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Business News Bye-Zynga: online games maker laying off 314 staff Cost-cutting measure comes amid $527m acquisition Amazon reports rare profit and is punished by Wall Street Moneymen scalp Bezos's firm for successfully piloting flying pigs Google's ad-slinging juggernaut gobbles more BEEELLIONS in revenue Updated With no more Motorola to drag it down, sky's the limit for clicks and banners Ericsson CEO rules himself out of the race for Microsoft top job Insider Satya Nadella now front runner for Redmond chalice Yes, Google can afford to lose $9bn in Motorola biz sale. But DID it? Comment Choc Fac should max tax axe crack in Lenovo sale whack Intel to shutter AppUp app store Intel had an app store? Who knew? That's probably why it is closing! Data Centre News Amazon mints a BILLION BUCKS from its cannibal cloud Bezos & Co tower over competition in Q4 results Symantec: WA-HEY... profits. But security firm's sales won't budge Salesforce and channel reorg pays off Storage overlord EMC announces growth, plans to slash 1,000 jobs Layoffs 'driven by new architectures based on cloud, flash, white-box solutions' Has Cisco made a $415 MILLION mistake with the Whiptail buyout? Blocks and Files Impulse buy could turn sour from unexpected consequences Violin investor: Broken-stringed firm has had FIVE buyout offers Report: Sez bolshy investor pushing for sale Speaking in Tech: We hope your VDI job doesn't suck so bad you want to quit every day Podcast Trio wrap their brains around world of virtualisation Lenovo and IBM's System x biz: It'll be just like 2005's PC buyout Analysis Successes? Oh, we've had a few... Big Data? Yeah, nice buzzword. Give us the nuts and bolts this time Our Vulture flutters into Amsterdam conference, finds it refreshingly calm EMC puts on an 'appy face to box Box, Dropbox Syncplicity apps upgrade also offers Android, iOS back door for Microsoft Office Oracle releases 'lite' virtual Big Data appliance Write an app on your workstation, deploy straight to appliance Hardware News Fujitsu: PC market... doomed? LOLZ. NOT FOR US, pal I'm sorry, were you having trouble shifting those boxes? Google Glassholes, GET OFF our ROADS, thunder lawmakers in seven US states Bills ask citizens to REMOVE wearables when driving It's big, it's expensive and it's an audiophile's dream: The Sonos Sub Networked wireless subwoofer wows our man, sets him all a-flutter HARD ONES: Three new PC games that are BLOODY DIFFICULT Game Theory It's stiff business, dealing with hairy axemen and giant spiders Boffins demo re-usable paper and waterjet printers Most of what you print gets tossed so why not use the paper again? Networks News Sprint to buy T-Mobile US? Not so fast, says antitrust official Merger would earn 'a very hard look,' Justice man warns FCC says US telcos can start moving to IP-based calling, but in baby steps Old-school phone networks not disappearing just yet Nominet goes titsup after update to WHOIS tool Coincidence? Outfit blames 'manual change to firewall setting'. Oops BSkyB sees first half pre-tax profit tumble as sales climb Now has 5.1m broadband subscribers on its books after O2 merger 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 US government names new head of NSA and US Cyber Command Vice Admiral Michael Rogers reporting for duty Cameron: UK public is fine with domestic spying Privacy? Meh. PM thinks the man on the street is past all that Arise, iDame: Incoming Apple retail boss Angela Ahrendts set for honorary award Businesswoman prepares to swap out one mac for another Troll-hunting cases SPIKED in 2012... but remain high Beware, commentards! Overall, prosecutions in fact on the up UK picks Open Document Format for all government files Minister Francis Maude wants to break 'oligopoly' of software suppliers Security News Yahoo!: change! your! Mail! password! now! Company warns of breach targeting users Multi-platform Java bot marshals ZOMBIE FORCE against spammers Windows, Mac, Linux users - it wants your BRAAINS Security 101 fail: 3G/4G modems expose control panels to hackers Embedded kit depressingly riddled with cross-site request forgery vulns, says researcher Give hackers your data, says former RSA man Just don't make it real data: feeding them fakes should see them off Software News Facebook unwraps Paper, a content-hoover application Ad-slinger cranks out new content management system for social network denizens Ditch IE7 and we'll give you a FREE COMPUTER, says incautious US firm Cheaper than supporting Microsoft's 7-year-old browser Science News ISS astronauts to grow tomatoes and rice …. IN SPAAAAACE Plutonian peas and cosmic capsicum already proven safe for human consumption Boffins build electronic tongue that can distinguish between BEERS Not American boffins, obviously Gene boffins: Yes, you. Staring at the screen. You're a NEANDERTHAL Well parts of some of you, anyway (mostly genomic markers of hair, skin) Japanese quantum boffins 'may have the key to TELEPORTATION' Energy-moving experiment 'cheats' quantum theory with startlingly lateral idea Bootnotes News Language-mangling Germans fling open Handygate to selfie-snapping whistleblowers Nixon-inspired suffix crowned 'Anglicism of the Year' 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 >

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