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Phones for the elderly: Testers wanted for senior service

Column Reg readers, can you help?

Mobile 25 May 12:12

Lego X-wing fighter touches down in New York's Times Square

Biggest-ever brick model to plug Disney show

Bootnotes 25 May 01:23

Experts: Network security deteriorating, privacy a lost cause

Ethernet Summit One suggestion: 'Don't armor the sheep, hunt the wolves'

Security 24 May 23:15

Internet cafés declared 'illegal businesses' in Ohio

Wretched hives 'harm more people than do good'

Policy 24 May 22:17

SAP shuffles execs to chase cloud success

Former SuccessFactors CEO says Auf Wiedersehen

Cloud 24 May 21:44

AT&T adds 61¢ 'Mobility Administrative Fee' for users

Nickel and diming customers because it can

Networks 24 May 21:04

Microsoft caves to Google, pulls YouTube app from WinPhone Store

Back to the older version for now

Applications 24 May 20:59

Amazon expands Appstore reach, gives devs more user data

Alternative Android store now in nearly 200 countries

Developer 24 May 20:09

Now it gets serious: Fracking could RUIN BEER

German brewers concerned about water purity plead case to Merkel

Policy 24 May 20:08

Reports: New Xbox could DOOM second-hand games market

Updated The cost of your cloudy new console

Games 24 May 19:05

Industry execs: Network admins an endangered species

Ethernet Summit 'IT peasant, you are mere human middleware'

Data Networking 24 May 18:35

Wikileaks leaks documentary script about Wikileaks

Simply no teddies left in this pram

Security 24 May 15:53

Investor Icahn needs a loan of $7bn to tick off Mike Dell

I do not like it, SAM-I-am. I do not like Michael's big plan

Business 24 May 15:29

World's richest hobo (Apple) has worked 'tax-free' in Ireland since '80s

Ex-veep lifts lid on homeless fondleslab maker's finances

Business 24 May 14:57

Security Twitteratti: Twitter's 2FA does sweet FA for biz

Shared accounts? #FacebookIsBetter

Security 24 May 14:28

Judge: Evidence will likely show Apple DID fix ebook prices

Reckons DoJ can prove Cupertino 'knowingly participated in... conspiracy'

Media 24 May 13:56

ServiceKey, Oracle end 'grey market' code spat without bloodshed

No damages, no tears, just a shedload of paperwork to fill

The Channel 24 May 13:27

BBC suspends CTO after it wastes £100m on doomed IT system

Revealed: The digital monster that ate Shepherd's Bush

Media 24 May 13:04

Open wide, Google: Here comes an advertising antitrust probe

Can one ever escape the Choc Factory, FTC 'ponders'

Media 24 May 12:44

El Reg drills into Office 365: Email migration

Video Mail bonding with sysadmin Trevor

Cloud 24 May 12:37

Daft tweet by Speaker Bercow's loquacious wife DID libel lord

Why is Sally feeling so very sorry? *innocent face*

Networks 24 May 12:19

Paul Allen buys lovingly restored vintage V-2 Nazi ballistic missile

First space rocket of humanity, used to bomb London

Science 24 May 11:59

Hey, you, dev. What do you mean, storage is BORING?

Storagebod Listen, codemonkey, do you want to take this outside...

Storage 24 May 11:39

Curse you, old person, for inventing computers!

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Too sexy for my (night)shirt

Hardware 24 May 11:24

Feds slam hacker-friendly backdoors in jalopy, grub factories

Kit easily violated by miscreants with 'minimal skill'

Security 24 May 11:04

4G LTE: Good for tweets and watching Dr Who. Crap at saving lives

Critical Communications World Why cops, medics must stick to walkie talkies

Mobile 24 May 10:44

Microsoft exposes green users' privates in web quiz snafu

Web design 101 guys, this is basic stuff

Security 24 May 10:26

Woolwich beheading sparks call to REVIVE UK Snoopers' Charter

What? You don't agree? What are you, a terrorist?

Government 24 May 10:08

Is the next-gen console war already One?

Game Theory Microsoft’s new Xbox - and more

Games 24 May 09:50

Internet advertising giant (Google) 'mulls' map app Waze gobble

Gonna offer anything less than $1bn? No Waze, Jose

Cloud 24 May 09:37

Did Kim Dotcom invent 2-factor authentication? Er, not exactly...

Pull out your pagers and your Hammer pants, we're going back to the '90s

Security 24 May 09:04

'Google IS a capitalist country... er, company'

QuoTW Plus: 'Apple execs, I apologise for this theatre of the absurd'

Bootnotes 24 May 08:27

The BOFH is BACK: And it's cloudy with a 90% chance of beatings

Episode 3 So you deleted my advice? By accident? THREE times?

BOFH 24 May 08:01

Grim outlook for Big Storage as revenues dip across board

Snapping up the minnows only keeps the wolf at bay for so long

Storage 24 May 07:26

INSIDE GCHQ: Welcome to Cheltenham's cottage industry

Geek's Guide to Britain 'If this nerve centre didn't exist, neither would I' says Reg man

Security 24 May 07:05

China’s state-run rags brand Mars One mission a scam

Beijing doesn't like the idea of its citizens visiting RED planet

Science 24 May 06:27

US Senator introduces 'Patent Abuse Reduction Act'

Rackspace and industry groups like it, trolls maybe not so much

Law 24 May 06:03

'Catastrophic failure' of 3D-printed gun in Oz Police test

Panic on the streets of Sydney, as US says printed guns 'unstoppable'

Law 24 May 05:32

Peak Facebook: British users lose their Liking for Zuck's ad empire

One in 10 UK Facebookers: I quit this... bitch

Applications 24 May 05:02

SoftBank gives Washington veto over Sprint board job

The things you do to stop spooks worrying about Huawei

Policy 24 May 04:18

STROKE this mouse to make apps POP, says Microsoft

Windows 8 Start button comes to Redmond's rodents

Hardware 24 May 03:49

Oz shared services collapse looks bad for NetApp

Central IT agency didn't deliver, likely to quit storage-as-a-service caper

Government 24 May 02:02

Googorola loses bid to ban US Xbox sales after ITC slapdown

Microsoft escapes $4bn payout

Policy 24 May 01:13

Samsung, carriers tout first Tizen mobes for late 2013

TDC2013 HTML5 seen as key to open source smartphone success

Operating Systems 24 May 00:35

Google to double encryption key lengths for SSL certs by year's end

2048-bit keys will be the norm

Security 23 May 23:23

Facebook Home phone plans canned in the UK

Support for new devices put on ice as well

Phones 23 May 23:04

Joyent cuts prices on cloudy infrastructure

Aligns with AWS instances, and offers the same or lower prices

Cloud Infrastructure 23 May 21:18

Yahoo! continues quest for youth with yet another acquisition

PlayerScale purchase gives foothold in gaming market

Business 23 May 20:44

Internet2 superfast-boffinry network peers with Azure cloud

Microsoft waives data egress rates for researchers

Cloud Infrastructure 23 May 20:04

Google slashes App Engine NoSQL data storage prices by 25 per cent

Amazon cuts DynamoDB costs, and Google follows suit

Cloud Infrastructure 23 May 18:57

Orange customer clobbered with SIX-FIGURE phone bill

If your handset's overheating, check your data connection

Mobile 23 May 15:59

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