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Daily Headlines 25 February 2014

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Business News MtGox MELTDOWN: Quits Bitcoin Foundation board, deletes Twitter Second board member to resign in two months amid murky dealings Wanna change the world but need cash? Fret not: Billionaire Eric Schmidt has some spare change A million dollars up for grabs just in time for a book launch Sina rumoured to be prepping Weibo for $500m US-based IPO 闲谈gasm to reach Middle Kingdom by mid-2014 Ghostwriter: Assange™ is NARCISSISTIC and UNTRUTHFUL 'Thin-skinned' WikiLeaker torpedoed own multi-million-dollar book deal Pics: 'Bitcoin ATMs' spring up in the US Kiosks to fill digital wallets ... no cash withdrawals yet Yes! New company smartphones! ... But I don't WANT one Sysadmin Blog Since I don't have an iPhone with a worn out battery Channel News UK citizens to Microsoft: Oi. We WANT ODF as our doc standard Open source zealots beat down on OOXML as consultation continues Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse mull merger Will Currys owner smear its badness over CW? Data Centre News Prez Obama cyber-guru: Think your data is safe in an EU cloud? The NSA will raid your servers But US govt shouldn't be 'f**king' with crypto algorithms NetApp to appear in Australian TAFE, Uni courses Local academic attains NCDA certification IBM gobbles CIA-backed NoSQL database upstart Cloudant Big Blue furnishes cloud wing with NoSQL CouchDB system Mobile World Congress: It's not about the SHINY SHINY anymore Comment You don't put devices into containers... you put containers into devices Supercomputer maker Cray: Jobs for HPC kids? There might be some going HPC blog Cluster veep John Lee on SCC Future storage tech should KILL all-in-one solutions, says CEO DataCore boss waxes lyrical on software-defined storage Juniper, HP join the MWC NFV frenzy MWC 2014 Look who wants to add 'intelligence to the dumb network' Cloud Foundry laps up attention in EMC, IBM, HP, Rackspace, SAP, VMware love-in One PaaS to rule them all, one PaaS to bind them Netflix coughs up to cruise on Comcast 'Interconnection agreement' to provide 'high-quality video experience' Hardware News Wilocity uncloaks 4.6Gb/sec Wi-Fi for next year's smartphones MWC 2014 Low-power 'Sparrow' flies into Barcelona, renamed Wil6300 Sandisk breaks 128GB barrier with new $199 MICROSD card Silly amounts of storage on a fingernail-sized sliver Tizen devices are HERE ... and they're Samsung Gear 2 smartwatches MWC 2014 Tiz phones still a no-show in Barcelona Chipzilla just won't quit: Intel touts 64-bit Atoms for Android phones, tabs MWC 2014 No easy ride for Apple, ARM et al – and there's an 300Mbps LTE chip in the works Mozilla takes wraps off 25 DOLLAR Firefox OS smartphone MWC 2014 Predicts 'flood' of cheap mobes for emerging markets Cheap'n'cheerful Chinese mobesters ZTE launch Firefox phones MWC 2014 Billion-unit shipment hopes for Open C and Open II Nokia launches Euro ANDROID invasion, quips: 'Microsoft knew what they were buying' MWC 2014 Finnish moke maker pees its pants at X-series news Sony enlists Michael Jackson's GHOST to flog Xperia Z2 MWC 2014 Er, shamone!* Battle of Bletchley Park: TNMOC chief calls for review of museums' Mexican standoff Iraq dossier MI6 chief's 'Disneyland' plans blasted Networks News What's up with that WhatsApp $19bn price tag? Answer: Voice calls Now you can text and talk on your phone! RIP the mobile network business as we know it 1bn down, 6bn to go: Zuck to grow Facebook by touting 'free internet onramp' for the poor MWC 2014 WhatsApp was a bargain, NSA spying had benefits NBN Co tells iiNet told to use Broadcom chips in VDSL routers ISP also planning Zigbee-powered connected home router Stuff the delays! PM chuffed to have BT's superfast broadband in his constituency 'It's great', says David Cameron Mobe operators, need to check your network? There’s an app for that MWC 2014 Strap a phone-filled backpack on and go for an urban stroll Nokia launches Android range: X marks the growing low-cost spot MWC 2014 Burning its platform all over again? Policy News NHS England DIDN'T tell households about GP medical data grab plan 'Junk mail' leaflet not important enough for special attention, apparently Software News WhatsApp founder: Believe us, internet! 'Twas a DODGY network router WOT DONE IT Says soz for weekend outage Volvo tries to KILL SHOPPING with to-your-car Roam Delivery Swede's invention augurs demise of mall trawls Microsoft tries to re-invent GPS with cloudy offloads Research project ships location satellite data to Azure for processing Science News NHMRC: wind turbines still can't be fingered as killers NHMRC: wind turbines still can't be fingered as killers Moon flashes Earth after getting pounding from MASSIVE meteorite Video Largest impact yet recorded visible from our world Enterprising French chap cranks up €100k 'flying car' Pegasus unlikely to satisfy the 'where's my bloody voiture volante?' crowd Climate change will 'CAUSE huge increase in MURDER, ROBBERY and RAPE' Gee, Officer Krupke, the carbon was to blame MIT wants quasars to help put free will to rest Ringing the Bell on inequality Bootnotes News Rise of the Machines: Robot challenges top German player at ping-pong 'Agilus' bot's bold Boll ball biff bid

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