Channel News

• Compellent delivers storming quarter

  Slowing sequential growth forecast

• Seagate earnings slump 83%

  Blood on the tracks

• Grim news at Dixons

  Sales, margins and investment down

Hardware News

• Powerline Ethernet standardisation effort still stuck

  Lead proposal rejected, made lead proposal again

• Bechtolsheim 'leaves' Sun for switches start-up

  Flashes 10 gigabit kit in Cisco's face

• IBM, Intel open blade switch specs

  Standards? Don't hold your breath

Music and Media News

Networks News

• Intel badmouths Jesus Phone

  Cusses out ARM core

• Blundering workmen cut major Docklands fibre

  O2, Be Broadband network slowed

• All Android apps are not made equal

  Google's are more equal than others

• Android Marketplace sparks into life

  Chased by RIM, Samsung and more

• Next Nokia E-series smartphone leaked

  E63 to join E61 and E71?

• Bespoke top level domains 'to cost $200,000'

  .pricey

Odds and Sods News

Public Sector News

• Gov approval given for Saudi Eurofighter sale

  That's the US government, of course

• Civil servants' pro-Labour memo reignites child data controversy

  Exclusive Tories ask questions on civil service impartiality

• Home Office coughs to stolen lappies

  Managed not to lose any desktops though...

• Speed cams ditched in Wiltshire

  Council declares them rubbish

• TfL considers life without Oyster

  Looks at mobes and bank cards as replacements

Reg Hardware News

• Sony preps PSP storage fix

  Memory card capacity loss correction

• 57,000 Wii-oriented guitar accessories recalled

  Gamer given axe to grind

• Designer touts 'super sight' sunglasses

  Fresnel lenses boost field of view by 25 per cent

• Sony Ericsson to reduce handset range by 20 per cent

  Too many mobiles

• Edifier MP300 Plus 2.1 laptop speaker system

  Review Awesome audio

• Toshiba charges ahead with EV-friendly battery building plan

  'Leccy Tech Upping production twentyfold

Science News

• Thrust SSC team to build 1000 mph 'Bloodhound' car

  Comment Drayson fixes comeback gig to boost UK Sci/Tech

• NASA kids' compo: Name the inflatable moon habitat

  'It's like a bouncy castle, but more sophisticated'

Security News

• Google reports itself for aiding and abetting malware distribution

  Search engine self-flagellation

• Merchants and punters cry foul over Verified by Visa

  Resistance is futile

• English speakers hit hardest by ID theft

  But punters worldwide lax with password security

• Microsoft rushes out emergency Windows update

  Critical flaw clocked

• VbyV password reset is childishly simple

  Hit keyboard with fists, gain access

Software News

• Microsoft springs Office 2007 SP2 release date - kinda

  Somewhere between Valentine's and April Fool's