With today's connected tech, a similar-scale bug would be hard to squash Comment Twenty-five years ago on January 1, despite panic and fear that the world was soon to collapse into chaos, nothing much happened....

The lack of trust that leads to outsourcing can be expensive On Call Y2K December 26th is a holiday across much of the Reg-reading world, but it's also a Friday - the day on which we present a fresh instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that recounts your tales of tech support encounters and exasperation....