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Business News Mighty Cisco terminates British channel chum Phoenix IT Group 'What doesn't kill us makes us stronger' - embattled Phoenix Google Helpout live vids: Helping you help us help ourselves, says web giant Pack up, 'how-to' publishers - the boys from Mountain View are moving in New US Apple factory will make INVINCIBLE sapphire glass for SHINY iThings Paltry 700 jobs not much counterweight to Chinese legions, though Co-op Bank to splash £500m on system revamp So is this where the next banking-IT disaster will hit - or where it won't? Channel News CMS Distribution swallows Interactive Ideas Storage and open source software firms tie the knot 5,000 job cuts later: Fujitsu boss says bloodletting's almost over ... for now Fujitsu Forum Now, go sell these lovely cloud and backup services Cloudy firm Coms Plc coughs £9.5m for Redstone Our three year restructuring is now complete Data Centre News Build a hybrid cloud and save 50% ... eventually OpenStack Summit Cloudscaling founder reckons OpenStack could save you £$¥s Want a support contract for GlassFish 4.0? Tough luck, says Oracle For Java EE it's now WebLogic or nothing Mind waiting for compute jobs? Boy, does the cloud have a price for you! LADIS 2013 Big boys to flog low-grade IT at a low, low price - and you know what that means Tech today: Popular kids, geeks, bitchfests... Welcome back to HIGH SCHOOL, nerds Sysadmin blog Don't be fooled. Following the herd STILL gets you nowhere Microsoft offers 'free' backup for Azure users with the cloud fear Redmond and EVault ink deal: Enterprise cloud contract gets you a year’s disaster recovery Cash-blackhole Twitter will shower itself in gold by 2015, investors told #Blabbergasm predicts yet more money to be sucked out of proper media. Yay! Excited students, $2,500, quivering racks and dreams of glory SCC 2013 Four student teams vie for Commodity Cluster Crown Microsoft's Windows Azure Plan B: A hard drive, a courier and a data-centre monkey Narrow pipes no obsticle to terabyte customers A use for the Internet of Things: ROBOCOP Neighbourhood Watch LADIS 2013 No people required here ... bring on the Rise of the Machines Inside OpenStack: Gifted, troubled project that wants to clobber Amazon OpenStack Summit Networks may be its achilles heel, but its devs are working on it The 10 most INHUMAN bosses you'll encounter: A Reg reader's guide A BOFH's guide to debugging the Anti-Managers from hell Amazon lashes Nvidia's GRID GPU to its cloud: But can it run Crysis? It'll certainly cost you top dollar at Jeff's Virtualization Palace From here to ETERNUS and beyond: Fujitsu refreshes array lines Says it has a million-IOPs MONSTER lurking in basement FLASH, AH-AAAH! Saviour of the universe Rackspace cloud? 1.2TB SSD army to storm Jeff's Virtualization Palace Ubuntu nails colours to the CloudFoundry mast with OpenStack PaaS OpenStack Summit Coup for Pivotal after Canonical tie-up Microsoft buys all electricity from Texas wind farm 110 megawatts heading to Redmond's green bank Western Digital 'fesses up to Mavericks data loss mess Cause of external drive SNAFU uncertain, apps pulled just in case Hardware News Google Nexus 5: So easy to fix, it's practically a DIY kit - except for ONE thing Teardown No custom screws or heavy glue in ad-giant's mobe Gigantic Apple MaxiPad spotted in China Thanks to Microsoft and Intel, it will be unleashed next March Secrets of Apple's mysterious Arizona sapphire factory: Our expert whispers all How Tim Cook aims to shuffle his mountains of money around 'Last EVER REAL Nokia' phone heads for Verizon, leaky pic-spurt reveals Leaked snaps show snazzy imaging phondleslab Struggling Acer pulls out Wang too late, then calls Wong number Who can help us? Shih's it! Ten top stories from Classic Doctor Who Doctor Who @ 50 The DVDs to watch to celebrate 50 years of Tardis travel OH what a LOVELY, well-rendered WAR: Yes, it’s 'Call of Duty: Ghosts' Roundup2 If you're the sort who'll like it, you're probably playing now Forget 'Call of Duty: Ghosts' - how does its rival from EA stack up? Review Decent, decent - but you'll want a new console or top-spec PC Networks News Sources: Azzurri coughs £1m to end O2 call centre spat Integrator 'failed to give nod that customers were leaving', claim insiders Email delivery: 4 steps to get more email to the inbox This whitepaper lists some steps and information that will give you the best opportunity to achieve an amazing sender reputation. 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Europe, let's team up for our own SPOOK CLUB EU justice commish says Europe needs to 'level the playing field' Late with your ransom payment? Never mind, CryptoLocker crooks will, er, give you a break Ransomware hoodlums let you settle your bill later... for a price Antivirus bods grilled: Do YOU turn a blind eye to government spyware? Analysis AS IF G-men would tell us about state-sponsored badness, scoff AV firms Big Beardie's watching: Alan Sugar robots spy on Tesco petrol queue Thought no one saw you buy entire cake, eat it in the car? Adobe users' purloined passwords were PATHETIC '123456' used as password by nearly TWO MILLION punters Bitcopocalypse! Top crypto-currency can be HIJACKED, warn boffins Selfish miners could derail Bitcoin's decentralized design, according to new study Software News Windows 8.1 KILLED MY MOUSE, cry upgraders Redmond rushes to clarify pointers after ratting out rodents How the W3C met its Waterloo at the Do Not Track vote showdown And why the silent majority could defeat the web's madmen XP, Win7, Win8, App V…making Microsoft migration simple Live demos Join us on Dec 4, 11am GMT Managing your business devices through System Center 2012 Training InTune and Configuration Manager step up Aussie bloke hacks way to top of music charts with MIDI-based tunes Oi, actual musos, you're doing it all wrong – security expert MIT boffins: Use software to fix errors made by decaying silicon Unreliable kit as a resource for devs, not a reason to reach for the screwdriver Science News Inventor whips lenscap off 3D-printed pinhole camera High tech meets seriously old school Bloodthirsty FLESH-EATING PLATYPUS once terrorised Australia Aboriginal tale says chimaera was result of non-consensual rat/duck tryst Watch out, MARTIANS: 1.3 tonne INDIAN ROBOT is on its way Blinged-out gold sat to show China how it's Yinghuo-done Can't stand the heat? 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