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Business News Microsoft's $7.1bn Nokia gobble: Why you should expect the unexpected Analysis Lumias, Elop, Windows Phone 8, yes... but patently, it's about patents 'WTF! MORONS!' Yahoo! Groups! redesign! traumatises! users! 'Vile, unfriendly interface' attacked by world+dog. But format stays Torched £30 server switch costs phone firm millions in lost sales Where is configuration management when you need it? Microsoft's Nokia plan: WHACK APPLE AND GOOGLE Redmond 'cannot risk having Apple or Google foreclose app innovation' Microsoft buys Nokia's mobile business Updated €5.44bn deal covers devices, patents, manufacturing and services Channel News Hitachi Data Systems says UK boss Ball dropped it Transformed organisation but missed targets, whisper partners Cloud News Cisco pours cash into log management startup Loggly gets multi-million dollar dosh infusion Microsoft soars above Amazon with cloud cache Farms cash with cache that smacks down AWS ElasticCache Rackspace cracks wallet on cloud 'developer discount' If you pay them, they will come Intermedia's Exchange hive goes titsup ... and no one's answering calls Punters lose their cool as Microsoft email host goes down Microsoft - do you really think you can take on Google with Nokia? Blocks and Files You're a bit tardy to phone catch-up party Data Centre News Intel readies server-grade Atom for microserver ARM wrestling Avoton is what happens when you give Chipzilla time TDK calls it quits on tape media thanks to 'difficult environment' Will press the stop button in early 2014 Wikileaks' Cablegate server touted on eBay for $3k-plus by Swedes Assange™ memorabilia 'erased to NSA specs' Fukushima sends Japanese IT to the cloud Disaster recovery planning has had a shakeup since 3/11 ICANN destroys Google's dotless domain dream Internet names overlord finishes new global top level domain checking process Hardware News Bionym bracelet promises to replace passwords with ECG biometrics Until the battery dies or heart gives out, that is Intel's new top-dog desktop 'Extreme' CPU fails to excite geekerati A decent enough chip, to be sure, but worth a thousand bucks to upgrade? Kindle Matchbook offers cheap digital copies of Amazon print purchases Ebook add-ons to arrive in time for new Kindle Paperwhite in October iPhone rises, Android slips in US, UK The big surprise: Windows Phone bagging smartphone newbies It's official: Apple sends out invitations for September 10 event Tim Cook upstages Intel's Krzanich and James WD outs 'Mini Me' Red label NAS drives 2.5-inch HDDs for when 3.5-inchers are just too darn big Myst: 20 years of point-and-click adventuring Antique Code Show The genre-defining game that made us all buy CD-ROM drives 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 > Networks News Canon climbs atop Facebook with over-the-top pic wrangler TechEd Australia Online service takes your face out of Facebook if trolls strike Vodafone, can you get a signal at the top of your $130bn Verizon cash pile? Verizon Wireless stake mega-deal sealed - now what to do with all that dosh TiVo dives into pile of cash, steely eyed investors don't blink Analysis Patent cash from Cisco 'n' pals, loadsa subscribers – what do we have to do, guys? Policy News AT&T helping US drug cops in 'vast, troubling' phone snoop scheme Telco keeps records for 26 years and provides them at will Deloitte research says NBN a winner for households Productivity, telework the big pluses, says government-commissioned study Tory think tank: Hey, civil servants! Work with startups to save £70bn Analysis Rip up paper transactions, shove everything online by 2020 Verizon, Experian and pals bag £25m to inspect Brits' identities for UK gov And yet, no sign of PayPal Watchdog mulls SOCA's secret dossier of private dicks 'hired to hack, blag' Did corp goliaths know PIs may have broken law, ponders ICO Beat the UK's incoming smut filter: Pre-censor your grumble flicks SFW Oh NO, we don't have money to pay you! Bow-chicka- EDIT *bzzzzt* £250k fine for dumping council workers' files in Tesco bins, er, binned Comment But does this mean a change to ICO enforcement policy? Legal bod investigates Vietnam crimps online freedom of speech with 'Decree 72' New law insists foreign companies use local servers, prevents sharing news on blogs Security News Researcher bags $12,500 after showing how to hack Zuck's pics Critical flaw once again dismissed by security team Syrian Electronic Army hacks US Marines, asks 'bros' to fight on its side While US patriot hackers face off with pro-Assad hacktivists Software News Give us a break: Next Android version to be called 'KitKat' Updated 'Key Lime Pie' dropped for familiar chocolate wafers 10,000 app devs SLEEP together in four-day code-chat-drink tech orgy camp Pic Hey, geeks: Hate the great outdoors? Now you can stay in a tent in a big tent Science News Canadian comet impact fingered for triggering prehistoric climate shift Massive impact killed megafauna and pushed humans into agriculture You must be croaking! Boffins reveal SOUND-GOBBLING frog's secret Pic Why earless creature has to gulp down fellow amphibians' jibber-jabber Bootnotes News Techie Crotty will put £1m in Bletchley museum's kitty ... if you do the same Donate to Blighty's computing history collection to unlock entrepreneur's dosh South Carolina couple cop cuffing for shed shag Plenty of wood on display in DIY store copulation outrage, claim plods 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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