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Business News Uber and Lyft sitting in a tree, 'c-a-n-c-e-l-i-n-g each other's taxi rides' You talkin' to me? Dirty tricks claims spark ugly war of words Apple supremo Tim Cook storms: 'As CEO, I'm NOT satisfied' Just what's annoyed Le Grand Fromage now? Autonomy ex-moneyman: 'Visionary' Léo would have made HP merger work Claims Apotheker's ouster was just first of HP's blunders £100m DMI omnifail: BBC managers' emails trawled by employment tribunal Analysis Chief techie Linwood's unfair dismissal unearths a few gems Storage array supplier Dot Hill: Revenues are down, but so are losses Shrinking Dot shrinks a little less... Rackspace: Record revenue shows managed cloud strategy 'working' But income still flat, execs schtum on potential buyouts Online tat bazaar eBay coughs to YET ANOTHER outage Updated Web-based flea market struck dumb by size and scale of fail Leaky channel tanker Phoenix IT Group: It's steady as she goes Yes, that turnaround plan's just gravy for us - LSE-listed firm Hollywood star Robin Williams dies of 'suspected suicide' at 63 Obituary Nanoo nanoo, Mork Telstra puts US$270 million into cloudy PVR biz Ooyala Lining up the digital ducks: rights plus platform Data Centre News A beheading in EMC's ViPR lair? Software's big cheese to advise CEO Analysis Changes amid rivalry in the storage snake pit Seagate to splash MILLIONS on LAND, FACTORIES Flash? Never heard of it, mate, this is all Malaysia Gartner mages throw deduping backup appliance bones, claim EMC's in lead Dell and IBM - niche players? Learn about Microsoft Cloud OS platform Promo Transform the Datacentre workshop takes to the roads Mirror, mirror on the wall, who has the best TSM backend of all? Isilon or GPFS for TSM scale-out beasts Flash could be CHEAPER than SAS DISK? Come off it, NetApp Stats analysis reckons we'll hit that point in just three years Chinese Bitcoin farms: From scuzzy to sci-fi Roaring fans to liquid baths, China's cryptocurrency rigs are serious business Hardware News Dell slaps Intel Haswell brawn in monster Precision workstations Screw mobile, bring on the big iron No more turning over a USB thing, then turning it over again to plug it in: Reversible socket ready for lift off Type-C cleared for deployment Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4: Easy to swallow 4G Android tablet Review The best tablet in the world? Possibly Bath boffins put BUGS on chips – on purpose Bacteria create cheap water-quality sensors NVIDIA claims first 64-bit ARMv8 SoC for Androids Mile-High 'Denver' Tegra K1 successor said to rival PC performance Networks News Canadian ISP Shaw stumbles around internet with mystery 'routing' sickness How sure are you of cloud computing now? Tech city types developing 'Google Glass for the blind' app An app and service where other people 'see' for you Three floats Jolla in Hong Kong: Says Sailfish is '3rd option' Network throws hat into ring with Linux-powered handsets Don't call it throttling: Ericsson 'priority' tech gives users their own slice of spectrum Actually it's a nifty trick - at least you'll pay for what you get 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. 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Don't go until you've shut these remote-code exec holes Password manager LastPass goes titsup: Users LOCKED OUT Updated Customers can't get into their accounts as service topples Chinese cops cuff teen over Heart App Android malware flap Reportedly infected 100,000 phones in just a few days Fifteen countries KO'd in malware one-two punch Snakes follow scouts as high value targets become snack food Xiaomi updates cloud messaging after privacy scare Encrypting data, off-by-default Google leaves STUPID vuln on Nest devices Security? But this is the Internet of Things! NIST wants better SCADA security Preparing the way for a test lab Software News Red Hat spruces up 2011's enterprise Linux with RHEL 6.6 Beta Updates a-comin' for those who haven't traded up to version 7 Science News Blighty in SPAAAACE: Brit-built satellite films the Earth Video Fully British bird snaps sweeping vista of our spinning blue marble Pi palaver perplexes LOHAN Pixhawk pair Vulture 2 brain surgery off to a fruitily shaky start Japanese boffins invent 4.4 TREEELLION frames per second camera Now you really can watch a hummingbird fly Bootnotes News Chomp that sausage: Brits just LOVE scoffing a Full Monty Sales of traditional brekkie foods soar as hungry folk get their mitts greasy 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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