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Daily Headlines 5 February 2013

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Business News Solar undercuts coal in New Mexico Pennies per kilowatt-hour Google frenches Gallic media with €60m and some 'help' Have some cash and forget all about that nasty link tax Netflix tempts binge viewers with House of Cards pilot freebie Outer Spacey: Doh! ... You have to install Silverlight NFC SD crew gives up: No one wants our safe bonking tool When it comes to secure mobe transactions, 2 options are enough Samsung: Never mind Steve Jobs, let's snap off a piece of stylus biz Demand for vibrating tool is 'expected to rise' - South Korean firm US giant Juniper bites off webby arm of Basingstoke's security boys Webscreen sale nets $10m for Brit security player Accumuli Channel News Daisy, Computacenter turn down purchase of stricken 2e2 We've talked the talk, now we're walking the walk Dutch tech services outfit Imtech takes €100m write-down 'Possible irregularities' at Polish sub ruin 2012 Biz rivals tussle over customers, former staffers of fallen 2e2 Headhunters pursuing us, say axed workers Data Centre News Opscode guts Chef control freak to scale it to 10,000 servers Facebook likes – and uses – Chef, just like Amazon and Google VPAC fires up new cluster $AU1.2m buy adds 45+ TFLOPS Hard drive sales to see double-digit dive this year Optical drives may disappear entirely Oracle ponies up $2.1bn for Acme Packet to bully its way into unified comms Larry takes on Cisco, Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, and others Cisco revs up Nexus switches to 40GE with fresh ASICs Other tweaks, SDN promises, and a VPN tunnel for control freaking public clouds Private clouds creep into the enterprise But don’t forget the networks World's 'most green' supercomputer in red-hot battle between Intel, Nvidia Analysis Uni boffins demand more bang for their watt Wham SAN, thank you ma'am: Adapter biz smacks biggest rival Emulex outsells QLogic No solace in view for Quantum Analysis Company struggling break free of red tape ink Hardware News HP jumps on Chromebook bandwagon with 14-incher As big as a laptop, as powerful as a web browser Report: Over 1.5 MILLION UK drivers will have hydrogen cars by 2030 Fuel cell cars on roads in 2015. Boom - ahem - to follow, says quango Ten 3D printers for this year's modellers Product Round-up The shape of things to come Networks News Fanbois rejoice: iPhone 5, iPad Mini finally jailbroken All devices running iOS 6 set free at last Tick-tock, TalkTalk: Users face fourth day of titsup broadband 'Network error'? You're 'avin a bubble bath, mate Android gets tipsy on Wine, runs WINDOWS apps It's not an emulator, but it will run on fandroid's kit BlackBerry 10: Good news, there's still time to fix this disaster First impressions The Z10 is hard work, a fair bit is missing, but not a write-off. Yet Ofcom ploughs up UK spectrum fields, reseeds them with 4G Used to be all 2G round here, far as the eye could see BT to end traffic throttling - claims capacity is FAT 'Totally' devoted to you. BUT always remember to read small print Nordic telco CEO strolls in aftermath of Uzbek spectrum doodah Under the table doings with Presidente's daughter: Bad Policy News Australia joins hunt for corporate tax dodgers Name and shame plan floated in election year Apple loses bid to 'cut in line' in Samsung patent dust-up Court: 'No, Mr. Cook, you have to wait your turn like everybody else' BANG and the server's gone: Man gets 8 months for destroying work computers Must cough £1,000 for dousing server room with Cillit 'Online sex abuse of children is growing trend', warn Brit net cops Spike in 'unfiltered' smartphone usage among kids blamed UK minister: 'There must be a limit to what the gov knows about its people' Justice Minister Tom McNally talks to The Register Security News Anon claims ‘d0x’ on bank execs 4k logins published in Operation Last Resort Unlucky for you: UK crypto-duo 'crack' HTTPS in Lucky 13 attack OpenSSL patch to protect against TLS decryption boffinry 'Broke' Estonian suspect pleads guilty to DNSChanger click fraud scam Cybercrooks netted $14m after infecting 4m machines Oracle blocks security hole with quick, hot 'n' premature Java update Rushed out 2 weeks early Twitter clients stay signed in with pre-breach passwords OAuth means apps can connect despite reset of passwords made unsafe by breach Schmidt slams China as world's most prolific hacker Google exec chairman has nothing to lose in book-based rant Science News Kirk to beam up chat with ISS astronaut on Thursday William Shatner to boldly go to the land of his birth Schoolgirl's Hello Kitty catonaut soars to 93,000ft Pics'n'vid US student sends her fave feline to SPAAAAACE Brit boffins GANG-RESEARCH tiny LEDs for 1Gbps network Itsy bitsy teenie weenie LEDs to go all beamy Under cap-and-trade, flying is greener than taking the bus Don't bother saving 'leccy either: It'll have no effect Euro boffins plan supercomputer to SIMULATE HUMAN BRAIN €1.19b for in-silico experiments to build robots driven by simulated people

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