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Business News We're Twitter news JUNKIES, admit nearly one in 10 Americans Facebookers not as young, educated, mobile, affluent IBM threatens pre-IPO Twitter with patent infringement bombshell Might Big Blue be a-hankerin' for some shares of the li'l blue birdie? Steve Wozniak: 'I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners' Fruity firm's co-founder dreams of unholy tech alliance Happiness-challenged BlackBerry dumps CEO, gives up on sale Last man to get top RIM job departs in a blaze of, well, not glory Twitter jacks up IPO price range as blabbergasm kicks in #theremustbeaprofitsomewhere #right? #RIGHT? Startups? Silicon Valley? SHELDONVILLE? It's the dotcom bubble again! Profits? Don't be so narrow-minded... Apple will FAIL in corporate land 'because IT managers hate iPads' HP exec plots biz slab assault as Windows 8 becomes 'more tolerable' Another 5 years on Nokia's patent CHAIN GANG for Samsung Actual amount goes to arbitration, however Verizon to Intel Media: Hey chip-fryer. Guess who can help you with OTT TV? 60 million antennas to eliminate a retransmission fee? We think NOT Data Centre News WTF is ... 802.15.4e? Very, very, low-power wireless to help sensors chat for a looong time HP: Our NonStop servers will be rock solid – even when running on x86 But until then, here are some more Itanium boxes Switzerland to set up 'Swiss cloud' free of NSA, GCHQ snooping (it hopes) Gnomes of Zurich want spook-immune system Readers! Here's your chance to join the Celebrity Pro-Am Cluster Challenge SCC'13 HPC pros take on students in cluster showdown Google lobs another €450m at cool Finnish data centre Super-efficient server farm to expand over the next few years Want a Microsoft cloud subscription? You'll need to be 'committed' Servers, tools and Azure discount offer (just don't mention the outages) Nuke-whisperers stuff terabytes of flash into heretical 'Catalyst' super Intel, Cray, and Lawrence Livermore rethink supercomputer design Yellow-bellied journo dons black tie, sees flip side of VMWorld Sysadmin blog Bish bash booth: Wrong event accreditation gives our man a glimpse into the future IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE! Google's secretive Omega tech just like LIVING thing Exclusive 'Biological' signals ripple through massive cluster management monster First HELIUM-FILLED hard drive: You can't keep this 6TB MONSTER down Low-friction 3.5-inch spinners are cooler, lighter and less power hungry It's all in the fabric for the data centre network At the beginniing of the SDN revolution, says Trevor Pott If you're not paying, you're product: If you ARE paying, it's no better Build your own cloud - 1 Host it yourself, it's the only way to be sure Cray scoops Brit switch maker staff and assets from administrator Mops up after Gnodal collapse CommVault contemplates analytics play Workflow tools to groom data for analysis apps under consideration BitTorrent awarded distributed storage patent Pirate favourite now RAIDing the cloud Hardware News This month's BlackBerry CEO vows: I won't axe the smartphone-making biz Can lightning strike twice for former Sybase head? Valve powers up its lean, mean STEAM MACHINE: See prototype console Pics They won't all look like this, but yes, it really does exist Amazon throws Kindle sale party over FAA mid-flight gadget ruling Fondleslabs get 15 per cent off to celebrate restriction lift Staying power: The small screen spans of the eleven Doctor Whos Doctor Who @ 50 Data visualisation: The total telly tenure of each title star iPad 4 is so, like, OVER. 5 times as many fanbois now using iPad Air - survey Weekend bonanza may give fruity firm its Xmas boost Digital deviants: The many MAD COMPUTERS of Doctor Who Doctor Who @ 50 Through space and time with the universe's worst IT Is it TRUE what they say about the 'Moto G'? We FIND OUT on the 13th Internet rumours conflict with each other - shocker Assange anounces candidacy for Oz election that may not happen Because it's worth trying again after you win 0.75% of the vote ... ioControl - hybrid storage performance leadership Tolly evaluates the performance of ioControl against conventional hybrid storage to find ioControl provided up to 700% better performance in block level access tests. Download here > Policy News Watchdog FCC gets new overlord ... so, how about that net neutrality, eh? Wheeler sworn in as director, names top staff, looks at todo list Blighty promises £49m to get more British yoof into engineering careers UK.gov chief boffin: 'Generous salaries' needed to find future grease monkeys Tim Cook stands firmly behind pro-LGBT, anti-discrimination law Apple boss: 'Matter of basic human dignity and civil rights' ICO on beefed-up EU privacy rules: Biz bods will need 'explicit consent' to slurp data Never mind what the prime minister said... Security News Quantum-classical crypto sends secret vote from Switzerland to Singapore Honest Bob, it doesn't matter if we can trust you Crack our 'military-grade' email encryption and we'll give you 5% of our firm Hungarian startup tries novel bug-testing system Sysadmins! Microsoft now offers $100k for tales of your horrible infections Software flaws wanted: DEAD or ALIVE The Schmidt hits the Man: NSA spying on Google servers? 'OUTRAGEOUS!' Collecting info on everyone ... isn't that the advertising giant's job? UK.gov BANS iPads from Cabinet over foreign eavesdropper fears Ministers told to leave mobes and slabs in lead-lined boxes That time when an NSA bloke's son borked the ENTIRE INTERNET... ... 25 years ago. 2 words that still stop old sysadmins' hearts: Morris Worm Cyber-terrorists? Pah! Superhero protesters were a bigger threat to London Olympics RSA Europe 2013 Seb Coe: Taxi drivers blocked from 2012-only lanes were also a bit testy Software News US soldiers preparing for civilian life taught coding skills by Microsoft They've battled the Taliban. Can they now survive Git? Apple scrambles to fix buggy Mavericks apps Updates seeded for Mail, iBooks, Safari, Remote Desktop client Last call for Microsoft TechDays Online Promo Free IT training for devs and pros, Nov 6-8 Google Street View goes INSIDE a Royal Navy submarine Chocolate Factory maps silent killer of the Cold War Linus Torvalds seeks REDEMPTION for every coded SIN Open source lord unveils Linux 3.12, floats idea of bug-fixes-only r4.0 Science News Japanese boffins unveil INVINCIBLE robot rock, paper, scissors 'bot PUNY HUMANS will NEVER FIST ME, chatters motion-sensor-equipped bag of bolts Half-blind Kepler now BRILLIANT for spotting black holes and big blasts Analysis Boffins beg NASA to fund continuing mission that will explore strange new worlds 'BILLIONS' of EARTH-LIKE possibly habitable ALIEN WORLDS in galaxy And one could be as close as 12 light-years, say Kepler boffins LOHAN's mighty thruster poised for hot coupling Rocket motor heater reports for duty 'Only NUCLEAR power can SAVE HUMANITY', say Global Warming high priests Schism within the environmental 'religion' Funds flung at 9-inch fan-built Raspberry Pi monitor High definition screen tin-rattling proves bounteously fruitful Keep your EYES on the SKIES, MARTIANS: INDIA is COMING with a probe Just $74m, 16 months from drawing board to launchpad Bootnotes News Facebook fans fuel FAGGOT FURY firestorm It's just a really offal mix up over British meatballs ... bitch ioControl - hybrid storage performance leadership Tolly evaluates the performance of ioControl against conventional hybrid storage to find ioControl provided up to 700% better performance in block level access tests. 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