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Business News Yahoo! staff! slapped! for! 'snubbing! own! webmail! and! preferring! Outlook!' Three-quarters of workers stick with Microsoft's gear – leak Dell exec tells El Reg: Privatization has fired up 'world's largest startup' SC13 Freedom to pursue 'hunches' will make make the next few years 'a scream' Revealed: How Microsoft DNS went titsup globally on Xbox One launch day Exclusive A 'Group Policy Object' snafu brought Redmond to its knees Bad genes? US watchdog halts 23andMe's handy home DNA test kits FDA accuses biz of selling medical gear without a license Australia's Silicon Beach is a wipeout Vulture South ventures into startup-land, via Turnbull-land BlackBerry chief Chen swings the axe at mobe-maker's executives Top bosses sent packing, positions eliminated Beijing hits back at US: Don't you DARE blame China for collapse of duty-free IT talks Irate commerce minister: 'US is unwilling to make any concessions' Brits to do £5bn worth of their Christmas shopping online But they want to be able to collect their pressies from the high street Undercover BBC man exposes Amazon worker drone's daily 11-mile trek Various working practices amount to 'all the bad stuff at once' – head-shrinker How much should an ethical phone cost? An extra penny? Or $4bn Ending slavery in Africa needn't cost this much London: Hey Amazon, wanna slip your speedy packages down our tubes? Disused ticket offices up for rent as London Underground redundancies loom Data Centre News NSA-busting secure, open, router seeks cash and code from crowd Oz designers deliver TOR, IPSec and 1 Gbps box with locks SAP: Oh snap, where is everybody... Are we LATE for the cloud? Software sales 'ain't what they used to be Dude, relax – it's Just a Bunch Of Disks: Our man walks you through how JBODs work Sysadmin blog Trevor Pott puts AIC's DAS subsystem through its paces Flash stash on toppa platta: WD's tasty Black² 1TB combo for LAPTOPS Sort out your laptop like it's a PC, play Crysis, etc EMC's flashy XtremIO? I Xpect it will be great... in a few years Storagebod All-flash arrays will work wonders - when we all have all-flash storage environments Cisco untroubled by mega-clouds fleeing its proprietary ASIC grip Prison warden gets ready to sell powerful inmates skeleton keys Shares PLUNGE as Violin posts $34 MEELLION loss Sales growth less than loss growth... just two months after IPO EMC borgs VMAX and VNX: Arrays in a merger, no new storage bed VNXMAX and DPAD? It's all change at Hopkinton Hardware News Apple iWatch delayed, but 12.9-inch MaxiPad on track for mid-2014 Is Brobdingnagian fondleslab the long-rumored ARM-based MacBook? Xbox One FAILS to beat PS3 - yes, PS 3 - week one sales MS next-gen machine is Britain’s third fastest-selling console Hooters, shooters and looters: Eidos’s Tomb Raider Antique Code Show Thanks for the mammaries, Lara Croft SIM-free unlocked iPhones coming to a channel near you... Soz, we said NEAR YOU, Blighty... Only in France, Germany, Spain or Sweden Reg man inhales the smooth, non-cancerous, taste of USB nicotine Do e-cigarettes give you a dose of the vapours or a breath of fresh air? Networks News NBN day of action fizzles as just 20 show at Turnbull's office Slacktivism critics: you have your case study Mobile price competition stirs in Australia Vodafail over, competition resumes, says Goldman Sachs SP Ausnet picks Ericsson for 3G smart meter rollout Will they be able to handle the tinfoil hat brigade? Salesforce $1m hackathon win under scrutiny after brouhaha Hackers should play by the rules, it seems Facebook's Zuckerberg: US gov 'blew it' on mass surveillance By all means MINE THAT DATA, just tell us about it... bitch Leaked MS ad video parodies Chrome as surveillance tech Kettle, Kettle, come in, over. Kettle, kettle, do you copy, this is Pot, over 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. Download here > Policy News Scores of profs give hated US patent law an F minus, demand massive rewrite What's wrong with the rules? How long have you got... Four teachers indicted in Steubenville social media rape case School IT boss already fingered for evidence tampering Texting drivers: Look up! There's a cop in a huge SUV snooping on you Ah, the wonders of modern technology, eh? Haitian snapper humbles photo giants AFP, Getty Images in $1.2m copyright victory Your stuff is your stuff - even when it's on Twitter URGH! GPS, that's another delayed mess you've got us into - suppliers £1.2bn framework rush: Lights are on but no one's home Ignore the GIGANTIC assets write-off, Universal Credit IT 'is working' – UK.gov One-dole-to-rule-them-all trundles along to Inverness and Rugby Security News Rare AutoCAD malware rigs drafting machines for follow-up attacks The FASt can be furious, warn security pros NSA installed '50,000 malware sleeper cells' in world computer networks Government tools penetrated many a Brazilian, apparently We're making TOO MUCH CASH, say CryptoLocker scum in ransom price cut Bitcoin bubble prompts 'generous' cybercrooks to slash their demands Racing Post p0wned, accounts accessed and passwords pinched Hacker greets the judges with security down lame and headed for the knacker's yard Software News Indy devs to AOL: Save Winamp, or at least make it open source Petition aims to stay Nullsoft executioner's axe Google opens Mirror API: Now ANYONE can develop for gizmohead specs Though you may struggle to find any Glassholes to develop for Julie Larson-Green: Yes, MICROSOFT is going to KILL WINDOWS The question is: Which one? What's wrong with Britain's computer scientists? Opinion And why is it so hard for comp-sci grads to get jobs? Little devil: Electric Imp is an Internet of Things Wi-Fi PC-ON-AN-SD-CARD Review The card micro that makes connecting projects to the cloud easy Revealed: The BlackBerry wizardry that created its 'better Android than Android' Exclusive The ingenious hack that throws the company a lifeline Microsoft releases wonderfully loopy experimental GIF-jiggler Software detects motion and re-assembles vids into regions for 'temporal consistency' Science News SCRUBBED: SpaceX's brave satellite launch fails to get off the ground Next Clarke Orbit bid will have to wait until THANKSGIVING Our Sun menaces comet 'of the century' ISON with FIERY DESTRUCTION Could disintegrate, lose tail, meet Bruce Willis ... To the MONEY RING: Musk's SpaceX to attempt boldest mission yet Updated Geosynch debut takes upstart rocket biz into the real 'commercial space' Our TINY flying robot moves like a JELLYFISH, say NYU boffins If you like it then you should've put four wings on it – boffins SILENCE of the OWLS may mean real-life 'Whisper Mode' for Black Helicopters The order is: Engage the Silent Drive LOHAN buffs body for sizzling vinyl wrap Reg reader gets hands on with Vulture 2 artwork Boffins baffled after Sun fails to fry satellites Current sunspot cycle producing mere pimples Indonesia raises volcanic Defcon level as Mount Sinabung rumbles Updated: Dormant for centuries, now RAINING GRAVEL and gas on nearby villages Bootnotes News Apple guru Sir Jony's RED beer can PC raises $980k for AIDS fight Could've been in a museum, gushes Irish boyband frontman rock star Bono Tolkien 'almost became WWII code-breaker alongside Alan Turing' New biopic apparently not titled 'Not Another F**king Elf' 'Best known female architect' angrily defends gigantic vagina Muff comparisons 'nonsense', insists Zaha Hadid What turns Americans on? 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