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Business News Imation posts FOURTEENTH loss-making quarter On a good note, losses this time are a bit smaller Cray posts modest loss, awaits Q4 revenue wave Technical issue with 'Titan' super – now fixed – eats into profits Wikipedians say no to Jimmy's 'buggy' WYSIWYG editor Thanks, but it's quicker to hand-code our edits Ministry of Fun launches news quiz - and the BBC is in its sights Heyyyy... self-actualising media nodes: What do you think about your news-givers? 'Steve Jobs killed music biz', but Bon Jovi don't mind Google Glass Ageing rockers become Glassholes for a gig, record footage of ... nothing, really Chubby-chasing SEX TROLLS ran me offline, says fashion blogger 'Fatshion' selfie-taker unwittingly became pervs' pinup Channel News Samsung snaps up Cisco enterprise director for B2B push Senior salesman strolls sideways to Sammy HP UK channel man Bourguet to be crowned consumer veep Stepping into his shoes will mean sitting in the hot seat. Erm ... Softcat smashes through £400m sales barrier Reports of the death of reselling greatly exaggerated, it would seem WHOMP: Mega UK services player Phoenix IT falls back into the ashes We're not exactly on fire, are we boys? Asus staggers into summer heatwave thirsty for sales, sweating profit Stacking those tabs high causes bottom line wobble While rest of Britain partied, Probrand spent Olympic year recovering Sales and profits rise after 2011 slump Cloud News Gmail, Outlook.com and e-voting 'pwned' on stage in crypto-dodge hack Black Hat 2013 Once you enter, you can never leave logout Speaking in Tech: Will Google's telly dongle dangle ding Apple? Podcast Plus – StorageZilla channels Carl Sagan from beyond the grave-rave-rave Data Centre News Did Linux drive supers, and can it drive corporate data centers? Analysis The place where Linus gets his paycheck says the Penguin was driving HDS scores 6PB slice of Oz research cloud Another RDSI node falls into place Oracle forging Exa server virtualization appliance Taking on Dell, HP, and IBM for infrastructure clouds Benchmark bods reckon NetApp storage has the edge over Isilon Analysts rate FAS arrays as numero uno Micron buys Apple supplier Elpida for $2bn, becomes world's No 2 DRAM baker One minute you're in Idaho, the next you're Taiwan's 2nd-biggest employer Quizzed Quantum veep quashes hardware quit rumours Interview Henrik Rosendahl waxes lyrical about spinning rust Happy birthday, Windows NT 3.1: Microsoft's server outrider turns 20 Blue Screen of Death, iffy security, but stable Hardware News Study finds open-source home 3D printer could save $2,000 a year 'Enormous potential wealth for everyone,' boffin claims Motorola betting on voice control and personal touch to sell new Moto X US factory will deliver your custom phone in four days Apple files patent for iPhone enabled auto-adjustable auto interior CEO Cook: 'Apple can do this in a unique way and better than anyone else' China's army releases FPS trainer game 'Glorious Mission Online' offers chance to frag invaders, inhale propaganda Networks News People really liked our Xperia. Throw in a weak yen and KERCHING - Sony Japanese firm does better than expected in the June quarter Steady as she goes at Three, no unseemly dash to be Four It isn't JUST the name thing, insists airy data peddler Nokia sidles up to Qualcomm, hands over bulging map package IZat a bunch of floorplans in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? 'Mm, we do love tweeters' private info, we'll take 40% more,' say world's g-men And that's not even counting the secret snoop requests Zuck on this, Twitter! Now Facebook switches on embedded posts Share and share alike so revenues can spike ... bitch You're doing WHAT with friends? Zynga sues Bang With Friends maker Farmville biz lobs trademark sueball at secret bunk-up app Police probe IDIOTIC Twitter bomb threats slung at journalists Trolls standing on the platform edge. Easy now First Austin, now live across the US: Watch Americans pay by bonk ISIS ready for action later this year, but MCX stands ready to squish it Apple kingpin springs to Beijing, pings telco kings: Flog our iPhone things Cook puts millions of Chinese on the menu The O2 4G Lottery: Are YOU in one of the three LUCKY cities? But you'll need a new phone, SIM for network's breakneck mobe broadband Google SELLS OUT the INTERNET HIPPIES! AGAIN! +Comment Net Neutrality campaigners shocked, shocked HALF of air passengers leave phones on ... yet STILL no DEATH PLUNGE Hello? Hello? Damn, really bad signal here 10km above the Atlantic Policy News MPs get secret squirrel dossier of 'lawyers, megabiz hiring hackers' Light may yet shine on list of firms allegedly using dodgy dicks US and China make major bilateral anti-piracy bust Officers nab fake Apple, Samsung and Blackberry kit Security News Hackers induce 'CATASTROPHIC FAILURE' in mock oil well Black Hat 2013 'Trivially easy' SCADA exploit could mean liquid CYBERGEDDON is nigh Security breach at Opscode as attackers download databases Updated Attack blocked in five minutes flat Facebook: 'Don't worry, your posts are SECURE with us' Never mind PRISM, you've got HTTPS by default Edward Snowden skips into Russia as Putin grants him asylum NSA whistleblower gains 12-month approval to stay Syrian Electronic Army no longer just Twitter feed jackers... and that's bad news Hackers now target VoIP apps, directories, spewing Trojans as they go - infosec bods Boffins: We have FOOLED APPLE with malware app Black Hat 2013 Also raise iOS malware-over-power-jack claims D-Link patches vid storage units Remote access and attack vulns Software News Google rolls its eyes, gives Windows Phones five more months to sync Redmond says its fix will ship by year's end Science News Study: As climate change surges, more people will TRY TO KILL YOU It has happened throughout history – why not now? Google scientists rebel over company's support for 'climate-hoax' Senator Throws 'Don't be evil' back in Page and Brin's faces Highway from HELL: Volcano tears through 35km of crust in WEEKS Costa Rica eruption proves it doesn't always take thousands of years LOHAN serves up Raspberry Pi sensorgasmotry Inside our spaceplane mission's fruity electronics Boffins use lasers to detect radio waves Making light work of noise reduction

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