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Business News Google Shopping Express dips toe in same-day home delivery Wants to ape Amazon and eBay, not Webvan or Kozmo Gartner's gurus forecast future tech spending splurge 2014 IT dollars in a line would go to the Sun and back. Twice BlackBerry results not as bad as they possibly could have been Not even time for a beer yet though, far less champagne Spotting a Big Data faker as you set up Big Data for someone Just who can suck the legacy and make the Bigness come? Man's 'I own half of Facebook' claim branded 'fabrication' by judge Testy beak writes 155-page book, throws it at him You know how your energy bills are SO much worse than they were? Analysis Green.gov: It was gas prices! <Cough>Actuallyitwasmainlyus Speaking in Tech: In-flight fondling, hands-free servers, what could go wrong? Podcast And suspect stains - all on this week's sysadmin confab Motorola minimum-wage sheriffs ride in to SAVE the HIGH STREET These steenkin' Smart Badges ... do we need them? Entire internet credits snapper for taking great pic while actually dead He was good, says bloke who really took it, but come on Cloud News Google vows no patent prosecution for open source cloud tech Protects Hadoop community, perhaps others in the future BIGGEST DDoS in history FAILS to slash interweb arteries Analysis Bombardment without collateral damage - amazing Living in the middle of a big city? Your broadband may still be crap No cloud movies for you if you lose the postcode lottery IT Pro confession: How I helped in the BIGGEST DDoS OF ALL TIME Sysadmin blog Oh Trevor, how could you? Like this Rackspace gobbles Exceptional Cloud Services for Redis smarts A little Redis to go with your MongoDB, sir? Paypal struggles free of VMware lock-in, goes with OpenStack Deed heeds its need for speed Watchdog warns UK.gov not to create 'them and us' digital divide Want some welfare payouts? Buy a computer Data Centre News Cloud chairwoman crashes down through glass ceiling, grabs the CEO helm Needs to be Wonder Woman to beat AWS, Google and MS Hardware News Apple files patent for iPhone with wraparound display 'Twould be a sad day for smartphone case designers Reg man bested in geek-to-geek combat - in World War 3 nerve centre Geeks' Guide Dom Connor and the cool Cold Warriors Review: Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 Win8 Pro, Atom powered fondleslab for grown-ups Chinese game addict MURDERS girlfriend after she leaves him Creep steals her credit card to fund all-night game binge Networks News Sprint, Softbank to swear off Huawei kit as condition of merger Will bow to US government spying concerns Orange is the new TalkTalk of the broadband complaints league Outstrips all competitors in race to the bottom. Again ASA says 'unlimited' broadband can have 'moderate' limits on it Virgin choking wasn't moderate, so its wrist is smacked Indonesia: e-commerce firms must have local domain Show me some .ID, says Ministry Policy News Texas judge sends Uniloc packing in Rackspace patent suit Turns out floating-point numbers aren't patentable Congress plans to make computer crime law much, much worse Comment Learning the wrong lesson from Swartz suicide US bill prohibits state use of tech linked to Chinese government Has anyone on Capitol Hill heard of the global supply chain? Security News FBI on trial for warrantless Stingray mobile spying Cellphone spying made easy – and sloppy – by electronic signal slurper Wisconsin man cuffed over Koch-blocking DDoS attack Lawmen respond to Anonymous attack on right-wing moneymen MI5 undercover spies: People are falsely claiming to be us We, of course, are not us either. We 'work at the Home Office' Oz states count cars using Bluetooth Traffic studies bring out tinfoil hats Science News Google Street View releases devastated Fukushima town tour Pix A trifecta of troubles: earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear cockup Lost CASSiE search moves up a gear Choppers rise after swelling twin orbs leave 'nauty knitwear adrift Boffins probe into moons – and associated rings – 'beyond snow line' They were here when this was all fields – of protonebula Bootnotes News Pyongyang Photoshop tomfoolery shows wet Norks, skirts blown up Virtual hover armada storms beach in propaganda pic

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