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Business News Management tools lead VMware through $5bn annual revenue barrier Virtzilla predicts faster revenue growth for next two years Good news! Today is Data Privacy Day ... Stop sniggering at the back +Comment Tech firms ask for FTC, new laws to end data-protection woes Here they come: Dot-word warehouse Donuts to launch new top-level domains this week Vanity domains for cyclists and plumbers among first seven Seagate plods along steadily despite promise of Xyratex buyout Revenues rise, revenues fall, they rise again. C'est la vie Elderly Bletchley Park volunteer sacked for showing Colossus exhibit to visitors Heartless managers give guide the boot - TV news crew film all Foxconn mulls US expansion as States compete for business China's getting too pricey for Taiwanese tat assembly titan Channel News You shall not IT PASS! UK gov fishes tech catalogue out of bin as replacement stalls Cabinet Office extends CITHS, suppliers claim Son of Stan made president of Acer's cloud and notebook biz Down-on-its-luck Acer needs a Maverick, and already has one in the family Data Centre News Reg snaps moment when Facebook turned air Blu: 1PB box for unloved pics Picture What the *&^%! 10,000 discs to store stuff no one wants to see again? Home-grown server kit saves Facebook 'a BEELLION dollars' Open hardware + open software + data centers = immense savings Toshiba twirls its HAMR, ponders whether to smash spinning rust Watch out for Seagate's shinglers, boys Dell taps Sons of Cisco for networking Manhattan project Cumulus Networks deal sees Private Dell split network software from hardware Aer Lingus opts for Tegile arrays, snubs EMC in shock move 'Costly and inefficient' EMC gear prompted shift to upstart Hardware News BlackBerry makes its devilish Android trickery official in latest release You can now pinch-to-zoom. Welcome to 2008, folks Do you wear specs? Google Glass offers YOU amazing live HD video 'Puter-goggs get prescription lenses – so your eyes can experience real-world graphics Android holds steady as iOS and Windows Phone slip in Kantar reports Europe only stable market for Microsoft and Nokia Smartmobe market tops ONE BEEELION a year for first time You can guess the top two manufacturers, but the next three may surprise Networks News Mobe industry quails as Ofcom floats idea of QUADRUPLING 2G spectrum prices Unilateral price increase? B-b-but we have a contract... Radio boffins remember the future-ture-ture: From the Cold War to (White) SPAAAAACE Phwoarrrrr... Look at the valves on that... Key Considerations for your Platform as a Service Strategy PaaS Executive Checklist: PaaS offers many benefits and choosing the right PaaS is key to getting those benefits, so make sure you have considered everything. Download here > Policy News Accused fraudster Charles Shrem quits Bitcoin Foundation board 'Prolonged legal dispute' just wouldn't look good GP surgeries MUST DO BETTER on data handling, says ICO Watchdog warning comes as NHS prepares to unlock medical records Security News Cisco sends TrustSec offspring to IETF dating site Borg logic: If you can't beat 'em, bait 'em Facebook app now reads your smartphone's text messages? THE TRUTH Blame Android, says social network Bonk to enter: Starwood Hotels testing keyless check-in via mobe Smartphone app is your virtual door key in limited trial Tech giants CAN disclose US spooks' data demands - but with heavy restrictions Related: Apple received just 250 data requests in 2013 Android VPN redirect vuln now spotted lurking in Kitkat 4.4 Now may be a good time to check this out, says securo-bod Cops cuff alleged email hackers in GLOBAL bust Password pinching thieves ran sites in India, China, Romania and US Sony on the ropes after Moody's downgrade to junk Mini-revival isn't enough for influential credit ratings biz Got a TorMail account to avoid Uncle Sam's web snoops? About that... FBI claims to have cloned mail server and inboxes last year Site News Vulture South throws open doors of Australian forum Come on in, antipodean commentards, the water's fine Software News NatWest 'spam' email cockup got me slapped with late payment fee, says angry Reg reader SPF update fail junks critical bank communications Stephen Fry rewrites computer history again: This time it's serious Que, QI host? WHAT DO YOU MEAN Kildall was 'cracked'? IBM reveals radical email interface rethink Touch-enabled, in-browser, multi-platform email coming later in 2014 Science News WORLDWIDE SELFIE: Cosmonauts finally get ISS cameras working Gaze upon the whole Earth in standard def or HD, via the International Space Station Behold the world's first full-colour 3D printer Stratasys beast mixes materials and hues, for a modest £200k Tunguska object came from Mars say Russian boffins Curiosity rover's data about Red Planet's rocks compared to Tunguska fragments Teeny, tiny state machine could BREATHE NEW LIFE into Moore's Law 'Densest system ever' US, Japan prep new rainfall sat for launch GPM observatory set to fly late Feb Bootnotes News Google patents ROBO-TAXIS to ferry punters into advertiser's shops, restaurants, etc for free In Soviet Google, advertisers DRIVE YOU Key Considerations for your Platform as a Service Strategy PaaS Executive Checklist: PaaS offers many benefits and choosing the right PaaS is key to getting those benefits, so make sure you have considered everything. 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