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Daily Headlines 30 May 2013

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Business News Apple caught telling inconsistent stories about pricing Testimony to US Congress contradicted statements made to Australia's parliament SEC slams NASDAQ with $10m fine for Facebook IPOcalypse Regulator lambasts 'mind boggling' failures that led to busted IPO DIAL M for... mobile: New Wii app pipes mobe vid to big tellies YouTube prog cuddles up to Netflix Cloud silos: the problem they forgot to mention Is your cloud app a legacy? Stop the Microsoft, Skype wedding, screams enraged Cisco in court Network giant speaks now, doesn't hold peace on VoIP gobble Channel News Cisco pilot seeks to determine UK impact of US-made channel schemes Born in the USA, grumbled about globally Microsoft tops list of software piracy nailed in UK by FAST 'Unscrupulous' PC floggers fingered for 'duping' Brits 62,000 fewer shops: Welcome to the High Street of 2018 Blighty's retailers are doomed, says Centre for Retail Research Cloud News Google whips the sheet off new Gmail interface Everything Google can be in your face when you mail AWS taps social networks for identity verification Log in with Amazon, Facebook, Google, to your cloudy app Speaking in Tech: 'It's the democratisation of the internet GONE MAD' Podcast Movie-streaming services suck, come read comics instead Data Centre News Server racket 'challenging' in Q1, says IDC Windows takes a dip, RISC/Unix cannonballs, Linux defies gravity Cisco predicts massive data networking growth by 2017 M2M ramps up, helps contribute to zettabyte era Private equity signals interest in Optus satellites $AU2 billion price tag mooted for fleet of tough old birds China rumored to rule impending Top500 supers list with 50-plus petaflopper Big Red wields 'hard power' that is Intel Inside Cisco gobbles cloud power meter biz JouleX for $107m Data center energy control-freak snapped up CIA's sugar daddies shovel MEELLLIONS into Pure Storage If we told you exactly what for, we'd have to kill you Beam us up! Upstart's Transporter whisks small biz from cloud madness Store data on your desk? So crazy it just might work WD's new disk-flogging brainwave will bring you close to tiers New product, new promises ... how about some new sales? No Dell, no EMC? Well, HP's storage champ then Beats IBM at poorly attended storage benchmark party AMD takes on Atom S server chips with 'Kyoto' Opteron Xs Corralling multimedia and other flops-hungry workloads onto microservers Hardware News Apple says 'zai jian' to Foxconn, taps Pegatron for new iPhones Smaller firm named primary supplier of low-cost model Microsoft bigs up Surface Pro to 256GB for Asian markets It's big in Japan First Cook, now Intel bigwig pokes Google in the eye over Glass Speech-powered techno-goggles? Meh Intel's extreme ultraviolet dream still somewhere over the rainbow What will stop us from breaking Moore's Law now? Qualcomm app 'extends battery life' by analysing fandroids' privates We'll cut off your data while you're asleep Tim Cook: Wearable tech's nice, but Google Glass will NEVER BE COOL Wearing glasses without lenses is for fanbois only Review: Samsung Series 5 Ultra Touch Ultrabook Core i3 cache relief Networks News Facebook bows to pressure, vows to rid itself of sexist hate speech Week-long campaign hits Zuck where it hurts - its ads Revealed: Google's plan to float BLIMP NETWORK over Africa, Asia Relax, they're providing 'net access to rural punters Policy News Australia's de-facto net filter has ZERO regulation No approval process, count of ban requests, rules on who can ask for bans First bricks of Great Firewall of TAIWAN are being laid, netizens fear Today, it's a piracy filter... But will it stop there? Going under the knife? Avoid Fridays. Trust us, we asked a doctor Fewer docs in hospital at weekend, greater risk of death, study finds Now beaming live from Pyongyang: NORKSCASTS! Voice of Korea discovers streaming media to bring absolute truth Australia's data breach notification law arrives at last If you mess up, 'fess up ... or the Feds'll use some duress up in your face Australian government launches cloud strategy 'The agenda that puts the internet at the centre of our economy' drones Minister Security News US National Intelligence Council boss gets personal email hacked Guccifer claims another political scalp with anti-Obama rant China announces giant military hackathon at SECRET Mongolian base Forces will practice cyberespionage 'informationalised war' Anonymous 'plonks' names, addresses of far-right EDL types on web But who was able to write them down in the first place? Saved-game bug dumped PlayStation 3 fans in hijackers' sights What's on that USB stick? Don't shove that in there! 'Secret Pentagon papers' show China hacked into Patriot missile system Also cribbed designs for Blighty's F-35 fighter jet, claims report Bobbies need broadband-enabled gear, insist 4G LTE fans Critical Communications World Streaming video doesn't put out fires, say opponents Raspberry Pi puts holes in China's Great Firewall RPi plus WiFi hotspot plus VPN equals portable censorship destroyer Software News Microsoft: Office 365 reached 1 million subs faster than Facebook Subscription apps a hit with home users, Redmond claims Windows 8.1 Start button SPOTTED in the wild It's not the same Start button as Windows 7's, though Salesforce.com to reveal 'Company Communities' Pipe your intranet onto a BYOD smartphone, you know it makes sense Science News Russians draw liquid blood from frozen woolly mammoth 10,000 year-old specimen could inspire Korean cloning Planetary Resources turns to crowdfunding to help with satellite costs Updated Astro-miners come up with novel concept for space selfies Wonder substance pulses QUADRILLION lasers per second Is there anything graphene can't do?

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