America's hot and cold spots for broadband revealed in new map [Mon Aug 11 2014]

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Business News NetScout sues Gartner over magic quadrant placement Hey big spender, get a little consulting with me Apple, Intel, Google told to stop being tightwads and pay out MORE in wage-fix settlement Judge tells tech titans to dig deeper into their pockets Facebook slurps PrivateCore - 'cos your selfies need locking up Might not result in mass experiments on users, at least this time... US titan CSC: Our numbers are going nowhere this year But some of our staff are.... out the door Serco welcomes former CSC boss to run gov unit Newbie squeezed into vital role at scandal hit integrator Smartcard firm Gemalto slurps SafeNet in $890m securo-boost deal Crypto tech and license management tech will boost profits, hope firms Is the tech jobs market really on the up-and-up? Tell us about it Survey Seriously, would anyone want to work with you? Farmville maker Zynga delays new games after losing 57 MILLION users Hey - who's tending to our veg patch? Channel News Wunderbar! Bechtle chairman fizzles after sizzling financials Euro dealer's sales and profit bounce by double digits in Q2 Data Centre News Recovering Quantum buys Dropbox-alike cloudy biz Symform Twisted sync'n'share: USERS form the service's cloud Budge up, yet another flash cache software biz wants to squeeze in Blocks and Files What's inside the CacheBox? Pivotal puts all its eggs in one basket Core blimey! It's a cloudy AppSuite with cunning pricing Hardware News World's only flyable WWII Lancaster bombers meet in Lincs RAF and Canadian aircraft meet for Two Lancs tour after epic ferry flight Stalwart hatchback gets a plug-in: Volkswagen e-Golf Review Swap your spare wheel for a 'leccy motor Clock ticking for Surface as Microsoft preps for gen-3 globo-launch Losses hit $1.7bn since launch, sales a drop in tablet ocean Multiple user accounts coming to Android phones 'n' slabs Someone's thought of the children, but perhaps not of Samsung, VMware and Citrix Digital dongle transforms European XBOXen into tellies Monitor this ₤24.99 or €29.99 USB tuner and thumb-saver: it lands in October Networks News America's hot and cold spots for broadband revealed in new map Pic Virginia is for lovers ... of faster internet Gov.uk's broadband boast: Superfast fibre piped to 1 million Brits Apple-scrumping bumpkin bits deliver best returns, apparently Wait, an actual QR code use case? TGI Friday's builds techno-restaurant Flop out your mobe and get it over with as quick as you can Telefónica bids for Vivendi's Brazilian bits: Telecom Italia gasps A Spanish firm, a French firm and an Italian firm all meet up in Brazil... BT scoops up Wales PSN contracts, elbows out Logicalis Seven-year contract worth up to £420m handed to one-time telco monopoly BYOD's dark side: Data protection An endpoint data protection solution should add value to the user and the organization so it can protect itself from data loss as well as leverage corporate data. Download here > Policy News New twist in China Apple hardware ban riddle: THE TRUTH at last? President Xi Jinping's government breaks silence Spooks, cops, say Oz metadata push is for consistency, not data grab Explanation of just what will be collected is still confusing and incomplete Security News US 911 service needs emergency upgrade and some basic security against scumbags Defcon 22 12-year-old spoofs system to try and get Justin Bieber shot Why hackers won't be able to hijack your next flight - the facts Defcon 22 Commercial aircraft are safe, for the time being Crypto Daddy Phil Zimmerman says surveillance society is DOOMED Defcon 22 We’ve been here before when we defeated slavery and the absolute monarchy Beware WarKitteh, the connected cat that sniffs your Wi-Fi privates Defcon 22 Inventor says, despite it all, he’s still not a cat person Oracle Database 12c's data redaction security smashed live on stage Defcon 22 Microsoft should school Ellison on safeguarding privates, says infosec bod Intruder alert: Cyber thugs are using steganography to slip in malware badness Signature-sniffers WILL be fooled – researcher 'Up to two BEEELLION' mobes easily hacked by evil base stations Black Hat 2014 videos Android, BlackBerry, and Apple fall to OMA-DM flaw – claim Site News Vulture South party: the winners and grinners from our limerick comp Didn't enter? Didn't win? There's a last chance saloon if you want to party with Vultures Software News Google beefs up Compute Engine, adds extra zone to US, Asia Two new segments for Amazon and Microsoft games China cracks down on instant messengers: Users must hand over REAL NAMES 'Such behaviours have raised bitter feelings among netizens' Science News ANU boffins demo 'tractor beam' in water Video The current state of the art, apparently Lawsuit claims SpaceX laid off hundreds without proper notice, pay Surprise axe-lowering alleged to have violated California law Tiny transforming bots: Meet these self-assembling 'thoughtful' droids Rise of the Machines Flat-packed bots build themselves, turn... walk away Fanfare of trumpets as LOHAN reveals mission patch Ad Astra Tabernamque and beers all round 'Be super careful with AI. It's potentially more dangerous than NUKES' Quotw Plus: 'Facebook is not a Law Enforcement issue!' Twitter can trigger psychosis in users 140 characters or less leaves too much to symbolism, study finds Bootnotes News eBay bans CD sales of metal band Burzum, citing offensive material Meanwhile, sales of Mein Kampf going strong Nuts to your poncey hipster coffees, I want a TESLA ELECTRO-CAFE Something for the Weekend, Sir? Examining the frothy disconnect in indie cafe culture Ex-Apple man Sam Sung - for it is he - sticks namebadge on eBay Stump up via tat bazaar, do a good thing for ill kids Architecting a Big Data platform for analytics Managing analytical workloads associated with some combination of data volume, velocity and variety. Download here >

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