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Daily Headlines 26 June 2014

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Business News Aaah, what's that smell, Nook? Yes, it's death: Barnes & Noble to jettison e-book biz Plans to spin it off as new public company next year You're inventing the wrong sort of tech for bad people who want to buy it. Stop it at once Worstall on Wednesday Yo is so-so. So what? Speaking in Tech: Nutanix OEM deal may be Dell's first step towards a BUYOUT Podcast Plus: What's this Tail-F thing Cisco's got hold of? Microsoft's Online Exchange fixed after going titsup for NINE HOURS Two hours of that spent on hold reporting problem Channel News Official: MoJ IT workers on STRIKE over outsourcing job fears Steria SSCL named 'preferred supplier' for Shared Service Centre Data Centre News 'Occupy Google': Protesters attack ads giant as I/O gets underway There is no TRY not to be evil, says Yoda, only DO MongoDB pops up in Microsoft and Google data centers Oracle's NoSQL nightmare inks new pacts, gets into all major clouds Face up to a double life with hybrid Office 365 Integrating Lync, SharePoint and Exchange Flumejava, Millwheel ... No, not NSA codenames: The tech in Google Cloud's data grokker Google I/O Ad slinger whips out tool to stick in stream pipes What is it with cloud computing? Engage VM, disengage brain? Sysadmin blog Nine bits of advice from our man Trevor US Supremes just blew Aereo completely out of the water 'This sends a chilling message to the technology industry' Yes, that you have to pay for stuff Take a chance on EMC: Bursts of aBBa spin up cloudy HPC goodness DSSD and VNX make for heady caching mixture US trading, energy watchdogs asked: Does Google's Skybox gobble pass the sniff test? Public Citizen challenges sat firm deal 3CX WebMeeting reviewed: Youthful, but full of promise Video-conferencing made easy Google's Urs Hölzle: If you're not breaking your own gear, you aren't ambitious enough Interview Infrastructure king on next-gen memory, FPGAs, and more DDN's wonderful Bridge of WOS: Cloud, meet on-premise storage DataDirect Networks' gear talks to anyone anywhere, they say Unisys makes a tilt at converged infrastructure and containerisation Reference platforms on the way to allow other server-makers to spread the love SHOCKER: CIA CIO CAN confirm that AWS cloud safe for big government CIA CIO: AWS RFP NOFORN SIGINT ICT A-OK Extreme Networks adds OpenDaylight to SDN suite Another picture added to SDN's “spot the difference” game Hardware News Google's Oculus-defying VR headset is made of CARDBOARD – no joke Google I/O DIY virtual reality for the masses (if you don't mind headaches) We sat through Google's bum-numbing, battery-draining 3-hour keynote so you didn't have to Google I/O Lick of paint for Android, car control and more Verizon to turn LTE faucet back on for Chromebook Pixel users Says its sorry promo service ended 'prematurely' BlackBerry's Passport will be the WEIRDEST mobe of 2014 Firm also teases new update to BB10 REVEALED: Reg trails claw along Apple's 'austerity' 21.5-inch iMac Review Entry-level performance with a mid-range price Gid E-Up? Vulture's claw presses pedal to metal on VW's 'leccy motor Starts with a jolt Study of Brit students finds TXTING doesn't ruin your writing UzN abbreviations w yor M8s not a gateway 2 lousy wrk @ OPIS o skul Microsoft tests HALF-INCH second screen to spur workplace play Stop your yammering and use 'glanceable' device to make yourself feel at home Networks News Mobile money firm Weve waves goodbye to David Sear Departing boss looks for some change Policy News Turnbull to reveal regional FTTN NBN trial Telstra wins $150m contract to do the work and maybe, just maybe, explain network arrangements Australia relaxes in-flight device use rules Take-off switch-off nears end-of-life You are ALL Americans now: Europeans offered same rights as US folks in data slurp leaks So we cool now, right? US Supreme Court: Duh, obviously cops need a warrant to search mobes Laws written before world + dog stored whole life on phones Mobile SIM chip-makers 'will be fined by EU' for price-fixing, say sources EU regulators could sting them for 10% of global revenues Unexpected Termination Error at Year of Code: Chief dumps venture for other UK.gov riches From non-gov non-job to governmental non-job Warrantless snooping on American man was LEGAL in terrorism case, rules US judge Gov use of FISA data passes muster in Oregon district court Super-snoop bid: UK government hits panic button on EU data retention ruling 'This is not mass surveillance', insists Home Sec Theresa May Queensland man arrested on charges including Bitcoin theft More than $AU110k of crypto-currency 'in his possession' Bitcoin is MONEY, says Canada Crypto-currency regulated same as a dollar Security News Google pries open YOUR mailbox to developer partners What can possibly go wrong? Cryptome pulled OFFLINE due to malware infection: Founder cries foul 'Craven and shallow technical justification' for censorship, fumes whistleblower 27 Data-Slurping Facts BuzzFeed Doesn't Want You To Know! 'Fun' quizzes drill down into your MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS Own goal as World Cup Wi-Fi passwords spilled in newspaper snap Not-so-L33t login now sprayed across Twitter Sysadmins rejoice! Patch rampage killing off nasty DDoS attack vector Server fleet open to NTP attack drops from 400k to just 17,000 Passwords in plaintext? NOT OK, Cupid Australian dating security service not a good match, says privacy commissioner SHOCK HORROR: Oz's biggest govt agencies to miss infosec deadline They patch when they feel like it and ignore spooks' advice Software News Boffins untangle why your software builds fail Dependency hell by-the-numbers 'World’s dumbest crim' collared in Facebook sting Profile left open in burglary victim's home, man logs into jail Oracle's IP lawsuit foe: We'll fight SAP tooth and nail in Europe Rimini Street: We'll have your large and mid-sized customers off you, ta ARRRRR. Half world's techies are software PIRATES – survey They're OPENLY doing it, too Science News Drone-assisted Swiss construct virtual 3D castle Impressive image-crunching exercise on the Château de Chillon Bootnotes News Star Wars museum to land in Chicago This is the site George Lucas has been looking for

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