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Daily Headlines 19 August 2013

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Business News Google Glass is HIGH FASHION in September Vogue magazine 12 pages of haughty hotties in hyped headsets Court throws out Icahn's demand to stall Dell shareholder vote Judge refuses 'to be dragged into a tactical game' Facebook's flush Sheryl Sandberg savaged over UNPAID intern advert Get rich like Shezza by working for, er, free for her women-in-biz org Sony to pop 'top Viacom channels' in PlayStations, smart tellies, mobes Games giant turns to MTV, Comedy Central to fill its new internet video thing - sources 'But we like 1 Direction!' Rock gods The Who fend off teen Twitter hate mob Battle of the (boy) bands: Kids threatened to KILL Pete Townshend over hit single Shareholders hoping to squeeze cash from Kodak are deluded, says court What about bust camera firm's staffers, suppliers? Investors told to jog on by beak Bureaucrats foil Nestlé's bid to TRADEMARK KitKat's chocolatey digits Analysis Protective wrapper torn off design - now anyone can throw four-finger shapes Oz High Court says streaming music is not a 'broadcast' Waves away Big Radio's royalty-free streaming bid Cloud News WTF is... backend-as-a-service? Firebase hopes its BaaS strikes chord with enterprises Department of Interior dishes out $10bn for cloudy IT Amazon Web Services lurks in background while IBM crows of its fortune Data Centre News IT now 10 percent of world's electricity consumption, report finds New analysis finds IT power suck has eclipsed aviation Flash cheaper than disk? 'Customers aren't buying that', says NetApp CEO Tom Georgens puts the boot into NAND hype Don't let the SAN go down on me: Is the storage array on its way OUT? StorageBod You can't hide behind the cache anymore BOFH: Backup server's failed? We have a backup backup server Episode 6 But what if the backup backup backup backup backup server fails, Boss? Brocade boss drops F-bomb: 'Everyone's for 32Gbps Fibre Channel' Biz escapes red ink of sliding sales with patent payday win Hardware News Google proposes eye-tracking ad-tracking Adds more 'creepy' to Glass Apple big-screen TV rumor zombie RISES FROM THE DEAD Forget the low-cost iPhone, forget the iWatch, here comes the Cupertinian boob tube! SQUEEEEE! Microsoft goes retro with pay-by-squawk NFC tech Slow acoustic data transfer could work with any mobe iPhone 5S: 64-bit A7, 128GB storage, flashy ƒ/2.0 camera, and... Rumors, yes – but from a source with a good track record So fondleable Windows 8 didn't work out so well: Why not try it IN 3D? Video Upstart wants $100,000 to whack finger-following cam onto PCs, mobes Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid: Eco, economy and diesel power Review A 143mph 4-wheel drive electric estate car? Oh yes Learn how to leverage change for better IT Register to attend the free Power to Change online virtual event to hear industry visionaries, analysts, and practitioners discuss how change is affecting IT. Register here and be in with a chance to win an Ultrabook Networks News Google goes dark for 2 minutes, kills 40% of world's net traffic Systemwide outage knocks every service offline Policy News Wikileaks Party scrambles to explain election decisions Anger at preference deals Election 2013: What does it mean for Australian IT pros? Podcast User group leaders join Vulture South to talk policy and who they favour as Australia's next PM NSA coughs to 1000s of unlawful acts of snooping on US soil since 2008 Oversight judge admits: 'I've no idea what the true figure is' AREA 51 - THE TRUTH by the CIA: Official dossier blows lid off US secrets Pic Aliens ate my redaction Open Rights Group revives 'unavailable for legal reasons' HTTP error code plan Stick smut-and-biffo-blockers up your web server with this '451' code say activists Security News Bug-finder chucked for posting to Zuck Facebook vuln demoed by pic-post to Mark's account Card-cloning crooks use 3D printers to make ever-better skimmers Vid Aussie ATMs vulnerable to precisely tailored devices, warn cops Down Under China mulls probe into IBM, Oracle, EMC after NSA hack claims - report Spooks allowed in through the backdoor? Where's the rubber gloves... Fiendish fake Flash plugin squirts grumble-flick ads into kiddies' websites Browser nasty turns entire internet into no-go zone for children, the easily offended Oh, those crazy Syrian hackers: Now Wash Post, CNN, Time vandalised Gawd darn it, can't anyone secure their websites? NORKS build TROLL ARMY to tear down S Korean surfers No we're not too hungry to concentrate on posting propaganda... Software News Online trainer launches free student login promo Save yourself $29 per month Microsoft warns it'll hand out zero days for Windows XP Beginning April 2014, patches will bring new threats Apple erects measures to stop app-happy kids splurging parents' dosh New App Store rules to protect against über-expensive in-game tat Science News An afternoon with Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer Former NASA man talks education, astronomy, and lots and lots of photons Curiosity looks up, spies Martian double-mooning Video Phobos overlaps Deimos in video treat Attention, addicts: LEGO meth lab pays homage to Breaking Bad Get into the miniature drugs trade for $250 Boffins claim Voyager has already left the Solar System NASA hoses down new theory of 'porous, layered heliosphere' Bootnotes News 'Abel, put that camera down right now! Abel, you're fired. Out!' Quotw 'Make the worst flash possible. 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