Betcha.com craps out Washington state's highest court has delivered a fatal blow to a website that billed itself as a person-to-person betting platform that connected people who wanted to make wagers.…

EU complaint echoed in US Google is facing an antitrust investigation in Texas over claims the company unfairly manipulated results on its search engine.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

Balls of steel, baby, balls of steel! Duke Nukem Forever is the video games world's equivalent of the flying car: mothballed in the garage.…

Beta mongoose flaunts new face Review Ubuntu fans, fire up your virtual machines. The beta release of Ubuntu 10.10 is here. Maverick Meerkat, as this release is known, is actually several weeks ahead of the original schedule, and that means Ubuntu 10...

Music to watch monsters go by Love Doctor Who, love the theme music - this is hardwired into the DNA of most Brits.…

Un-Flash eyes world of Google Steve Jobs forbids you from building iPhone applications with a language other than Objective C, C, or C++. If that other language is Adobe Flash. What about if it's not Adobe Flash? Are you still forbidden?…

Hunting 'mugu' in America A Nigerian man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in US prison for orchestrating an advance payment scam that bilked victims out of more than $1.3m.…

Gay Fun your life must be... An Oz primary school head is taking a bit of stick after insisting that kiddies should not follow the exact letter of Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.…

Can you handle the truth? In the past seven days, Reg Hardware reviewed many products from the worlds of consumer electronics and mobile communications.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

That's Doctor Brown to you, says unemployed PM Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has buddied up with the Greatest Living Briton by becoming a director of the World Wide Web Foundation.…

The opposite of NIL desperandum Seagate may be facing the abandonment of a favoured future technology as the price for hard disk drive (HDD) industry unity.…

'I've lost the ball again...' Football minnows Bulgaria face an uphill struggle in their forthcoming clash with England, because not only will they confront some of the most talented, hard-working and successful players in the history of the beautifu...

Evolution and management of the client computing environment Let's face it, the desktop and laptop environment is one of the major points at which the rubber meets the road when it comes to business computing.…

Joins BoA and Visa in trials Wells Fargo is joining the effort spearheaded by Visa to help NFC break in the difficult American market.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

Run for your lives, kids. The ice cream man is coming! Eric Schmidt has been portrayed as a depraved privacy pervert by the US-based ConsumerWatchdog.org, which is running an advert in New York’s Times Square that mocks the Google boss.…

June and July not as bad as all that The US Department of Labor kicked out its monthly jobs report, and there's some good news for once. First of all, private sector employers added 67,000 jobs last month, although the overall economy shed 54,000 job...

Execution wins. Not ideas Open...and Shut Businesses aren't built on ideas. They're built on execution. Google didn't win because it was the first to the search market. It won because it did search better than anyone else, and devised an ingenious wa...

Nicht ein biggie German hackers successfully used off-the-shelf kit to extract personal data from the federal government's supposedly secure ID cards, but the government has downplayed the significance of the attack.…

Follow that photo! An update for the TomTom app on the iPhone is "coming soon".…

12 months for CD & USB shenanigans Ex-MI6 worker Daniel Houghton has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for unlawfully disclosing top secret material, in breach of the Official Secrets Act.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuf...

Going down for the last time Comment This is the day that Apple lost the war for Over The Top content, not only in America, but globally. The winner can’t yet be announced, but this was the shot that Apple had to get it right, and to us it’s bung...

Coming soon: Hypobaric chamber - The Revisiting The Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) team is preparing to turn down the pressure with a second visit to Qinetiq's hypobaric chamber.…

Also: New vid of unsold P-791 Walrus suck-belly ship US aero-weapons goliath Lockheed, builder of the famous P-791 airship prototype, was beaten to a half-billion-dollar deal to supply spy ships above Afghanistan earlier this year - but the firm is s...

IBM looking peaky IDC's latest quarterly disk storage tracker shows EMC and HP competing for the market lead, with EMC growing faster than HP. NetApp is growing faster still but has a lot of ground to make up.…

El Reg is hiring Situation Publishing, owner of The Register and Reg Hardware, is looking for a full time developer to primarily work on HTML(5), CSS, JavaScript/jQuery and template engines such as XSLT and Perl’s Template Toolkit.…Free On-Demand...

Drops unwanted code in open source developer laps Google has boxed up its unsuccessful Wave project and handed the unwanted code to open source developers.…

More like 2013 Toshiba may be gearing up to release a no-specs 3D TV in Japan by the end of the year, but Philips' 3D TV development partner reckons we will have to wait longer. It doesn't reckon any vendor will have one out before 2013.…

Snazzy new social thing walled off Ping, Apple's latest foray into social networking, won't play nice with Facebook - despite the connection appearing in Steve Jobs's on-stage demonstration and in the documentation.…

Qi gets branded products The wireless power consortium, Qi, is celebrating the launch of a solution with a known brand - Energizer - attached, but the technology is still a long way from the mainstream.…

Celeb Taoist conman on the run A celebrity Taoist monk has gone awol after it was revealed he probably couldn't in reality sit crossed-legged under water for two hours.…

For OS fence-sitters Here is ViewSonic's other Android-based tablet, though here the Google OS is secondary to Windows 7.…

£194m shelled out Capgemini has bought a 55 per cent stake in Brazilian reseller CPM Braxis for £194m.…

Europe's stuck in the mud, says former Ofcom head, comms czar Lord Stephen Carter, the founding head of Ofcom whose blockbuster report provided the basis for the Digital Economy Act, made a return to the public stage this week.…Free On-Demand Webca...

But no Gigabit performance just yet Netgear has announced what may well be the world's first consumer networking products based on the as-yet-unratified IEEE P1910 next-gen powerline Ethernet standard.…

Quick off the mark Spammers have been quick off the mark in exploiting Apple's new iTunes social network to punt survey scams.…

Apple flavoured? More laptops have been announced at the IFA show by Samsung. This time it's the "premium" QX series - given a "airfoil design exterior" that's aluminium clad like as certain fruit-branded manufacturer's notebooks.…

Firms will just have to get used to it The secretary general of the International Telecommunications Union has stepped into the lawful interception debate, saying that companies are just going to have to provide governments with access somehow.…

#hackiswacked Symantec's attempts to link up with Snoop Dogg to launch a cybercrime rap contest have descended into farce after it emerged that vulnerabilities with a dedicated site can be easily rickrolled.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing th...

Yours for £12 a month Virgin Media is offering the BlackBerry Curve 8520 - reviewed here - in what it claims os the "most competitive" pay-monthly package this smartphone can be found on.…

Worldwide recall of ball burners Toshiba and US and Canadian consumer watchdogs are recalling three laptop models after receiving reports that people have been burned by the AC adapters.…

Prehistoric luminary's explosive antics revealed The equivalent of a "rock star", having lived a "fast, flashy life and died young" apparently exploded with unimaginable violence in the year 161,000 BC and spewed "guts" across an enormous area. The e...

The story that refuses to die New allegations of phone hacking at the News of the World have resulted in the suspension of one of the Sunday paper's reporters, pending legal and disciplinary action over allegations of tapping into the voicemail messa...

Maverick Meerkat skips Alpha 4 The beta instalment of Ubuntu's Maverick Meerkat has arrived slightly earlier than expected.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

Ovi could do with the support Nokia is backing ITV's X Factor with a dedicated application and exclusive content, but it will take more then Auto Tune to make Ovi a Christmas number one.…

PMP trickle-down effect Review Typically, smartphones make less than satisfying PMPs, especially given the issue of video formats, with very few phones supporting the good old AVI container or Xvid/DivX codecs. Also, sound quality is usually a bit if...

Remember the Googasm Google is celebrating Chrome's second birthday by releasing a new stable version of its rapidly evolving browser, offering a slightly simpler user interface, an automatic form filler, and the ability to synchronize extensions and...

Mobile chips warming up as PC chips chill While chip makers are not white-knuckled with fear as they were during the economic meltdown of late 2008 and early 2009, they were hoping that the recent boom in chip sales would hold for a couple of quarter...

Teaching old apps new tricks Microsoft has released a new version of a software tool that developers and administrators can use to harden older applications against common vulnerabilities.…

You rent from his cloud Analysis With its Apple TV revamp announced Wednesday, Apple dipped its toes into the entertainment cloud — if you'll forgive a muddled metaphor. It's a tentative baby step, but expect more cloudy offerings from Cupertino if...

'We're more consistent. And we're here' Microsoft has tried to justify its Silverlight media player in the age of HTML5.…