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AMD confirms 'Atom-smasher' chip on its roadmap

But Intel's Atom issues mean there's no rush to release it

BSA: Software piracy's 'tragic' impact on US society

Think of the ~~children~~ policemen
Symantec COO infuriates US channel

Big foot in mouth
Weaker sterling knocks back DCC

Profits up at tech distribution arm
Apple grabs number-three US PC market slot

Steps past Acer
Capita wins NHS website contract

Three years, £60m
Economic downturn pushes up Q2 PC shipments

IDC warns bubble will burst as global economy dips
Shuttle intros Phenom-friendly media centre barebone

Time for a new look, guys
Toshiba readies 400GB monster laptop HDD

Eco-friendly too
Hamilton Rentals regains independence

£10m MBO for rent-a-server outfit
EU dumps more anti-trust charges on Intel

Antitrust probe embiggened
Street-savvy Microsoft tries to pop the pimply face of piracy

Giving file-sharing schoolkids a spanking
Intel rolls out Centrino 2, compares it to 2006's 'Napa'

Vendors follow with identikit laptop launches
Price drops on Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 and 280

Free market economics
Marathon poker game begins over fate of Fujitsu Siemens

Siemens could cut and run on PC joint venture
AMD 4800-series mobile GPUs gain PCIe approval

Bus support thumbs-up
AMD sticks four two-GPU cards into gaming PC

Don't try this at home
Initial Intel 'Nehalem' CPUs as cheap as chips

$284 for a next-gen quad-core

Comms News

IEEE fails to agree on powerline Ethernet standard

Vote, vote and vote again

Brits more hooked on mobile tech than Yanks are

And kids more than adults
UK.gov tells throttling petition: Choke on it

Red Arrows trump web users on nation's worry list
EU, champion of the ringtone downloader

Giant stands on shoulders of local watchdogs
Congress accuses American Phorm of 'beating consumers'

NebuAd and J. Edgar Google
Weird WEP bug strikes Centrino 2 Wi-Fi

Zero in on the source
Voicemail and email make beast with two ~~call~~backs

Free service sticks messaging in blender
Police seek two for C&W network robbery

Routers and software taken
Congress spotlights another American data pimper

Barks at Embarq
EU tells UK to deal with Phorm - or else

The pre-warning letter
Vodafone presents punter with £500k phone bill

Updated 'Yes, of course I have the keypad locked'
Phorm protestors picket BT AGM

Walking the streets to protest against data pimping
Apple has that syncing feeling over MobileMe

When we say push, we really mean shove
British drivers face jail for causing death by dangerous driving

Tough sentencing guidelines target mobiles
Google: the mother of antitrust battles?

Comment The internet, and how to own it
World fails to end as Palm ships Treo smartphone with Wi-Fi

GPS too
Reding vows Autumn assault on EU data roaming charges

Operators ordered to facilitate ski-texting
School chases truants by text

Get ur ass bk n class
BT opens wallet to send fibre to the home

Faster internet, go, go
BT updates Home Hub Wi-Fi box with 802.11n

Better security too?
FCC boss reshapes hardline stance on Comcast

No fines - this time
Rebellious BT computers refuse to take orders

Updated: Can't connect, won't connect
3 days on: The iPhone users still to make a call

Basically just an iTouch right now
New York pressures more ISPs into child pornography crackdown

Usenet vivisected by AT&T, AOL
The iPhone 2.0 update - don't do it, kids

That strange sense of disconnection
Verizon's open-door policy yields dip stick

Get your fuel tanks ready

Hardware News

EU complaint is just more of the same, says Intel

We never done nothing

Here's the multi-core man coding robots, 3-D worlds and Wall Street

Radio Reg Kunle Olukotun gets pervasive
Samsung and Sun make 'ultra-endurance' flash chips

Beget Methuselah SSDs
EU thumps Intel with more anti-AMD charges

Abusive conduct threesome
Sony builds wireless data gang

TransferJet Consortium is go
EMC adds Mozy lifesaver to Iomega drives

Armageddon foiled by back-up back-up
Seagate CEO cops to sloppy floppy in Q4

More tidiness planned
Dell and Wal-Mart team on TV installations

Don't worry. Only Dallas affected
Fastscale sends Windows Server to Weight Watchers

De-bloating Bill's code
EMC accused of stifling discrimination claims while battling class-action

Denies alleged sexist ways
HP's white trash data center is up for anything

Your POD or mine?
Cisco takes us back to the future

Like the crash (before this one) never happened
Citrix's 'Kensho' tools shed earthly hypervisor restraints

Seeks application workload Nirvana
IBM one-ups Sun with terabyte tape drive

Ha-ha. Ours is faster than yours
Hackintosh maker gets legal greeting from Apple

Psystar sued for ruining perfection
HP and Sony double team better storage tape format

DAT 320 gets fat
SanDisk touts read-only SD cards for sensitive data

Something even easier for civil servants to mislay
Intel bets millions on speedy DNA sequencing chips

Bio-silicon start-up gets $100m
Salesforce.com pulls plug on Sun's flagship Unix servers

Exclusive Sun rises on Dell in SaaS future
Nvidia concedes SLI for Nehalem chips

Slashes GTX 260 and 280 prices
Putting a mule on a cloud: one man's battle with Amazon S3

Are we there yet?
Sun unfolds 1TB of tape

An archival milestone
Sun and Fujitsu ride Unix boxes to four-core country

SPARC64 VII plugs in
IBM's eight-core Power7 chip to clock in at 4.0GHz

Exclusive Will fuel 300,000-core, 10 petaflop giant

Management News

SF's silent sysadmin pleads not guilty

The password? Can't say? Won't say?

Microsoft predicts 'some' ROI for online millions by 2010

Wall St slaps back
IBM misses memo on economic slowdown during Q2

Sold out
Wall Street frowns on ginormous Google profits

Sergey grabs the knob
AMD loses $1.19bn and CEO Ruiz

Thanks for the, er, nightmares
~~Icahn~~ Yahoo! writes! a! letter!

Urges shareholders to see sense
Microsoft eyes AOL takeover

Microhoo But is it for real?
Dell hit by class action over unpaid overtime

US call centre workers can team up
eBay revenues defy worldwide army of bitter users

The Upside of Anger (DVD) - $3.99
Former Samsung boss receives suspended jail term

Avoids prison for corruption charges
eBay UK pimps users' privacy for targeted ads

Updated: When opt out means locked out
San Francisco's 'rogue' sysadmin still being paid while in jail

Mayor says bricked IT system won't affect ability to govern
Intel at ease with economic chaos

Q2 a grower
Sun calms investors with early Q4 dish

Not as bad as you might have thought
And so we begin the tech sector's journey into the Heart of Darkness

Comment Can the nerds save the economy?
Irate sysadmin locks San Francisco officials out of network

City 'doing everything necessary'
Barclays to scrap 1,800 UK tech jobs

Follows the money offshore
Judge sides with eBay in fake jewelry spat

Trademark at Tiffany's
Icahn writes another bloody letter

Shareholders now unable to open front doors
Yahoo! rejects! Microsoft! again!

Saturday night's alright for proxy fighting
AMD takes a $950m hit in Q2

From plucky upstart to just plucked

Music and Media News

Amazon opens video on demand shop

Boxing Unbox

Blinkx bestows video search on world+dog

~~White~~ Red label play
Sensitive Wii maker snubs developers

Nintendo keeps development kit to itself
Copyright gets 'Use It Or Lose It' clause

EC ties strings to term extension
Falling pound brings iTunes UK into line with Europe

Apple UK escapes price cuts
Netflix will stream movies on Xbox 360

Microsoft stretches, puts arm around distributor
Cnet blogger squadron discovers long lines at Apple retail stores

The brick and mortar cult

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