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Employees sue for unpaid Windows Vista overtime

A series of lawsuits have been brought against major US companies by staff claiming unpaid overtime based on the time it takes Windows Vista to start up and shut down.

Kids blame technology for homework hand-in failures

The dog 8 it

Reg Hardware 20 Nov 15:49

Lewis Hamilton mulls riding Virgin

Galactic jaunt for F1 champ?

Space 20 Nov 15:20

UK.gov tells domain industry to get its house in order

Oh no! Here comes the government...

Government 20 Nov 14:52

T-Mobile leaves 300,000 disconnected

Database corruption blamed

Mobile 20 Nov 14:51

How to destroy the music business

Analysis This will only take a second

Music and Media 20 Nov 14:38

US, UK deploy manned unmanned aircraft to save bandwidth

Backseaters still tolerating pilots for now

Government 20 Nov 14:11

Michael DellThe madness of 'king cores

Opinion 80-core servers will add-up to nothing without hypervisors

Pope Benedict XVIThe Pope predicted economic Armageddon back in 1985

Italian pol says sub prime collapse all in the good loan book...

US Army bans USB devices to contain worm

Unfriendly fire

Anti-Virus 20 Nov 13:41

BNP list hunters bring down Wikileaks

70 hits a second

Law 20 Nov 13:33

How are you future proofing your IT?

Mini Poll Avoiding legacy status

Platforms 20 Nov 13:13

Ofcom claims UK leads on digital communications

Irish are the talkiest and Yanks watch most TV

Networks 20 Nov 13:07

Logitech Squeezebox Boom wireless music player

Review Small box, very big sound

Reg Hardware 20 Nov 13:02

MPs declare their ignorance on the web

Comment If they're not ranting, they're bumbling

Government 20 Nov 12:58

Formula One kinetic energy recovery rigs debut

Off-the-shelf sets prepped for use next season

Reg Hardware 20 Nov 12:46

Capita takeover faces monopoly investigation

Office of Fair Trading not convinced

Applications 20 Nov 12:45

Carbon Cult: Ban flushing toilets

Pay per dump, and think of Gaia

Environment 20 Nov 12:31

Cybercrooks making easy money from virtual worlds

EU agency launches campaign

ID 20 Nov 12:05

GTA IV extra game download details emerge

To be posted on 17 February 2009?

Reg Hardware 20 Nov 11:34

Lords debate Climate Bill, carbon racket

'We don't know what we're talking about'

Environment 20 Nov 11:31

Beeb reprieves Xmas Top of the Pops

'Oh I wish it could be Christmas..' etc, etc

Entertainment 20 Nov 11:25

MacBook buyers bite Apple over copy protection cock-up

Analysis DisplayPort-only direction yields iTunes playback woes

Reg Hardware 20 Nov 11:23

Google torches own brand Sadville

'Lively' wasn't

Applications 20 Nov 11:18

Trademark owner loses domain name claim against unauthorised reseller

Court rules against ITT

Small Biz 20 Nov 11:12

Scientists ponder mysterious source of cosmic rays

Exotic object or dark matter?

Space 20 Nov 10:45

Ballmer: We're so over Yahoo!

We don't even want to talk about it

Applications 20 Nov 10:25

Nuke boffins plan Penguin petaflop cluster

Linux A-bomb sim rig could go commercial

Servers 20 Nov 10:02

Asus Eee PC S101 luxury netbook

Review An Eee to truly challenge thin'n'light laptops

Reg Hardware 20 Nov 09:02

Firefox millions - only 12 per cent Google free

Mozilla faces IRS audit over search sugar daddy

Financial News 20 Nov 05:44

NASA readies remodeled ISS ENose

Smells like Endeavour team spirit

Space 20 Nov 01:26

Congratulations, Barack - Now fix your websites

Change? Start with security

Security 20 Nov 01:24

Inside Microsoft's 'New Xbox Experience'

Look familiar?

Music and Media 20 Nov 00:18

PHP added to open-source NetBeans

Sun burnishes scripting credentials

Developer 19 Nov 21:46

Sun commits to JavaFX despite uncertainty

Adobe MAX Layoffs be damned!

Developer 19 Nov 21:42

EU tables green CoC for datacentres

UPDATED: Regulating a uniform hue of greenwash

Servers 19 Nov 17:25

Super Micro super ready for Intel Nehalem Xeons

SC08 Boards galore, but still no chips

Servers 19 Nov 16:44

Baidu sorry for medical scam ads

The music machine rolls on

Music and Media 19 Nov 16:40

Computer virus quarantines London Hospital for second day

Plucky Brits shrug off Mytob network blitz

Anti-Virus 19 Nov 15:51

NASA's curious climate capers

Computer says: It's getting warmer

Environment 19 Nov 15:20

Filesharing ambulance chasers get into the gay smut racket

Davenporn Lyons defends Army F*ckers

Law 19 Nov 15:08

Academics warn of EU 'three strikes' back door plan

Disconnection looms

Law 19 Nov 14:29

BNP leaked list claims first victims

Genie + bottle = foot + mouth

Law 19 Nov 13:45

Oz driver pulled with todger in pasta sauce jar

Continued to crack one off 'while resisting arrest'

Bootnotes 19 Nov 13:29

Follow the Somali pirate scourge via Google mashup

Indian navy sends buccaneer mothership to Davy Jones

Government 19 Nov 13:23

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