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Daily Headlines 28 August 2013

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Business News BlackBerry in talks to spin off Messenger division New BBM subsidiary would have greater independence SiriusXM sued for millions in 'unpaid' music royalties Royalties group takes satellite radio service to court for up to $100m Why Teflon Ballmer had to go: He couldn't shift crud from Windows 8, Surface Analysis Revolting shareholders poised to glom on to Microsoft's non-stick CEO Sponsored Stories ruck: Zuck chucks 15 bucks at ad photo suck schmucks But kids' rights fighters wanted ban on advertisers using children's pics Facebook unwraps SHARING IS CARING photo album function Now everyone can spaff pics into group-hug album... bitch Star Wars revival secret: This isn't the celluloid you're looking for JJ Abrams to use 35mm film - but that wasn't what made the old movies great, sputter fans Channel News IBM likes the channel, puts a ring on it 'We ARE removing channel conflict...in STG anyway' Cloud News Microsoft gives away more data with SkyDrive upgrade 'Box offers 10GB for free? Cute. Here's 25GB' Snowden is great news for hybrid cloud says VMware VMworld 2013 Customers don't want no steeenking NSA sniffing their data Google adds 'Differential Snapshots' to cloud storage Limps after Amazon with cut-price backup tech Data Centre News Server sales continue decline – time to bargain hard with your supplier Blame weak economies, CPU transitions, virtualization, and the dog who ate your nodes Telstra in VMware's sights for hybrid cloud delivery VMworld 2013 CEO Gelsinger favours local VMware Service Providers for hybrid cloud build Array upstart Violin peeks at PCIe cards, goes all in with $172m IPO bid If Velocity gear doesn't sell, biz will be 'adversely affected' You won't find this in your phone: A 4GHz 12-core Power8 for badass boxes Hot Chips Not all silicon boffinry is in mobile... And IBM refuses to give in to Intel Ex-Sun Micro CTO reveals Greenbytes 'world-beating' dedupe He IS on advisory board of flash cache latency smasher, but... Hardware News Microsoft Xbox One will be powered by ginormous system-on chip Hot Chips Why does a game console need billions more transistors than an Itanium? Nissan promises to sell self-driving cars by 2020 Bus drivers and truckers face extinction Dell juices Latitude line with Haswell Ultrabook, skinny lappies Touchscreens and vPro for all Chip daddy: Moore's Law is about to be repealed, but don't blame physics Hot Chips Insider channels Deep Throat from All the President's Men Samsung sets Sept 4 for Galaxy Gear smartwatch showoff Monster-screen Note 'phablet' also on the cards Samsung to bring 55-inch MONSTER curvy-telly to the UK Colossally expensive curved OLED gogglebox, anyone? Tesla tops $20bn as Elon Musk claims arm-wave design tech Hyper-rich inventor claims to have cracked Iron Man-inspired design process Meet the world's one-of-a-kind ENORMO barge-bowling bridge of Falkirk Geek's Guide to Britain When is a wheel not a wheel? When it's a lift Huawei Ascend P6: Skinny smartphone that's not just bare bones Review Android landfill? No, not this time... Apple's Siri 'hurls insults' at Google Glass Why are you so petty about tech specs, Siri? An autopilot the size of a postage stamp Video And it's open source as well Networks News Intel: Our new mobile chip SoCs it to its predecessor Hot Chips Forget about how we raved about Medfield – Clovertrail+ is the real real deal Policy News Another big SAP project hits the rocks in Oz App scrapped after governance fail and musical chairs fun at Fujitsu United Nations to grill US over alleged NSA bugging of its HQ – report Snowden files reveal snooping on embassies and consulates UK gov call-centre serfs told: Fondle your button for HAPPINESS If your caller is happy and you know it, touch your screen. If your caller is happy and you... Security News Twitter, NY Times in domain hijack 'Syrian Electronic Army' claims responsibility, registrar MelbourneIT fingered as vector Tesla cars 'hackable' says Dell engineer REST authentication mess could allow attacker to open the sunroof ISPs scramble to explain mouse-sniffing tool Would you trust faceless corporations with your, er, mouse movements? Poison Ivy RAT becoming the AK-47 of cyber-espionage attacks Just because it's simple to use doesn't mean the user is low-rent Software News Intel ships high-powered C++ compiler for native Android apps Drop-in replacement for GCC promises better performance Microsoft: YES Windows 8.1 is finished, but NO you can't have it It's for hardware partners only for eight more weeks Facebook government transparency report locked inside, er, Facebook Openness is trapped in my silo ... bitch Did Google's Waze gobble run rivals off the road? UK watchdog starts probe The only Waze is ethics Loads of mis-sold PPI, but WHO will claim? This man's paid to find out Feature Data mining to fathom the depth of banking's balls-up Come and get it: Feedly Pro hits general availability Your huddled masses yearning to read feeds Science News Bionic Brit Babbage Bear boards brilliant balloon, bests ballsy Baumgartner Vid and pics Plucky Raspberry Pi mascot 'Ted Bull' skydives from 39,000m Bootnotes News Air mattress blast blows German man across room House wrecked in inflatable fix fiasco

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