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Hardware News

• Google sends 'Duke of Data Centers' to Land of Oz?

  Down Under with Project Will Power

• Intel misses Competition Commission deadline

  Chip giant waits for court decision

• VIA, MS fuel China-led low-cost laptop invasion

  Nano + XP = cheap-as-chips kit

• WD Caviar Black 1TB vs Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB

  Review High-capacity hard drive shoot-out

• How storage can save the world

  Whitepaper Have you hugged your storage manager today?

• Sun, Fujitsu launches entry quad-core Sparc box

  Mostly for developers, sometimes for apps

• Microsoft's Azure means dark days for storage vendors

  Comment No silver lining here

• 3PAR partially makes its mind-up on SSD

  Drives chassis approach

Music and Media News

• Beeb cans TOTP Xmas special

  'So here it isn't, merry Christmas...'

• Humax names Freesat HD DVR debut date

  Dual tuners, 320GB HDD on board

Networks News

• Android security, market place under fire

  Researchers stick fingers in, developers put hands out

• Reding demands super-regulator to thwart US telco domination

  Viv not beaten yet

• French map out digital economy

  L'auction d'analogue, et apres

Odds and Sods News

• Led Zeppelin plan Plant-free tour

  The song remains not quite the same

• Plymouth nurse punted panties on eBay

  'Naughty knicks' fingered by NHS IT security team

Public Sector News

• Big Blue to build DARPA cat-brain machine

  To scale through 'entire range of mammalian intelligence'

• Home Office acts to kick out Iceland's hate preachers

  No safe haven for Norway or Liechtenstein

• Official who lost secret al-Qaeda report pleads guilty

  'My bad', says forgetful vomiter

• NHS IT project pulled up by hiatus hernia

  BT is 'taking stock'

• YaGoogleSoft! adopt voluntary 'code of ethics'

  No more grassing up Chinese dissidents?

• IT contractor broke law in data raid on playground firm

  Copyright and database laws violated

• Home Office guides plods on photography

  'There are no restrictions, but...'

• MoD pledges greener buying

  First step - low-energy radar

Reg Hardware News

• Apple prices iPhone at $666, says analyst

  Devilishly good margins made

• UK Govt claims lead in 'green motoring revolution'

  'Leccy Tech £100m Low Carbon Vehicles Innovation Platform announced

• Harmon Kardon brings high-end media centre to Blighty

• Asus' sexed-up Eee PC 1000-series netbook spied on web

  Take S101 chassis, add 1000H internals

Science News

• Plasma rocket space drive in key test milestone

  Nuke tech could carry astronauts beyond Mars

• The New Green Aristocracy

  Comment They don't work for you

• Berkeley boffins save Moore's Law

  Plasmonic lens beats photolithographic limit

Security News

• TSA vows relaxation of carry-on liquid limits

  Pulling the curtain on 'security theater'

• Immature tech likely to get lucky in credit crunch

  Security pros: 'Uh oh'

• London consumers trounce corporates in wireless security

  WEPs of mass destruction

• Parcel mules scam exposed

  Cybercrook, keen phisherman seeks reliable partners on dating sites

Software News

• Windows 7 borrows from OS X, avoids Vista

  PDC No pain, no gain

• Microsoft unveils 'lightweight' Office for Web

  PDC Works in Firefox, Safari, and IE

• Windows 7 early promise: passes the Vista test

  PDC Safe, solid - exciting?

• Microsoft faces second 'black screen' lawsuit

  China still not happy

• The netbook newbie's guide to Linux

  Episode Two One small step for Man...