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Daily Headlines 16 October 2013

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Business News Snowden's pal Greenwald QUITS Guardian to launch hush-hush news rival US-based website touted as 'general media outlet' Intel slumps into mud despite lobbing Internet-of-Things, etc at buyers 40 products launched ... sales, profit needles barely move Whodathunkit? Media barons slit own throats in anti-freetard crackdowns New study claims: 1. Make something easy to buy 2. ??? 3. Profit BBC's Clangers returns in £5m 'New Age' remake 'What's that Baby Clanger? You're taking out the recycling?' Twitter sets up BILLION-DOLLAR credit line ahead of IPO Microblogging site gets a cash-filled revolver - just in case CEO of Brit fashion bods Burberry lands Apple job for retail, online sales Chief of super-pricey corporate tartan fashion stuff to flog super-pricey Apple fashion stuff Why a Robin Hood tax on filthy rich City types is the very LAST thing needed Analysis The Nobel prize committee said so PLEASE let us build Fruit Loop Central, Apple begs Cupertino City Fruity firm asks residents to support giganto HQ plan Data Centre News That new rapid Intel rollout: 14nm Broadwell chip delayed to 2014 Mixed messages from King Krzanich Kids hooked up with free Office subs at Microsoft-addicted schools Buy ALL staff cloud software access to get students in for nothing Fusion-io flogs mutant array, souped-up software to small biz Slaps down hybrid upstarts VMware guzzles 'desktop-as-a-service' firm Desktone Yup, hired-out virty desktop pleased to call itself an AAS Twitteratti at NetApp event spill guts over FlashRay's innards StorageGRID gets shot in arm, ready to take on Glacier Juniper boosts MX capacity and scale to handle mobile data deluge How does 128,000 subscribers PER SLOT grab you, telcos? HGST pushes out bulk storage spinner with 5 power-sipping settings MegaScale, mini-power Mellanox targets Fibre Channel with 56 Gbps FDR InfiniBand Virtualised apps can chat across a network at the same speed of intra-server comms Hardware News Give it a wrist, fellas: Sony's back with $200 Android Smartwatch 2 If at first you don't succeed... Apple's October 22 San Fran glam jam: Why fanbois will give a damn The iPads, Macs and more expected at press palooza SoftBank and GungHo swallow half of Finnish mobile gaming firm Clash of Clans creator partners with Japanese firms Expensive bling-o-rama iPhone 5S OUTSELLS cheap-o-plastic 5C Well, true, it isn't that cheap. But it is plastic Fandroids: Will you strap on a Google KitKat 4.4 smartwatch this month? Trick or treat? Android 4.4 kit's reportedly out for Halloween Networks News Run a server on your Gb/s Google Fiber? OK, fine, fine ... maybe a small one Multiplayer gaming's OK, but they better not catch you making money Hong Kong underground gets pay-by-bonk Octopus walks where Oyster fears to tread Let police track you through your mobe - it's for your OWN GOOD Consultation opens on tracking mobile 999 callers' locations German researchers claim 100 Gbps wireless transmission record Beat that, WiFi! And suck it up, fibre-to-the-premises fans Policy News Divorcing ICANN and the US won't break the 'net nor stop the spooks Internet overlord's status is administrative convenience, not holy writ Telstra plans to keep hands on government BEEELIONS Never get between rent-seeker and rent Cabinet to be targeted with pro-FTTP ads Crowdfunded campaigners to reveal next phase of cunning plan soon OFT probe: Do small UK firms get fair shake in public sector tenders? Special 'scoring' criteria is against SMBs customers, says tech distie Google's latest ad push gives LONE LAWMAKER the creeps We knew it was quiet on Capitol Hill, but still... Assange: 'Ecuadorian embassy staff are like my family' Wikileaker fills time hanging with celebs ... and hoping rape allegations will 'disappear' I'll call for UK law shakeup to cuff global web crime lords - new top cyber cop Most wanted list already drawn up Security News Is that a failed Outlook security update in your pocket or are you pleased to phish me? New scam exploits Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday confusion Can you trust 'NSA-proof' TrueCrypt? Cough up some dough and find out Fundraising drive to shove a microscope up mysterious encryption software WhatsApp crypto snafu drops trou on users' privates 'Very basic error' leaves messaging app open to snoopers Snowden's email provider Lavabit flows again to let users retrieve data Users will have 72 hours to save their stuff and the NSA knows when it will happen Software News EasyJet website crashes and burns Cargoes of human misery to cease Coming soon to Twitter: Inboxes stuffed with direct messages from ANYONE I just followed you, and this is crazy, but here's a DM. Tweet me, maybe? Thousands! of! Yahoo! Mail! users! driven! crazy! by! revamp! Purple mailers protest modish permutations Oracle says open source has no place in military apps Unless it's open source from Oracle, of course Gates, Zuckerberg to deliver free coding lesson We all have so much to learn from the guys who brought us Clippy and Poke Science News Cannabis can CURE CANCER - cheaply and without getting you high Amazing jazz-cigarette breakthrough by London medical boffins Now that's real science: CYBORG MONKEYS with PROSTHETIC ARMS No, it's not the long awaited cyborg monkey butler Price rises and power cuts by 2016? Thank the EU's energy policy 60% of gas-fired generators gone inside three years, warn beancounters CapGemini Oz bookshop to deliver by drone Guys? You do know Amazon can already deliver books to your smartphone? Bootnotes News Apple's Steve Jobs was a SEX-crazed World War II fighter pilot, says ex Former Jobsian squeeze dishes the dirt on iPod godhead Google refunds two dollars for cop jobs ad on biker website Australian Police raid bikers one day, recruit them the next

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