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Business News Watch your back, Amazon: Google coughs $125m for 'shopping engine' firm Buy-up of Channel Intelligence suggests new focus on retail Apple serves up 25 BEEELLIONTH iTunes download 340,000 years of 'Monkey Drums' Lawyer: 2e2 customers should act quickly as liquidation looms 'Critical' alternatives must be sought - legal eagle Big Data versus small data: Unpicking the paradox Can NoSQL and relational both be adaptable? Shocked Zynga investors get a penny per share Still losing users and money in general though Profitless internet biz Pinterest seeks $2.5 BILLION valuation Who could put a price on cupcakes and kittens? Will Michael Dell become the Marlboro man of the PC age? Comment You've come a long way baby... now get off the stock market Cable Cowboy lassoes Virgin Media with HUGE £15bn deal John Malone to be new sheriff in town as Neil Berkett quits Channel News HP EMEA boss recruits enterprise generals Prepare your soldiers for the channel trenches Stricken 2e2 sacks 627, winds down, retains a few data centre caretakers Fat lady folding up her music stand, eyeing exit Cloud News Morphlabs to cloud builders: Osmium is kryptonite to Amazon, Rackspace Weaken them, and get 60 per cent gross margins Brit cloud Elastichosts chases boom to Asia Sydney, Hong Kong, added to global network Data Centre News Data centers to go bonkers over microservers Blades for cheapskates to hack a hunk out of the server racket Life after Cisco: I've got 99 problems but a switch ain't one Test lab Dell vs Supermicro - Trev smacks that switch up Hardware News Could this be Google's slick new touchscreen Chromebook? Video Supposed leaked ad claims to show the full monty A new Mac Pro coming this spring? 'Mais oui!' Well, it depends on exactly what you mean by 'new' Speaking in Tech: HP's snarky Dell jab 'doesn't seem very Meg-like' Podcast Plus: 'NetApp's too expensive to be acquired right now' Review: Dell XPS 10 Windows RT tablet and dock The convertible that Microsoft's Surface should have been? Raspberry Pi on a diet: New skimpier, cheaper model on sale Milliamps-gobbling circuit board now draws even less Networks News Windows Phone 8 hasn't slowed Microsoft's mobile freefall New data shows Redmond's smartphone share is smaller than ever IBM rounds out 10GE/40GE RackSwitches with a switch hitter Adding converged Fibre Channel and pushing 10GBase-T ports Bug kills Intel gig-E controllers Detective work at Layer 2 BSkyB to flick switch on network-level smut-'n'-violence filters Insists move 'not a change in position', won't rule out packet-sniffing Pinging in the rain: Boffins track wet spots using phone masts Raindrops keep falling on my EDGE Policy News Startup swiped IP for 'world's fastest switch' says court Zeptonics zapped 3 Brits banged up for £300k VAT scam Tax crime squad pounced on bogus businesses in dawn raid The truth on the Navy carrier debacle? Industry got away with murder Analysis Sold 'adaptable' ships which couldn't be adapted Ex-ICO: Draft EU privacy rules will turn every citizen 'into a liar' Current commish: Data protection reforms must target crooks, not biz UK web snoop charter: Just how much extra info do spooks need? Analysis Influential parliamentarians sniffs around packet-sniffing draft law US military advisor calls for McKinnon pardon, recruitment of "master hackers" Gesture will help Pentagon gain trust of hacking community, says Arquilla Security News Antivirus update broke our interwebs, howl Win XP users Updated You were only supposed to blow the bloody viruses off Fed confirms but downplays Anonymous Super Bowl banker hack Sod that, Beyoncé is a member of the ILLUMINATI Ex-US Army man: NYT hacks part of wider war on western media firms Mainland Chinese journos also 'put at risk', claims security bod Software News Speedy MySQL 5.6 takes aim at NoSQL, MariaDB The downside? It's still owned by Oracle When open-source eats itself, we win Open ... and Shut Lessons of the Nginx v Apache slug fest Microsoft 'touches 16k shop workers' to flog Windows 8 hard Ambitious OS wasn't explosive, admit top bods Science News Earth-like planets abound in red dwarf systems Slow-burning stars may host civilizations far more advanced than our own Green supercomputer pioneer to model micro drones US Air Force backs Wu Feng for fluid dynamics modelling Google Doodle honors British bone-finder Mary Leakey 100th birthday sketch of humanity's detective NASA deep space probe sends back video of 'Comet of the Century' Potentially moonshine-beating dirty snowball INCOMING Astronomers unravel solar system's strange energy 'ribbon' New theory - not involving Office 2007 - might be the answer Boffins find 17,425,170-digit prime number 257885161-1 takes crown as biggest prime ever found

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