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Business News Fujitsu says sayonara to semiconductor biz, thousands of staff Dividend killed as conquering European IT proves tough British games company says it owns the idea of space marines Amazon pulls ebook over Games Workshop trademark idiocy Verwaayen on verwaay out: Alcatel-Lucent big-cheese cheeses it CEO quits, 4,999 other workers to go O2 gobbles up O2 Unify staff from dying UK IT giant 2e2 107 workers tossed a lifeline in the nick of time Friends with money: Dell's big bet on private finance Analysis Memo to Michael: Don't be like HP Dell: Shhh, don't tell a soul, but the PC sector ISN'T doomed... HPC blog Let's ditch these shareholders, shall we? Ofcom: Fancy running a temporary HD Freeview TV channel? 10 of 'em up for grabs, but they'll only live for 6 years South Koreans pawn shiny tech for stress-free loans Hocking Gangnam Style! Channel News Another year, another $40m: Arrow Electronics to cut costs AGAIN Shrinkage in Euro Zone and Americas cause for concern Microsoft can't even shift Windows 8 slabs in the middle of a tablet frenzy Halve the price of RT then we're talking, says analyst Cloud News Facebook glitch briefly crashes several sites No, you can't log on with Facebook Connect … bitch Google Drives into web hosting Simple service from the cloud Data Centre News Teradata rides big data wave in Q4, does better than expected Which, if big data is all it is cracked up to be, shouldn't be possible Stricken 2e2 threatens data centres: Your money or your lights £40k from biggest fish, £4k from minnows, to keep servers running REVEALED: NetApp's upcoming 'version 1.0' all-flash array We get a few details on stand-alone SANtricity silo Visions of a hands-free data centre Time for improvements Seagate squeezes out 4TB desktop monster Bye bye Barracuda Review: Unitrends backup appliances Review Backing up, disrupting and... worth it? Storage upstart polishes copied-data slurping tool Actifio: Buy our redundancy hoover ... or hire us as cleaners Activist investor makes grab for the wheel at Qualstar Board's figures squeezed into tightening corset Hardware News Microsoft's Surface Pro team takes on Reddit to finesse fondleslab Battery covers, Linux, advanced touch, and much more Smartphone-in-a-box maker cooks up cheap Facebook-flavoured chips From developing world? Buying 1st smartphone? Zuck 'Likes' you... bitch 200 million office workers gagging for a... Microsoft Surface? Windows tablet is most desired by office workers - report BlackBerry Q10: This quirky QWERTY will keep loyalists perky Hands On Touchscreen and a keyboard? So mad useful it might just work Review: Seagate Wireless Plus Wi-Fi hard drive A terabyte of portable storage for your Android or iOS device Raspberry Pi grows an eye Update OmniVision to supply $25, 5MP PiCam capable of 2592x1944 stills Networks News Dell: May the Force 10 (Gigabit Ethernet ) be with your CAT6 cables Embeds OpenFlow control freakage in two 10GE switches Yahoo! strikes! display! ad! deal! with! boss's! old! boss! Google! No mention of Microsoft from Purple Palace's princess Vodafone cash supply choked as Europe tightens pursestrings Bad, but could be worse City sugar daddies mulling £10bn bid for EE, say sources New 4G operator could really bring in the (Kevin) bacon Don't Menshn the snore: Chick-lit queen's jabber site killed in its sleep Webste shutdwn: Oh well, back to Twittr Microsoft sails into Africa with White Spaces and Huawei phones 4Afrika rural network project Policy News Motorola complaint against Microsoft narrowed Judge invalidates chunks of patents Security News Microsoft techies bust data centres, pull plug on Bamital botnet Sorry about your servers, they fell down some stairs China is world's most malware-ridden nation We're number one, we're number one! Site News The Register: Our all-new app now available for Android And the rest... Software News Ubuntu for Galaxy Nexus phones to arrive in February Dev version for now, but first phones will ship in October LibreOffice 4.0 ships with new features, better looks Slowly closing the gap with Microsoft Office Science News Shatners talks space, acting with fellow Canuck on ISS Science fiction meets science reality Wind now cheaper than coal in Oz: Bloomberg Let the market decide Now UK must look out for crappy SPACE weather - engineers Solar superstorm bound to hit us 'at some point', warn boffins Space station 'naut supplies Reg with overhead snap of Vulture Central 'So much of history came from this city'

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