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Business News GoPro accused of using DMCA to take down product review Company insists it's all a big misunderstanding Oracle's hardware wing keeps on bleeding Cloud blots out Sun Hadoop whisperer Concurrent slurps VC money 'In crisis there is opportunity' Acer's tiny raft of profit smashed onto rocks by Gateway and co PC maker dives into the red thanks to $120m write-down Whatever happened to telepresence? From $2.5m deals to free iPad apps Feature It's the tech that made Microsoft feel the love for open standards Speaking in Tech: Smash that Kickstarter piggy bank and MAKE IT RAIN Podcast We chat to Google-style storage startup man about how to, er, crowdfund Channel News Brit Bill Gates writes ANOTHER open letter to HP board Pleads for Big Reveal at AGM Data Centre News Nvidia gets into the server biz with Visual Computing Appliance GTC 2013 Tier one server makers embrace Grid for their own appliances The Register Guide to Windows Server 2012: Holistic storage A short extract from our ebook Bolshy Balch Hill blasts STEC bosses after talks break down Increase in ops spend = NO profits - activist investor EMC2 is now EMC II, too "Aye aye", skipper, it be time for a name change Hardware News Samsung: We're doing smart watches too Patent lawyers uncork the champagne world-wide Nvidia welds together ARM-Kepler ceepie-geepie system for the impatient GTC 2013 Development board for CPU-GPU hybrid apps, or nodes in a parallel cluster perhaps The Lynx effect: The story of Camputers' mighty micro Feature The cat from Cambridge that clawed its way to the top... almost Networks News 1,600 to lose jobs during ST-Ericsson breakup Joint venture less joint, less venturous Mobile kingpins to marketing mavens: Bonking is brilliant, wanna try? But first, let's loosen you up with a little jazz Virgin Media boss to Osbo: Bung city fibre cash into small biz Analysis ISP boss reckons UK.gov should spend £75m getting offline firms online Google turns Street View into Mountain View Takes camera up Everest way... Policy News One-time wannabe governor charged for Facebook share Ponzi scheme What's worse, real Facebook shares or pretend ones? Osborne slashes growth forecast by half in bleak economy statement Budget Day 2013 'I will be straight with the country, we're screwed' Twitter patents sending messages, promises not to sue everyone Do no evil - we've heard THAT one before That Osbo bloke - he's on your Twitters. 'What a c**k' Budget Day 2013 Thin-lipped chancellor joins blabber site ahead of bleak budget Feds cuff ex-NASA boffin at airport amid state-secret leak scare Bloke allegedly had one-way ticket to China with a bag full of disks ICO clamps down on nuisance calls, slaps £90k fine on Glasgow firm Ring, ring. Ring, ring. Give us a roast spud Security News Cisco slip puts hardware at risk Borg announces weak password feature South Korean TV and banks paralysed in disk-wipe cyber-blitz Too early to blame network meltdown on Norks SCADA honeypots attract swarm of international hackers 'Industrial control systems' faced attacks from US, China...and, er, Laos Dear gov cyber-ninjas, try NOT to KILL PEOPLE. Love from the lawyers Stick nuke plants and hospitals on no-go list too - war manual Kinky Android X-ray app laid bare as malware Symantec warns it'll try to extort victims Software News Nvidia and ARM: It's a parallel, parallel, parallel world GTC 2013 Big changes coming to the CUDA programming model Microsoft starts to roll out Windows 8 in embedded flavors Full and cut-down Windows for dumber devices Riak cloud storage's secret sauce splashed all over the web NoSQL biz Basho attempts to woo developers with code Another MYSTERY evacuation: Google UK empties swanky offices Picture Gather round kids, no nipping off for a pint Reg Live Chat with GNOME chief Miguel de Icaza Let your fingers to the talking: 2pm GMT 22 March Science News Voyager goes off a (helio) cliff Tiny traveller still telling tales Amazon boss salvages Apollo engines from watery grave Bezos bags historic rockets from 3 miles down LOHAN slips into tight rubber outfit Our spaceplane's rocket motor heater gets the heatshrink treatment Bootnotes News Fukushima switchboard defeated by rat NON-MUTANT RODENT in NUKE PLANT ELECTRO-SHOCKER

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