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Veeam's vigorous voyage vindicates virty servers' backup virtues Firm reckons breakneck customer growth rate's continuing Microsoft's Euro cloud darkens: Redmond must let feds into foreign servers They're not emails, they're business records, says court Overland Storage and BDT end four-year-long patent spat BDT invests in Overland, Overland shares plummet Disk daddy WD dishes out more drives, but profits dip anyway Gaming gamed WD's results Cold storage, Facebook style? Flash FPGA controller to knock your SoCs off, vows upstart NxGn hopes cold storage flash catches on VMware builds product executables on 50 Mac Minis And goes to the Genius Bar for support Hardware News PEAK LANDFILL: Why tablet gloom is good news for Windows users Analysis Sinofsky's hybrid strategy looks dafter than ever Nice computers don’t need to go to the toilet, says Barclays Something for the Weekend, Sir?* Bad computers might ask if you are Sarah Connor Coming to a console near you: Destiny beta and The Last of Us Remastered Game Theory A sneak peek and some instant gratification Korean vendor launches wearable RPi clone Smaller, cheaper and battery-powered pocket Pi Networks News Ah ha, mon amour violet ... French Iliad attempts to nibble on T-Mobile US Offer for American telco may already have been tossed in le poubelle T-Mobile US preps for $43 MEEELLION shower of gold on cram victims Network braces for quarterly hit from repaying unwanted SMS charges ICANN can't hand over Iran's internet, bomb victims told Why? Because nobody owns it Planning a cloud investment This report aims to help you and your business contextualise some of the concerns you may have in planning your first investment with a cloud service provider. Download here > Policy News A modest proposal: Australian ISPs should JUMP at the chance to store metadata The Big Data industry says it'll make them RICH and perhaps the government will even pay Turnbull to Big Content: Let your movies RUN FREE ... for a fair price Piracy is theft, says Comms Minister, but content should be universally available Microsoft and pals applaud UK's 'Google Review' copyright move Colour us shocked: They want rest of Europe to follow Has Europe cut the UK adrift on data protection? Comment EU reckons we've one foot out the door anyway Russia to SAP, Apple: Hand over source code to prove you're not spies And they'd get away with it too, if weren't for that meddling Snowden Recording lawsuit targets Ford, GM in-car CD recorders Your car: a Pirate Bay on wheels Security News Plug and PREY: Hackers reprogram USB drives to silently infect PCs BadUSB instructs gadget chips to inject key-presses, redirect net traffic and more Grabby baddie scours Paddy Power's towers: 650k punters leaked and it took 4 years to admit it We're still a safe bet, say bookies Pentagon hacker McKinnon reinvents himself as SEO guru From UFO coverup to SEO bigging-up Securobods claim Middle East govts' fingerprints all over malware flung at journos Shoots down aptitude of badness-slingers AVG stung as search revenue from freebie scanners dries up Come back, freetards Fiendishly complex password app extension ships for iOS 8 Just slip it in, won't hurt a bit, 1Password makers urge devs BitTorrent launches decentralised crypto-fied chat app Voice and text snuck onto freedom-loving nodes Software News Call off the firing squad: HP grants stay of execution to OpenVMS Startup to take over support for today's Itaniums and beyond POW! Apple smites Macbook Air EFI firmware update borkage Fruity firm provides digital balm for furious fanbois Oracle: That BUG in our In-Memory Option will be fixed in October Don't worry, though ... it's probably (mostly) harmless Science News 7 Amazing Experiments On NASA's Curiosity v2 Mars Rover – Including Oxygen Generation Pic Landing on a Red Planet near you in 2020, hopefully Boffins spot weirder quantum capers as neutrons take the high road, spin takes the low Cheshire cat effect see neutrons and their properties walk different paths NASA boffin: RIDDLE of odd BULGE FOUND on MOON is SOLVED When life gives you lemons, well ... Bootnotes News Sneaker-maker Reebok cooks up performance-enhancing BACON Let's all go for a run. Now. Planning a cloud investment This report aims to help you and your business contextualise some of the concerns you may have in planning your first investment with a cloud service provider. Download here >

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