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Daily Headlines 17 October 2013

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Business News Microsoft saddles up for a ride on Sky Giraffe Redmond's venture capital arm writes its first cheque 'Spotify for TV' Magine terrifies Euro players with smart TV deals OTT player has just grabbed half-a-million Swedish subscribers Twitter snubs IPOcalypse host Nasdaq in favour of NYSE Blue Bird heads to OTHER Big Apple exchange to flog its shares London's Tech City welcomes first Chinese tenant Gaming giant Rekoo sets up European HQ in Silicon Roundabout Yahoo! balance! sheet! bulked! by! Alibaba! Investors not upset by ad-slinging biz and cash stash sinking Channel News Tech Data named CE director after divisional shake-up Company veteran Mark Glasspool bags dual role at distie gint US ERP roll out amid a downturn? That's what hit Datatec in H1 Tech giant reports slow sales growth and falling operating profits Oracle raids HP enterprise biz to find global channel chief Rich Geraffo fills big boots vacated by Judson Althoff Data Centre News Screw Internet-of-Things: Boffins build Internet-of-Sound UNDERWATER Do whale farts cause a 404? Microsoft plugs Xbox One consoles into its cloud - what could go wrong? No one wants a Blue Sky of Death ruining their post-work shoot'em'up Hadoop 2 stampedes onto world's mega compute clusters 'A great success story for the open source methodology' China, an untapped land of opportunity for the West - EXCEPT IBM Big Blue notches up SIXTH quarter of poor growth Database upstart NuoDB 'Blackbirds' spread wings, fly into version 2 New release stresses geo-distribution, SQL capabilities Sepaton launches super-duper big data-slurping deduper Big iron for big data backup ... 16PB, if all goes according to plan PernixData shows off write-caching, clustering one-trick FVP pony Can VMware kit do this? No. Well, not for now, anyway... Backing up your VMware environment? Don't lose control... Regcast A tale of agents and three letter acronyms Violin gangs up with Microsoft: Psst, big biz, want an all-flash Windows Server box? 'The future of the data centre is memory' – storage firm CEO Speaking in Tech: 'People are gonna vote for BlackBerry just to mess with me' Podcast You can pick Greg's phone, but you can't pick his intern - we hope How were your hols, cluster kids? Oh, partied, studied... did we mention WE BUILT DRONES HPC blog American college students get greased up for Big Iron battle Tintri boss returns to techie role, brings in startup-flogger as CEO Ken Klein's CV is littered with acquistions David Brent's office to host VMware's hybrid cloud Savvis' Slough bit barn will be home for vCloud Hybrid Service Acronis receives Parallels-o-gram, reveals cloudy backup platform When is a merger not a merger? When two companies share a founder, that's when Hardware News 'Please, steal my phone' TV ads by T-Mobile US slammed by legal eagles Violent robberies NOT funny, 'more than tasteless', attorneys insist Apple hits the brakes on not-so-cheap iPhone 5C orders amid demand fears Foxconn-rebrander loses out as world+dog shuns mid-market mobe Samsung Galaxy Note 3: Once, twice, three times a Very Large Phone™ Review Third-gen phondleslab is fairly substantial. Nice whopper-snapper too Rumblings: Amazon to chum up with HTC, smartphones in mind Might ship in 2014, might never happen Networks News New Facebook privacy tweak'll let TEENS smear their lives over the world Lockdown lifted from underage users' accounts Rich in Philadelphia? Your new phone can be put in your hands TODAY Verizon testing same-day delivery service for 'affluent millenials' All cool kids' phones run ALTERNATIVE alternative custom Android ROM New fandroid team to give Cyanogen a run for its money Slip your SIM into a plastic sheath, WIPE international call charges Nano, Micro or Mini? Policy News CSIRO unveils new bushfire software and knowledge base User feedback to help refine models Australian politicians 'resisted' debate on new spook powers Former Attorney-General Nicola Roxon spills the beans on data retention debate Dead Steve Jobs' Apple spaceship HQ gets permission to land Building work on dead Steve Jobs' latest nerve-center to start in 2014 Patent troll InterDigital CAN ask ITC to ban Nokia mobes: Supreme Court It might not make any PRODUCTS, but patent-lobbing's a business too NHS preps spammy mailshots advertising 'BIGGEST medical data grab in HISTORY' Want to escape Big Brother health databases? Just read your junk mail NORKS cyber mayhem cost South Korea £500 MEEELLION Attacks since 2009 highlight defence gaps, says lawmaker Security News Rorschach test suggested as CAPTCHA replacement You're a sick puppy with a secure password Windows XP folks: Hey, Google Chrome loves you ... until 2015 Updated Browser updates to end one year after Microsoft pulls the plug Don’t let mobile malware steal your company data It’s closer than you think Mac fans: You don't need Windows to get ripped off in tech support scams Ah, I see you have the machine that goes 'ping!' Oracle drops shedload of CRITICAL vuln-busting Java patches Sysadmins, look away - Oracle's biz suites have more holes than a Swiss cheese Loathed wiggly-word CAPTCHAs morph into 'fun' click-'n'-drag games UK firm lets admen cash in on punters' signup misery Android security relies on ZOMBIE CRYPTO, argues infosec pundit Java compatibility equals RUBBISH security Software News Nokia, Indian upstart square up to Google's mighty mapping empire Time to clean up this one-horse townnation ... then, the world Microsoft: Everyone stop running so the fat kid Win RT can catch up Analysis Does the WinPhone update keep you happy? Science News Huge hypersonic meteor found in Russian lake shatters scales - literally Pic Salvaged 570kg space hunk exploded in Earth's atmo OAR-some! 18ft SEA SERPENT discovered DEAD off US coast Vid Thrilled staffers pull massive bony lengthiness onto Californian beach Bonking boffins say bacon biters won't breed It's not all bad news at breakfast: fish can kipper your sperm count up Bootnotes News US parents proclaim 811 'Messiahs' Vanity sprog-naming heralds 'narcissism epidemic', psychologist warns

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