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Business News New! Yahoo! logo! shows! Marissa! Meyer's! personal! touch! Nine degrees of 'whimsy' Mail.ru says 'да' to half a BILLION dollars, flogs its 14m Facebook shares Russia's richest man cuts firm's Facebook holdings loose Microsoft, Nokia and the sound of colliding garbage trucks Opinion $7.1bn... quite a hefty price tag for joined-up marketing Channel News Dixons in talks to offload loss-making online mart PIXmania Tells German VC: C'mon, buy our gadget souk. We'll give you €69m Cloud News Linode adds analytics package to Linux cloud Forewarned is forearmed Salesforce invents a telephone book for corporate data Rebrands Chatterbox as Files Data Centre News Hey, EMC. You and I are seriously falling out over this marketing crap Storagebod I like you really, but what's with this Mega Launch hype? When it doesn't get boring in series 8: Adaptec pumps out RAID RoCket fuel 12Gbit/s SAS RoC doubles adapter speed EMC rolls out next generation of hot VNX models in Milan And flashes us a glimpse of hush-hush Project Nile cloudy platform VMware's latest trick: Virtual gyroscopes and compasses Virtzilla refreshes desktop hypervisors Fusion and Workstation Campus Party: Did it start Silicon Britain or let 5,000 geeks sleep together? Pics What went on in all those tents under the O2 dome Sysadmins hail Windows Server 2012 R2's killer ... clipboard? TechEd Australia Cut and paste between VMs wins spontaneous applause Bulging racks top of mind for Dell's new switch S6000 drinks VMware's NSX Kool Aid, spaffs data over 40GbE Hardware News Confirmed by cockup: new iPhones will be named 5S and 5C Errant China Telecom post pulled – but 敬请期待... iPad 5, Retina iPad mini with 'A7X' chip home for the holidays – report Tim Cook's China outreach leading to broader product line, longer life for older slabs It's the software, stupid: Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch bags big apps Analysis Armies of Evernote, RunKeeper, Path users summoned in latest wrist war Samsung Galaxy S4 Active: The mobe for CHUCK NORRIS TYPES Review Padded up for prang protection and dips in the drink Panasonic to build Toughbook-style smartphone Japanese giant abandons consumers for more rugged customers Seamless data management features with AOS 3.0 This ESG Lab validation report documents hands-on testing of the Avere FXT Series Edge Filer with the AOS 3.0 operating environment. Download here > Policy News Oz government-in-waiting releases new online child protection policy Removes mandatory filtering and explains social media takedown laws Australia's anti-smut internet filter blueprint lasts LESS THAN A DAY Version control problems strike Oz baby-kissers Jury reckons Motorola wasn't 'fair and reasonable' to Microsoft Googorola to hand over $14m after trying to charge excessive patent fees Hunt's 'paperless', data-pimping NHS plan gets another £240m Sharing is caring, health secretary tells sick Brits Gov IT write-off: Universal Credit system flushes £34m down toilet MP warns against 'yet another catastrophic' Whitehall tech failure Australia's opposition cuts funds to IT research outfit NICTA's future in doubt as $AUD42m funding chopped Security News Reports: NSA has compromised most internet encryption There goes the neighborhood Tor traffic torrent: It ain't the Syrians, it's the BOTS 'No humans are behind these clients' FTC slaps TRENDnet with 20 years' probation over webcam spying flaw Insecure code is a Peeping Tom's charter New online banking Trojan empties users' wallets, videos privates Don't fall for the old .pdf.exe wheeze Nasty nuke-lab data-slurper EVOLVES, now feeds off new Java hole Latest version of data-stealer targets Uyghur dissidents Your nicked iPad now likelier than ever to show up in Mongolia Ooh la la! Fences are so much more international this year – study myOpenID to close down for good in February 2014 Users of the OpenID registrar will have to go elsewhere Software News Chrome turns five, gains new 'desktop apps' Chocolate Factory's present is a rehash of site-specific browsers Continuous delivery: What works (and what doesn't) Software on the assembly line Windows 8.1 to freeze out small business apps TechEd Australia ISVs can forget about modern apps for shops with under 100 seats Science News The Solar System's second-largest volcano found hiding on Earth Massive Tamu Massif as big as the British Isles Autogyro legend Ken Wallis hangs up wings at 97 RIP, father of Little Nellie LOHAN cops a faceful of smutronyms Name that doomsday box compo takes a turn for the schoolboy Hypersonic 'scramjet' aims for Mach 8 test flight Take it very high and drop it very fast Bootnotes News Boffinry breakthrough OF THE DECADE: Teens 'influenced' by friends Facebook, MySpace, yes, MySpace turn kids into BOOZY ROISTERERS, claim brainiacs Seamless data management features with AOS 3.0 This ESG Lab validation report documents hands-on testing of the Avere FXT Series Edge Filer with the AOS 3.0 operating environment. Download here >

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