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Business News OK Google: Gobble chat app Emu. OK Google, now shut down Emu Let's say this acquisition moved me ... to a BIGGER house Speaking in Tech: 'I think Ballmer tried to DERAIL MICROSOFT', says ex-Redmond man Podcast Did Steve have a Götterdämmerung moment? Hungry Brit giant Daisy Group plans to gobble 'mid-market' tech sector Ex-Logicalis man will help it 'capture the market' Scottish independence debate: STV player flops under weight of viewers We CAN'T SEE YOU, Jimmy IBM can't give away its chip business: report Dangled $1bn before GlobalFoundries, which asked for more Who will kill power companies? TESLA, says Morgan Stanley GigaFactory batteries an existential threat to utilities Data Centre News Behold the HP Helion Lean cloud, and by Lean, it means not-OpenStack Diet offering skimps on frills to keep costs low for lighter workloads High five from AMD: New supercomputer GPU maxes out at 5.07 TFLOPS FirePro scorcher nips ahead of Nvidia's Tesla Compute+storage upstart Nutanix reveals $200m-plus run rate Shifts more boxes... no word on bottom line, though Not a load of Tosh: 5TB 'surveillance drive' from Toshiba hits shelves It's vitally important you have huge storage for videos, y'see Samsung: We've slashed programming time with 3-bit vertical NAND Stack those TLC planar layers high, boys Whoops, my cloud's just gone titsup. Now what? No email? No CRM? No Daily Mail iPad edition? You need a plan Dumping gear in the public cloud: It's about ease of use, stupid Sysadmin blog Look at the numbers - co-location might work out cheaper Hardware News Officeworks recalls dangerous USB charger Wall wart can overheat, maybe even melt China rips APPLE out of govt IT mail-order catalog – report +Comment So much for the Tim Cook love-in* Top Ten 802.11ac routers: Time for a Wi-Fi makeover? Product round-up Pricier than 802.11n kit, but worth it Apple wins patent on charging iThings THROUGH THIN AIR New system charges devices and peripherals sans cables Networks News Gmail gains support for non-ASCII email addresses Chocolate Factory also reveals kill switch for bothersome listbots POW! Sprint splats T-Mobile US bid ...BAM! CEO Hesse is out And new head honcho talks up 'extremely cost efficient' future... hmmm BT FON fail: Telco CHARGES customers for FREE Wi-Fi usage Stand by for idiot cops dispensing irrelevant 'don't share your Wi-Fi' advice Cor blimey: Virgin Media pipes 152Mb fibre to 100,000 East Londoners Broadband network gets its largest single expansion 'POWER from AIR' backscatter tech now juices up Internet of Stuff Wi-Fi gizmos Batteries not included required Surprise! Government mega-infrastructure project cocked up Worstall on Weds Australia's National Ballsup Network Nanu nanu! Mork calling Orson on VoIP over 2G Another player tries to crack free VoIP over mobile data Sprint spits out T-Mobile US gobble bid, says goodbye to CEO – claim And almost exactly a year after Softbank officially swallowed Sprint Architecting a Big Data platform for analytics Managing analytical workloads associated with some combination of data volume, velocity and variety. Download here > Policy News Strategy-flinging No 10 civil servant Stephen Kelly turns Sage CEO Gadfly chief gets six-year lock-in Security News Car hackers build kit to protect you and your motor from fiery death Black Hat 2014 Turns out IDS is actually useful for something Now even Internet Explorer will throw lousy old Java into the abyss Out-of-date, unsafe ActiveX controls to be blocked starting next week CIA infosec guru: US govt must buy all zero-days and set them free Black Hat 2014 Destroy the software industry before it destroys the world, says Dan Geer Android banking apps vulnerable to cash theft by CAS hole hackers Toolkit Apache Cordova suffers cross-application scripting bug, IBM discovers CryptoLocker victims offered free key to unlock ransomed files Plus: One in four CERT cases relate to malware Edward Snowden's not a one-off: US.gov hunts new secret doc leaker Poor old Julian Assange – whistleblower went straight to Glenn Greenwald Watch this Aussie infosec bod open car doors from afar Homes unlocked now car doors popped Target tosses US$148m onto data breach barbecue And even that sum may not hit the spot for hungry sueball-flingers One in 2900 phone calls is an IDENTITY THIEF Breached citizen ID numbers used in painful IVR brute force attacks Software News Google's 'right to be forgotten': One rule for celebs, another for plebs Shady 'some results' search disclaimer? Not if you're a star Science News SCORE: Rosetta probe hits orbit of far-flung comet Watch live ESA spacecraft nails final manoeuvre Two years on, Curiosity's still in the same crater Good science, though Bootnotes News Help Australia's PM and attorney-general to define metadata POLL Oz politicians want to collect it, but don't know what it is, so let's 'help' them out African samba queen: Don't cut off pirates' net connections – cut off their FINGERS 'What is more wicked than piracy?' Hmm, let's think... 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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