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Daily Headlines 24 April 2013

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Business News Apple beats revenue estimates but margins are falling Plans $100bn share buy-back bonanza for investors Salesforce: Internet of Things is 'third wave of computing' Benioff & Co dive into social networks, connected devices Twitter signs ad deal for MEELLIONS with marketing bods Telly-watching tweeters targeted by dosh-generating deal Make cool shows, make money: Netflix's SHOCKING TV strategy 'Internet TV' biz counts House of Cards gamble winnings Peak Apple: First 'profit slip' in a decade - and, boy, it's gonna be BIG Clammy hand of Steve Jobs felt on cold Q2 numbers, say analysts Google's teeny UK tax bill 'just not right', thunders senior MP Hodge on Schmidt: Aiding the economy and paying corp tax is NOT an 'either/or' 8 in 10 small UK firms hacked last year - at £65k a pop: Report Infosec 2013 Poor security practices blamed, according to gov survey Weak iPad, iPhone demand hits LG Display in the wallet Apple shares below $400 for first time in 2 years AMD pins future growth to embedded marketplace G-Series SoCs to turn sliver of revenues into wedge Channel News UK's dead monster iPad gumble-maker COMES BACK TO LIFE Ditches workforce, relocates in Far East Cloud News AWS says private clouds aren't real clouds Veep visits Sydney, reveals new support centre, throws darts at VMware et al VMware profits flat-line even as services revenues grow Virtzilla launches Project Zephyr vCloud Hybrid Service on May 21 White House backs US web sales tax - eBay hits panic alarm Think about what you're doing here, wails net bazaar Array makers, what's that noise? It's the hungry Amazonian horde Blocks and Files ...And they're here to swipe you and your lunch Data Centre News Facebook plans vast data center in Iowa Plonks FarmVille into farm land Huawei: 'We're not interested in US market' Cuts enterprise sales projections by one-third Mellanox adds VM-flitting to ConnectX-3 server adapters Going Pro with VXLAN and NVGRE to stretch across Layer 3 nets Nvidia Tesla bigwig: Why you REALLY won't need x86 chips soon Interview Find out where Intel, AMD, ARM stand in GPU giant's roadmap Data centre networks are getting flatter and fitter Shed the layers CFO warns IBM's 'underperforming' storage crew: We'll take 'substantial action' Analysis Legacy mid-range and entry arrays look unsafe Astute: Hey small biz, you too can afford speedy flashy goodness Array biz claims 3-5x speed boost from cheap accelerator You got your Tintri hat, beermat and cat: But what does it all mean? Hands-on Hype begone: Is this storage management for dummies or what? Big money in Big Data: SGI debuts petabyte-juggling archiving tool Watch out, Quantum... Diagnostics tools ARE useful, but more for the vendor than me Storagebod Some add-ons should be set free... Hardware News First batch of Firefox OS phones sells out in hours Experimental handsets a hot item among developers Yelling at mobes while driving just as bad as texting GODDAMMIT I JUST WANT TO WRITE 'ROUNDABOUT' Review: Nokia's Windows Phone 8-powered Lumia 720 Ah, a battery life just like the old days Turn off the mic: Nokia gets injunction on 'key' HTC One component Dutch court stops Taiwanese firm from using microphones Sord drawn: The story of the M5 micro Feature The 1983 Japanese home computer that tried to cut it in the UK Nudge nudge, wink wink interface may drive Google Glass Two-finger salutes also come in handy, as may patent lawyers Networks News TPG might bid for spectrum: reports Junior telco dons the 'red underpants' Oz broadband speeds collapsed in 2012 Bottomless thirst for downloads chokes the tubes BlackBerry OS 10.1 leaks its secret goo over all the web Half-baked next version to try, if you're mad enough Chinese IEEE members want MAC control for cognitive radio Spectrum licences? Who needs 'em when radios can find their own airspace Policy News Breaking: Australian Federal Police claim arrest of 'LulzSec leader' Cracker arrested in NSW, details sketchy Human rights groups rally humanity against killer robots Call for ban on fully autonomous weapons systems Apple fanbois' accidental bonking ruled too obvious by watchdog Googorola touchscreen fumble patent cry rejected by ITC Privacy crusaders: ISPs in 'conspiracy of silence' over Snoop Charter They're keeping negotiations with gov PRIVATE! Retailers: You could get the chance to TEAR UP Penguin ebook contracts EU competition commitments opened up to market testing Security News Hacked AP tweet claiming White House explosion causes Dow dip Pro-Assad Syrian Electronic Army claims responsibility CISPA row: Slurped citizen data is ENORMO HACK TARGET - infosec boss US cyber-spook hub ultimate trophy for miscreants Crypto guru: Don't blame users, get coders security training instead Infosec 2013 Murdoch's infosec man adds 'arrogant' techies also 'vulnerable' Verizon: 96 PER CENT of state-backed cyber-spying traced to China Lock up your data, folks Firewall tech pioneer Gil Shwed: Former teen sysadmin on today's infosec biz Feature Prince of State(ful) inspection 20 years on Science News Boffins explain LED inefficiencies Electrons misbehave at higher energies

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