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Business News Ericsson plans NZ fibre facility Duct-building in Porirua Hipsters have spoken: Microsoft is 'hip to be square' Porcine aviation squadron ready for take off Whitman: Absolutely not going to break up HP The patient 'showed some improvement' in Q1 Emulex under second investor assault First Elliott and now Altai Nvidia plans new 'reptile HQ' to match its IT aggressiveness Keplersaurus Rex to stomp into Silicon Valley Twitter opens ad API... awaits cash TSUNAMI from ad-slingers #Widens revenue stream John Sweeney: Why Church of Scientology's gravest threat is the 'net Interview A beautiful machine for free speech, says BBC reporter So you won a 4G licence. The Freeview interference squad wants a word Next-gen mobe broadband threat to 2 MILLION tellies costs Blighty £180m Foxconn: Our hiring freeze has nothing to do with iPhone 5 Insists its not about just one client Jerry Yang hired as fly on the wall at Lenovo Hired for 'proven entrepreneurial spirit' to help PC company grow Channel News Hey, cloudy channel bods: Vendors have problems too... You can't cram a round cloud peg into a square channel hole Cloud News Google in cloud-support price war with Amazon, Microsoft Intros revolutionary 'how much can you afford?' model Newvem fluffs up penny-pinching control freak for AWS cloud Ex-Sunners give away freebie Cloud Care as loss leader Oracle plans deep integration of Eloqua marketing tech Promises to support Microsoft and Salesforce systems as well Data Centre News Ride Riverbed's Whitewater all the way to Glacier Cold data storage in Amazon's icy vaults Buyer's Guide de-hassling flash array purchase DCIG strikes again NetApp flashifies ONTAP high-end boxen Bigger disks, flash pools, more memory VCE collective takes integrated systems battle down to the midrange Cisco-EMC-sometimes-VMware converged boxes take on the tier ones Hardware News Google reveals Glass details in patent application Lasers burning images onto your retina? What could go possibly wrong? Google takes Chromebook upmarket with touchy-feely Pixel Pricey touchscreen kit for the cloud warrior with money to burn Apple files 'iWatch' patent application Flexible video display to slap onto your 'appendage' New blow for Microsoft Surface: Touch Chromebooks 'on sale in 2013' New blow for Google stablemate Android, too WTF is... Miracast? The AirPlay alternative for streaming video, games from your Android to your telly Sony promises PC-based PlayStation 4 for Christmas AMD x86 tech helps console break out of Cell Mobes with monster 72-core GPU to debut in China ZTE says handsets packing Tegra 4 system-on-chip will land before July Networks News Just what does BT have planned for its 4G licence: We drill into UK LTE Analysis Auctions hands telco space to run national hotspot network Quit the 2D internet, flee your cave, and GET LAID, barks rock star Jack White's charming message for Record Store Day Policy News Microsoft legal beagle calls for patent reform cooperation 'Fix what's broken, don't break what's working' Over 100,000 sign White House petition for handset unlocking Let freedom ring Brit robot programmers banged up for £500,000 tax evasion Biz pair lived life of Riley on cash hidden offshore How private biz can link YOU to 'anonymised' medical data And all without your consent, FOI request reveals Sexual harassment case costs Oracle $AUD18,000 Things better left unsaid Security News Twitter adds email security to help block phishing attempts Too late for Burger King, but maybe not for you Obama's new cyber-security tactics finger corrupt staff, China Hackers or the guy with root? Trouble is closer to home, warns White House Adobe punts fix for Reader, Acrobat holes battered by PC, Mac hackers Software biz praised for nine-day response PunkSPIDER project founder defends 'Google for web app vulns' Global bug scanner can be used 'for good or for evil' We've slashed account hijackings by 99.7% - Google 120-variable security checks + 2-factor auth = zapped interwebs pond scum Software News Google App Engine update eases cloudy mobile app development Cloud Endpoints let Android and iOS apps plug into Google’s backend Open source app can detect text's authors Bible, US constitution analysed. Next: your kids school work and your email Ubuntu Preview alpha arrives for fondleslabs and phones Beware – it's for brave Nexus device owners only Red Hat nips, tucks RHEL 6.4 ahead of RHEL 7 later this year Shadowman getting ready to be ARMed and dangerous Chromebook app launcher touted to Chrome browser users Google ports offline app box to Windows Xamarin chucks Apple fruit at Microsoft mobe wobblers Apple iOS development extended to Visual Studio Which Linux admin tools and tricks would YOU stake your career on? Sysadmin blog Sort the signal from the noise - tell us your top utils, books, IRC chans, the lot Yahoo! 'OPTIMISES'! website! for! fondleslabs! AND Facebook! Please Sir, Mayer have some more Web2.0rhea? Science News Drone quadracopters throw and catch inverted pendulum VIDEO Let the spear-throwing killbot FUD commence Curiosity Mars rover flashes pics of GREY drilled powder sample Rock dust could hold key to Mars' wet past Boffins spot Luna-sized exoplanet Tiny 'Kepler-37b' is smaller than Mercury and very nasty Bootnotes News Oklahoma cops rake ashes of 'spontaneous combustion' victim Timber-framed house intact as owner goes up in flames This 320-gigapixel snap of London is size of Buckingham Palace BT's 360° panorama has its own unit of measure Perfect sex minx calculated from 'deep' probe of X-rated flicks 10,000 web smut stars analysed, vital statistics checked and double-checked

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