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Business News Ballmer intends to remain on Microsoft board after end of CEO gig Yes, you WILL have him to kick around anymore Instagram adds ads, says they'll be 'enjoyable and creative' Time to start earning back Facebook's $715m Twitter spills unprofitable guts in $1bn IPO filing Loss-making babblechat service's S-1 chirps inner details Judge orders probe over Samsung execs viewing secret Apple docs Did legal team, fox, chickens break confidentiality rules? Study accuses media companies of cooking the books on piracy losses Digital sharing can be a help, not a hindrance Oracle defends Larry Ellison's whopping package Firm tells shareholders chief's million-dollar compensation is 'appropriate' Flutter-BYE, we're all Google now: Ad giant slurps gesture-tastic app-maker A finger flick away from happiness Apple hires streaming vid bloke: Nurse, the corpse of Apple monster telly is twitching again Zombie juice for the wide-screen TV rumour FTC chilled about Google's buyout of map app Waze - report US antitrust bods 'won't challenge' satnav app slurp Data Centre News Verizon reboots cloud by dropping traditional IT vendors 'Sayonara, Cisco! Au revoir, VMware! Happy trails, HP!' Gridstore claims it can hoik up data access speeds for Hyper-V VMs And you're welcome to give it a spin - for free Look out, Gartner: Behold the El Reg all-Flash Quadragon™ wonder map-o-graphic Where do YOU lie on the Vulturine Main Sequence? Aruba rolls out cloudy enterprise Wi-Fi management system Yours for a hundred quid a year Cloud biz model 'unproven' as Amazon scares world+dog into competing - or ELSE Channels Forum 2013 'Everyone is losing money' thunders analyst How to design a storage array: NOT LIKE THAT, buddy Storagebod Architecture might all look samey, but it's like that for a reason SGI buys out FileTek, strolls into StorHouse and puts its feet up 29-yr-old seduces grizzled HPC veteran with management tech Hardware News Samsung DENIES benchmark cheating, despite evidence Honorable Apple tweets umbrage at alleged chicanery Tesla 'safest car ever made' Model S EV crashes and burns. Only share price hurt Updated Flame-prone batterycar firm under fire Amazon's EYE-OF-SAURON KindlePhone will watch you with FOUR cameras - report Jeff Bezos 'value' handset also on offer soon, they say The life of Pi: Intel to give away Arduino-friendly 'Galileo' tiny-puter Give me the undergrad, I will give you the dev - Krzanich's Roman pledge Sony Xperia Z Ultra: The quad-core 2.2GHz MEGA SCREEN PHONDLESLAB Review And you thought the Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 was big... Third of Brits now regularly fondling their slabs, say beancounters iPad growth set to flatten while Android races upwards Atomic clocks come to your wrist Cesium-powered timepiece loses just one second a millennium Filipino phablet squawks 'I'M STOLEN' Calling out 'Magnanakaws' before they scarper Networks News Ofcom sets out next DECADE of spectrum policy: Use it or lose it Very little of it is green Yo, mall rats: Facebook and Cisco in Wi-Fi hookup to track your retail, social life Swap your data for free wireless, be our ads ... bitch 'Instant translation' glasses to come online for 2020 Olympics Japan's NTT Docomo plans 5G network 100 times faster than LTE at Tokyo's games Top 10 considerations for a sucessful Windows 8 deployment Read this whitepaper for a few suggestions on how to increase the odds of a successful Windows 8 deployment. Download here > Policy News Obamacare goes LIVE, and so do the survey-spewing spambots Enough to make a Tea Party activist boil over Ziggy Switkowski appointed NBN Co executive chair Minister Turnbull turns to former telco CEO as he nukes board and Quigley bails Chinternet uncensored: Decrypt Weibo tool unblocks tweets GreatFire.org in bold, Beijing-baiting move to uncensor Sina Weibo You put up with CRAPPY iOS 7. You can put up with Obamacare too, says prez If you can deal with vomit-inducing iThings, what's a few website bugs? Security News Snowden's email provider gave crypto keys to FBI – on paper printouts Lavabit founder says snoops demanded total access Adobe hit by 'sophisticated' hack targeting customers, source code A-Doh!-eee: 2.9 MEEELLION accounts slurped, source code compromised Feds: Silk Road pirate king tried to SNUFF customer AND employee Two contract hits? That's just DREADful Iranian cyberwar chief shot dead. Revolutionary Guard: Assassination? Don't 'speculate' Cyber War HQ loses boss in old-fashioned kinetic hit NSA: Yes we 'experimented' with US mobile tracking. But we didn't inhale Analysis Huh - Euro snoop systems are on constantly Yahoo! Finds! Cash! Behind! Sofa! For! Proper! Bug! Bounties! Sorry 'bout that $12.50 prize, does $15k sound better? Science News Exciting MIT droplets breakthrough could turbocharge power plants, airships and more And SUCK POWER from SAUNAS, yet British support for fracking largely unmoved by knowledge of downsides Analysis Have environmentalists played the Fear card too often? Mars boffins: You fools! That's no CRATER – it's a SUPER VOLCANO Red Planet's atmosphere may have been affected by series of mega-eruptions Boffins demo new holo storage using graphene oxide Busted disk? No problem Top 10 considerations for a sucessful Windows 8 deployment Read this whitepaper for a few suggestions on how to increase the odds of a successful Windows 8 deployment. Download here >

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