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Business News Kim Dotcom extradition: Feds can keep evidence against Megaupload mastermind a surprise New Zealand Supreme Court rules ahead of hearing in July Airbnb might get $10bn price tag ... despite its legal woes Online bed-surfing service raising a reported $400m from private equity firms Sync'n'sharers Box snaffle Cisco's Warrior CTO .... IPO time? You won't get far on the public markets without a fighter Channel News Capita IT Services slurps up small security biz London-based reseller & 46 staff assimiliated in buyout HDS: channel STILL 60-65% of UK biz, says local COO It's all about annuity services but 'we hadn't put a plan together for partners' Microsoft exec: I don't know HOW our market share sunk Just 22% of intelligent devices run Windows, 'can't put adjectives behind the why' Barclays' DOUBLE DIGIT contractor rate cut? Not for us, say PPI bods Techies working on 'critical' projects spared 10% hackfest Data Centre News Cleversafe tweaks dsNet, broadens ClevOS support Let us penetrate your data centre Calling all games developers to a Cloud Gaming Summit Promo Free conference in London 26-27 March BOFH: On the PFY's Scottish estate, no one can hear you scream... Episode 3 If a tree falls in a forest, and Simon's behind you with an axe... Gartner gurus: Storage array market GREW at the end of 2013 Don't forget that came after an abysmal third quarter It's storage's HOLY GRAIL: VSANs, PSANs and virtual silos Blocks and Files Servers just gotta play nice with networked storage Bono bests Bezos in Fortune's 'World's 50 Greatest Leaders' list That Apple CEO? #33. The US president and UK prime minister? M.I.A. Hardware News IBM PCjr STRIPPED BARE: We tear down the machine Big Blue would rather you forgot Pics 30th anniversary voyage of the 8088-powered 'Peanut' Restless PC biz Lenovo blows $100m to gobble 2,500 mobe tech patents What else can we do besides laptops and desktops, mulls Chinese goliath 'We're not Glassholes, we swear!' Top 10 Google GLASS 'MYTHS' Analysis El Reg debunks web kingpin's debunking exercise Reg tries out Google's Chromecast: Yep, we even tested smut sites Review For 30 quid, you might as well... Oculus Rift? Tchah, try 'Oculus Thrift' ... You bet your vrAse we tested these bargain VR specs Pics That and more trendy wearable tech in London Networks News AT&T and Netflix get into very public spat over net neutrality Build us the pipes to do the job! Only if you pay for it EU regulators quiz mobe industry over Hong Kong group's new bid Hutchison Whampoa tweaks offer to slurp $1bn O2 Ireland ISPs failing 13m Brits on broadband speed, claims consumer group Which? finds poor customer service and plodding networks BLUE BIRD DOWN: Turkey wipes out Twitter 'scourge' Erdogan not happy with 'smear campaign' 5 things you didn.t know about cloud backup IT departments are embracing cloud backup, but there.s a lot you need to know before choosing a service provider. Learn all the critical things you need to know. Download here > Policy News Queensland cops collar League of Legends 'hacker' 21-year-old 'sold player data' White House may ditch BlackBerry, adopt LG or Samsung, ignore Apple Updated More bad news for struggling Canuckphone as high-profile customer looks elsewhere UK.gov! frets! over! Yahoo! exodus! to! RIPA-free! Dublin! Theresa May warns Purple One of security worry 5 Eyes in the Sky: The TRUTH about Flight MH370 and SPOOKSATS Comment Just when you thought you were alone in the bath... 'It is disappointing that the government secretly did this stuff' Quotw Plus: 'DeepMind discovered cats on its own' Telstra, not Turnbull, at fault in Twitfight Caveat emptor applies to broadband so Turnbull was rude but right The Reg's guide to cursing in Mongolian NSFW Roger Mellie appears to have penned Ulan Bator's list of banned search terms Microsoft alters Hotmail policy amid blogger inbox probe outcry Outside legal eagles to OK any future searches of users' private email accounts Security News Interview: Cisco's security supremo on the Internet of Everything El Reg asks Chris Young how we can stop the IoT becoming a $19 TREELLLION honeypot Boffins working on debris float models to track MH370 wreckage Ten planes to continue search after sightings of debris and 'wooden pallet' US saves self from Huawei spying by spying on Huawei spying Snowdenistas say NSA hacked Chinese company, accessed source code Android update process gives malware a leg-up to evil: Indiana U Old apps get access to privileges that didn't exist when they were written Microsoft charges the FBI $50 for a copy of your private data, claim 'Redmond hackers' 'Syrian' hacktivists loot tech giant's servers, it's alleged ZOMBIE iPAD PERIL? Cyberbadness slinger touts tool for iOS Skype worms, Bitcoin slurping and more – yours for just £2k. Too good to be true? They want me to install CCTV to see what YOU did in the TOILET Something For The Weekend, Sir? Anti-social social media - it's for winners ICO decides against probe of Santander email spam scammers Not enough 'evidence' ... while readers insist unique-to-bank addresses used MtGox finds 200,000 Bitcoin in old wallets Upside for creditors is prospect for refunds, downside is MtGox was clearly very disorganised NSA 'hunted sysadmins' to find CAT PHOTOS, high-level passwords Latest Snowden docs detail sniffing sysadmin activity to help attacks on carriers' routers India's outsourcers look east with eyes on Asian tigers China, Japan and South Korea could be next for Nasscom Software News Goggle flu-finding service diagnosed with 'big data hubris' Bad data contagion overwhelms prediction service This changes everything: Microsoft slips WinXP holdouts $100 to buy new Windows 8 PCs Buy 'em out, boys Facebook hacks out PHP alternative 'Hack' language brings best bits of other languages to LAMP-land Science News EXPOSED: bizarre quantum sibling LOVE TRIANGLE Bob and Alice get jiggy with Charlie while Randy plays voyeur Rise of the LIVING CHAIRS: MIT boffins turn E coli into futuristic material factory A tweak here, a gene there, add a pinch of gold and POW! Tornado-chasing stealth Batmobile set to invade killer vortices The Iowa Storm Chasing Network's 'Dorothy' seeks twisters, data, and adrenaline Bootnotes News Cops bang up squiffy, nude Virginian minx Rolled up at joint naked and demanding to see husband, police claim Vote now for the top reader Limerick limerick Poll Poets wax lyrical over Irish plod biro outrage Every little helps: Dirty MOLE BANDITS clean out Tesco ATM from BELOW Cops seek underhanded blaggers, 'possibly covered with soil' 5 things you didn.t know about cloud backup IT departments are embracing cloud backup, but there.s a lot you need to know before choosing a service provider. Learn all the critical things you need to know. Download here >

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