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Tiscali and BPI go to war over 'three strikes' payments

Exclusive Filesharing shambles revealed as 'deal' collapses
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Lite-On factory fire threatens PC monitor biz

Dell, HP and Lenovo may get burned
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MayDay! MayDay! Ruskies reinvent cyber crime

Not your father's botnet
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Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! - the story so far

!!!!! All our exclamation marks in one place
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BitTorrent busts Comcast BitTorrent busting

As Comcast ignores reality

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Finland censors anti-censorship site

Calls it child porn

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Opera screeches at Mozilla over security disclosure

Spilling the beans

Gates! says! Yahoo! offer! fair!

!!!!! Well, he would say that wouldn't he?
Financial News • 19 Feb 10:09

Microsoft poised to unveil WorldWide Telescope?

Google Sky beware Redmond's all-seeing galactic eye
Applications • 19 Feb 10:01

US declares 1400-mile Pacific sat-shoot exclusion zone

Airspace bar from surface to 'unlimited' altitude
Space • 19 Feb 09:59

Heathrow 777 crash: 'No anomalies in the major aircraft systems'

AAIB probe continues
Science • 19 Feb 09:55

Official: Toshiba discontinues HD DVD

No We surrender
Reg Hardware • 19 Feb 09:21

NASA, UK boffins plan tunnelling Moon mole robot

Beagle 3 to seek Martian fossils in lunar caverns
Space • 19 Feb 08:02

BT business customer's contract to change Thursday

Two days left to opt out of new 12-month agreement
Comms • 19 Feb 06:02

Counterfeit vans: A little-known online grocery scam

Careful - they want to get into your fridge
Enterprise Security • 19 Feb 06:02

US judge arranges summary execution of Wikileaks.org

Many-headed whistleblower site still standing
Law • 19 Feb 02:31

Google absolved of 'crimes against humanity'

$5bn lawsuit meets its maker
Law • 19 Feb 00:05

Spain cuffs Wi-Fi leeching lottery scammers

El Gordo ladrones
Enterprise Security • 18 Feb 23:44

Time to rewrite DBMS, says Ingres founder

Abandon SQL
Reg Developer • 18 Feb 20:07

FBI screwed up, spied on entire email network

One warrant for one address not quite good enough
Enterprise Security • 18 Feb 17:17

Forth Bridge painters to down brushes in 2012

Finally off to the pub after 100 years
Bootnotes • 18 Feb 15:52

Home Office opens sex offender files in pilot scheme

Limited access under Violent Crime Action Plan
Government • 18 Feb 15:48

Total lunar eclipse: look skywards Wednesday

Last blood-red Moon until 2010
Space • 18 Feb 14:32

Physicists fire up strontium atomic clock

+/- one second per 200 million years
Physics • 18 Feb 14:02

Virgin Media taps Microsoft in lengthy email outage

Urgent Exchange upgrade
Data Networking • 18 Feb 13:54

US satellite-shoot effort seeds conspiracy theory storm

Whatever's going on, China and Russia condemn it
Space • 18 Feb 13:43

Nanny agency hacker fined

Told to sit on the naughty stool
Enterprise Security • 18 Feb 12:28

Prince and Village People dive into Pirate Bay

Young man, there's no need to download
Music and Media • 18 Feb 12:16

Griffin Evolve wireless iPod speakers

Review Sound investment
Reg Hardware • 18 Feb 12:02

Eavesdrop plod: Nobody's listening to me (any more)

Bugged police bugger bugged by silent telephone
Law • 18 Feb 11:52

'Suspicious comment' provokes LAX terminal evacuation

FBI holds passenger over mystery verbals
Law • 18 Feb 11:15

HMRC blows £1.4m on two-word slogan

Whalesong and joss-sticks spawn 'HMRC Ambition'
Public Sector • 18 Feb 11:13

Yahoo! and Microsoft's shared shareholders may swing deal

!!!!! Fingers in both pies
Channel Register • 18 Feb 11:10

Panasonic preps Wiimote-proof TV

Wii shall not be damaged
Reg Hardware • 18 Feb 09:59

Former contractor sues Google for $25m

Claims it stole his idea for Google Sky
Space • 18 Feb 09:56

Intel's fifth-gen Centrino to launch as Centrino 2

Chip giant to make darn sure buyers know it's different
Reg Hardware • 18 Feb 09:52

Healthcare at your fingertips - a Choose & Book roadtest

NHS IT - money, well, spent...
Public Sector • 18 Feb 07:02

Build a directory service for web-based services

Hands on OpenLDAP for the people
Reg Developer • 18 Feb 06:02

Reduce your exposure to AJAX threats

Three-step guide
Reg Developer • 18 Feb 00:02

'I live the mobile lifestyle dream...'

Mobile World Congress Whalesong from Barcelona – in pictures
Mobile • 17 Feb 08:02

Exploding moose steals copper cables

Comments And evades Heathrow plods
Letters • 16 Feb 09:02

UK bank blames fraudsters for World of Warcraft ban

Halifax leaves Blizzard out in the cold
Financial News • 15 Feb 23:53

Sun turns to Neil Diamond for Amazon utility 'killer'

Sweet Caroline
Servers • 15 Feb 22:25

Secret printer ID codes may breach EU privacy laws

Commissioner has a mull
Enterprise Security • 15 Feb 22:14

Unlocking the iPhone for pleasure and profit... revisited

Editors' Blog ZiPhone makes process painless
Reg Hardware • 15 Feb 16:29

Critics chuck MS 'friendly worm' plan on the compost heap

Updated Out of control
Enterprise Security • 15 Feb 15:33

LiMo Foundation touts real mobile Linux

Mobile World Congress Declares war on mechanical humanoids
Mobile • 15 Feb 14:28

BOFH: The Silence of the Servers

Episode 5 The servers are quiet for now, Clarice
BOFH • 15 Feb 12:02

BT gets EU backing to raise (and cut) wholesale broadband prices

Ofcom deregulation plan a goer thanks to unbundling
Networks • 15 Feb 11:48
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Prince Opteron unloads on AMD, Intel and the future of memory

Radio Reg Fred Weber removes stealth shield

Nokia 7900 Prism

Review Style over substance

Ruby on Rails teaser

Ruby runs on Rails with NetBeans

NetBeans and Ruby, part 2 Build a web application in minutes

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Microsoft closes in on Yahoo! amidst BlackBerry black out

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