Internet + iffy logo = Ha ha!Government zeal in pursuing anyone suspected of harbouring paedophilic tendencies may shortly rebound - with unintended consequences for the ....

Ofcom: 'Gulp'Ofcom may be sweating at the news that the Finnish auction of 2.6GHz raised only €3.8m. The regulator is hoping to raise a lot more when the same spectrum is auctioned off in the UK next year....

Lock up your manureA middle-aged man with a sexual fetish for farm waste was sent to prison after a breaching a restraining order that banned him from being around a farm he has terrorised for years....

Making hay until Larrabee shines?At it was hard to travel the floor without running into hybrid computing in some way, shape, or form. In fact, you couldn't swing a cat without hitting someone or something related to using accelerators to

Crispness viewing for Christmas?Group Test With the nights drawing in, and a shiny flat-screen TV set in the living room, what better way to relieve the tedium of the TV schedules than with a high definition movie? With time off

Fraud meter' fearA push by California's electricity provider to modernize its power grid is turning into a public relations disaster, as allegations mount that it's responsible for stratospheric overcharges....

Blue Blue's digital photo beamThis Old Box Features make the system. After all, what good is a gaming rig without superfluous neon-blue lights, an iMac without the almost-matronly lack of sharp edges, or a Verizon phone not forged by the

Tofu super glueSC09 Is Japan's 10 petaflops supercomputer on the chopping block? Fujitsu won't say. But it's still bullish on the Sparc chips meant to drive the thing....

Other bionic plugins offer 7' height, climbing clawsA cyborg MIT professor has developed and tested innovative lithium-ion powered prosthetic feet which can thrust a wearer off the ground just as normal biological ones can - or be adjusted (using an

Lock-down follows cartoon penguin attackUK-based web host Daily has largely restored services following an apparent hack attack on Thursday that replaced content on some sites it hosts with pictures of cartoon penguins....

Tar very muchThe Senior Service has begun issuing PlayStation Portables to its sailors in an attempt to make them... er... study....

Or feel free to read a storage story insteadCoTFW It's Friday, and across the internet is heard the thin cry from a thousand (OK, maybe a couple of hundred) hapless souls forced against their will to read Comment of the

Pwned and pornedA malicious spam campaign that attempts to harvest online game passwords under the guise of messages containing smutty photos is doing the rounds....

TatasupTata's datacentre in the east end of London went titsup for two-hours on Thursday evening, following a power cut....

The impact of the non-technicalFor this week, the last in this workshop series, we were looking at the near-future, with particular focus on how we deliver server resources and a central question - are we any closer to the nirvana

Remembering a BASIC coding classic from 1982Forgotten Tech I first explored The Valley late in 1982. My method of entry: a Research Machines 380Z. I loved it and didn't want to leave....

This will make for more polite encounters with police'Vid In a case which may offer a glimpse of the future of law enforcement, an American policeman has been cleared of wrongdoing after shooting a man dead - with the aid

Dad's tech army limbers upThe BCS has launched a website for technology laggards who are failing to do their duty by not feeling the benefits of an information-driven society....

I trust you can handle this contraption, Q?FreeBSD has released version 8.0 of its beefy Unix-like operating system....

It's not just about business functionalityPoll results While software sales and marketing people often try to convince business people that the technical stuff doesn't matter that much when selecting an application package, Reg readers beg to differ....