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Business News Samsung, Visa in pay-by-bonk tie up Mastercard responds with rebadged PayPass It begins: Six-strikes copyright smackdown starts in US Carrot and stick policies begin this week Barnes & Noble to sling their Nook - report Insider sheds light on B&N moves ahead of Q3 results on Thursday Razzie voters drive stake through Twilight Seven awards for cinematic undertainment HP's ElitePad 900 now so elite, you've probably not heard of it Few thousand biz fondleslabs to slip into Blighty Channel News Muscles-from-Brussels Vanhamme crams into Dell EMEA role 'I've been in training' says new networking biz boss Wages frozen, jobs at risk. Now Capita ITS shifts pay reviews to 1 April Staff need a laugh, but this is no time for pranks UK distie boss: My brush with death in rapper's drive-by killing You know what they say, Price is right Cloud News Skyhigh Networks lets bosses snoop on employee cloud use RSA 2013 Big Brother for the (secure) common good Microsoft coughs up compensation for Azure cloud cock-up Embarrassing SSL cert snafu probe launched Data Centre News Australian supercomputer to use geothermal cooling CSIRO starts drilling to ready petascale super for SKA data-crunching duty EMC morphs Hadoop elephant into SQL database Hawq Learning to live with HDFS instead of kicking it to the curb Mellanox pumps up channel for InfiniBand, Ethernet pushes Trying to pull in more biz to fill in revenue hole The Register Guide to Windows Server 2012: A short extract Another chapter in Microsoft licensing IBM skips BladeCenter chassis with Power7+ rollout End of the line for Power blades – PureFlex or bust Unisys re-ups $650m deal to look after US taxman's big iron IRS slurps over $2 TREEELLION a year of taxpayers' cash Drilling into a half-decent gigabit small-biz switch... from D-Link Review The DGS-3420-28TC isn't from Cisco and I'm OK with this Hardware News Elon Musk: 'Fudged' NYT article cost Tesla $100m Not many orders canceled, though LG acquires webOS from HP – but not for mobile kit Palm remnant to be reincarnated in 21st century boob tube Best Buy takes axe to touchy Windows 8 PCs - lops $100 off price Sit down, Surface, you don't count Unwearable tech: Five ways IT garb's gone HORRIBLY WRONG Yeah, um, good luck with those glasses, Google Toshiba boffins claim battery life boost with SRAM tweaks Standby power consumption reduction of 85 PER CENT in tests Networks News Telecom bigwigs: 'We're all friends – really' MWC 2013 Being overcharged for using the airwaves? Blame regulators Not so fast, BlackBerry. Now Samsung wants your tasty biz mobe pie MWC 2013 KNOX Android: Business at the front, party in the back Mobile TV is BACK: Ericsson launches broadcast video for 4G MWC 2013 Must-watch TV - literally: NO pausing, skipping or stopping Dell takes aim at iPad, uncloaks enterprise-level Win8 tablet MWC 2013 Latitude 10 Enhanced Security: the fondleslab grows up, gets a job Nokia opens Maps to rivals, flogs uber-budget €15 phone MWC 2013 Saves 'best' of Maps for Nokia mobes BT argues Ofcom is 'mistaken' on Ethernet price capping plan Plenty of competition, says national telco Review: Britain's 4G smartphones Product Round-up Nine handsets, one network - is it time at last to invest in LTE? Itsy-bitsy Wi-Fi brings pay-by-bonk to all We don't need no stinkin' NFC Bouncing into Norks any time soon? At least you'll get 3G Mobe web data for visitors, citizens stuck in the dark Wikipedia to TXT articles to the developing world Knowledge for the next billion net users Policy News Poor leadership, tech, hold back Australian open government Australian Information Commissioner calls for rebuild of data.gov.au Security News McAfee dumps signatures and proclaims an (almost) end to botnets RSA 2013 Claims first truly integrated security package Obama cybersecurity order mandates better information sharing RSA 2013 DHS gets ready to open up to private sector Yahoo! and! Microsoft! have! long! way! to! go! in! account! hijack! fight! Google hardly ever spaffs out spam anymore - researchers Microsoft latest to 'fess up to Java-based Mac attack Redmond experiences 'similar intrusion' to Facebook and Apple Software News Ruby 2.0.0 adds syntax sparkle, boosts performance First major stable release in five years Open source port-a-thon brings Ubuntu to more phones, tablets Now runs (badly) on more than just Nexus kit Hadoop Hive stung into action, swarms around SQL More relational, more useful to humans, we're promised Microsoft's own code should prevent an Azure SSL fail: So what went wrong? Sysadmin blog Cloud service fell over despite cert automation in Server 2012 You've made an app for Android, iOS, Windows - what about the user interface? Where to find a sane design for all platforms Science News Climate scientists link global warming to extreme weather Blame giant, increasingly lazy atmospheric waves India launch puts Canadian microsats into orbit An asteroid-hunter in a suitcase Boffin snaps spotty student mobe germ horror Feeding the bacteria on your phone, what could go wrong? Ancient lost continent discovered lounging on Mauritian beach Boffins turn up trace of sunken Atlantis-like place at holiday spot

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