The Reg: NO, ELEPHANTS, it's us DOLPHINS who NEVER FORGET our best pals [Thu Aug 8 2013]

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Business News Internet giant you may still remember (AOL) gobbles vid ad biz Adap.tv Blows $322m to become 'number two' to Google's YouTube Nokia Siemens Networks to 'axe 8,500 jobs' amid biz gobble Siemens sells NSN share to Nokia, sales slide sparks staff cuts fears Patent tank VirnetX fires 'secure domain name' design claim at Apple New claim follows $368m victory just a month ago Yahoo! announces! plan! to! change! logo! 30! times! this! month! Do! not! fret! – exclamation! is! staying! Really?! It! irritates! you?! Top Brit biz giants love to outsource IT so much, they're gonna do it more The only way is up ... and out of the business Channel News Annus Horribilis for Avnet Inc Spent $268m on acquisitions in fiscal '13, sales still declined Acer shakes fist at rising DRAM and R&D costs Swings to net loss AGAIN in Q2 Systemax turnaround plan off the rails as losses widen Sales down, US and UK blamed Cloud News VCs toss gold into DigitalOcean Funding lets scrappy hoster expand server fleet Google adds crowd control tech to infrastructure cloud Load balancing closes gaps with Amazon and Microsoft Data Centre News SGI backs away from public clouds, chases HPC and big data Shrinks losses and boosts sales a bit in fiscal 2013 Citrix weaves together XenClient hypervisor and XenDesktop VDI stack Adds personal disk for semi-custom virty PCs Seagate's shingle bathers stalked by HGST's helium HAMR-head sharks Next-gen drives strip off, paraded in the sun, but what lurks in the depths? Speaking in Tech: You shouldn't EVER store data off-premises Podcast Plus Yahoo! buys social web-goo firm Rockmelt Facebook turns tables on profile stalkers with News Feed tweak We know you LIKE that ... bitch The terrifying tech behind this summer's zombie assault Feature And how 1GB should get you a poke in the eye from Winslet Actifio plans wider data management portfolio CEO Ashutosh says copy data is just the beginning Hardware News Android approaches 80% smartphone share as Apple's iPhone grows old Blackberry shipments hit historic low point Doom guy teleports into VR startup Oculus Rift Longtime supporter John Carmack takes CTO helm Chip makers shine up wafers and foils for 25th Hot Chips jamboree One Power, two Sparcs, lots of X86s, but no ARMs to speak of E-reader barons file FCC plea to opt out of disabled-friendly regs 'Is this an electronic book or an IPTV service' asks regulator Apple can't dump Samsung, it needs those iPad displays – report Never mind that patent war thing, we're still BFFs Google patents swish, swosh, swoosh pattern unlock app swipe Here you are, Angry Birds. Yes, we patented that Penguins, I give you: The SOLAR-POWERED Ubuntu laptop 'All-terrain, off-road, sport-utility' thing takes 'just 2 hours' to charge See a young Brit's mobe? 55% chance it has nekkid selfies on it, claims poll And 66% chance it doesn't have a PIN or password - jackpot! Linux and AIX Bare-Metal Recovery Webinar In this webinar David Huffman, CEO of Storix, shares his knowledge on how to improve your existing Linux recovery strategies for better disaster preparedness. View the webinar Networks News Vodafone flashes bulging package at Brits: New 4G service to rival EE, O2 Forget the speed, this is about football Tough luck, bumpkins! Blighty broadband speed gap misery worsens Cities hit 26.4Mbit/s average, countryside stuck in 9.9Mbps gear Rival French mobe firms sue Orange and Vivendi's SFR for €1.4bn Bouygues et amis demand payout after free call fracas Policy News US federal judge: Yes, Bitcoin IS MONEY Texas Bitcoin trader must stand trial for securities fraud Obama cancels meeting Putin in Russia, says Snowden 'a factor' But he's still just a hacker, right Mr. President? Suspected brains behind bank-account-draining Gozi extradited to US Latvian gov votes to ship alleged Trojan co-conspirator to New York Manning's max sentence cut, may only spend up to 90 years in the cooler Well, better than 1,632 months the Wikileaking private was facing Steelie Neelie finds phone calls are cheaper in Latvia than in Luxembourg +Comment Stone the Kroes! Are they really? 'Look, give us Snowden' - this Friday's top US-Russia talks revealed Obama's highest lieutenants to meet Putin's top brass in military co-op confab UK plods cuff another bloke in Twitter violence threat probe Man quizzed at Bristol cop shop following bomb and rape tweets Tax dodging? It's harder to do - and rarer - than you think Video What are Amazon and Apple really getting away with? Australian state bans IBM from future work In Queensland you probably can be fired for buying IBM today Security News Infosec analysts back away 'Feds attacked Tor' theory Those IP addresses we said belong to the NSA? We were probably wrong Malicious snoopware targeting India found at tiny Midwest ISP 'Official' decoys hide potential espionage campaign Hacktivists torch C4's Jon Snow's web diary, reveal 'nuke strike' on Syria Breaking news, literally Software News Amazon opens Appstore doors to web apps Web devs invited to cash in with JavaScript purchasing API End of an era as Firefox bins 'blink' tag Blink and you'll miss it or good riddance to bad tag? Science News NO, ELEPHANTS, it's us DOLPHINS who NEVER FORGET our best pals Brainy sea minxes clock their chums even after 20 or more years apart Brit Skylon spaceplane moves closer to lift-off Single stage to orbit launches by 2020? Bloke straps shed to Ford Zephyr and chases it on bike Next challenge: 100mph cycle dash behind Ford Capri Linux and AIX Bare-Metal Recovery Webinar In this webinar David Huffman, CEO of Storix, shares his knowledge on how to improve your existing Linux recovery strategies for better disaster preparedness. 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