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Business News Foxconn CEO: 'suicides weren't our fault' Family breakdown, not factory conditions Amazon offers Blighty's publishing industry 'assisted suicide' Do you see a pattern here? Indie labels: 5 reasons why we're hauling YouTube before Euro antitrust watchdog Exclusive Music bizes reveal dominance complaint Maplin Electronics sold for £85m to Rutland Partners Former VC owner Motagu takes £159m bath....OUCH Yahoo!: Yes you, YouTube content-maker. GET IN MAH BELLY! Purple Palace in competition for Fullscreen, report says Strap-on cam pro GoPro in IPO share grow show Firm valued at $3.9bn on first day of trading You need a list of specific unknowns we may encounter? Huh? Something for the Weekend, Sir? Hey CIO, if you want my advice… oh, you don’t BBC: Bumpkins, hobbits need fairer coverage Middle Earth dwellers are licence-fee payers too, report discovers Google: Glass goggles are a 'fairly lousy surveillance device' UK privacy watchdog warns: It could violate data protection law Android SMS worm punts dodgy downloads... from your MATES If a friend texts you a URL, for pity's sake don't open it Channel News Hewlett-Packard paid £1.7bn by UK.gov in 2 years – report Thinktank claims DWP is cash cow, but HP's computer says no Microsoft compliance police to NHS: We want your money You can cough in June or cough harder later. Got weeks to decide Steria, the MoJ and a £56 MILLION Shared Services write-off 'In house' project in the outhouse... Let's outsource Data Centre News Power BI: Office 365 just got more intelligent Review How clever is the latest addition? Permabit squeezes its Albireo dedupe fruit, offers juice to vendors Adds compression to up its data shrinkage rate Seagate's LSI flash biz buyout: Good potential, but only if followed up Comment Is this a good buy or is it goodbye? Skyera, Seagate: We'll feed backup hunger with 3-way flash layer cake Now disk-based backup is too slow Windows Server 2003 end of life: Plan your WS2012 migration now Webcast Watch this guide BOFH: You can take our lives, but you'll never take OUR MACROS Episode 6 Never mind the blood, Mr Beancounter: MAGIC BEANS! DON'T BOTHER migrating legacy apps to the cloud, says CTO You'll just be disappointed, says UBS gros fromage Facebook dumps AWS, moves Instagram's images to own bit barns Server count down by a third, says engineer, and Iowa data centre coming online now Hardware News What's it like using the LG G smartwatch and Android Wear? Let us tell YOU First look Smartwatch or dumb idea? Walmart in iPhone 5s, 5c price slash – gotta make room for that 'iPhone 6', right? Plenty of fuel for the rumor fire What a whopper, LG: Feast your eyes on this 77-inch bendy TV Pics World's first curved 4K OLED set makes its UK debut LG drops G3 quad HD Android mobe with FRIGGIN' LASER camera Review Could this be the Android handset of the year? 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 > Networks News Facebook let shrinks MESS WITH YOUR HEAD, sans permission T&C click allowed boffins to re-order news feed for emotional response experiment New MH370 search zone picked using just seven satellite 'handshakes' First and seventh pings from plane indicate power interruptions Policy News Google chair Eric Schmidt reportedly visits Cuba World's second-most-repressive regime for internet access welcomes lecture on freedom Qld Health payroll worker charged over fake overtime claims Systems chaos opened door to fraud says Crime and Misconduct Commission Who gives a F about privacy? New scorecard rates US pols on spying Dramatically increasing mass surveillance? See me after class HP gets 'Playboy model and the ex-CEO' lawsuit kicked out ... AGAIN Judge: Stop wasting my time with this case, shareholders French Senate passes anti-Amazon amendment Free shipping with discounting banned in la Cinquième République Security News Microsoft to shutter security email feed on July 1 Gov 'automated electronic messaging' bans force RSS feeds down infosec pros' maws Surprise! NSA's first ever 'transparency' 'report' is anything but Spies do spying ... and dictionary rewriting, too Yet another WordPress vuln: Image furtler plugin lets BADNESS in By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes NASA's Curiosity rover brought Earth BUG to Mars A software bug, that is, as flaw turns up in popular compression imaging algorithm Software News Web collab outfit Assemblage becomes Cisco's latest appendage WebRTC for peasants, telepresence for suits Apple abruptly axes Aperture ... Adobe anxiously awaits arrivals Lightroom holdouts left with little choice as photo software gets cut 'Our entire corporation cannot send or receive emails from Outlook' Quotw Plus: 'We've seen... a double-digit decline in trust in American tech companies' You want a medal for writing a script? Sure: here it is! Developer explains how Perl and Excel code earned him the US Army Commendation Medal Science News NASA'S Martian flying saucer splashes down successfully Test flight for red-planet-bound Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator ticks all boxes Kickstarter unplugs iFind miracle battery-free locator Funding suspended at a whopping $US546,852 Bootnotes News Retiring Reg hack explains how bass playing = tech reporting So long, and thanks for all the Phish Today in IT news: iPad Fleshlight a reality NSFW Putting the fondle in fondleslab Spanish struggle to control spelling of 'WhatsApp' Wasap? Linguistic anarchy, that's guasap 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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