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Daily Headlines 7 May 2014

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Business News Investors eye Yahoo!'s future as China's Alibaba files for US IPO Is there value in the Purple Palace beyond its overseas holdings? App.net: 'Good news, we've made money; bad news, we're all fired' Subscription renewals will sustain site, but not employees Twitter jitters: Investors turn into quitters as shares hit the sh... Price down by 11 per cent as shareholder lock-in period ends Nokia: What to do with our euro BEELLIONS... Eh, let's spaff some on connected cars Finns change their minds - to the tune of $100m RBS Group hopes £750m IT shakeup splurge will prevent next bank mainframe meltdown Bad luck if your branch 'brand' goes down, though Streaming brilliant: Netflix signs access agreement with Verizon Comment CEOs remain shockingly oblivious to how the internet works, says Faultline Reg man says '拜拜' to Honkers, ponders Asia's future role in tech world Asia dominates mobile agendas: can it do the same for enterprise tech? Channel News Gods of tech distribution smile on Blighty in Q1 Double digit sales bounce recorded by beanie Context Paragon Group consumes tits-up print house Service Point More than 400 jobs saved as London-based biz bought from receivers Data Centre News EMC: Sync 'n' share not all about size, how you do it matters too Missile-grade authentication to ensure users don't land data in danger VMware brings Cloud Foundry up on vCHS as EMC spins-up CF-based software By end of year, world's megaclouds will all be serving up CF, says Pivotal CEO Maritz EMC aims Elastic Cloud Storage band at Amazon, Google EMC World Twang-ang-ang-ang... OUCH! You software-defined @£$% SAP cloaks HANA in terabyte dress for VMware's dance hall Upgrade gives HANA greater performance on vSphere 5.5 Experienced HPC compo kids welcome eager Brazilians to cluster-wrestling match HPC blog Foreign interlopers aim for China Cluster Crown PEAK APPLE: Mystery upstart to hurl iLord from its throne 'by 2020' Silicon Valley sugar daddy says the $AAPL cart will be well and truly upset Review: GFI Cloud eliminates need to nursemaid Windows Help for the hard-pressed sysadmin Oi, EMC users! HALVE your weight with this WEIRD OLD TIP Storage vendor tries to lure VNX users to HP30I CTERA gets bitten by EMC's snake, develops ViPR compatibility Third-party data services get a dose of venom Emulex racks up fifth loss-making quarter as FIVE-YEAR Broadcom broadside ends Analysis Really needs to get Ethernet gear back on track Danger, Will Robinson! Beware the hidden perils of BYOD And we're so nice, we're telling you how to dodge them VMware seasons its cloud with a sprinkling of ye olde spinning rust Tiered storage and a data protection refresh come to vCHS Hardware News ARM exec: Forget eight-core smartphone chips, just enjoy a SIX-PACK Octa-core smartphones are effective Chinese lucky-number 'marketecture', says mobe man Norwegians trial Oculus Rift in tanks: The ultimate battlefield simulator High tech comes cheap when compared to military prices Intel, Google buddy up for this year's big Chromebook push Partners rally around 4th-gen Core i3, Bay Trail-M for next wave of Chrome OS kit Epson takes on Google Glass with wired 'augmented reality' glasses Head-mounted computer for half the price of Glass Apple files patent for typo-sensing buttons Future iThings could know that you didn't mean to push that ARM targets enterprise with 32-core, 1.6TB/sec bandwidth beastie Updated Think the UK boys are just mobe-chip makers? Been out of town lately? 50+ crowd are wolfing down tablets: Silver foxes are even migrating to the Twitters @gramps We'll see you at #sundaylunch Microsoft hints at smaller Surface Because the full-sized Surface is going so well Networks News BT fibre 'availability checker' looks into FAR-OFF FUTURE. Again Repeated murmurings of ad watchdog seemingly fail to strike fear into telco US broadband providers holding last-mile traffic ransom, ISP alleges Consumers see 'permanent' network congestion unless peering partners pay 'tolls' Tesco to tout its own smartphone – now THAT'S an unexpected item in the bagging area Kit-Kat (Android) in the technology aisle? Policy News Report: Google's NSA dealings not as bad as you thought – THEY WERE WORSE Email releases suggest company had better relationship with feds than it let on Samsung will ... sigh ... appeal $119m Apple patent verdict Legal squabbling not over yet, despite pleas of world+dog Iran brands Facebook boss Zuckerberg an 'American Zionist', bans WhatsApp Censorship at work and play - unless you've a VPN Security News ANZ Bank coughs up as Broome biz fleeced in man-in-the-middle diddle Bank's Pay Anyone tool pays fraudsters Dropbox squashes boring bug, restores file sharing Web admins could have read your docs Watch a bank-raiding ZeuS bot command post get owned in 60 seconds Vid RC4? Shoddy PHP coding? You VXers should try a little harder Don't let hackers know Mandiant founder checks his email on an iPad. Oh. Infosec 2014 Mandia prefers face-to-face natter to avoid piles of spyware booby-traps Hacktivists hijack BNP Twitter account, crayon over leader Griffin's too I'm the leader of the Gay Orgy Party and we just LOVE immigration, guys. Mwah! Scariest NSA revelation yet: Spooks are RUBBISH at CIPHERS 'Encrypted' Tweet takes world+dog a moment or two to solve Casino chain Affinity's credit card system popped AGAIN The house doesn't always win Site News Reg readers wot won it: Five flee reality armed with smart strap-ons Also worst Enid Blyton novel title ever Software News Google updates Maps app for iOS, Android, adds Uber support Bad news for Yelp in the upgrade – and the stock market Atom, GitHub's code editor based on web tech, goes open source Still OS X–exclusive so far ... but now you can fix that How to tune your Oracle database's performance Workshop Handy 101 explainer for DBAs Science News US gov't report: 'Climate disruption' has arrived, and time is running out Libertarian think tank counters that boffins ignore 'the positives from climate change' El Reg Quid-A-Day Nosh Posse back on the bacon Pics Good wedge of cash raised for charity, beers all round – and you can still chip in Did cosmic radiation nuke $25 satellite swarm? 100 snoozing Sprites face fiery death Crowd-funded birds stuck in mothership 'KickSat' Bootnotes News Cold War spy aircraft CRASHED Los Angeles' air traffic control Try filing an accurate flight plan next time, spooks The amazing .uk domain: Less .co and loads more whalesong LogoWatch Nominet fires up the joss-sticks

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