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Daily Headlines 22 August 2013

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Business News HP taps software hot-shot to run enterprise hardware Dontelli gets a 'special assignment' to find new tech Microsoft fights Google for kids' attention with ad-free Bing for Schools Finds a use for its RT stockpile, too Salesforce rival SugarCRM scores $40m from Goldman Sachs Will SaaSy player actually float this time? Marissa Meyer causes controversy after KEEPING HER KIT ON Purple Princess' Vogue shoot unleashes torrent of purple prose from world+dog Cloud News Amazon extends IP configurability across virtual private cloud Greater choice for IP allocation in premier cloud tech Whoosh, whiff, swiffle.. CLINK: Cleversafe chucks $50m in vault Investors not shy about investing in object storage, are they? Data Centre News HP hammered in servers, storage, and PCs in fiscal Q3 Not much fun in services, either, but software showed life Yahoo! Japan drops UPS systems, crams batteries into servers Fujitsu 'prefab data centers' cost less, burn less juice Dell spits up storage revenues after gobbling promising upstarts How do you settle its parts when the whole is in upheaval? 'Symbolic' Grauniad drive-smash was not just a storage fail Blocks and Files The whole thing was embarrassing, says Reg man Chris Mellor Speaking in Tech: OpenStack not for enterprise? Come off it, Pat Podcast Like NASA chief saying: 'Let's not go into space too much, it's dangerous' Hardware News Bulgarian bloke blabs LG 's smart watch plan Flexible displays on the way from Korea's other colossal electronics-maker Jolla's first Sailfish phone preorders 'fully booked' 'Tens of thousands' of Linux-based mobes to arrive by Christmas Barnes & Noble booked for running out of £29 Nooks ASA raps retailer for deep discount that only lasted a few days MYSTERY of Guardian mobos and graphics cards which 'held Snowden files' Non-volatile storage apparently volatilised in angle-grinder orgy UK micro pioneer Chris Shelton: The mind behind the Nascom-1 Unsung heroes of tech ...and Clive Sinclair's PgC Intel-beating wonder chip Wow, the future is HERE: Charge your phone (wirelessly) in your CAR Cigarette lighter adapter not good enough? Rarely brake? You're in luck Networks News Zuck: I'd like to get the WHOLE WORLD in my hands Comment Let me get you online and show you some ads ... bitch Policy News Corrpution cops warn on old-school project management NSW's Independent Commission Against Corruption issues procurement guidance Manning's lawyer plans presidential pardon campaign, says client will appeal Assange declares 'tactical victory' from his Ecuadorian broom closet NSA admits slurping thousands of domestic emails with no terror connection Turns out, the innocent have everything to fear Pinch to Xoom: Motorola settles trademark suit in confidential deal Fondleslab name-change likely to have no effect whatsoever Assange's WikiLeaks Party running-mate departs in blaze of glory Oz politician's angry resignation letter says 6-fingered one was never at meetings Brazilians tear strip off NSA in wake of Snowden, mull anti-US-spook law South Americans demand web privacy as PRISM journalist's Brazilian boyfriend held Vietnamese city drinks the smart city kool aid Da Nang switches on free metro Wifi and charges towards e-government Security News Cisco goes public with major vulns Unified comms, hosted collaboration need fixes Bank man: System's down, let's have coffee. Oh SNAP, where's all the CASH? Hackers use DDoSes to distract staffers... while nicking MILLIONS Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison Wikileaking private could be freed in ten years 'Hacked' estate agency Foxtons breaks glass, pulls password reset cord 10,000 account logins feared leaked all over the web Forget hackers - storms and snafus are bigger threat, say infosec bods More downtime caused by snow than black hats, EU study finds Intel bakes super-snooper to stop industrial espionage Hadoop-based tool sniffs 4bn network events a day, may end up as McAfee product Hardware failures cause more comms outages than hackers: EU Cybergeddon postponed as incompetence trumps conspiracy again Software News A single company is responsible for 1 out of 4 BlackBerry apps Hong Kong imports line virtual shelves at BlackBerry World Ubuntu devs to get 15-min code review, full SDK love – Canonical Faster, smoother, sandboxier Science News OMG! New 'CRISIS DISASTER' at Fukushima! Oh wait, it's nothing. Again But hey, let's soil ourselves repeatedly anyway Fame-hating planets don't need to hang around STARS – boffins Born-free worlds were formed from humble dust clouds 3D printers stroke LOHAN's shapely midriff Vulture 2 fuselage begins to take shape Space-walker nearly OPENED HELMET to avoid DROWNING Luca Parmitano blogs his horror sortie Bootnotes News Chinese firm applies for 'Edward Snowden' trademark 'Top secret' e-car tech puts whistleblower on wheels Oz sawbones extract fork from old boy's todger: Gents, start your wincing NSFL Down Under cutlery mishap ends with 'forceps traction and copious lubrication'

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