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Business News iPhone-maker Foxconn not gonna save Sharp Sharp starts making plans to save itself without help RIAA: Google failing on anti-piracy push Six-month report card: FAIL BBC's new bosses - the lawyers - strike out Savile probe testimony Comment Why the blanks matter the most What's NFC? PayPal lobs Chip and PIN readers at UK small biz Just as the world moves to pay-by-bonk Channel News Who said run rate reselling was 'boring'? Oh... Softcat did But Marlow-based dealer still making mint from it Brit SAP house G3 Global slurps 2e2's SAP house Diagonal moves from Morse to 2e2... to an SME in Weybridge Cloud News Microsoft brings Azure back online Red-faced Redmond mends worldwide SSL certificate cockup Microsoft secure Azure Storage goes down WORLDWIDE Updated Looks like Redmond forgot to renew a security certificate... Rackspace cuts network bandwidth prices on its cloud Adds tiered pricing with volume discounts for storage capacity Data Centre News Dell and pals pop $51m into all-flash array upstart's wallet Healthy chunk o' change for Skyera's B-round Happy birthday, LP: Can you believe it's only 65? From scratchy spinner to flash and now the cloud BOFH: Climb the corp ladder - and use your boss as a bullet shield Episode 1 Top tips on getting ahead, BOFH-style Delving deep into Microsoft's 'Cloud OS' Live broadcast Does Windows Server 2012 deliver on its promise? Virident gives server flash vendors the fear with 'sharing tool' PCIe flash card maker punts Connect software Build your own 180TB NAS for $US1,942.59 (plus disk) Cloud storage outfit Backblaze again open sources designs used by Netflix and others Facebook reveals plan for new archival data centre Bit barn will hold all the photos you don't care about any more Hardware News Fondling again: HP slates new tablet for April Seven-inch Jelly Bean with Google goodies Cheap iPhone mini 'makes sense' for world domination Morgan Stanley analyst: China won't gobble leftovers Blackberry Z10 sales fail to impress analysts Early forecasts being revised downward Official: Cloud computing invented by two technophobic old geezers Something for the Weekend, Sir? Blue sky thinking by mistake SimCity Classic Antique Code Show Micromanage your own mock metropolis Networks News Mobile operators look to Firefox to beat back Google, Apple MWC 2013 18 carriers announce plans to adopt Firefox OS France tries again, with EU20 billion broadband fund 'Terminate the copper' says Hollande Orange offers €40k for the best bit of NFC bonking App compo to drive adoption of the radio comms tech Mobile World Congress: Rise of the machines, er, handsets Live Chat 28 Feb, 2pm: Get a grip on phone comms - before it gets a grip on you 4G in the UK? Why the smart money still says 'Meh' Analysis Along with the industry Official: More than 7 million Brits have NEVER accessed the interwebs Oldsters, disabled and poor all left behind Policy News Success for Einhorn: Judge blocks vote on Apple's Proposal 2 Tim Cook faces interesting shareholder meeting next week Google given more time to prove to Brussels it's NOT 'abusive' in search Almunia sets deadline (of sorts) for second half of 2013 Council IT bod in the dock for flogging scrap work PC parts Saving disks from scrapyard landed him on the scrapheap Privacy warriors slam MEPs over 'corporate-friendly' data law rewrite Euro politicos 'undermine trust and confidence', argue campaigners Bundestag holds 'unusual' hearing on German Copyright Act Expert: May indicate parliamentary 'push-back' on copyright reform Security News HTC settles with FTC over smartphone security holes Promises to do better next time Pah! Social, file-sharing apps are SAFE compared to biz apps Malware threats not where corporates think they are Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter hipsters exposed in Zendesk data raid Hacker slurps email info from helpdesk biz NBC.com HACKED to spread bank account-raiding Trojan 'No user info compromised' insists US telly network Security report becomes security risk Mandiant's report on Chinese hacking used as bait in spear phishing attacks Software News Firefox to spit out third-party cookies Mozilla says Apple's got it more or less right Linus Torvalds in NSFW Red Hat rant X.509 dispute turns XXX as Torvalds says Red Hat wants kinky fun with Redmond Free Riak database acts like depressed teenager to assure data reliability Version 1.3 constantly interrogates itself to make sure data is ok Hands-on with Ubuntu's rudimentary phone and tablet OS Pics It's here, but there's not much you can do with it Google announces I/O conference registration Prepare for Glastonbury-like techie stampede PSF warns on angry trademark attacks: Python coders, this is not our way Hacktivism and threats 'not who we are or how we act' Turkish tattooists test talent with QR code ad Tattoo parlour hopefuls urged to swap irons for pen Science News Quantum computer one step closer after ‘true’ quantum calculation Baby steps Is world's first space tourist Dennis Tito planning a trip to Mars? Millionaire teases 'historic journey' to Red Planet Bees use 'electrical SIXTH SENSE' to nail nectar-stuffed flowers Sparks fly when bumbles see plants for plundering, say Brit bio-boffins Bootnotes News Dalek designer Ray Cusick passes away aged 84 Terminated Woman nails 'cheating boyf' on Russian 'Street View' Spots paramour pair in Perm panorama Bill Gates: 'Microsoft didn't MISS cell phone' bandwagon Quotw Plus: 'Trolls are just trying to hijack somebody else's idea' US woman cuffed for 'booking strippers for 16th birthday bash' 'Intimate' entertainment endangered teen welfare, cops claim

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