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Business News Google Glass faces UK cinema ban: Heaven forbid someone film you weeping in a rom-com Theater body tackles piracy, privacy fears You WON'T spend as much on IT in 2014 as we thought - Gartner Growing competition, lack of differentiation lead to dip And now for someone completely brilliant: Stephen Hawking to join Monty Python on stage He's not a physicist, he's a very naughty boy Samsung admits its Chinese factories STILL 'unsafe', violate laws Another yearly audit, another catalogue of labour abuses Fear not, posh tech tarts! Selfridges' Apple concession still open despite selloff Square Group sells retail outlet to CompuB Hey, Marissa Mayer: Flexi working time is now LAW in UK. Yahoo! Please don't inflict another godawful GIF on us... HP in 'serious' settlement talks over Autonomy legal bust-up Wooing shareholders to smooth things over Amazon Fire: Who needs a WAREHOUSE when you have a global ADS PLATFORM? Analyst sees tat emporium's empire surging into China Channel News Hey, channel guy. STOP. Don't lock yourself into vendors' refresh cycles We all know hardware lasts longer than 3 years so why bin good kit? Dragons' Den newbie firm Outsourcery: We are losing sales, we need to go DIRECT Born-in-cloud biz trims £1m Data Centre News Alex Bouzari on his big data storage firm: First, we got rid of the VCs Our Vulture picks DataDirect Networks boss's brains QLogic exec chairman HK Desai dies aged 68 Storage chief passes away after 19 years at the top Rare HPC beauties unveiled: Quivering racks, Lustre clusters and the tiers of a Cray ISC Leipzig It's all getting a bit terafloppy in Deutschland IBM promises mainframes on tap as SoftLayer lands on London Unbelievable... Chessington's nowhere near London Facebook totally OK with 'emotional manipulation' experiment on users We're advertising men, not pickled herrings Distributed Linux OS wizards CoreOS release first commercial product VCs fling $8m at FOSS OS that updates like a browser Aereo presses pause on 'tiny antenna' TV-streaming service Vows to fight on after US Supreme Court ruling Cloudera, MapR, IBM, and Intel bet on Spark as the new heart of Hadoop Screeching sound heard amid Spark stampede as Cloudera changes opinion on Hive VMware's desktop push heads for casualty ward, in a good way End-user computing push continues with Horizon release and new vertical templates Hardware News Conformist Google: Android devices must LOOK, WORK ALIKE Demands watch, TV, and car makers stick to default UI Overclocking to 5GHz? We put Intel Devil’s Canyon CPU to the test Review Haswell refresh that's hot to trot We got behind the wheel of a Tesla S electric car. We didn't hate it Hands on Now we've got that out of the way. 'Dear Santa...' Saddle up for the Tour de Firmware Build a BONKERS BICYCLE laden down with gadgetry Panasonic's seven-inch Windows slab has tough exterior, confused mind Can a hard-as-nails tablet do double duty on your desktop? Networks News Google's Street View Wi-Fi slurp nightmare: US Supremes snub appeal Ad giant must now face up to class-action suit over wireless data grab Google sentences its other 'network thingy' Orkut to DEATH Não, obrigado... Hope Brazilians are too distracted by footie to notice BT at last coughs to 'major outage' after broadband went titsup across UK on Sat Customers left fuming at the weekend Ericsson resurrects not-spot swatter Radio Dot: Skyscrapers could get mobile signal on 99th floor What's the big deal about Big SQL? Answering many of the common questions that relational database management system (DBMS) users have about Big SQL. Download here > Policy News Bitcoin was illegal in California? Whoops, governor fixes that 165-year-old money law Crypto-currencies threatened by anti-counterfeit cash rules Western Australia considers ban on R18+ games Running 'won't somebody think of the children' argument to justify breaking ranks with federal scheme New South Wales' prime plod pushes data retention, again Police push pwnage of 'net history Facebook Australia's 'small company' status makes it a small target Does Zuck know that smaller companies have lesser privacy obligations? London teen charged over Spamhaus mega-DDoS attacks Accused will tap the boards before the beak today ENISA, Europol, strike info-sharing deal Watch out, cyber-crooks, TWO European agencies are chasing you now NSW government agencies bend over and take it from telcos Auditor-general finds most lack expertise to negotiate, manage, contracts Security News Microsoft's anti-malware crusade knackers 'FOUR MILLION' No-IP users Dynamic DNS biz cries foul as Redmond seeks to smash software nasties Apple ships security fixes for iOS, OS X, Safari ... basically EVERYTHING Here comes the next big slew of WebKit bug fixes Using Android 4.3? Don't let malware snatch your private login keys Bad news: One in ten devices suffer KeyStore flaw. Good news: It's hard to exploit Remaining Snowden docs will be released to avert 'unspecified US war' – ‪Cryptome‬ Not by us, though, says coy leaker tweet Application delivery controllers tighten the security perimeter Protect your assets Dropbox used as command and control for Taiwan time bomb PlugX trojan gets an upgrade for new attacks Zero-proof crypto scheme can divine truths from nothing Boffins scheme to help blow up nukes could also be handy for electronic voting Software News Google's Quickoffice taken behind shed ... 'Oh, what's the gun for?' Docs, Sheets, Slides to replace standalone productivity suite Science News SUPER EARTH possibly home to life FOUND in our 'solar backyard' GJ 832c is just 16 light years away Shrew'd boffins spot TINY ELEPHANT species Mini-Dumbo mouse certainly looks the part True fact: Your CAT wees ... like a racehorse Science finally admits it's been taking the piss all along Indian rocket set to sling five satellites LIVE VID PLSV-C23 launch will carry imaging, comms and quantum physics craft Bootnotes News Rockall pod-dweller braces for stormy weather Nick Hancock battens down the hatches on North Atlantic islet What's the big deal about Big SQL? Answering many of the common questions that relational database management system (DBMS) users have about Big SQL. Download here >

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