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Business News Do you really want tech companies to pay more tax? When you're old and gray, the national debt is someone else's problem Samsung: The cash blizzard continues, but may not last forever It's raining soup, but is the S4 a mug or a fork? Zynga ABANDONS ALL HOPE of opening US gambling operation Ex-Xbox boss tosses dice on social gaming instead Channel News Work with Microsoft's stuff for a living? Its reorg will mean NOTHING to you Opinion Is that Ballmer on the bridge of that supertanker... MYRA HINDLEY found working in Capita's benefits & revenues unit Her 'most challenging role' to date, chirps revenues assistant Cloud News - - Data Centre News Cray bags $30m to upgrade Edinburgh super to petaflops-class Hector XE6 to be upgraded to Archer XC30 REVEALED: Hungry termites nibbling at Oracle's foundation Analysis Small firms help companies flee the big red jail NEC tag teams with HP on high-end x86 servers Taking an Odyssey to fill a Kraken SolidFire snaps up $31m in funding, brandishes 3.4PB monster 100-node giant far outstrips competition, reckons upstart BOFH: Don't be afraid - we won't hurt your delicate, flimsy inkjet printer Episode 5 'Member when engineers studied ENGINEERING? Rejoice! Sysadmin day is... TODAY. Now get in here and win free stuff Sysadmin blog Don't forget to thank your BOFH this Friday Hardware News Google Chromecast: Why it's the most important smart TV tech ever Analysis Netflix, YouTube are just the tip of the iceberg Google's new Chromecast spills its simplistic guts Teardown 'Pure simplicity' innards fuel Chocolate Factory's quest for 'TV domination' Samsung overtakes Apple as most profitable global handset maker Apple 'trapped in a pincer movement' between cheap 3-inchers and bigger 5-inchers Apple crushes all competition in US Brand of the Year survey Top smartphone: Apple. Top tablet: Apple. Top computer: Apple New in Android 4.3: At last we get a grip on privacy-invading crApps Decide which app can do what, and when - almost like a real computer You MERCILESS FIEND... you put that audio file on AUTOPLAY Something for the Weekend, Sir? I can’t hear you, la la la la Signing out of a broken Britain: The final Quatermass serial Quatermass at 60 Ley-ing it on thick with alien beams and hippie dreams Apple's shock treatment: An authentic charger-spotting guide New web page offers advice after electrocutions in China Magic Quadrant for enterprise backup and recovery Gartner published this report to help organizations navigate the myriad of solutions available to address their backup and recovery needs. Download now Networks News T-Mobile US: Go ahead, PAY NOTHING up front for any device Summer promotion bids adieu to down payments Sky falling: 119,000 Brits flee O2, Be after Murdoch broadband gobble Whiff of octogenarian media lord sends 1 in 5 running Hotshots' hotchpotch hotspots: Office Wi-Fi is a great big botch Do you bung wireless points around the place willy-nilly? You're not alone Guinness: Have a quick bonk over the bar and receive FREE BEER Irish stout kings offer gratis pints to mobe-touting punters Policy News Kiwis rally against 'snoops' charter' law PM Key calls protesters 'misinformed' and 'politically aligned' Silicon Valley Cisco reseller charged with $37 million fraud Staff claimed to have sold kit to fund buying spree UK gov: Brit biz barons, get your privates in check before the spooks arrive MI5 and GCHQ rub hands with glee at FTSE350 security audit Wow! British Gas bungs a million remote-controlled sales-droids in UK homes Smart meters: What will you do with your '£65' a year saving? London Mayor shows off GIANT BLUE COCK in busy square 'PM's porn war means you won't be able to Google raunchy image', says Boris 'The Washington elites fear liberty. They fear you' QuotW Plus: 'I do not want my name to be on Apple's blacklist' Assange™ names a Senatorial stand-in By nominating a successor, the white-haired one signals he's stuck on the sofa Security News British boffin muzzled after cracking car codes Meanwhile in the USA, DARPA funds similar research Pacemaker hack legend Barnaby Jack dies just before Black Hat revelations Tributes flood in for security titan Deadly Spanish train disaster exploited by malware mail scumbags Some people will click on anything Software News FSF passes collection plate for free Android clone Replicant Donations sought to port free OS to more kit Mozilla ponders blinkers for your browser Plans to mine browser history so publishers can serve you what you want Science News Taiwanese boffins monitor mastication with Bluetooth tooth Real time streams of data to your doctor NASA gets red-hot shots of Sun in action as IRIS goes online Latest telescope could spot our doom SPEARS joins the 19-mile-high club: Intimate snaps Pics and vid Spaceplane test flight mission photos for your viewing pleasure NASA Van Allen probes discover PARTICLE HURRICANES Twin probes enter spinning rings... for research Bootnotes News Indian military pondered attack on Venus and Jupiter Army retreats after boffins prove bright lights are planets, not Chinese aircraft 'Wandering Dago' tuck truck ejected from NY race track Deemed offensive to Italian Americans, oddly, not Hispanics Magic Quadrant for enterprise backup and recovery Gartner published this report to help organizations navigate the myriad of solutions available to address their backup and recovery needs. 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