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Daily Headlines 12 May 2014

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Business News Qualcomm puts $US300M price on Wilocity's head Getting ready to slurp WiGig chipmaker and bring 7 Gbps wireless to mobile devices Samsung Electronics chair Lee Kun-hee hospitalised Dynastic intrigues follow heart attack for leader of Samsung's biggest division WTF is NET NEUTRALITY, anyway? And how can we make everything better? Special Report Ignore those beardies - here are the facts Winklevoss twins eye up NASDAQ: Publicly traded Bitcoin fund... what could go wrong? Filing comes 2 days after SEC warns on virtual currency Skype co-founder's VC firm sues ex-staffer and consultant Lawsuit alleges pair diverted cash for own fund Netflix FREEZES prices for existing UK users to stop them quitting vid-streaming service Hikes monthly subscription for newbies, though UK's pirate-nagging VCAP scheme WON'T have penalties – report Can you please stop. No? OK then, we'll have to send you another letter Suffering from IPO interruptus? Perhaps your Box is full of the same soap as the others Oh god, my stuff has become a horrible COMMODITY 'We don't think of antivirus as a money maker in any way' Quotw Plus: 'Should it be called Star Wars Episode 6 1/2: The Smell of Fear...?' Apple pulls iPhone 4 from sale in India after just four months Report suggests retailers understand the method in the seeming madness Channel News Weakened Apple slab grab sees Q1 growth slump to RECORD LOW But guess what? Cook's lot is STILL on top of the market Data Centre News Australia to build 35,000-core supercomputer Cray-CHING! Pawsey centre to build on Intel's forthcoming Xeon E5-2600 v3 Powershell terminal sucks. Is there a better choice? Readers' corner Scripting guys please help your fellow reader Beached whale Symantec watches revenues recede 7% Cost-cutting alone won't haul it into healthy growth waters Psst, keep this under your hat, but NetApp's new flash wunderkind will be unveiled on... Clue: There'll be time for a Vegas blow-out to celebrate Webcast: How to build an open cloud Saying no to silos Quantum dedupe sales droop: But you can't say it didn't TRY DXi grew but it also fell... 'how does that math work'? Life in the FAS lane: We reveal NetApp's four new flash-disk arrays Exclusive Separate mid-range FAS3000 on way out, FAS8080EX due in June Quick Q: How many FLOPPIES do I need for 16 MILLION image files? Something for the Weekend, Sir? Don’t fret, I might still have a Zip disk knocking about Licensing changes mean Redmond's IoT plan brings cheap VDI Hated VDA charge doesn't apply to thin clients running Windows Embedded Hardware News Nintendo says sorry, but there will be NO gay marriage in Tomodachi Life ... EVER Claims patching it would be impossible (this time) Apple poaches Nokia photo guru Ari Partinen from Microsoft Expect the next iThingie to be a much sharper snapper Networks News Cortana, remind me to patch Windows, IE, and Adobe gear next Tues Well, Microsoft's answer to Siri has got to be good for something Hey, operators... 'member our edge-of-SPAAACE interwebs balloons? Help! - Google That whole licensing international spectrum thing ... er, not so much Ericsson puts 5G towel on Japanese deck-chair Standards? Everyone has some... Policy News Oracle vs Google redux: Appeals court says APIs CAN TOO be copyrighted Back to court to decide fair use issue in Android IP spat California lawmakers greenlight mobile killswitch bill Senate approves bill to mandate remote wipe measures UN to debate killer drone ethics Can Skynet withstand the slow, grinding fury of a COMMITTEE? Security News Hey, does your Smart TV have a mic? Enjoy your surveillance, bro Little reminder: Your shiny new telly is a computer, it can run malware Point DNS blitzed by mystery DDoS assault DNS flood washes over company servers Don't fret over SOHO routers and Heartbleed. But yeah, there's LOADS to fear on home kit If OpenSSL bug doesn't get you ... SOMETHING ELSE might Moshtix admin account popped by party-pooper hipster-hating hacker 422 big spenders thought huge $1,000 festival fees were par for the course Oh aye, a mobe grumble-flick player? No – it's a 'droid ransomware nasty Yet another trojan targets pr0n-viewers with false data scrambling threat Silly sysadmins ADDING Heartbleed to servers 'Heartbroken' admins add to problem of myriad unpatched boxen Software News Facebook pulls plug on Poke, cancels Camera Mobile apps culled in latest cutbacks Goodbye HANA daddy, assorted cloud bods: SAP gets corporate Analysis Time to make some money on this thing London cabbies to offer EVEN WORSE service in protest against Uber This ain't a bubble barf, mate ... Hackneyed taxi drivers want app BANNED OR ELSE Science News Get BENT: flexy supercapacitor breaks records Carbon nanofibre comparable with lithium batteries Boffins say hot air makes Antarctica COLDER Wind vortex shrouds southern continent in its own frigid zone as Australia dries out Earthly astronomers catch best-ever image of MASSIVE solar flare Pics and video Five telescopes catch X-class belch in exquisite detail Spy sat launch wannabe SpaceX fails to stop rival gobbling Russki rockets Judge scraps sale ban on second thoughts (after US gov wrote a letter) US alliance strengthens LOHAN imaging arsenal Vids Edge Research Lab donates HackHD 1080 camera Bootnotes News SMASH AND GRAB iThieves run car through front of Berkeley's Apple Store Stolen auto crashed in front of the Genius Bar? There's no app for that. Vinyl-fetish hipsters might just have a point Jack White's 'ULTRA LP' plays at three speeds, hides tracks under label

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