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Daily Headlines 30 October 2013

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Business News NBN Co reports smaller-than-expected loss And Telstra sues NBN Co over pit-access deal timing Dell goes private: Stock ceases trading, now Big Mike's baby once again Deal cost Texan tech titan and pals $24.9bn Psst, hey... Facebook, wanna buy BlackBerry? Aw well, it was worth a try Secret talks rumored as buyout deadline looms Nokia emerges smothered in red ink, manages to flog cheapo Windows Phones A little more kerr-ching than last time Samsung is officially the WORLD'S BIGGEST smartphone maker That little Cupertino-based mobe firm? Yeah, we've heard of them NTT Comms snaps up US cloud players in £540 MILLION swoop Look out Amazon, Japanese giant wants a piece of the cloud too Channel News Insight inserts Microsoft vet Ebermann into top EMEA slot Who better to navigate Microsoft's channel changes than a Microsoftie...oh hang on Data Centre News IBM gives up fight to build CIA's $600m secret cloud, hands deal to Amazon Withdraws injunctive action and scuttles back into shadow Salesforce's data-center design: 'Go for web scale, and build it out of s**t!' RICON West 2013 Oracle sits at the core, but after that things get ugly - and cheap! Juniper unrolls MetaFabric, new switch No piece of kit is an island - therefore send not to know for whom the traffic trombone honks, it honks for THEE CommVault boosts profits by 25%, bucks storage slump trend Now THIS is how you run a business Now Seagate posts declining results. Can new tech lift it upwards? And what's with the two new presidents... future CEO bunfight on horizon? Sueballs lobbed at Tosh, Samsung and HP over 'optical disk cartel' They had 90 per cent of the optical drive market and it's NOT FAIR, weeps HP All the big dogs want to bark on our cloudy porch, says Nasuni They quite literally need to think outside the box, apparently Toshiba brings out terabyte laptop drive (yes), miracle enterprise-grade TLC Not just for USB sticks any more HP fires sue-ray at makers of Blu-Ray Price fixing optical disk-makers in lawyers' sights Hardware News Hero HTC phone takes a BULLET, saves shop worker's life mid-robbery Pics Mobe battery in doesn't-endanger-user shocker RIP Bill Lowe: Father of the IBM PC no longer reading drive C Obit Computing pioneer dies after heart attack You hate DIY, right? But you'll LOVE our DIY PHONE, says Motorola 'A-ha, I see you have the pop-out chocolate digestive tray' Google mounts PRODUCT RECALL for Glass spy-goggles Choc Factory: return intrusive specs for SHINY NEW MODEL Networks News Do+ you+ use+ Google+? Ad+ giant+ says+ 300+ million+ of+ you+ are+ What do you mean, you're not? Here's some video tricks to tempt you Virgin Media only puts limited limits on its Unlimited service ISP adjusts traffic choke policy to ASA-approved 'moderate' level Digital radio may replace FM altogether - even though nobody wants it Culture minster must pass - or defer - death sentence on beloved tech Mozilla goes where Google fears to tread with geolocation service Privacy? We're keen on it now but might let you opt out in future Policy News Construction industry outlook is bad news for Turnbull's alt.NBN plan Mal The Builder … can he fix it? Not with Australia's Scoop, Muck and Dizzy on the job Blighty's telcos set to CHOKE off another fistful of piracy gateways Ha! That's THOSE moles well and truly whacked Steelie Neelie bangs cloudy Euro heads together with EU-wide conduct code 'Trust is bankable' adds EC veep Viviane Reding Google tired of endless AGONY over alleged EU search biz abuse Will ad giant's latest offer still snuff out rivals? They've just four weeks to pipe up Spread the gospel! Tim Berners-Lee's Open Data Institute goes global Nonprofit body opens 13 new offices to promote using gov datasets Security News Three million Adobe user accounts hacked? No, make that 38 million-plus Whoops, just a few more than we thought at first, says software giant Anonymity is the enemy of privacy, says RSA grande fromage RSA Europe 2013 There's only one letter between RSA and NSA, after all Email-sniffing Linkedin Intro NOT security threat, insists biz network But it can WIPE your MOBE, shrieks infosec company DON'T BREW THAT CUPPA! Your kettle could be a SPAMBOT Russian report says Chinese appliances hide Wifi slurping spam-spreaders New Oz government keeps Huawei ban after spook briefing Attorney-General won't review exclusion from 'NBN' Syrian Electronic Army claims Obama social media hijacking Hacked non-profit emails gave access to URL shortener ... and mayhem! 'Thousands of iPhone, iPad apps' vulnerable to simple redirect joyriders RSA Europe 2013 Wanna edit the news yourself? Here's how, say security bods Software News Ex-Beeb web news guru joins Open University-backed speech startups Matt Karas injects know-how into voice-analysis Brit upstarts Cinnamon Desktop: Breaks with GNOME, finds beefed-up Nemo Review It's all a bit more Windowsy than its ancestors GOV.UK swells organ donor signups by 10,000 a month 'Bit of clever A/B testing as a side project’ NetSuite to feast on bones of failed SAP Business ByDesign SaaSman Zach Nelson offers a year of restorative SaaS at the low, low price of zero Science News Robo-drones learn to land by going bug-eyed Let it bee Dino-boffins discover 100-million-year-old BIRD TRACKS in Australia Aussie boffins' amazing claim ROBOT PODS to INVADE Milton Keynes in frenzied automatic MAYHEM Self-driving transports 'part of sci-fi future' says UK minister

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