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<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/npd_music_survey/</guid><title>Freetards fill their boots - music survey</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/npd_music_survey/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;P2P for free, for me&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Punters only paid for 42 per cent of music acquired in the US last year, according to market research outfit NPD, down from 48 per cent in 2006.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:05:20 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/pirate_bay_probing_cop_joins_warner_brothers/</guid><title>Pirate Bay-probing cop on Warner Brothers payroll</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/pirate_bay_probing_cop_joins_warner_brothers/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;'Talk about a conflict of interests'&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A Swedish policeman who helped investigate The Pirate Bay is now working for Warners Brothers, one of the big-name film companies that helped drive the investigation and is now a plaintiff in the pending court case against the swashbuckling P2P file sharing site.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:55:10 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/commodore_lawsuits/</guid><title>Commodore goes titsup (again)</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/commodore_lawsuits/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Creditors bankrupt the company&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Commodore International is close to folding. The Dutch company that owns the brand was declared bankrupt this week, but a spokesman said it will appeal the court order.…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567893?" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567893?" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/vladuz_arrested/</guid><title>Notorious eBay hacker arrested in Romania</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/vladuz_arrested/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Vladuz impaled&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Vladuz, the notorious hacker who repeatedly accessed off-limits parts of eBay's network and then publicly bragged about it, has been arrested, the online auctioneer says.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:26:13 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/youtube_operation_vid/</guid><title>'Rowdy' rectal extraction op vid hits YouTube</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/youtube_operation_vid/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Filipino docs may regret 'Baby out!' spray canister merriment&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hospital authorities in the Philippines are none too pleased with three doctors and a nurse who extracted a 15cm spray canister from a male patient's rectum in a "rowdy" operation, footage of which subsequently popped up in three-minute video on YouTube…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:19:37 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/att_layoffs/</guid><title>AT&amp;amp;T waves goodbye to 4,600 staffers</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/att_layoffs/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Home phone? Go home&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AT&amp;amp;T is sacking 4,650 staffers, about 1.5 per cent of its 310,000-strong workforce. Wearing the pink slips, mostly, are managers in the home landline business who don't talk to customers.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:18:01 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/windows_server_2008_vista_desktop/</guid><title>Windows Server 2008 is better than Vista, but why?</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/windows_server_2008_vista_desktop/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Juice your desktop with Server&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;IT infrastructure &lt;a href="http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/mark" target="_blank"&gt;veteran&lt;/a&gt; Mark Wilson &lt;a href="http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2008/04/waiting-for-windows-7-is-vista-really-that-bad.htm" target="_blank"&gt;asks&lt;/a&gt;:…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:17:07 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/apple_updates_safari_update/</guid><title>Apple gets (slightly) less sneaky with Windows Safari play</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/apple_updates_safari_update/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Mozilla still peeved&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Apple has updated Apple Software Update, giving iTunes and Quicktime users (a bit) more notice before slipping Safari onto their Windows machines.…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567891?" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567891?" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/google_microsoft_health_record/</guid><title>Warning sounded on Microsoft and Google's health records landgrab</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/google_microsoft_health_record/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Dr Ballmer will market you now&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Two leading proponents of electronic health records have urged regulators and governments to wake up to Microsoft and Google's growing interest in storing medical information.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:25:38 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/ethernet_storage_alliance/</guid><title>Nimbus-led alliance hopes to big up 10Gb Ethernet</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/ethernet_storage_alliance/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Switch and adapt&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A number of big name IP networking vendors teamed up earlier this week to create a new Nimbus-led partnership to raise awareness of 10Gbit/sec Ethernet.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:21:52 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/cat_keynes_mobile_tv/</guid><title>You'll learn to love mobile TV</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/cat_keynes_mobile_tv/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Or the kitten dies&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comment&lt;/strong&gt; Prophets predict the mobile phone will kill the fixed line and the internet will kill newspapers.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:21:21 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/ballmer_vista_incomplete/</guid><title>Ballmer bitch slaps Vista</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/ballmer_vista_incomplete/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Confesses to Vista's bloat and imperfections&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted that Windows Vista is an incomplete product, even though the operating system has been on the market for more than a year.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:14:58 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/darpa_vulture_contracts/</guid><title>DARPA in search for five-year-mission solar wingship</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/darpa_vulture_contracts/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;'Vulture' &lt;em&gt;Enterprise&lt;/em&gt;-style stratocruiser compo is go&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Pentagon's blue-sky technology office has finally announced the three contenders who will take forward its Vulture project.…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567892?" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567892?" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/microsoft_buys_farecast/</guid><title>Microsoft buys travel search site</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/microsoft_buys_farecast/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Pays real money&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Microsoft has bought Farecast - a travel search site which finds flights for you and, if you're flying from some US cities, can also tell you if the price is likely to go up or down in future.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:05:55 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/moto_cleaning_house/</guid><title>Motorola remodels mobile division</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/moto_cleaning_house/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Blame pulled from operational flowchart&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Motorola is sprucing up its neglected devices division to make it more attractive to investors.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:41:02 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/ebay_conterfeit_software/</guid><title>eBay software faker jailed for ten months</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/ebay_conterfeit_software/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;A++ sentence! Would use judge again!&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A UK eBay scammer has been jailed for flogging £46,000 of counterfeit software on the world's favourite online tat bazaar.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:21:28 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/l_band_bidders/</guid><title>Ofcom lifts the lid on L-band bidders</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/l_band_bidders/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Who wants a piece of spectrum pie?&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;UK regulator Ofcom has published the list of approved bidders for the forthcoming L-Band spectrum.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:15:22 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/euro_whiff/</guid><title>Malodorous Europe gasses UK</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/euro_whiff/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Met Office probes offensive 'Euro-whiff'&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Met Office has firmly pinned the blame for the foul stench hanging over the south of England - dubbed "Euro-whiff" - on our continental cousins, the &lt;em&gt;BBC&lt;/em&gt; reports.…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567892?" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567892?" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/blockbuster_beacon_facebook/</guid><title>Blockbuster gets legal poke for Facebook Tupperware campaign</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/blockbuster_beacon_facebook/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Beacon Borking&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A woman in Texas is sueing Blockbuster for using Facebook's controversial "Beacon" advertising system to reveal to her friends which movies she rented.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:14:35 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/mosley_sues_again/</guid><title>F1 chief seeks French ban on orgy video</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/mosley_sues_again/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Bonne chance mon brave&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Formula One boss Max Mosley is seeking a French ban on the video footage showing him engaging in unsavoury activities with five prostitutes.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:06:05 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/oducat_sells_hdd_kit_to_mystery_vendor/</guid><title>Mystery HDD maker orders kit to build monster-capacity drives</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/18/oducat_sells_hdd_kit_to_mystery_vendor/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Patterned-media mass-production equipment ordered&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hard drives could experience a massive increase in capacity next year now that a "major" HDD maker has placed an order for equipment to mass-produce 'patterned media' drives.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:27:46 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/us_gov_mulls_eurofighter_sale_to_saudis/</guid><title>US gov may forbid BAE Eurofighter sale to Saudis</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/us_gov_mulls_eurofighter_sale_to_saudis/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Brit kit contains significant US tech. Whoops&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A controversial British deal to supply Eurofighter jets to Saudi Arabia may have hit an obstacle. It appears that the Eurofighter - long touted as proof that the UK and its continental partners can make serious combat kit without American help - actually contains significant amounts of US technology, and that Washington may not permit the Saudi sale.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:20:33 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/avnet_horizon/</guid><title>Avnet sees blue skies with Horizon buy</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/avnet_horizon/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Irish reseller falls into line&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Irish reseller Horizon Technology has agreed a recommended cash offer from IT distie Avnet, valuing the firm at €101.3m.…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567895?" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567895?" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/samsung_chair_tax_evasion/</guid><title>Samsung chairman faces tax dodging charges</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/samsung_chair_tax_evasion/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Escapes jail to protect economy&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The chairman of Samsung will be prosecuted for allegedly hiding billions of dollars to avoid paying taxes, South Korean authorities have announced.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:52:57 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/ibm_buys_diligent/</guid><title>IBM continues storage land grab with Diligent acquisition</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/ibm_buys_diligent/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Gets EMC's old R&amp;amp;D hands&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Big Blue has made yet another storage buy, this time scooping up privately-held Diligent Technologies for an undisclosed sum, although rumors peg the price at $200m.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:20:43 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/el_reg_birthday/</guid><title>&lt;cite&gt;El Reg&lt;/cite&gt; celebrates 10th birthday</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/el_reg_birthday/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Our snapper captures London bacchanalian excess&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We're delighted to report that &lt;cite&gt;El Reg&lt;/cite&gt; earlier this week celebrated its tenth anniversary as a daily publication with a right royal piss-up in the very Central London hostelry where the world's favourite IT website was born.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:17:32 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/review_sony_ericsson_k660i/</guid><title>Sony Ericsson K660i internet phone</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/18/review_sony_ericsson_k660i/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Designed for surfing&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Review&lt;/strong&gt; It may not be as eye-catching as a Walkman music mobile or a Cyber-shot cameraphone, the K660i's web-focused features may grab another type of user in a similar way, Sony Ericsson hopes.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:02:02 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/myspace_tracking_hack_warning/</guid><title>MySpace profile hack provides early warning to predators</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/myspace_tracking_hack_warning/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Unplugged 'system error'&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A security issue on MySpace may put a spanner in the works of law-enforcement efforts to track miscreants using the social networking site.…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567892?" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567892?" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/hydrogen_filling_stations/</guid><title>Cow turds fuel Blighty's hydrogen filling station embrace</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/hydrogen_filling_stations/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Birmingham Uni fills up on brown gas&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Britain is about to get a new wave of hydrogen filling stations, allowing those few organisations and individuals in possession of hydrogen vehicles to top them up.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:04:21 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/amd_losses/</guid><title>AMD's Q1 loss comes in as planned</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/amd_losses/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Puts faith in quad-core Opterons&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chipmaker AMD posted its sixth consecutive loss yesterday, for the first quarter of 2008. The firm brought in revenues of $1.51bn, but made a net loss of $358m and an operating loss of $264m.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:49:27 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/uk_biz_treating_consumers_unfairly/</guid><title>UK consumers lose £6.6bn a year to unfair treatment</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/uk_biz_treating_consumers_unfairly/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Telecoms and banking firms - the biggest culprits&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;British consumers are being cheated out of £6.6bn a year by unfair treatment from business, with telecommunications and personal banking topping the list of problem areas, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:41:49 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/ebay_may_sell_skype/</guid><title>eBay ponders Skype bail out</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/ebay_may_sell_skype/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Implementing buy high, sell low strategy&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;eBay is considering flogging off Skype, the VoIP provider it paid $2.6bn for in 2005.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:22:17 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/nhs_booking_snafu/</guid><title>Choose and Book mixes up patient appointments</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/nhs_booking_snafu/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Neither chosen nor booked&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The NHS hospital booking service has sent up to 340 patients incorrect appointment data, delaying a software upgrade.…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567893?" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567893?" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/knifeproof_russian/</guid><title>Pissed Russian sleeps off knifing</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/knifeproof_russian/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Missus finally spots 6-inch hangover&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A Russian electrician who was stabbed by a workmate during a robust after-work booze session was unaware he had a six-inch kitchen knife in his back until his missus alerted him to the fact - by which time he'd crashed out for a bit, got a bus home, had some breakfast and collapsed back into bed.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:40:39 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/fcc_network_management_hearing_palo_alto/</guid><title>FCC chief claims power over network management</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/fcc_network_management_hearing_palo_alto/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Vows rescue of coders and consumers&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Left Coast Comcast Hearing&lt;/strong&gt; US Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin wants everyone to know his agency has all the power it needs to regulate the likes of Comcast.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:15:08 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/aql_textable_landlines/</guid><title>Cheapo textable landline numbers for all</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/aql_textable_landlines/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Executive Brainstorm declares thumb war&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I've been at the Telco 2.0 "Executive Brainstorm" this week. It's where British telco strategy executives brainstorm about how they can turn these slow-moving, bovine beasts around to create new markets and revenue opportunities. And so, with perfect timing, up pops a new service that illustrates how the telcos' stupidity allows so many of these potential markets to slip away.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:08:11 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/emergent_design_part_three/</guid><title>Coupling and the power of accidental relationships</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/04/18/emergent_design_part_three/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;&lt;em&gt;Emergent Design&lt;/em&gt;: break point&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Book extract, part three&lt;/strong&gt; In the third extract from his book, &lt;em&gt;Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development&lt;/em&gt; published by Addison Wesley, Scott Bain tackles the complex issue of coupling, and looks at how unnecessary complexity can be injected through accidental or bad coupling.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:02:03 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/18/google_1st_quarter_earns/</guid><title>Google earnings soar despite paid click dip</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/google_1st_quarter_earns/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Take that, Doubting Thomases&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Google has stuck it to the naysayers by reporting higher-than-expected earnings - even as the weakening US economy and research showing a slowdown in ad clicks raised doubts about the search king's continued prospects. Shares, which have declined about 35 per cent this year, rose 17 per cent following the report.…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567891?" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567891?" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/17/oklahoma_corrections_site_data_exposed/</guid><title>SQL string in URL exposes sex offender data</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/oklahoma_corrections_site_data_exposed/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;And much more, in Oklahoma coding fiasco&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Better known for its presentation of stunning examples of how not to develop code, &lt;a href="http://www.thedailywtf.com"&gt;The Daily WTF&lt;/a&gt; this week exposed a horrendous case of information loss when it &lt;a href="http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Oklahoma-Leaks-Tens-of-Thousands-of-Social-Security-Numbers,-Other-Sensitive-Data.aspx"&gt;published an article&lt;/a&gt; on a critical flaw in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections website.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:01:48 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/17/silverlight_mobile/</guid><title>Microsoft teases mobile developers with 'big' Silverlight deals</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/04/17/silverlight_mobile/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Proof/pudding scenario&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ReMix 08&lt;/strong&gt; Microsoft aims to nail deals with major handset on Silverlight in the next few months, taking the media player software beyond the beachhead it has established with Nokia.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:24:15 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/17/truphone_funding/</guid><title>Truphone adds £16.5m to global operator hope chest</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/truphone_funding/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;I wish I were big&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.truphone.com/"&gt;Truphone&lt;/a&gt;, the British VoIP-on-a-handset firm, has raised another £16.5m to fund its transformation into a grown-up telecoms company.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:32:10 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/17/feds_to_collect_dna/</guid><title>Feds to collect DNA of every person they arrest</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/feds_to_collect_dna/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Creepy mission creep&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In a major expansion of the US government's DNA collection practices, officials plan to collect DNA samples of every citizen arrested by a federal law enforcement agency and all immigrants detained by a federal authority. The move will add 1.2 million people's genetic blueprints to the federal database every year.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:14:19 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/17/disposable_dvd_germany/</guid><title>This DVD will self-destruct in 48 hours</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/disposable_dvd_germany/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;It's smokin'!&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A German &lt;a href="http://www.einmal-dvd.com" target="_blank"&gt;company&lt;/a&gt; has introduced a disposable DVD that can be viewed for 48 hours, then thrown away. The DVDs will sell for just €3.99 ($6.44 /£3.20).…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567893?" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567893?" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/17/sawed_off_usb_key/</guid><title>Yes! It's the sawed-off USB key!</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/17/sawed_off_usb_key/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Practical IT jokes&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ripping a USB cable in half is an achievement, but your friends will be even more impressed when they discover it still performs data transfers.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:37:02 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/17/yahoo_and_google_eye_ad_partnership/</guid><title>Google and Yahoo! 'move closer' to ad wedlock</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/yahoo_and_google_eye_ad_partnership/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Know Ballmer is watching&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Microhoo&lt;/strong&gt; Pleased with its &lt;a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/09/yahoo_tests_adsense/"&gt;test&lt;/a&gt; of Google's ad engine, Yahoo! is considering a more extensive partnership with its search rival/large weapon against Microsoft.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:36:32 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/17/fujitsu_siemens_computers_opteron/</guid><title>Fujitsu and friends arm four-core Opteron servers</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/fujitsu_siemens_computers_opteron/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Volume turned up&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) is the latest hardware vendor to punt servers loaded with AMD’s four-core Opteron processor chip, which finally hit the channel – following months of production delays – last week.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:19:47 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/17/sun_closed_source_mysql/</guid><title>Sun may shut off high-end MySQL features</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/04/17/sun_closed_source_mysql/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Pay-to-play fires up grassroots hoots&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Less than two months into Sun Microsystems' MySQL acquisition, Sun has succeeded in upsetting the grassroots types with plans to close off features to the community.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:31:05 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/17/greenspan_harvard_faceboog_trademark_battle/</guid><title>Harvard bitch seeks to strip Zuckerberg's Facebook trademark</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/greenspan_harvard_faceboog_trademark_battle/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;De-friending your classmates&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A former classmate of social networking bitch-in-chief Mark Zuckerberg is bidding to strip Facebook of its trademark, alleging Zuck had no right to claim ownership of the term in 2005.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:13:17 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/17/nokia_shares_fall/</guid><title>Nokia takes a Q1 tumble</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/nokia_shares_fall/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Blames everything it can think of for mobile woes&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Handset maker Nokia missed targets for the first quarter today and saw its shares fall more than ten per cent.…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567895?" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567895?" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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<item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2008/04/17/oldham_rebrand/</guid><title>Oldham murders owl with whalesong</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/oldham_rebrand/</link><description>&lt;h4&gt;Spunks £100k on 'circle of unity' logo&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LogoWatch&lt;/strong&gt; Oldham Council has failed to follow its own motto - "Sapere Aude", or "dare to be wise" in the local dialect - and has spunked £100k on a couple of circles and its own name.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:38:12 GMT</pubDate></item>

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