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Business News Apple tries to trademark the term 'startup' Filings hints at educational services in Apple Stores Ebook judge: Guilty Apple must hire anti-antitrust watchdog to probe itself But you won't have to scrap your movies, music and telly contracts, Cupertino Keep on truckin'... Qualcomm sells OmniTRACS for $800m Old cash cow put out to pasture Thought the PC market couldn't get any worse? HAH! Think again Prepare yourselves for a mid-teens decline, vendors Arrow Electronics engulfs hefty data centre player in €230m gobble VC sellers light big cigars, chuckle fatly Cloud News VMware's bursts into public cloud with vCHS Analysis Great cloudy hope pinches partners and lacks key features Data Centre News Fujitsu to push 28 nanometer limits with Sparc64 X+ Hot Chips Drop-in upgrade sports more oomph for Solaris shops Oracle revs up Sparc M6 chip for seriously big iron Hot Chips Bixby interconnect scales to 96 sockets Microsoft's $15m won't last forever: Quantum, CommVault to flog new backup kit Lattus and Simpana deal to make converged backup solutions Storage biz mystery as upstarts Primary Data and Tonian 'merge' Ex Fusion-io chief's new venture surfaces briefly, then vanishes from view Scale Computing's SCRIBE vows to lob virty storage kit into the bin Physical arrays too. Watch out EMC, we're tearing through those storage layers What's that racket? Oh my God, it's VMware's vSAN bull in the disk array shop New robo-storage software versus the rivals Speaking in Tech: Hitachi Data Systems veep on 'software defined silliness' Podcast 'At the end of the day it has to run on SOMETHING' Flash-forward for virty desktops... Jeez, why didn't WE think of that? Fusion-io rolls out me-too cache-me-if-you-can software VMware CEO Gelsinger: How we'll beat Amazon Web Services VMworld 2013 Podcast Virty giant plotting software-defined-data-centre-in-a-box Hardware News Moto X teardown shows US manufacturing adds mere $4 to handset costs Motorola goes for standard chips and software wizardry Google's Project Glass headman answers most pressing question: 'Why?' Hot Chips The computer that 'lives on your head' will change mankind, it turns out Do not adjust your eyes: This Kobo ten-incher has a 2560 x 1600 resolution E-book reader-cum-tablet has about million more pixels than the Retina iPad Web showered in golden iPhone 5S vid glory - but is it all a DISTRACTION? Video What's Cupertino really holding back for its 2013 'One more thing...' moment? MIDI daddy Dave Smith: '30 years of version 1.0 shows we got it right' Q & A El Reg chats to muso interface co-founder on this enduring digital spec Pimoroni PiGlow: Rainbow LED swirls for the Raspberry Pi Review Everything is illuminated The Power to Change virtual event Hear industry visionaries, analysts, and practitioners discuss how change is affecting IT. Reserve your seat today to be in with a chance to win a HP Spectre Ultrabook, or Samsung 40-inch LED HDTV courtesy of HP and The Register. Networks News ACCC told cable nets should offer wholesale HFC declaration debate re-opened Three axes data-roaming fees in SEVEN countries Calls and texts home no more costly than they are in the UK either Eggheads turn Motorola feature phone into CITYWIDE GSM jammer Innocent mobile turns bad... with good software Boffins' keyboard ELECTROCUTES Facebook addicts Don't you dare click –!ZZAAPPP!- Like one more time Policy News Qld Health starts briefing industry on IT refresh Practice makes perfect Kiwis (finally) confirm software ban under new patent law Lone stand or first domino? Obama prepares to crawl up NSA's ass with microscope We could tell you, Mr President, but then we'd have to... Quarter of a million quid fine for data-wipe gaffe? ICO told: Nae, laddie Ruling on tough Scots council sanction will 'blunt talons' of watchdog, says legal bod IBM lands spook data-sharing standard at Oz airports Airline passenger data and 'other relevant material' checked in 'real time' Security News Tor usage up by more than 100% in August Secure network usage spikes worldwide, reasons unknown Python regurgitates Dropbox secrets to boffins Researchers pick over the entrails to spot vulns Supercomputer hacker coughs to flogging DoE logins to FBI agent Guilty plea means gov access-flogger may only swallow 18 months' porridge Software News Red Hat mints OpenStack certification Helps devs turn open source project into CV-filling bulletpoint Couchbase database pelted in $25M of filthy Valley lucre Frothy funding market means VCs chucked money at NoSQL database Amazon tells mobe devs: Bring your app-strokers to us, we'll look after you 6% of sales sound good? You don't need slip-ons to be an associate Boffins force Skype to look you in the eye Look into my eyes, not around the eyes, don't look around my eyes, you're under Science News Boffins build brain-to-brain interface for REMOTE CONTROL HUMANS! Mind meld completed 3D printed guns are for wimps. Meet NASA's 3D printed ROCKET ENGINE Print-to-order launcher parts survive 20,000 pounds of thrust Boffins lay bare Lara Croft meteorite-strike element ununpentium Time's Uup: Now you'll HAVE to replace that mouldy periodic table shower curtain Bootnotes News iPad classes for DOGS offered in New York Dumb chums lured into fanboihood with peanut-butter-smeared fondleslabs The Power to Change virtual event Hear industry visionaries, analysts, and practitioners discuss how change is affecting IT. Reserve your seat today to be in with a chance to win a HP Spectre Ultrabook, or Samsung 40-inch LED HDTV courtesy of HP and The Register.

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