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Business News Cross-border kids used as Easter iPhone MULES in China HK schoolkids loaded up with handsets, sent back to Shenzhen Apple to make stock 'more accessible' with rare seven-way split The price of a single share will drop by almost 86% Zuck talks up mobile shift as Facebook money mill rolls on Social network will get new CFO as Ebersman departs Apple's strong iPhone sales crush Wall Street moneymen's tepid expectations Plans seven-for-one stock split, $130bn capital return ARM brushes off dip in mobile revenues with sunny forecast for coming year Chip designer sees market picking back up after Q4 drop Google adds a sense of history to Street View with archive footage Visual 'Wayback Machine' covers 2007 to the present Speaking in Tech: Yes, yes. Storage, VMs, all very important. But what about beating jet lag? Podcast Our trio talk travel tips, hypervisors and more TalkTalk's catch-up telly fib silenced by ad watchdog 'Misled' folk by exaggerating access to Beeb iPlayer, et al services Channel News KPMG: UK tech supplier takes on 'majority' of customers from titsup Glasshouse 49 out of 118 heads transfer to Bell Microsystems Who fancies a billion-quid bonanza? Just flog the Home Office some shiny walkie-talkies Actually, a tip-top comms network for our 999 heroes Data Centre News Amazon loads Docker app containerization into its cloud Virtualization's likely successor gets another boost IBM rides nightmarish hardware landscape on OpenPOWER Consortium raft Google mulls 'third-generation of warehouse-scale computing' on Big Blue's open chips Microsoft Azure adds global HUSH-HUSH connection routes with Equinix New 'ExpressRoute' connections in 16 Equinix bit barns across world EMC feels burn of declining demand for enterprise storage Sales edge up but profits collapse by a third for fiscal Q1 Pure Storage opens wide, VCs shovel in yet MORE millions of $$$ Nearly half a billion dollars of funding to date. But no IPO? New HDS array: It's a G1000 Jim, but not as we know it* 'Most reliable hardware on the planet' ... is not a BlackBerry lookalike mobe It's GOOD to get RAIN on your upgrade parade: Crucial M550 1TB SSD Review Performance tweaks and power savings – what's not to like? HP's top-end array just TOPPED ITSELF XP becomes XP7 Only a WEEK left to sign up: Meet the tech heavyweights at AWS Enterprise Summit 2014 Promo Live in London on 29 April My software-defined life: Boss of MCS-flasher Diablo chats to the Reg The flash DIMM software angle looks interesting Enterprise storage will die just like tape did, say chaps with graphs Wikibon prognosticates, says we're all doomed Last call: Getting Started with Microsoft Azure – TODAY at 9.30am Promo Spinning up Windows Server 2012 virtual machines in a one-hour webcast Hardware News Startup OnePlus reveals 'flagship killer' mobe with CyanogenMod on board But it's invites-only for now, and you might also need a hammer Sony Xperia Z2: 4K vid, great audio, waterproof ... Oh, and you can make a phone call Decent phone calls and signal quality ... what a FEATURE EE & Vodafone will let you BONK on the TUBE – with Boris' blessing Transport for London: You can pay, but don't touch Networks News Brazilian president signs internet civil rights law Marco Civil bill enshines 'net neutrality', 'privacy' as law Huawei exec: 'Word of mouth' will beat Apple and Samsung in Europe World Mobile Telephone Factory No.3 won't fling the big bucks around just yet Policy News FCC plans to kill off net neutrality with new pay-for-speed rules – report Financial fast track to replace level competitive playing field UK.gov chucks £28m at F1 tech for buses and diggers plan Well, not really F1 but who's heard of LMP and VLN*? EU: Let's cost financial traders $400m a day, because EVIL BANKERS. Right? Wait 'til this one hits your pension fund where it hurts Security News Cisco: you're all malware hosts Security report also notes skills shortage Whoops! 'Immune' Apple posts Heartbleed fixes for AirPort, Time Capsule Don't worry, everything else is still safe ... we think Apple splats 'new' SSL snooping bug in iOS, OS X - but it's no Heartbleed Triple-handshake flaw stalks Macs and iThings Sat comms kit riddled with backdoors for hackers – researcher Right, shipmate, identify yourself. LOL? What's your meaning? Think-tank to infosec: You're doing it wrong Cyber risks 'similar to 2008 crash' Japan airport staff dash to replace passcodes after security cock-up Haneda employee drops key codes ahead of Obama visit Cisco kicks off security kit/software/cloud combo Realtime protection, apparently Kill dodgy RNG says NIST But you already knew that, right? Science News Space station astronauts pop outside to replace crippled computer Speedy space walk by snorkel-equipped spacemen followed by trash day 95 floors in 43 SECONDS: Hitachi's new ultra-high-speed lift Guangzhou skyscraper denizens to hold on to hats Vulture 2 rocket motor heater a non-sizzling success LOHAN keeps things safely toasty at 28,000m So, just how do you say 'the mutt's nuts' in French? Vital linguistic question interrupts LOHAN spaceplane mission Bootnotes News Tooled-up Ryobi girl takes nine-inch grinder to Asus beach babe Pic Hands-on blonde shows how to sell hot kit Japanese boffin EYES up big bucks with strap-on digi-glasses Vid AgencyGlass saddles user with creepy OLED display

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