Fiat Panda Cross: 'Interesting-looking' Multipla spawn hits UK [Mon Aug 4 2014]

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Business News Microsoft Australia floats 'death to TechEd' thought bubble Redmondian outpost keen for your feedback on how best to indoctrinate you Google's mysterious floating techno barge SOLD FOR SCRAP Baffling boat scuppered after Page and Brin abandon ship Apple ebook price-fix row: Stiffed readers inch closer to $450m windfall Judge signs off on payout deal – but it's not over yet Microsoft blasts sueball at Samsung in Android patent royalty spat Updated Claims payment halted after Redmond bought Nokia mobe biz Facebook goes down, people dial 911 Police appeal for calm – yes, seriously HP storage revenue downturn? It's just a 'kink', says exec Analysis A blip on the radar IBM snaps up identity access gatekeeper tech Beefs up security portfolio with CrossIdeas Insight CEO: We've found bottom line balm to soothe Microsoft pain Dealer titan ups profit forecasts, pesky sales a different matter... Channel News EMC channel boss: Make a bet – us or the rivals Storage giant 'forcing' resellers' hands with shiny biz partner programe Pure Data buys tech services biz Servatech Marriage made in Yorkshire: local firms tie the knot for six figure sum Data Centre News Danes cram 43 Tbps down ONE fibre using ONE laser 'I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space' Vulturization: Who'd be a sysadmin today? Podcast Trevor and Phoummala chat to Nutanix's Dwayne Lessner about hype, Hyper-V and more Hey, what's inside those Imation Nexsan arrays? Whoa, bundles of cash? Same old, same old, though – revenues down and a loss Hey, big spender. Are you as secure as a whitebox vendor? Sysadmin blog The Internet of Stuff is a HUGE LIABILITY BOFH: The Great Backup BACKDOWN Episode 7 'We have to be sure the system works!' House of the rising SAN: Cisco plonks physical 16Gbit/s kit on the table Virtual, schmirtual, right? Linode open-sources its secret support sauce IaaS operator happy for you to edit its tutorials Hardware News What the FLOCK? Addictive 'Flappy Bird' is back – and it's coming for your family Pic What a time to be alive Apple's iWatch may be DELAYED over sapphire glass supply problems Fruity firm's November target may slip to the right Fiat Panda Cross: 'Interesting-looking' Multipla spawn hits UK Review What the HELL is THAT? Elite Systems promises to order ZX Spectrum revival in two weeks Also, Specy dev seeks help to name all-new game Wireless charging stretches the friendship by 45mm Qi standard now works over longer distances 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 > Networks News Comcast, Time Warner boost net speeds in Google Fiber city – COINCIDENCE? Aah, the power of competition Operators get the FEAR as Ofcom proposes 600% hike in mobile spectrum fees Wait - aren't they increasing prices mid-contract? Hmm... BlackBerry lands feature-light BBM on Windows Phone Solid port, but Beta lacks vid chat and other extras Brits STUNG for up to £625 when they try to cancel broadband Thought that Verizon phonecall was painful? 5G about the whole network, not just speed, says Alca-Luminary Devices and networks need to decide the best - not just fastest - link for each app Policy News Users should PAY for their piracy says Turnbull No, ISPs should pay, says Brandis It's official: You can now legally carrier-unlock your mobile in the US Tomorrow belongs to us, says iFixit boss Defending your digital rights? Then you're a Nazi, says the Open Rights Group Updated Or, how not to win friends and influence people CIA super-spy so sorry spies spied on Senate's torture scrutiny PCs That thing we swore blind we never did? About that… Security News Your fitness tracker is a SNITCH says Symantec Broadcast your bonks to the WHOLE WIDE WORLD Mozilla gaffe exposed 76,000 email addresses, 4000 passwords You know the drill: Utter expletive, grind teeth, change passwords, get on with life Pentagon hacker McKinnon can't visit sick dad for fear of extradition Leaving England for Scotland a danger, advise lawyers Security chap writes recipe for Raspberry Pi honeypot network Cunning security plan: dangle £28 ARM boxes and watch crooks take the bait Retailers shot up by PoS scraping brute force cannon Run end-to-end crypto or die trying, hacker warns Software News Windows 8 market share stalls, XP at record low Another month of nasty numbers for Microsoft Microsoft: IE11 for Windows Phone 8.1 is TOO GOOD. So we'll cripple it like Safari Grudgingly supports quirky features so sites look right Quicker, easier to fly to MOON than change web standards ... OR IS IT? Programming the Web, Pt. II Snail's pace system might be forced to speed up What's that? A PHP SPECIFICATION? Surely you're joking, Facebook Zuck's engineers unveil formal spec based on PHP 5.6 Science News Kiwi satellite earth station recycled – as radio telescope 'First light' from four-year conversion project We sent a probe SIX BILLION km to measure temperature of a COMET doing 135,000 km/h FYI, it was -70 degrees celsius The Therapod diet: From HUMUNGO DINO to TINY BIRD in 50m years Video Look, ma, no gastric band Brit balloon bod Bodnar circumnavigates planet Amateur ultralight payload returns to Blighty Bootnotes News Plane grounded so cops can cuff semi-legless passenger Alleged to have flung prosthetic leg, food at crew 'Guess what: If you use the internet, you’re the subject of experiments' Quotw Plus: MS 'unclear how citizens will benefit' from ODF REGULAR FISTING is GOOD for your HEALTH, says respected surveyor Wagwan, bruv, come bump the rock with me like Ali G, init 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. 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