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Business News Cisco readies axe for 4,000 employees Worries over future prompt swinging of the scythe Data protection bods Bocada list dog on senior management team Silly season? Nope, this is for real. Woof! Google: Cloud users have 'no legitimate expectation of privacy' Third-party handling means just that, says court filing Big Mike heading for victory as SAM dumps HALF its Dell shares Carl Icahn's just put $1.5bn into Apple... have they lost interest in Mickey D's firm? Baidu shells out $1.9bn for Android app distie in 'China's biggest IT deal' 'Backup' app store augments Chinese search engine's existing fandroid funhouse Samsung faces Brazilian rap: Factory bods work '15hrs without break' Staff stand all day without rest, officials claim in $110m sueball Top execs off as Zynga's new CEO shaves 'layer' off senior ranks No more COO, CTO or CPO Facebook reassures adland: We've got s**tloads of users Zuck's crew reminds its chums about lovely bums that, um, used to be on chairs Foxconn mulls solar panels, sticking Apple where sun doesn't shine Beast of Shenzhen ponders swapping iThings for star-power boom AOL boss: Soz about that 'Abel, you're fired!' Patch showdown Camera-toting creative exec still stays sacked, though Google's Street View cars venture inside TARDIS Earl's Court is bigger on the inside than the outside Channel News That big UK gov leg up for small biz: SMEs bag just 1-in-10 G-Cloud deals Can't open door to taxpayer cash with all this paperwork in the way, complain bosses Cloud News Microsoft SkyDrive, Outlook stricken by cloud outage Updated Redmond forgets how to give people email, storage Tier 3 debuts DIY cloud networks Network administration with a robot touch Data Centre News Speaking in Tech: So you wanna take on Amazon in the cloud. Here's how Podcast Nobody mention the NSA... oh, oops EMC's million-IOPS VNX2 monster to arrive NEXT MONTH Move over, royal baby: September due date for EMC's hybrid flash storage kid Do you think spinning rust eats flash's dust? Join the hard drive daddies club Hard disk jockeys form Storage Products Association Nimbus fattens up Gemini twins with smaller flash chips Flash arrays go faster too, leapfrog Violin in flash capacity stakes Ravello Systems arm cloud wranglers with hypervisor lasso Enterprise app portability at for pennies on the VM Hardware News Microsoft cuts number of countries that will have Xbox One by Christmas Some European gamers to get coal in their stockings Peak Apple: Samsung hits DOUBLE the market share of iPhones Lowest ever iThing prices can't close gap on Apple's arch-rivals Xerox admits there's no fix yet for number-fudging copiers Don’t trust your spreadsheets to these machines Samsung Mega 6.3: A Very Large Phone indeed Review But a darned nice bit of kit into the bargain NORKS prepping glorious People's Smartmobe 'Arirang' expected to "instill national pride and self-respect" into the Korean people' WoW gold farmer throws sueball over real world gold theft What do you mean gold bars aren't covered by home insurance? Chipzilla Atomises fondleslabs with new reference designs Chipzilla targeting educators with 7” and 10” models and didactic app pack 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 Japan's largest mobe operator to snub Samsung this winter Crap Galaxy S4 sales drops Sammy out of favour Boffins harvest TV, mobile signals for BATTERY-FREE comms Powerless tech better than your common-or-garden RFID tag, claim researchers BRUCE WILLIS (ad) DIES HARD (in Sky broadband telly fib ban) 'Come out to the coast, we'll get together, shoot an advert, have a few laughs...' Policy News ACCC wants to check broadband performance Probes to help ID dodgy services Bradley Manning: 'I'm sorry my actions hurt the United States' Apologizes before court in last-ditch bid for leniency Think tank wants dedicated infosec minister, 'modern' data retention Australian Strategic Policy Institute says government lacks infosec focus Bitcoin laws are coming: US Senate launches virty currency probe Who can regulate it and how? Does Gmail's tarted-up tab makeover bust anti-spam laws? 'Advert looks like an email, walks like an email...' Security News Hackers not responsible for New York Times website wipeout Hours-long outage attributed to internal systems fault Possessed baby monitor shouts obscenities at Texas tot 'Somewhat of a blessing' the child is deaf, say parents Your encrypted files are 'exponentially easier' to crack, warn MIT boffins Maths gurus tug rug from under modern crypto: 'You’d be surprised how quickly it takes' UK.gov intros shiny CREST badge for cyber crime-scene cleanup squad Been cyber-screwed? Call one of GCHQ's trusted helpers Breaking news, literally: Syrians joyride New York Post tweets, Facebook Another day, another successful phishing attack Zombie PCs are for crimelord chumps: Fear clusters, says infosec ace Big Data tech can be used for 'carpet bombing' the internet NYT crackers get busy again, claims vendor 'APT 12' back in action Software News Facebook tops up Apache Project graph database with fresh code 'You know what's cooler than a billion edges? A trillion edges!' Make or break: Microsoft sets date for CRUCIAL Win 8.1 launch Plus: R2s of Server and System Center sneak out Evernote hobbles third-party apps... but is it pulling a Twitter? Call me maybe: Mobile trunk sets rate limit on API requests Microsoft Patch Tuesday: The '90s called. It wants its 'Ping of Death' back Wobbly IPv6 Windows stack gets extra support Rate-my-boink app scores frisky fanbois, fangurlz' SCREAMS, VIBRATIONS Saucy sex study software reveals all, 'selfies' included Science News Keep Landsat flying forever, says US Academy of Sciences Boffins fear US budget woes may clip wings of next-gen space snapper Is NASA planning to send LAVA LAMPS to Jupiter? Mighty Meccano centrifuge poses intriguing galactic question 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

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