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Business News AT&T patents P2P content tracking system System and method for snooping on torrents Canadian pension fund buys into Leighton Telecomms Business rebrands as Nextgen Yahoo! announces last hurrah of ancient AltaVista search engine Web pioneer to go dark in summer product purge Schwarzenegger says 'I'll be back' for Terminator 5 reboot Hollywood again fails to come up an original idea Google says it paid TOO MUCH tax, wants $83.5m refund Claims it was wrongly denied deduction in AOL stock sale HP Enterprise scores major win with $3.5bn Navy network contract Channel to cash in as 35% of work gets outsourced Intel CTO Rattner steps down to attend to 'pressing family matter' Mandatory 65 retirement age hits Chipzilla in the bits BlackBerry BB10 devices refuse to leap off shelves Any time now, just wait for it ... wait for it ... Channel News Redstone's chief bean counter resigns as biz slowly dismantles itself Former subsidiary slashes costs Hey channel: EU data laws are coming, get YOUR arse in gear Financial penalties, time in the slammer, all good reasons to bof up Cloud News Adobe marketing cloud now to rain spam following Neolane slurp We're struggling to rid ourselves of that image too Data Centre News Supercomputer efficiency jumps, but nowhere near exascale needs Ceepie-geepies blow past BlueGene/Q in Green500 rankings EMC's ViPR: It's genius, but not as we know it, Jim Flexibility is great, but not if it lets your competitors in ROBOs cop to installing VSAs, upstart rushes to cash in Virtual storage appliances are a big hit... throw in a niche market and you're minted Two-faced about flash? Not us, say Google Janus researchers Boffins discover storage cache workload-splitting technique OpenStack: Is it open for business? Webcast Live today at 11:00 BST Hardware News Rise of the machines, south of Milton Keynes Geeks' Guide Computers make a noise at TNMOC The perfect gift for the pistol-packing 'Merkin: a handgun iPhone case 'Is that an iPhone in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Microsoft's MoodScope app predicts smartphones users' feelings Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry users default to 'lonely'? 30 years on: Remembering the Memotech MTX 500 Archaeologic Very possibly the second-best British micro of the early 1980s Live or let dial - phones ain’t what they used to be Something for the Weekend, Sir? There’s nowt as Qwerty as folk... Acer aims low, gets into BT's trousers Pics Competing with the smartphone elite 'pointless' apparently How Alan Turing wanted to base EDSAC's memory on BOOZE Centenary From liquid memory to solid state - mercury moment was nearly gin dream Networks News FCC orders wireless carriers to protect customers' call info 'Shield that precious data from prying eyes – but not the NSA' Ofcom set to release interesting spectrum chunk for unlicenced use Hobbyists, utilities and other radioheads prepare to charge the slot EU sets ball rolling on ominous telly spectrum review If we're going to kill TV, let's all do it together! Policy News Albanese takes telecoms ministry Ed Husic gets supporting role Data breach notification bill misses deadline Whistleblower protection squeaks through Ecuador denies granting asylum, safe passage to Snowden NSA leaker's travel documents 'have no validity' UK treasury minister sticks up for HMRC in Google tax row They do a good job of getting money out of multinationals, really Security News Facebook slurped phone numbers says Norton The Social Network promises to behave Secure phone app library vulnerable SilentCircle, others need upgrades Retired 4-star general probed over Stuxnet details leak - report Marine Corps man under investigation over malware revelations Software News Unix luminary among seven missing at sea Evi Nemeth on yacht presumed sunk Windows 8.1: So it's, er, half-speed ahead for Microsoft's Plan A Review A desktop failure gambling on slablet success Windows 8.1: Here at last, but is it good enough? Speak your brains Live Chat Join fellow Reg readers and guests, 2 July, 2pm GMT Ballmer: 'I call it all Windows, all the time' Quotw Plus: 'The chase is on' Ex-Microsofties drop cloudy-apps-for-idiots box ElasticBox This can't be as easy as it sounds, can it? Microsoft partners seriously underwhelmed by Windows 8.1 Can we sell it? No, non, nein Science News NASA to flip ion engine's 'OFF' switch after brilliant 5.5 year burn Follow-on systems could speed spacecraft over 200,000 mph Voyager 1 'close' to breaking through to DEEP SPACE - boffins Humanity's match-in-the-dark set to fall off the solar highway soon British computing pioneer James Martin found dead in Bermuda sea Obit The man who wrote the book(s) on modern computing Bootnotes News Exclusive: SNOWDEN and ME. TRUE MOSCOW story of OPEN DATA HERO ¡Bong! But info fugitive cannot live on piroshki alone, tovarish New Motorola Mobility badge: Too late for this pinball machine lover Logo Watch Embarrassing 1980s flashback for our man Bill Ray Idaho patriots tool up to battle Jihad with pork bullets Straight to Shaitan for Islamic fundamentalists hit by piggy projectile

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