FTC to mobile carriers: If you could stop text scammers being jerks that'd be just great [Tue Jul 29 2014]

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Business News Forgot About Dre? Not us. Euro bods give nod to Apple and Beats deal Thou shalt not compete unfairly, rule Eurocrats Philip K Dick 'Nazi alternate reality' story to be made into TV series Amazon Studios, Ridley Scott firm to produce The Man in the High Castle Blighty will be BIGGER and BETTER than Germany, confirm beancounters In the tech sector, anyway... Stick a 4K in them: Super high-res TVs are DONE 4,000 pixels is niche now... Don't say we didn't warn you Joe Average isn't worth $10 a year to Mark Zuckerberg The Social Network deflates the PC resurgence with mobile-only usage prediction Google outlines research priorities for boffin grants Everything from cloud to policy Data Centre News HGST polishes Ultrastar SSD whoppers, stuffs with denser Intel flash They read faster but write slower AWS hell no: Can Microsoft Azure sales beat Amazon's cloud? Comment Bezos behemoth is tottering at the top Arcserve on split-up with CA Technologies: 'We’re a startup now. We’re really hungry' Analysis We're profitable and we'll stay profitable - sales veep VMware counters containers with SaaSy VM disk swap Patent-in-process offers new way to upgrade cloudy apps Hardware News Apple stops caring about Samsung kit everyone else stopped caring about years ago Fine, keep your Galaxy Tabs Samsung Z Tizen OS mobe is post-phoned – this time for good? Russian launch for Sammy's non-droid knocked back You didn't get the MeMO? Asus Pad 7 Android tab is ... not bad Review Really, er, stands out among cheapie 7-inchers Networks News NBN Co adds apartments to FTTP rollout Commercial trial locations to go live in September FTC to mobile carriers: If you could stop text scammers being jerks that'd be just great Here's a hint: let customers dispute slippery premium fees What FTC lawsuit? T-Mobile US touts 10GB, $100 family-of-4 plan Folks 'could use that money for more important things' says CEO Legere Verizon to limit unlimited 4G plans Regular and solid throttling will be administered to 4G data hogs Bring back error correction, say Danish 'net boffins We don't need no steenkin' TCP/IP retransmission and the congestion it causes 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 Microsoft's Chinese burn riddle: Antitrust g-men swoop on offices Govt pays 'a sudden visit' to Windows giant's operations in China – but why? 'Blow it up': Plods pop round for chat with Commonwealth Games tweeter You'd better not be talking about the council's housing plans HP settles suit with popstar Chubby Checker over todger tester app Reaches deal over eponymous software spat Security News Israel's Iron Dome missile tech plundered by Chinese hackers US corporate raiders Comment Crew fingered for attacks DARPA-derived secure microkernel goes open source tomorrow Hacker-repelling, drone-protecting code will soon be yours to tweak as you see fit AusCERT chief Ingram steps down Replacement promises better relationships, late nights sleeping at the office Site News Vulture South wants FORTY of you to go BACK TO SCHOOL CSIRO's ICT in Schools program needs IT pros like YOU to help teachers and kids Software News Leaked Windows Phone 8.1 Update specs tease details of Nokia's next mobes New screen sizes, dual SIMs, voice over LTE, and more Cloudy CoreOS Linux distro declares itself production-ready Lightweight, container-happy Linux gets first Stable release Mozilla keeps its Beard, hopes anti-gay marriage troubles are now over Plenty on new CEO's todo list – starting with Firefox's slipping grasp Another day, another Firefox: Version 31 is upon us ALREADY Review Web devs, Mozilla really wants you to like this one KDE releases ice-cream coloured Plasma 5 just in time for summer Review Melty but refreshing - popular rival to Mint's Cinnamon's still a work in progress Swell. Apple buys 'Pandora-for-talk-radio' app... for $30 meeellion 'Pandora-for-talk-radio' software on sale - report Redmond in rapid rebuild after sysadmin request STUNNER SaaSy System Center Advisor gains new admin-friendly features Science News LOHAN's stirring motto: Ad Astra Tabernamque Spaceplane team off to the stars and the pub: Official Russia: There is a SPACECRAFT full of LIZARDS in orbit above Earth and WE control it Finally, the gecko zero gravity orgy can begin DINO-SLAYER asteroid strike was a stroke of bad luck, say boffins Really most unfortunate timing, scientists reckon Bootnotes News CAPTCHA challenges you to copy pointillist painter Seurat's classic Join the dots, get to comment That perfect OkCupid match you bedded was a LIE: Site coughs to user experimentation Research shows lonely hearts are shallow, suggestible Russia sends SEX-CRAZED GECKOS to SPAAAAACE! In space... no one can hear you're green... 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