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Business News Wikimedia wants forced disclosures of paid edits Saving you from lawsuits, not flaks from exposure Would you work for BlackBerry boss Chen? He says his biz has 50:50 chance of survival We'll find out in two years, former Sybase man says Steve Ballmer: Thanks to me, Microsoft screwed up a decade in phones Vid 'We didn't put hardware and software together soon enough' he tells uni kids Apple finance overlord Oppenheimer: I love Apple, but I gotta get this pilot licence. See ya IRS at least forced him to do some work on the plane Icahn and I will: Carl's war on eBay goes NUCLEAR over Skype World's most pushy investor sticks boot in over VoIP biz flog ROBOCOP statue, Minecraft film, revived Sinclair ZX Spectrum... Cool stuff crowd-funder Kickstarter cash tops 1 BEEELLION dollars Channel News Brit schools' supplier Tribune Business Systems RUBBED OUT Cash-raising plan to save London biz failed, '49 staff laid off' Ingram Micro veteran returns to... Ingram Micro Bhavesh Patel made 'European god of all things beautiful' Data Centre News 'Wait a minute!' puffs VMware as it trots after Amazon, Microsoft in US gov cloud grasp bid Virtzilla proclaims affection for FedRAMP certification Floating mutant, hidden profit: Nimble reveals first post-IPO results Chin up, hybrid storage firm... they're selling like hotcakes Violin Memory gets flash new marketeer... from EMC of all places From storage giant to post-IPO startup Grab a cloudy boss: VMware raids Amazon Web Services Shouldn't that have happened before it coughed vCloud Hybrid Service? Cloud buyers: Why it makes sense to think local Analysis One size of cloud does not fit all, says Trevor Pott New 4G router pitched at biz bods sick to death of titsup networks Um, when you say 'unlimited data plan...' Data Centre World: It's hard work cooling off those hot racks Show report Colo show unites mind and body Hey, Nimbus Data. What you doin' with those 4TB flash slabs? Making a 96TB box? We KNEW it! New Gemini X-series are pure solid-state hardness Dell storage vet Darren Thomas mosies into Micron Running its storage biz unit NEC takes control of its OpenFlow controllers ProgrammableFlow 5.1 to include uber-controller Hardware News Apple granted patent for two-faced iPhone with wraparound touchscreen First, reversible Lightning connector – next, reversible smartphone? X-rated Android antics: Motorola's Moto X puts boot in chunky brother Review G biz! Does X mark the spot? MWC: The good, the bad ... and the Galaxy S5 MWC 2014 Six things we learned at global mobile show Networks News Zuckerberg DRONES on again: Now Facebook mulls 'UAV biz' gobble Solar-powered birds at 65,000ft to blanket Africa with internet – new claim SYSTEM ERROR DOWN: Twitter twits silenced by hack attack 'false alarm' Social network apologises after security slip-up Plusnet goes titsup for spectacular hour-long wobble Broadband and telephone lines blighted by unspecified 'network issue' The rising threat of corporate cybercrime In this whitepaper learn how best to prevent cybercrime, remove malware and protect your endpoint. 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Triple-headed NHS privacy scare after hospital data reach marketers, Google 'Pseudonymised' data mapped, stored in Google BigQuery, sparking offshore data panic Chinese government builds its own 'ChinaSo' search engine Merger of failures will struggle to beat even Google's tiny middle kingdom market share Security News GNU security library GnuTLS fails on cert checks: patch now Many eyes missed bug for many years Bitcoin bank Flexcoin pulls plug after cyber-robbers nick $610,000 Your money is gone. Kthxbye Cyber battle apparently under way in Russia-Ukraine conflict Kiev security chief says 'IP-telephonic' attack is targeting Parliament Security researchers uncover three-year-old 'RUSSIAN SPYware' Claim Agent.BTZ-alike Uroburos could be state-backed China's mobile underground revealed in new report App rank boosting, to premium TXT abuse and much, much more at very reasonable prices MtGox: Yup, we're pretty sure your Bitcoin were stolen. Sorry about that. Call centre is still not answering the phone Chicago cabs embroiled in debit-card breach claim mystery as bank tells folks: Pay by cash Customers bitten after paying by plastic, First American says Team Cymru spots 300,000 compromised SOHO gateways Researchers spot attackers 'pharming' traffic with dodgy DNS Software News Murdoch dumps Microsoft, prepares to Hangout with Google News Corp Australia drops Outlook, brings in Gmail and Gcalendar Bootnotes News Relief when urine trouble becomes latest capacity-sharing service Airpnp lets loose with bathrooms-as-a-service ahead of New Orleans Mardi Gras Ever get the impression a telesales op was being held prisoner? Hard cell: Just got to shift two hundred more toner cartridges and I'm FREE The rising threat of corporate cybercrime In this whitepaper learn how best to prevent cybercrime, remove malware and protect your endpoint. Download here >

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