Apple iPhone 6 Plus: What a waste of gorgeous pixel density [Wed Sep 24 2014]

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Business News FTC nails pin in Bitcoin mining rig maker Butterfly Labs Claims biz took in as much as $50m for kit it never shipped London slaps down Salesforce's bid to rename Heron Tower US firm not 'dominant' enough for landmark skyscraper Swiss cops BAN MASKS at meeting of rebellious United Nations IP staff WIPO chief accused of DNA theft, cosying up to NORKS EU dangles $6bn threat over Google in endless search abuse probe Sanctions are 'logical next step', warns Brussels' antitrust boss Lotus Notes inventor Ozzie invents app to talk to people on your phone Imagine that. Startup floats with voice collab app for Win iPhone Adobe swallows Aviary, hopes to stuff Creative Cloud into mobes Firm will open up APIs to third parties with new Creative SDK Microsoft vs the long arm of US law: Straight outta Dublin Comment Hey you, get off of our cloud Will Europe's ISPs unmask anonymous IP infringers? Debate over monitoring user traffic for illegal file-sharing Giuliani's CALL OF DUTY: defeat Noriega in EPIC BOSS BATTLE Video games case gets a bit more starpower Comms Alliance preps vectored VDSL2 connection rules Getting ready for the brand-new, old-copper NBN Google grand fromage Eric Schmidt: Backing climate denier lobby a 'mistake' Walk away slowly, don't look them in the eye Channel News Samsung abandons Chromebooks, laptops, PCs in Europe Want a Sammy Chromebook? Live in Blighty? Forget it Phones 4u demise: 1,700 employees laid off with redundo package 'Limited interest in remaining 362 stores', says administrator PwC Data Centre News Telstra puffs Cisco cloud into Honkers and Singapore Adds extra Oz connectivity with Equinix Rookie southies S Korea and S Africa prep for cluster-wrestling match HPC Blog Students get to grips with HPC apps Canonical, Oracle go two on one against Red Hat in OpenStack bout Each to support its own Linux on other's cloud stack New VDI recipe: Pinch of Cisco, spoon of VMware, mix with X-IO arrays Add salt as required Can Marten Mickos make 'Linux for the cloud' work for HP? The 'not-another-Unix play' play HP is giving away FREE* STORAGE to lucky server customers And you don't even have to buy HP hardware. How about that? The object of the game: NetApp 'Amazon-izes' StorageGRID Web-scale object storage with geo-distributed erasure coding Hardware News ARM gives Internet of Stuff a piece mind of its mind – the Cortex-M7 New 32-bit core packs extra DSP for VIP IoT Titan falls! Blizzard cancels World of Warcraft successor Seven years of development down the tubes Upset your Apple's now a BANANA? Get bent, iPhone 6 Plus owners Warped phablets emerge from pockets, disturb fanbois Apple iPhone 6 Plus: What a waste of gorgeous pixel density Review + Vid Cupertino's fuller phablet stopgap solution? Ab phab: Apple is Britain's coolest brand YET AGAIN No sweetie, mummy wants the iPhone 6 plus plus plus MediaTek takes aim at Arduino with IoT wearables project SoC, SDK, breadboards Security News Microsoft sets up bug bounties for online services Test our software, but don't break it, says Redmond jQuery site popped to serve malware slop Visited September 18? Time to REFORMAT. Apple's new iPhone 6 vulnerable to last year's TouchID fingerprint hack But unsophisticated thieves need not attempt this trick UK banks hook themselves up to real-time cop data feed Not like the movies: Law enforcement is in on it... Tripadvisor site coughs to card data breach for a potential 800k users Viator: Veni, vidi, rapui BLAM, BLAM, BLAM... nooooo! Hacker crew Lizard Squad spits DDoS venom on Call of Duty JUST before you blasted 2 'copters with 1 rocket launcher Apple passcode-protects iOS 8 devices, but cops can still inhale your iCloud Don't congratulate yourselves too soon, Apple – securobod 80 PER CENT of app devs SUCK at securing your data, study finds Ignore that, look at my shiny-shiny Game pirates 'donate' compute power to Bitcoin miners Repack cracks foists Bitcoin miner hack Dyslexic, dyspraxic? No probs, says GCHQ Unique minds set to code-breaking Software News 'In... 15 feet... you will be HIT BY A TRAIN' Google patents the SPLAT-NAV Alert system tips oblivious phone junkies to oncoming traffic Le whoops! Microsoft France boss blows lid off 'Windows 9' launch Redmond's attempt at Applesque PR is going just as well as its Surface tablets Puppet-wearing devs: There's now an app (or two) for that PuppetConf 2014 New tools aim to connect customers with IT automation utilities, services 46% of iThings slurp iOS 8: What part of this batt-draining update didn't you like? Still a fairly decent number, if it's right Science News SpaceX Dragon cargo truck flies 3D printer to ISS: Clawdown in 3, 2... Craft berths at space station with supplies, experiments, toys US team claims PARIS paper plane launch crown Vulture 1's Guinness World Record broken by 96,563ft paper dart release Colias robots SWARMING out of the lab Video Cheap academic bot for research and mayhem Bootnotes News Emma Watson urges UN to back feminism – 4chan trolls threaten to leak her 'nude selfies' Which rather proves her point

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