The Reg: Socket to 'em: It's the HomeGrid vs HomePlug powerline prizefight [Wed Feb 6 2013]

Daily Headlines 6 February 2013

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Business News Microsoft to open 11 new retail stores by summer All these Surfaces aren't going to sell themselves Facebook burnout: 61% of users have needed a break Too busy, boring, drama, gossip, waste of time Dell finally takes Dell private - with $24bn and help from Microsoft Yeehaw, ride 'em cowboy... right out of the stock market Cisco joins $8m gang, shovels cash into ex-NASA OpenStack cloud upstart Floating in a sea of green Samsung puts Silicon Valley on a plate in $100m all-you-can-eat Nice tech you've got there, mind if we just gobble it all up? Out of ARM's way, Brit chip juggernaut runs over analysts again Been designing mobile CPUs for years, now everyone wants one Tracy brothers are back: Thunderbirds Are Go! again in 5... 4... 3... International Rescue in no-strings-attached comeback 2e2 for you: Should zombies be allowed to run NHS IT? VAR's demise will focus investors on dealing with the undead Breakaway pressures Indian industry group NASSCOM New think tank aims to turn India into software product hub HTC profits slump but Kim Jong Un's a fan Quietly despotic? Channel News EMC channel boss cements partnerships with cold hard cash Sold our kit? Want a back-end rebate? Some MDF? Cloud News Ravello uncloaks with $26m, fires cloud hypervisor into the heavens Aims high to be the VMware of fully virtualized fluffy infrastructure Data Centre News HP: Flash is better in than out. Better for us, er, our customers All-solid-state arrays stuffed in StoreServ, no need to buy a rival silo HDS keeps filer sales ticking over, just don't mention the mid-range Top-end arrays doing well, relatively speaking OCZ omnishambles leaves flash chippery biz on knife-edge What's $55m between friends? Big Blue takes the fight to Xeons with Power7+ entry, midrange servers And into emerging markets where IBM still means something Hardware News HANDS ON: Living with Microsoft's new Surface Pro Review Is it a tablet? Is it an Ultrabook? It's up to you AMD adds open source driver support for next card launch Good, bad or indifferent? Socket to 'em: It's the HomeGrid vs HomePlug powerline prizefight Feature Rival mains LAN standards go mano-a-mano for a place in your home network Networks News Telstra leak: Operation Deep Packet Inspection Satire Trolling like a pro BIS, bash, bosh: El Reg solves BlackBerry 10 email bafflement So you've got a new Z10, what are your options? Twitter spends $70m to juice your tweets, tell biz what you want - report Said to have bought out social TV analytics upstart Kids as young as FIVE need lessons in online safety - NSPCC And teens reckon hardcore web pr0n is 'mundane' What a Liberty: Virgin Media in buyout talks with telecoms giant Flipping 'ell! Jammy b*stards: Admen flog chocolate bars with 'Wi-Fi-free' zones Have a break, have a not-spot Policy News Amazon patents digital resale market Too cheap? Too often? No sale Australia's top court says Google's iffy ads do not mislead Regulator smacked down in big win for ad giant US diplomat: If EU allows 'right to be forgotten' ... it might spark TRADE WAR 'Things could really explode' warns US Foreign Service man Japan hides anti-piracy warning on P2P networks Latest government plan: shame the pirates into surrender Security News Crooks, think your Trojan looks legit? This one has a DIGITAL CERTIFICATE Updated CA defends issuing digital seal to Brazilian swindlers US Department of Energy: Which bright spark just hacked us? Data on hundreds of staffers leaked, but at least it wasn't 'classified' - report Bug-hunters: They're coming outta the goddamn walls, aargh! Security bods prep for more and more aliens bursting out of software Software News Instagram gets around to adding website galleries But it's still all about mobile How much for Opera's app store in my TV? A tenor, perhaps? HTML5 tech added to set-top box chips GNOME project picks JavaScript as sole app dev language All the cool kids are already doing it … even Microsoft Google, Mozilla, show off in-browser video chat Oh what a lovely standards war Science News Study: Gay marriage support linked to pr0n consumption Open legs lead to open minds Bootnotes News Kickstarter project says open source can blast Death Star costs Seeks £20m for plans, sets 'stretch goal' of £543qn and launch date of Dec 2015

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