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Daily Headlines 13 May 2014

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Business News WWI historical project will catalog eight million life stories Museum asks for help in building massive memorial database Yee-haw! Rackspace shares soar on – gasp – healthy results New CEO? No problem! Except for slowing cloud growth, that is... $180,000 buys you lunch with Tim Cook as charity auction ending Current bid for coffee with AOL's Tim Armstrong is $0 Samsung shares in stable condition after supremo's heart attack Don't panic, business as usual at the office, electronics goliath insists Microsoft TechEd 2014 keynote, Q&A liveblog: What went down in TX Houston – we have a blog in. Our man on the spot with latest from the dev shindig LA air traffic meltdown: System simply 'RAN OUT OF MEMORY' Maybe a reboot will fix it. Maybe a reboot will fix it. Maybe a reboot will fix it. Ma- Ex-Sony, Pearson chiefs tipped to oversee BBC. So that's all good, then But who'd want a job where you can't do anything? Silicon Valley bod in no-hire pact lawsuit urges court to REJECT his OWN lawyers' settlement $300m is just not enough in techies v tech giants pay storm BSkyB eyes up Uncle Rupert's telly channels in Germany and Italy Brit broadcaster sits down with media mogul Murdoch to plot Euro, nay, world invasion Birmingham's Computer Bookshops Ltd goes titsup Dead tree downturn does for venerable technical bookseller Mozilla axes HATED ads-in-Firefox tab ... but they won't stay dead for long 'That's not who we are', veep says as sponsored content plan remains in place Channel News Former Tech Data UK beancounters may face rubber-glove treatment Finances watchdog could strike off pros following $27m blunder HP crowns networking boss Ansell as king of enterprise channel Former royalty Matthews moving into new role, yet to be confirmed SCC: Blighty biz cracked open wallets in 2014, and not JUST for Windows XPocalypse End-of-support lifts reseller's numbers, services do well too Order and shipping woes to hit Juniper in early summer, warns distie Networking vendor's move to new SAP system 'WILL impact lead times' Acer pair charged with insider trading for '$72k pre-results stock dump' Cashed in right before Q3 slump, alleges rap sheet Dixons tells HQ workers: Yes, that IS a creaky trapdoor you hear. You're at risk of redundo Carphone Warehouse merger looms but cuts 'not related' Data Centre News Nvidia upgrades PGI 2014 accelerator compile suite OpenACC C++ support advances the cause of GPU-based supercomputers Rackspace: OpenStack is the 'Rebel Alliance' in fight for future of cloud OpenStack Summit 2014 Who will run your enterprise IT? The military or guerrillas? OpenStack Foundation thunks down cloud buyers guide "OpenStack Marketplace" is a big brochure of open source cloud tech Oi, EMC. Where's that VMAX release that world+dog's waiting for? Storagebod Exit, pursued by a bear mythical Big Iron Microsoft gins up admin-soothing Azure file vault Wanna link many VMs to one storage pool? Now you can. Monday's looking up, eh? Eh? Google: Mmm. Tab-free Gmail desktop client? We won't DENY it Won't comment on rumour after 'leaked' screenshots surface Is Trevor Pott-y? Nope – he's bang on about VSAN performance Storagebod Big Iron? Pah. Bare metal's nearer the mark Web devs! Build your cloud skills with free Microsoft webinar Promo .NET, PHP, Java, NodeJS, Python, Windows, Android, iOS Storwize embiggened: Nearly 4PB of raw capacity, croons IBM's Barry Whyte SAN Volume Controller gets a boost as well Hardware News Archos ArcBook: An Android netbook for a measly hundred-and-seventy clams Productivity software, Wi-Fi, audio and video – what else do you need besides the cloud? LG teases 'G Watch' wristable, releases new tablet trio Another entry into the 'product searching for a reason to exist' smartwatch category BEAK DRONE: 1080p HD Wi-Fi quad-copter by Parrot takes to skies Vid Forget Peak Drone, this is the ultimate SELFIE util What the frag? Earn millions as the world watches you SLAY rivals Review Well, in theory ... Elgato vs Hauppauge gaming video capture kit deathmatch Archive.org web trove hits FOUR HUNDRED BEEEELLION pages Wayback machine even shows how El Reg looked as a young vulture in the summer of '97 Networks News GM reveals how much you'll pay to turn your car into a rolling 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot Anesthetize your quarreling nippers with digital distractions Apple poaches Nokia photo guru Ari Partinen from Microsoft El Reg deciphers cam bod's cryptic-ish tweet Policy News CONFIRMED: NBN Co has NO blackspot fix plan Won't even work on it until the new Corporate Plan drops, subject to review FCC chairman to rethink controversial net neutrality proposals Chairman pulls back plan as criticism mounts Privacy bods win court battle: UK HMRC must 'reconsider' silence over FinSpy spyware probe Is taxman looking into snoop-soft sales? Maybe we'll find out Mae Microsoft yn addysgu Swyddfa, Bing, siarad Cymraeg* *Microsoft teaches Office, Bing, to speak Welsh Security News Supposedly secure Dogecoin service Dogevault goes offline Much worry. So familiar. Such losses Spotty solar power management platform could crash the grid Flaky firmware makes power panels p0wnage possible GE patches gap in infosec capabilities with Wurldtech buy SCADA bug-hunter slurped to secure the 'Industrial Internet' Site News Reg hack scores coveted journalism prism Vulture South comes up trumps at Australian IT Journalism awards Software News NO, Microsoft hasn't given up on .Net, and YES it's all about cloud TechEd 2014 .Net vNext, ASP.Net vNext want to be cloud's 'first framework' Microsoft enlists Apache to help Windows devs build hybrid mobile apps TechEd 2014 Cordova tools for Visual Studio can target Android, iOS Twitter muffles loudmouth users with mute option New feature hides troublesome tweeters from timeline Microsoft blinks, extends Windows 8.1 Update deadline for consumers Another 30-day reprieve before the patch cutoff axe falls Doing more for less with your Oracle database Workshop Some suggestions for tightening up both your data and funds Science News Malarial vaccine firm seeks crowdfunding for robo-saliva surgeon Publicly funded machine could quash mankind's deadliest killer Scientists warn of four-foot sea level rise as West Antarctic glaciers melt Collapse of ice sheets is 'unstoppable,' boffins claim We're from the SAME DUST CLOUD, BRO: Boffins find Sun's long-lost sibling Separated at birth

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