Channel News

• Big Blue bucks the downturn

  Recession? We sh*t 'em son

Hardware News

• HP jilts Intel SSDs

  Smooches with Samsung

• Sanyo beams as next-gen laser cuts it for 100GB Blu-ray Disc

  Princess layer

Music and Media News

Networks News

• Web palmtop offers life-time no-limits mobile surfing for £60

  No 'fair use' policy either

• BT outsources international network ops

  500 soon booted to Alcatel-Lucent

• No takers for Huawei handset division

  Not even if we throw in this nice toaster?

Odds and Sods News

• Armed cops ice South London devil dog

  Second satanic mutt execution follows canine rampage

• Martin Sheen backs Paris for president

  'See you at the fake inauguration, bitches'

Public Sector News

• Porn, abuse, depravity - and how they plan to stop it

  Policing the Internet Part one: Strangling content

• Secret docs loser to appear in court

  Civil servant, intel docs, train seat

• Scottish NHS data safeguarded by bizarre questionnaire

  Sturgeon ends fishy practices

• New USAF Cyber-war formation downgraded

  Cyber Command becomes Space Command Cyber Force

• Home Office defends retaining comms data

  But hasn't figured out how yet

• EC wants pan-Euro online shopping laws

  Now all we need is pan-Euro shopping police

Reg Hardware News

• PSP fans tap directly into PlayStation Store

  Sony grants direct access from PSP

• Medion cuts netbook price to offer UK's cheapest rebadged Wind

• Halo 3 update confirmed

  Play through the eyes of an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper

• BenQ E72 budget Windows Mobile smartphone

  Review A business-savvy handset with mass-market appeal?

• Sling shoots AppleTV rival into UK stores

• Touch sensitive Flip launched

  Classy buttons

• LG's second 8Mp cameraphone unveiled

  Slider shooter

• Ford cars to gain prang-preventing radar rigs

  A hit. A very palpable hit.

• Blu-ray add-on coming to the Xbox 360?

  Rumours flare up, again

• Navman locates addition to S-series satnav line

• Asus confirms touchscreen Eee in pipeline

Science News

• US satellite returns first hi-res snap

  GeoEye-1 pics destined for Google Earth

Security News

• NSA spied on US aid workers, officers, and journalists in Baghdad

  Wiretapped phone sex

• Romanian national cops to $700,000 phishing trip

  Who's your underworld Popa?

• UK crypto boffins turbo-charge quantum cryptography

  Photodiodes get go-faster stripes

• Cisco ships Mexican drug runner music on VPN CD

  Bootleg bootup CD features Narco Corridos tune

Software News

• Ambulance Service not patient enough for Vista

  No plans to migrate to unloved OS, despite Camwood claims

• Microsoft leaks cloudy OS name

  Exposing the Strata

• Geode - the Firefox add-on that knows where you are

  Give or take 20 meters