The Reg: Apple snubs discounts, sprays Black Friday zombies with gift cards [Mon Dec 2 2013]

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Business News Amazon floats 'Prime Air' drone delivery plan Copies Australian and Chinese companies with odd aerial-atom-delivery experiment Wanted: A regulation friendly version of that thing that Dropbox does Readers' corner Help your fellow Reg reader with your recommendations Apple snubs discounts, sprays Black Friday zombies with gift cards Very limited response to orgy of consumerism Our irony meter exploded: Apple moans ebook price-fixing watchdog is too EXPENSIVE After all, charging too much is their job, right? Winner of Google's most wired Australian town award is...North Sydney? Vulture South's declining home gains Google gong US army bites the bullet in $50m software piracy pay-out Installed unlicensed software on thousands of devices Channel News Systemax's Euro tentacle set to buy ailing schools supplier RM Exclusive Software and services biz in frame as PC facility shuttered - sources Data Centre News Meet the cluster teams: High schoolers and even more Boston HPC Blog Skyline High and Bentley and NEU teams in cheap cluster clash Meet the cluster teams: Mass Chowdah and Tennessee Volunteers HPC blog First look at Boston and Tennessee teams BOFH: It's DANGEROUS to go alone. Take THIS Episode 13 It's FRY-DAY at Mission Central Black Box? LUN-fest? What does business centric storage really mean? Live Chat December 13 14:00 GMT Ask the experts, right here... Hardware News Vodafone Iceland Björked after Turkish hacker pinches passwords One in four citizens' details spaffed over interet I want to play with VMs. So where do I get started? Readers' corner Let's help this Reg reader fire up his home project El Reg Contraption Confessional No.1: The Dragon 32 micro Cache in the Attic Why do we keep old useless useable tech? Build your OWN Apple iBeacon with a Raspberry Pi Feature DIY Bluetooth LE zone tracking Shouldn't we have self calibrating Y-fronts and smart bog roll by now? Something for the Weekend, Sir? Sod ‘Things’, we’re getting the Internet of Furbys Asus Transformer Book T100: Xbox One? PS4? Nah, get a cute convertible for Christmas Review Skint and students alike all love a good 10-incher Dixons selling £68k gold, diamond, ruby and sapphire iPhone for Xmas Anyone? Anyone? Sold to the sinister oligarch at the back of the room REVEALED: How YOU PAY extra for iPHONES - even if you DON'T HAVE ONE Special Report Everyone is paying for unsold 5Cs right now Britain’s forgotten first home computer pioneer: John Miller-Kirkpatrick Archaeologic The electronics genius who nearly beat Clive Sinclair at his own game Schmidt: 'Android mobes are a great Christmas present to an iPhone user!' QuoTW Plus: 'Being banned from Xbox Live for saying cr*p and plonker is just stupid' Microsoft wields turkey knife, slices Surface to $199 for Black Friday Meanwhile in Blighty the cut is less deep but more hurtful Networks News Foxtel announces broadband, Australia yawns Triple-play coming to a waiting nation – next year Last 7m non-digital Brits are OUT OF LUCK: I'm OFF, says Baroness Fox My work here is done! That other work is not my work 4G networks are BIG TIME SUCK for us videogame-obsessed Brits Meanwhile, at the mall: have you ever caught yourself 'showrooming'? 5 ways to reduce advertising network latency Implementing the tactics laid out in this whitepaper can help reduce your overall advertising network latency. Download here > Policy News DON'T PANIC: No FM Death Date next month, minister confirms Stay of execution granted for much-loved audio tech Referee and two others charged in FA hacking probe Offside? UK.gov's web filtering mission creep: Now it plans to block 'extremist' websites Of course, it doesn't define what 'extremist' means here Google in Dutch: Privacy changes BREAK data law, says Netherlands Mountain View invited to hearing over privacy penetration and consent fail ENISA wants mobes to wander freely between carriers in emergencies If your network's crocked, another one picks up the load in the national interest Vietnam tightens noose on web freedoms with new decrees Fines galore for gaming past curfew and anti-government tweets Chinese iPhone thief returns SIM, contact list to rightful owner Crook with a conscience writes out 11 pages of contact details by HAND Security News Nexus phones carry SMS crash bug vuln You have 1 new message: You've been p0wned That toolbar you downloaded is malware? Tough, read the EULA CPU-and-bandwidth-munching Bitcoin miners buried in freeware Aussie boffins can detect orbiting SPACE JUNK using rock gods' radiation 'It's only rock and roll ... but I sight it' Blighty's top moneymen: Hackers are SLURPING CASH direct from banks Bank of England warns financial institutions to take cyber-crime threat seriously Fancy knocking off early? Just run our fake computer crash 'virus', say admen Bosses worldwide explode in rage at bogus bork campaign 'Neverquest' bank-robber 'ware throws the whole Trick Book at victims Carberp? ZeuS? Get into the fridge, grandad Software News Amazon Web Services opens can of whoop-AAS on as-a-service rivals Bigger than IBM, Salesforce, Microsoft and Google together. But as for its profits... Confessions of a porn site boss: How I got it up on the 'net NSFW Part 1: VHS tapes, dialup connections and sexy nekkid ladies... Science News India's Martian MOM leaves the nest Mangalyaan is bound for the red planet NASA pic: DOOMED ice Comet ISON literally had snowball's chance in hell Photo Close encounters of the burned kind 'Schrödinger's Comet' ISON LIVES (or DOESN'T) after Thanksgiving solar roast But soft, what light through yonder telescope breaks? Elon Musk scrubs lucrative MONEY RING debut again on Thanksgiving 'Better to be paranoid and wrong' Swollen Reg reader recounts FALSE WIDOW spider HORROR Four days on a drip following foot fang-sinking Bootnotes News The Shoreditch STARTUP SCENE is a load of TRIPE: And that's why it's GREAT ¡Bong! We want Chairman Flowers! UK parents to splurge £3 BEELLLIIIION on kids' tech gifts at Christmas In unrelated news, shares in payday loan firms skyrocket 5 ways to reduce advertising network latency Implementing the tactics laid out in this whitepaper can help reduce your overall advertising network latency. Download here >

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