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Business News Billionaire dumps Apple stock because Steve Jobs was 'really awful' guy The last person in the world to learn of Jobs' imperiousness flushes his investment Bad for Bezos: Amazon's German workers threaten pre-Christmas strike Verdi union wants more gingerbread for its elves IPO-leery Avaya was hot to flog self to Oracle, but talks 'fizzled' – report Larry Ellison and Co sizing up network node's books - reports Investor lobs sueball at BlackBerry, says it 'misled' shareholders Class action claims execs shouldn't have talked up BB10 Brits spend one in every 12 waking minutes online, say beancounters Thus companies spaff ever bigger wads of cash on internet ads Alfresco's IPO is bad news for tech stock junkies Analysis GroupOn, Zynga and 3Com: How not to go public Tech Data: Computer 2000 brand taken out back and shot...today Now falls under TD badge as accountancy probe continues Web Daddy Berners-Lee DRMs HTML5 into 2016 Web drawbridge dropped for media barons pillage, says EFF Channel News Acer names Marco Andresen as UK boss... yes, you read that right Not the Netscape guy, our Swedish chief of ops Vohkus hauls in former Kelway officer as COO Craig Compton taksed with building £100m sales engine Cisco tosses cash, APIs at software-pushers: Here, make our customers 'appy Canalys Channels Forum Networking giant goes fishing for devs Data Centre News Judge smites IBM's anti-Amazon cloud campaign Big Blue's bid to freeze Bezos & Co out of contract struck down in court Microsoft takes fight to Amazon on raft of cloud announcements Stays mute on custom chips Spectra unveils TOP SECRET tape-based object store Black Pearl Boulder bods about to set sail – you heard it here first AMD's SeaMicro: 'We're the mystery vendor behind Verizon's cloud' Big win for big box means proprietary hardware ISN'T DEAD, it's only resting FlexPod upsets VCE in converged storage block-building test - analysts But Cisco wins either way Microsoft's Azure will bring tiers to your eyes The joy of automated backup Failover a dependency rich infrastructure and you bork the lot, right? Not any more Neverfail rolls out network-mapping Architect tool Hollywood: How do we secure high-def 4K content? Easy. Just BRAND the pirates 'You only have to get it wrong once, and you end up in prison' Hardware News DEATH WATCH counts down seconds to wearer's demise Kickstarter project to pinpoint the moment of your DOOM Apple's new iPhones dope-slap Samsung in US iPhone 5s sales lead Galaxy S 4 at all major carriers, 5c at two Tech specs wreck: Details of Google's Nexus 5 smartphone LEAKED over interwebs Rivals get an eyeful as LG wrestles with stable door Apple iMac 27-inch 2013: An extra hundred quid for what exactly? Review Do Haswell, updated graphics and optional PCIe SSDs justify the price rise? Universal's High Fidelity Pure Audio trickles onto Blighty’s Blu-Ray hi-fis Best music format we’ve ever had... since the last one 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 > Networks News Three BILLION people now potential nodes for the transfer of cat videos NYAN, NYAN, nana-nana-nana-NYAN-NYAN-Nyaaaaah Policy News Young? Been online five years? Congrats, you are the ELITE MINORITY Most of world's youth still not 'digital natives,' study finds IP rights are for the PRIVILEGED FEW – media studies bods Comment If the data doesn't fit your hypothesis, muddy the waters Software News Percona channels Robin Hood, pilfers Oracle MySQL 5.6 tech 'Anything you can do, we can do cheaper' Stallman's GNU at 30: The hippie OS that foresaw the rise of Apple - and is now trying to take it on Analysis Provided we all dump Android for Replicant, yeah? Science News Nuon, Tokai maintain six-race rivalry No race records on the cards for 2013 New Terminator-style 'bots can self-assemble, leap, climb and SWARM Rise of The Machines Creepy, limbless – MIT roboticists flywheel paves way for tiny, cube-shaped overlords Dutch oven overcooked in World Solar Challenge Takes the lead, Day One, cops penalty Day Two Bootnotes News Police constable 1337 stunned by Lego lookalike The Leet police dismisseth us TWELFTH-CENTURY TARDIS turns up in Ethiopia More than 100 missing Who eps found 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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