The Reg: Oh, Sony, you big tease: Mystery PlayStation reveal date set [Mon Feb 4 2013]

Business News

Analyst says vendors offer pretend reference customers

Microsoft's 'Contoso' may be more real than some users

Microsoft Dell deal would restore PC makers' confidence

Analysis Things don't get much worse than 'bad-to-neutral'
Oracle loses appeal in HP row over Itanium

Next up: How much will it have to pay?
Michael Dell to buy himself on Monday?

Big Mike wants Wall Street to stop playing with his ball
Samsung mocks Apple lawsuit in SuperBowl teaser ad

Video But who besides insiders will get the joke?
Samsung's squillionaire supremo scuttles siblings' shares snatch

Lee Kun-Hee wins lawsuit at heart of chaebol power struggle
Oh, Sony, you big tease: Mystery PlayStation reveal date set

Gamers, Wall St a-quiver in anticipation of a PS4 glimpse
We're not making this up: Apple trademarks the SHOP

Rectangular tables protected, no word on rounded corners
Axed staffers hijack HMV Twitter account: 'We're tweeting LIVE from HR'

Marketing director: 'How do I shut down Twitter?'
India's most trusted brand Nokia hit with £1.5bn tax bill

Good and bad news for well-loved but allegedly finance-finessing Finns

Channel News

HP workers halt legal fight against bosses over 29,000 job cuts

Disagreements settled, negotiations resumed

Ball-gazer on 2013: More like Crystal Maze for channel biz

BYOD, buyouts, VDI - Will you start the fans, please?
Hungry Daisy Group scoffs The Net Crowd

Yum yum, tasty IP'n'data nourishment
Stricken giant 2e2 may be sold off in one by Monday - sources

Most staff paid for January, implored to stay aboard

Data Centre News

Cloud doctors, DevOps and unconferences: Pass the Vicodin

Storagebod Get past annoying 'unpanel' tweeters and they're actually quite useful

Windows Server 2012 kicks ass: discuss

Reg commentards weigh in
The problem with deploying storage for a private cloud is...

block challenges and find solutions
It's a CLUSTERPLUCK: Isilon array gobbles 4TB drives

Third more in same space
HP reels in late for LTO-6 party, yells: Tape is BA-ACK

'Tape storage is experiencing a resurgence'
Biz data-furtler CommVault reveals unexpected riches

Who says you need more than one product?

Hardware News

Google's Glasses: The tech with specs appeal?

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Don’t push that into my face...

Bring out your dead: Reg readers reveal filthy, filthy PCs...

Ventblockers Computers' hellish interiors reveal further horrors
Netbooks were a GOOD thing and we threw them under a bus

Sysadmin blog Fondleslabs and ultrabooks? Only if you've got deep pockets and short attention spans
Google begs for secrecy as it files Glass design with FCC

Chocolate Factory doesn't want pics, manual, seen in public

Networks News

Facebook's Google, Bing events snub: It's a BUG, NOT a FEATURE

Exclusive Soon as we fix it, everyone is welcome ... bitch

Pub o' clock comes early for C&W biz customers silenced by titsup phones

Inbound calls swallowed by black hole
Plunging BT sales hit every branch of the biz on way down

Even Openreach couldn't save it this time. Pesky watchdogs blamed
Facebook finds new way to wring hundreds from users

A gift card? For me? You shouldn't have, Mark!

Policy News

Rent-seekers target school laptops in Oz election year

Getting more cash from the cow

Wikileaks reveals Icelandic FBI shennanigans

As Assange movie production ramps up, Wikileaks leaks some more dirt
Telcos splash political donations in Australia

Mactel and Optus donate over $AUD200,000, favouring conservatives
FTC issues new privacy guidelines for mobile firms

'Clean up your act, or Congress may do it for you'
Brussels reviews Google's plan for not being abusive and dominant

'OK, let's check if this can work. No, don't Google it'
Chinese web company faked Microsoft patch to force download

Chinese government slams firm for anti-competitive practice

Security News

Twitter breach leaks emails, passwords of 250,000 users

Links to media site attacks suspected

Rotund Mega baron Dotcom offers bounty for breaking his crypto

Can you burst the bulging cloud locker for €10,000?
First the NYT, now the Wall Street Journal: But are hacking attacks from China new?

Analysis If this is a surprise, where have you been for a decade? Mars?
Filthy! old! blog! bug! blamed! for! Yahoo! webmail! hijacks!

Unpatched WordPress flaw clears way for inbox takeovers
Sick software nasty uses child abuse pics to extort infected victims

Pay €100 'fine' to rid PCs of horror images
Symantec: Don't blame us for New York Times hack

AV giant says AV isn't enough these days...

Software News

BlackBerry: Aaah, Microsoft, we meet again.. for another deathmatch

Ballmer: Bring me the head of Alicia Keys, and let's end this

Introducing the Open Source Rookie of the Year... Whoa, it's Microsoft

Open ... and Shut You don't understand the Power of the Source
Linux boot doesn't smash Samsung laptops any more

Penguins console tearful owners of shiny new bricks

Science News

Blobs that swarm spark ‘it’s alive’ hypegasm

The mathematics of flocking

Scientist's snap first video inside thinking fish's brain

'FOOD!', piscine predator ponders purposefully
Sea Launch comsat rocket goes titsup 40 seconds into launch

Elon Musk smiles smugly, strokes cat
Nokia shares $1.35bn EU graphene research grant

Handy if that whole WinPhone business doesn't work out
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster remembered 10 years on

Feature What really happened to the mission that grounded NASA's orbiter fleet?

Bootnotes News

'Why can't we say we're happy to be RIMmed on a daily basis?'

Quotw Plus: 'Keep hairdryer four, five inches from the iPhone'

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