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Business News VMware shuffles the executive deckchairs Big guns Eschenbach and Chadwick aimed at growth markets Tech patent hoarder Intellectual Ventures to lose a fifth of its trolls Layoffs hit licensing powerhouse Rubber Ub' hub: Uber test-drives condoms, gift card, soap etc deliveries Get drugstore stuff in a hurry – like it's a 1999 dotcom bubble all over again Aussie telcos to sell user location data to marketers Going shopping? Get ready for targeted ads US TV stations bowl sueball directly at FCC's spectrum mega-sale Broadcasters upset about coverage and cost as they shift up and down the dials Ballmer quits Microsoft board to spend more time with his b-balls From Clippy to Clippers: Hi, I see you're running an NBA team now ... 'Fangless' activist investor chomps up chunk of Rackspace Blue Harbour thirsting to quaff some fresh asset sweat Call of Duty daddy considers launching own movie studio Activision Blizzard might like quality control of a CoD film Data Centre News Super-dense flasher Skyera gets new CEO, fills pockets +Comment Money should go towards getting product to market Violin Memory FINALLY writes dedupe and compression into its latest Concerto Sweet music to the ears of sysadmins AMD slaps 'Radeon' label on Tosh flash: >Beard stroke< Hmm, cunning ... Hey, you wanna SSD with that graphics card, man? Nexenta reckons it has Edge in squeezing your object storage BLOB Dedupe for the little guy, not just the tech titan Object storage bods Exablox: RAID is dead, baby. RAID is dead Bring your own disks to its object appliances Microsoft: Azure isn't ready for biz-critical apps … yet Microsoft will move its own IT to the cloud to avoid $200m server bill Hardware News U wot? HTC is M8s again with Microsoft: New One mobe sports WinPhone Just a couple of little catches, though Apple analyst: fruity firm set to shift 75 million iPhones We'll have some of whatever he's having please Steve Jobs had BETTER BALLS than Atari, says Apple mouse designer Xerox? Pff, not even in the same league as His Jobsiness Apple takes blade to 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display Review Shaves price, not screen on mid-2014 model Things are looking up in Flappy Bird sequel 'Swing Copters' offers the same gameplay but in a different direction Networks News EE: STILL Blighty's best mobe network, says 'Frappucino' Moore Fresh round of network stats fisticuffs possibly on the cards here UK fuzz want PINCODES on ALL mobile phones Exclusive Met Police calls for mandatory passwords on all new mobes Policy News Dozens of COPS cuffed in Turkish Prime Minister's wiretap probe Plod accused of illegally snooping on top govt officials UK government accused of hiding TRUTH about Universal Credit fiasco 'Reset rating keeps secrets on one-dole-to-rule-them-all plan', say MPs EU justice chief blasts Google on 'right to be forgotten' Don't pretend it's a freedom of speech issue – interim commish Caught red-handed: UK cops, PCSOs, specials behaving badly… on social media No Mr Fuzz, don't ask a crime victim to be your pal on Facebook NSW to build federated ID management rig for staff, punters Oracle code and kit to be tended by NTT e-Borders fiasco: Brits stung for £224m after US IT giant sues UK govt Defeat to Raytheon branded 'catastrophic result' Security News Cryptolocker flogged on YouTube Cat video encrypts all the things Nuke regulator hacked three times in three years Phishing emails hooked dozens of staff Google to offer special accounts for kids: report Under 13? You'll be under Google's tender care Think crypto hides you from spooks on Facebook? THINK AGAIN Traffic fingerprints reveal all, say boffins Site News CIOs: Want to hit your IT suppliers where it hurts? Reg Events Sit down with The Register and tell us just how hard... Software News Intel's Raspberry Pi rival Galileo can now run Windows Behold the Internet of Things. Wintel Things Eat up Martha! Microsoft slings handwriting recog into OneNote on Android Freehand input on non-Windows kit for the first time EnterpriseDB chucks devs free tools to craft NoSQL web apps with PostgreSQL Prebuilt AWS image comes with all you need preconfigured Science News CRR-CRRRK, beep, beep: Mars space truck backs out of slippery sand trap Curiosity finds new drilling target after course correction Vulture 2 takes a battering in 100km/h test run Vid Still in one piece, but we're going to need MORE POWER TRIANGULAR orbits will help Rosetta to get up close with Comet 67P Probe will be just 10km from Space Duck in October Bootnotes News Cops baffled by riddle of CHICKEN who crossed ROAD 'Officers were unable to determine Chicken's intent'

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