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Business News AWA calls in administrators End of road for Australian technology icon? Mt.Gox has VANISHED. So where have all the Bitcoins gone? Rumours swirl of buyout, 750,000 AWOL BTC... BlackBerry brings back call, end keys, touchpad to QWERTY cutie MWC 2014 Oh, all right then Microsoft shunts top exec Julie Larson-Green sideways to make way for Stephen Elop Shift up, Julie. You too, Steve. New CEO will be Satya soon... Java or .NET bod in the Midlands? Congrats - you've got a DOUBLE DIGIT payrise Even if you're not, it's looking good for Blighty's techies Channel News Distie giant Tech Data's profits collapse amid beancounter probe Wholesaling titan files delayed numbers for part of fiscal '14 Life after Insight for execs swept away by new broom Veeps Gatehouse and Bitoun land alternative roles in software channel Data Centre News Surveillance, that's a hot topic right now. We'll make some disk drives for that – WD, Seagate Big Brother is watching you ... in hi-def Microsoft joins the cloud-empire club with Japanese bit barns New Azure locations mean the sun never sets on Redmond's empire Piston coats OpenStack in secret Red Hat–killing sauce Third major OpenStack release follows snubbing by Linux giant Q: Just why are AT&T, banks snubbing kit from Cisco & co? A: Control Analysis We drill into what's causing seismic shifts in the networking world The SECOND COMING of Virtensys: HPC boffins turn PCIe into in-memory network Haven't we heard this one before? Toshiba new HG6 range REVEALS slimmest SSD module you can buy Tosh refreshes fifth-generation SSD line-up Hardware News First 'production-ready' EUV scanner laser-fries its guts at TSMC. Intel seeks alternative tech Analysis Finicky chip-etching tech of the future looking like it may always be just that Samsung and Apple BEWARE: Huawei is coming to eat your lunch MWC 2014 Cheap Chinese Landfill AndroidTM? HAH! You fool Imagination details mucho macho PowerVR GX6650 mobile GPU MWC 2014 Headed to the next-generation iPhone and iPad? DARPA wants help to counter counterfeits DIE, FAKE CHIP! Samsung parades new quad-core Galaxy S5, tries not to worry about the tech specs MWC 2014 Fitness, fashion, cases, that's what matters... right? Networks News Hey 4G bods: We need to make 'phonecalls' with our 'voices', too MWC 2014 And someone has to make it all work, natch Cable thieves hang up on BT, cause MAJOR outage There's gold in that there copper Say WHAT? Qualcomm, MediaTek scrap over who has best 'marketing gimmick' octocore MWC 2014 5-bladed razor's so stupi.. 'Introducing the Mach5Shavo' LG offers BRAIN-SAVING CANCER-BL... er 'good luck charms' MWC 2014 Quick, block those evil waves ... before they make your phone work LinkedIn censors self to launch in China We hate the laws but we'll agree to them. China needs us more than we need freedom A guide to transactional email With this guide, find out what you might be missing in your transactional emails. Download here > Policy News Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations stall again Secret trade treaty snags on IP and agriculture Apple, Symantec, other tech heavies challenge anti-gay legislation Companies demand veto of controversial bill EU delays vote on roaming, open internet after TRANSLATION fail Liberté, égalité, neutralité, er, du interwebs Google kills copycat TfL congestion charge payment ads Fake sites raked in cash from naive citizens Evil or benign? 'Trusted proxy' draft debate rages on Crypto is a minefield, but we always knew that Kim Dotcom extradition hearings delayed Megachap blames new conspiracy about Kiwi elections for legal layover Security News Aaah-CHOOO! Brit boffins say WiFi can 'sneeze' malware Vulnerable access points could spread viruses like that snuffly chapy next to you on the train Schneier: NSA snooping tactics will be copied by criminals in 3 to 5 years The good news? Strong crypto still works Update NOW: Apple finally fixes OS X 'goto fail' SSL spying bug Guys, Patch Tuesday is for Microsoft and Adobe, this should have been Patch Friday Microsoft: NSA snooping? Code backdoors? Our hands are clean! RSA 2014 Mass spying would be 'nuts', 'economic suicide' Make cyberwar a no-no equal to nukes, bio, and chemical attacks, says RSA headman RSA 2014 And while you're at it, Art Coviello suggests, break up the NSA iOS 7: Even if you don't jailbreak your iPhone, bugs STILL CREEP IN Oh, and that SSL bugfix last week? Old news, my boy Pony up: Botnet succesfully targets Bitcoin Password-lifting network converted to cryptocoin-thievery Software News Microsoft's Office 2013 Service Pack 1 slips out with fixes, features Oh yeah, and it fixes that little 'SkyDrive' problem, too Ford to dump Microsoft's 'aggravating' in-car tech for ... BlackBerry? Out with Windows Embedded, in with QNX, report claims Nokia: Devs, PLEASE DON'T make Nokiadroid apps look like WinPho MWC 2014 Finns: It's '75 per cent compatible' with actual Android SAP commits to mobile marriage with Xamarin: All for one, and one for Android, iOS, Windows You know what that smartphone needs? BUSINESS APPS! China's web giants unite to defuse Windows XP bombshell Tencent, Sogou, Kingsoft and others will provide support for local users Science News Caught on NASA cam: Sun spews huge solar flare at 4 MILLION MPH Pics & video Nothing to worry about, however – at least for a week or so SpaceX set to try HOVER LANDING for re-usable rockets on March ISS mission Landing legs fitted to Falcon-Dragon first stage Final LOHAN test flights codenamed 'Punch' and 'Judy' That's the way to do it - we sincerely hope 'G-WIZ like' object doing 61,00KM-PER-HOUR CRASHES on the MOON Vid Blast as bright as a star, from impact as heavy as a (very) reasonably priced car A guide to transactional email With this guide, find out what you might be missing in your transactional emails. Download here >

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