell conjures magic SD card for virtualizing blade server I/O

Full height boxes ready too
Dell offers 'Windows Vista Bonus' to frightened customers

The 'bonus' is XP instead of Vista
Overland snatches Adaptec's Snap Server biz

Free at last with a virtual fire sale
Sun picks away at NetApp's patent claims

Botched settlement results in more blogs of fury
IBM woos Microsoft with iDataPlex oddity

When will you get a turn?
Witness the future of Brocade

A FANless acronym fiesta

Management News

Mystery over Verisign boss' shock exit

Like déjà vu all over again

eBay Australia ditches PayPal scheme

Seller fury prompts backdown
Dell buys into Dell for $100m

He's a believer in pocket change
Alan Sugar leaves Amstrad

You're retired?
eBay Australia faces PayPal fury

Aussies unconvinced by PayPal-only policy
DoJ to probe Google Yahoo! deal

While Microsoft seeks partners for renewed bid
How to beat AVG's fake traffic spew

Updated A header to save the internet
Microsoft searches for meaning with Powerset buy

Beats Google. Semantically speaking
Google plays musical chairs with affiliate ad networks

Double Clickization
Google free to offload '$1bn' AOL stake

What does $1bn get you these days?
US regulators lapse into state of approval for HP's EDS buy

Deal receives official 'meh'
Siemens siphons off 17,000 jobs

Battening down the hatches
C&W closes in on Thus acquisition

Shareholders asked for thumbs-up

Music and Media News

Family Guy creator's sellout to Google almost complete

Two minute clips served with your ads

Real researchers discover 'Music Without Limits'

Otherwise known as DRM-less MP3s
DOJ sinks another EliteTorrent admin

World safe again
Google plugs YouTube into Playstation 3

Go go Gadget video

Odds and Sods News

Consider yourself Moderatrixed

And be damn grateful about it, worms

BOFH: The admin gene

Episode 24 That mysterious gift
Google deigns to comply with a privacy law

Corporate Rainmen avoid panic attack over word count
The Moderatrix will see you now

Cue Aunt, cue Agony
Google's Street View spycar clocked in London

Lock up your daughters
El Reg procures OGC mousemat

LogoWatch exclusive Cracking stuff
TSA says 'checkpoint friendly' laptop bags on the way

One less thing to strip down at the airport
Swedish customs pull Frenchman with two asses

You got a permit for those, mate?
Tiwi spies on your children, so you don't have to

Black box for the kids
Who will be the next Doctor?

Get your popcorn in for Saturday’s geekfest
Quantum of Solace trailer teases fans

Daniel Craig struts his stuff
Telegraph falls to the Tw*t-O-Tron

Feral youths mug Middle England
Legless Swede attempts to row home

From Denmark...
Flying cars on the horizon, says Clive Sinclair

'I'm sure it will happen'
King Arthur was English 'propaganda', French claim

By the Lord Harry, etc, etc
Mini-Me sues online celebrity muckraker over 'stolen' sex tape

How short is he?
Spain dodges Zapatero kiss of death

Crowned European champions, despite ministerial voodoo
Granite Jesus, blessed be thy gneiss

Plutonic slab of God appears in Dallas
As Gates strides into the future, we wallow in the past

OS/2: The final insult

The Register Security Debate

Live & Online.
24th September 2008, 4:30pm BST (3:30pm GMT)

The Register Security Debate aims to help you nail down your Security priorities for 2008 and beyond. With a little help from your peers in the security department, we aim to give you the run down on what to expect through 2008.
You will also hear some analysis of threats and solutions from independent analysts and some interesting experts from the vendor camp. Take part in the Q&A and we finish off with a roundtable session.
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