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Daily Headlines 28 February 2013

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Business News Jimmy Wales declares he's Queen of Wikipedia RSA 2013 Off with their heads Larry Ellison buys airline 'Island Air' can ferry Oracle boss to private island Apple CEO Cook's investor-meeting reveal: 'Dog bites man' 'Great stuff coming', unhappy with stock drop ... snxxx Music industry raises NBN fears as legal digital sales take off Fast broadband will kill us Rackspace swallows ObjectRocket for MongoDB smarts Looking to scale up cloudy NoSQL database services Hey, software snobs: Hardware love can set your code free Comment The two go hand in hand when scaling data-crunching systems Investors fight off rivals to stuff money in Nexenta's pockets SDN is H.O.T.: 9 VCs join oversubscribed $24m funding round Channel News AVG holds first Partner Advisory Council in Blighty 'We thought we were engaging with the channel, clearly we weren't' Veteran distie Northamber swings to loss, sales dive by 22% Blames Comet demise, UK economy, IT vendors and bank interest rates Cloud News Big Data tools cost too much, do too little Strata 2013 SHOCKING REVELATION: Fashionable technology is high maintenance Spook-clouds ahoy! Panzura cloud storage cleared for restricted data Goal: Help government agencies trim IT staff Apprenda adds Java to its .Net PaaS Touts single- to multi-tenant conversion features Microsoft unwraps sysadmin-friendly Office 365 for biz update Desktop Office apps included iPhones, 'droids go to WAR: US soldiers invade TOP-SECRET cloud Chiefs stop short of letting BYOD tech onto classified networks Data Centre News SGI rejigs financing ahead of possible asset sale NUMAlink shared memory interconnect not for sale, but could be licensed The server racket recovers from the Great Recession Hyperscale data center vigor makes up for enterprise skittishness Live from New York, it's Speaking in Tech Podcast 'Proper' snapshots, backup bugbears and, um, Pretty Woman moments Wheeeee... CRUNCH: DDN pushes out monster Hadoop appliance for biz Big Data ingester and digester Commvault disgorges ginormous flood of biz data-furtling software After 2 years of silence, we heard a rumbling... then - OH MY GAAAAH Microwaves thrash fibre on speed... if you like two-nines uptime Radio network between stock exchanges hits 357 million MPH Networks News 'New' Canadian BlackBerry security scare emerged in 2011 Hypegasm points to crisis for democratic process, not deadly new flaw EyeSight tries to please MWC crowd with touch-free fingering MWC 2013 Next-gen interface tech for TV, PC and mobe MasterCard tries to zap PayPal with own-brand mobe wallet MasterPass eyes lead in pay-by-mobe race Ten smartphones with tablet ambitions... Product Round-up ...or small tablets that want to be phones... Brit biz stops coked-up moist pocketstrokers ruining your pub lunch MWC 2013 Spray-on mobe coating coming to a store near you, probably PayPal founder sets up mobile payment service verified by FACEBOOK 2-click buy-now-pay-later system Nokia wants to build the Google of human behaviour - and share it Interview Really, really, really Big Data to work out who's doing what, when and why EU web chief: Europe's slow on 4G, but 5G GLORY WILL BE OURS MWC 2013 Steelie Neelie pledges €50m to design ultra-fast networks New social network is for DEAD PEOPLE 'Immortalize the loved ones who are no longer with you' Networks go over the top to meet the enemy MWC 2013 For those in the communications industry a lesson: talk to each other Policy News Apple, Facebook, Google: Same-sex marriage 'a business imperative' HP's Whitman and top GOPpers also prod Supremes on marriage equality Judge bins Apple's plea to slash $368m FaceTime patent damages iPhone maker told to spend face time with slighted VPN biz It's the Peer 2.0: Martha Lane Fox now a crossbench baroness Arise, Baroness Dotcom. Fancy some peer-to-peer networking? Google: Our 'freedom of expression' should trump punters' privacy 'Right to be forgotten' is overrated, huffs search giant Security News Vint Cerf: 'The internet of things needs to be locked down' RSA 2013 Your air conditioner is a national security threat MiniDuke miscreants whip out old-school tricks to spy on world+dog The '90s called... they want their malware back cPanel: Reset your root passwords! Hackers broke into our system Website tools biz hits red alert after help-desk server pwned Anonymous leaks 'Bank of America secrets' in spy revenge hack Hacktivists enraged by suggestion financial giant snooped on them APT1, that scary cyber-Cold War gang: Not even China's best More B-team than elite team, say security experts Pro-Assad hackers break into AFP Photo wire Twitter feed #apicisworthapprox36tweets Google squishes login-bypass bug that opened door to hijackers Two-step account authentication sidestepped Brit firm PinPlus flogs another password 'n' PIN killer Enter the matrix Software News Canonical scraps in-person Ubuntu planning, heads for cloud Future developer meetings to be held on Google+ Sony lifts skirt on Firefox OS with developer ROM for Xperia E Ubuntu's not the only half-baked mobile OS around Samsung Wallet slavishly copies inspired by Apple Passbook MWC 2013 Iconic imitation: The surest form of flattery Science News German boffins turn ALCOHOL into hydrogen at low temp Tricky chemistry unlocks methanol's energy potential Super-fast super-massive black hole spins at nearly light-speed NuStar boffins peek through the clouds at NGC 1365 Colombian boffins reconstruct flight path of Russian meteor Trajectory apparently began in near-Earth asteroid group Apollo World+Dog don't care about climate change, never have done It's the economy, stupid - and it always was

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