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Business News WhatsApp exec: Google takeover? It's news to me Choc Factory not chucking rumoured $1bn at messaging app iQuit: Apple union boss chucks grappling hook up garden wall Cory Moll leaves after 2 years battling Cupertino Citi to file claim with Nasdaq over Facebook IPOcalypse Joins UBS in tussle for cash from teeny compensation pot MoneySupermarket: Google never warned us about payday loan AD BAN Mountain View rival says it now complies with Brit trading rules Library ebooks must SELF-DESTRUCT if scribes want dosh - review Shovel UK taxpayer cash this way please, say publishers Channel News CAE Tech Services top and bottom lines slide in fiscal 2012 Project drop-offs, competitive sales landscape and higher overheads fingered McDonalds-card-toting Softcat boss: I couldn't tell you how a computer works Feature Hellawell on being 'tight' - and his part in Thatcher's downfall Cloud News Amazon lofts Hadoop into GovCloud Regulation-approved problem solving Amazon widens .NET to catch Windows cloud devs Psst, hey you, Bezos has some cloud for you Protect your data with a cloudy mixture Where should it live? 'Til heftier engines come aboard, HP Moonshot only about clouds Analysis And those engines will come – as will FPGAs, DSPs, GPUs ... Rackspace cosies up to mobile developers Brews mobile gumbo from open source ingredients Data Centre News Two new supers go live in Oz Igor pulls the big switch Intel hints at server processor plans for the rest of this year New chippery all around, from tiny Atom to big bad Xeon E7 Piston ready to capture 'waves of customers' coming off AWS Puts out Enterprise OpenStack 2.0 as bait VMware sells off Shavlik patch management tools to LANDesk Forget hardware nannying, we're all about software-defined everything Mutant array upstarts feast on EMC, NetApp's leavings Blocks and Files Should've rewritten the software lads... Damn you, world! WHY can't I have an object store on my desktop? Storagebod Who will rid me of these hostile cloud mutterings Avere releases FXT3800 speed filer Rival still some Huawei in front Quantum spring-cleans StorNext for file-hungry arty small biz When you need to juggle 500 million docs on a modest budget Mm.. you like RAID? Ooh, you want flash. Try this super-Hadooper Intel touts Nytro booster with cache controller Fusion slips 1.6TB solid wedge into Hollywood scribblers' slots And that's the way HP likes it Boffins say flash disk demands new RAID designs Wear-levelling levels out Hardware News Microsoft ships Surface firmware fixes with April patch batch Wi-Fi, other issues addressed The ten SEXIEST computers of ALL TIME Product Round-up Gorgeous kit that looks as good now as it did the day it came out Android FOUND ON TABLETS inscribed with WORD OF GOD O come all ye fondlers, joyful and triumphant Networks News Google: 'Austin is our next Fiber city.' AT&T: 'Us, too – maybe' Big Phone horns in on Googly gigabit internet announcement Google goes big with Play store redesign Apps for a bigger-screen world Google U-turns on exclusive snatch of .app AND .search addys Ad giant may have to admit there are other search engines out there EE extends network: Soon, 1 million users will pay us for 4G No really... We've doubled the speed and everything Operators look on in horror as Facebook takes mobe users Home We don't care that you've been buying them drinks all night ... bitch Virgin on London Underground Wi-Fi: O2's company, Three's a crowd Download that cat vid before entering the tunnel, though Australia's coalition launches new broadband policy Fibre to the premises unlikely for most in cheaper, sooner, plan Intel doubles Thunderbolt speed to 20Gbps Will anyone other than Apple care? Policy News US Air Force reclassifies 6 cyber tools as weapons What, these? These are guns. Can we have some money now? Maggie Thatcher: The Iron Lady who saved us from drab Post Office mobes Obituary Who loves their fibre broadband? Now you know who to thank Microsoft leads charge against Google's Android in EU antitrust complaint 'Failure to act will only embolden Google' Take a deep breath: No NORKS panic for ICT supply chain … yet Regional tech titans are keeping a close eye on situation Security News Mozilla's Persona beta adds password-free Yahoo! logins Identity Bridging makes your email addy your only ID Microsoft squashes 9 bugs with Patch Tuesday fixes Plugs holes in IE10, locks down privilege escalation vulns British LulzSec member pleads guilty Hacker to be sentenced next month Malware-flingers target gullible corporate bods with office printer spam LOL, that's not a picture of my cat Software News Mozilla devs plotting to put a stake in <blink> tag – at last Firefox last browser to support offending text style Salesforce cuts app development steps Customer-oriented company does something for its customers Science News NASA-backed fusion engine could cut Mars trip down to 30 days FDR for the stars MISSING LINK between HUMANS and MONKEYS FOUND Smart simians ape pub banter, says bio-boffin Bootnotes News Hard luck lads, todger size DOES matter: Official NSFWish Being tall and masculine also helps, says stiff stiff Star Trek phaser sells for a STUNNING $231,000 KHAAAAAANNNNNNNNN't believe I paid that much for it!

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