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Business News Actian grabs Amazon Redshift's secret sauce ParAccel for analysing 20TB and above data stores Student falsely IDed by Reddit as Boston bomber found dead Online lynch mob unlikely to be responsible Internet freedom groups urge W3C to keep DRM out of HTML 'Disastrous' proposals said to violate core web principles Zynga banks fluke profit - won't happen again, says CEO Gimme more time, says chief in Q2 woe forecast Enormo-distie Avnet's profits nosedive FORTY PER CENT The bigger they are, the harder they completely go to pieces Peak Apple: Cupertino belatedly spends some money on R&D Jobsian diktat 'innovation nothing to do with R&D' binned Guess who PC-slaying tablets are killing next? Keyboard biz Logitech Desktop gumble-maker slumps to $228m loss Ginni blasts 'slow' IBM staff after poor Q1 results Rometty tells Big Blue sales bods to move faster to close deals Major Dell investor cashes in ALL of its 24.5 million shares The Oakmark Funds spooked by Blackstone's withdrawal from bidding Cloud News Amazon's cloud on track for $2bn in revenue in 2013 Analysis AWSome cloud swells with cash, objects Kindlevision? Amazon reportedly developing set-top tellybox Hey guys, maybe we could do watches too! Not even Facebook, Apple's millions can halt Fusion-io's bleed Still, there's always next quarter for flash biz Google's Euro antitrust offer: Fine! We'll link to our search rivals Competitors have a month to mull 'half-hearted' deal Wannabe ZFS rival Exablox decloaks MYSTERY NAS box It's managed through the cloud. That's what you wanted, right? Data Centre News Citrix hits turbulence, cuts profit outlook Order delays in Q1 Opscode cooks up deals to serve Chef automation from IBM, Joyent clouds Already on AWS (sort of), Azure, Rackspace, and HP Cloud Mutant hybrid upstart joins pushback against storage giants Array-maker boasts triple-digit growth at expense of HP, NetApp and pals Hardware News Samsung to launch Galaxy S 4 without Knox security layer Container support now pushed back to summer Smartphone and tablet displays: Reg readers weigh in Survey results Bigger is not always better Microsoft carves out 'niche' in tablets, says numbers chap Windows 8 battles Apple for second place Mobes' pay-by-bonk just isn't cool enough, sniffs Tesco bod The kids won't use it, let's stick to cards High-rollers’ shop pitches wallet-pounding, wall-pummelling MONSTER TV 4K x 2K whopper can now be yours, if you have 35k going spare Review: Western Digital Sentinel DX4000 Are WD and Trevor set to be friends at last? Networks News Verizon sniffing around Vodafone's US stake again $100bn in used greenbacks would spark serious tax bill Virgin Media: SO SORRY we fined your dead dad £10 for unpaid bill 'Being deceased, it's probably slipped his mind' says son-in-law O2 scoffs at call-centre outsource fears, forgets to rule it out completely Just speculation, but it might happen Crackdown looming on premium-rate phone number internet ads Hey, it's a way to make money off the internet! Tough luck, lappies: Brits favour fingersome fondleslabs, phones Can notebook sales survive the clamour for touchscreen tech? O2 to turn your innocent nipper into Silicon Roundabout hipster Scout Camp for the 21st Centur- Hey wait a second... Policy News Oz sports discovers IPTV, just a little Bureaucrats look at how to get screen time for second-tier sports Google report shows record rise in government takedown requests Politicians can dish it out but can't take it Smug Red Hat buoyed by UK gov's open-source three-line-whip Sir Humphreys gobble Linux subscriptions, we're told Alibaba and the thwarted thieves: Cops, bazaar to tackle China's piracy Magic carpet of tat pulled from under counterfeiters Nick Clegg: Snooper's Charter 'isn't going to happen' Updated Not 'while Lib Dems remain in government', anyhow UK.gov coughed over £2 MEELLION in data breach fines in the past year Overall fines have TRIPLED from the previous year Bogus gov online test tells people on dole they're just SO employable 'Devised by sinister US TORTURE PROF' yells angry blogger Security News UK faces hacking doom, but think of the money, security startups! Infosec 2013 Every cloud breach has a silver lining, says minister Software News SkySQL nabs Monty Program to form MariaDB powerhouse Merger unites veteran MySQL developers, consultants The Germans are coming - Software AG borgs LongJump Code-free app design? Sehr gut Ubuntu 13.04: No privacy controls as promised, but hey - photo search! A lot of stuff's missing, but the tweaks make a difference, honest Got a Windows XP end-of-life plan? Neither does anyone else Opinion How to negotiate migratory blind spots Science News Neutrinosfrom another galaxy hit ice with black-hole force IceCube detector turns up energetic surprise Outsourced space trucks battle for US middleweight lifting title Comment Antares and Falcon on a hike to nowhere? Climate-cooling effect 'stronger than volcanoes' is looking solid Could be time to massage those hot models again Bootnotes News Vietnamese madam cuffed after advertising girls on Facebook Art museum nudies NO! But prostitutes, sure

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