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Business News SpaceX wins court injunction to block US Air Force buying Russian rockets Why buy from the Russians when the US has its own rocketeers argues Musk T-Mobile US added more subscribers in last quarter than top three competitors combined Legere profane as carrier approaches number three spot Larry Ellison looks out from his island paradise and thinks: I wanna buy the LA Clippers Oracle baron eyes up race storm b-ball team, we're told Granny's Guardian: Acorn BBC Micro hero touts OAP watchdog kit Turn on, tune in, no need to drop in for a cuppa – it's all online BSkyB broadband growth chopped in HALF O2 newcomers have run off and profit is down Hey, marketing drone, what's with the FUD - nothing GOOD to say about your own kit? Storagebod 'Tape is dead', 'SSDs rock', 'SSDs suck' - shove the lot of it Stone the crows, Bouncer! BT defends TV recorder upgrade DELETION snafu Claims data laws meant update had to wipe telly shows Channel News Serco issues shares to plug finance gap after profit warning Wanna own a piece of a troubled outsourcing firm? 50 million shares to hit market Dick enters the cockpit, takes controls at NTS Lassman has left Capita-gobbled UK reseller Two Xerox houses become one: Pair of copycats now big, fat £57m UK firm Xeretec weds Bytes Document Solutions Data Centre News Cloud-hungry firms swarm into Pivotal's Cloud Foundry Foundation PaaS tech club becomes phonebook of enterprise companies Microsoft's Azure cloud wobbles in West Europe Redmond pumps clutch trying to get Compute and Storage back WD results confirm it: Disk buyers ARE spending less Enterprise SSD sales slide too CenturyLink slashes prices to guarantee its megacloud future Bets big to be among the ten megaclouds left standing Nexenta beats off rivals as Citrix testlab rates its VDI offering 'cheapest' Not an apples-to-apples comparison, cry competitors WAN-furtling pays off for app-happy Riverbed But Imation results looking worse for wear The Internet of Things gets its own NAS Synology emits a rugged, palm-sized unit that slurps power over Ethernet VMware's AirWatch plan: chew up 'hairball' Windows, spit out pieces Virtzilla wants to give Syadmins one console to rule mobile, physical and virtual Hardware News Tablet boom quiets down a bit as growth slows Apple not the only vendor seeing the market cool down Google Glass teardown puts rock-bottom price on hardware Google objects to notion that $1500 headset only costs $80 to make Denmark dynamited by cunning American Minecraft vandals Updated Danish government forced to reboot damaged zones Google said to have hired Calxeda's chief fabric architect Exclusive So, Google, how ARE those ARM chips going? Inventors: Feast your eyes on fuel cell tech that'll power up Internet of Thingies Pics Developer kits at the ready, just add water Behold! World's smallest 3D-printer pen Lix artists into shape – literally London upstart raises enough cash to fill stockings this Xmas Chinese iWatchers: Apple's WRISTPUTERS ALREADY in production Supply chain sneaks told us so, claims China Times Teen jailed for ARMED ROBBERY says he and pals had been inspired by Grand Theft Auto Drunk gamer caper? Not good enough. 2 years in chokey, pal Networks News Ofcom snatches spectrum from SPIES for mobile broadband Publishes blueprint for the next decade Twitter's got a new UK public policy wonk... 'You are the product' Big Brother Watch bloke! Privacy campaigner to work for air-your-life-out microblog 2013 Cyber Risk Report A comprehensive dive into today's cyber vulnerability and threat landscape. Providing information to effectively plan your cyber security strategy and deploy your defenses. Download here > Policy News Jodee 'One.Tel' Rich's spruiks .CEO sites for email LIKE A BOSS Wolfram beats hoarder with 100+ .CEO domains featuring names of famous leaders Australia told to follow UK's 'Digital by default' strategy Cloud first, big data and dedicated e-services minister recommended by razor gang Security News Researcher says Apple fibs about crypto for iOS email attachements Latest iPad and iPad firmware reveals attachments in clear text Study: Users don't much care about Heartbleed hacking dangers Pew finds the public less interested in flaw than previous incidents Microsoft: Patch Internet Explorer NOW ... er, INCLUDING XP USERS First patch for never-to-be-patched-again Windows arrives Titsup UK Border IT causes CHAOS at air and seaports in Blighty Welcome to Great Britain ... this might take a while New secure OS will put Tails between NSA's legs Debian-derived OS funnels everything through Tor and HTTPS Canucks' ISPs routing data through snoop heaven USA Does your ISP use a 'Boomerang route' to fling data into the NSA's lap? Staunch your Heartbleed patching: FreeBSD has a nasty credentials leak Let's not forget that FreeBSD is in OSX, NetApp kit, Juniper boxen and even some tellies Thanks for nothing, Apple, say forensic security chaps iPhone factory reset removes all traces of everything, forever Software News Early! Do! Not! Track! Adopter! Yahoo! Says! It's! Rubbish, Bins! It! Claims lack of 'single standard' makes DNT a lost cause Snapchat updates fap-snap sharing app ... now with more Chat Add live chat and video calling to your secret somewhat private convos 10 PRINT "Happy 50th Birthday, BASIC" : GOTO 10 Language that defined the 8-bit era celebrates half a century Today's bugs have BRANDS? Be still my bleeding heart [logo] Stob Code-slinger Verity reviews the rash of groovy-named open-source security vulns Science News Actual spin doctors eye up ALIEN WORLD Beta Pictoris b: Young, hot ... and really FAST Eight-hour day planet ideal for cat-nappers Quid-a-day Reg nosh posse chap faces starvation diet 780 calories a day, Toby? You must be joking Fix capitalism with floating cities on Venus says Charles Stross Brit SciFi author feels Mars colonies or fusion reactors lack ambition 2013 Cyber Risk Report A comprehensive dive into today's cyber vulnerability and threat landscape. Providing information to effectively plan your cyber security strategy and deploy your defenses. Download here >

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