Apple's new iPADS have begun the WAR that will OVERTURN the NETWORK WORLD [Mon Oct 20 2014]

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Business News NBN Co adds 'burbs to copper map, claims 'speed up' rollout 140 lucky locations won't get fibre 'Cowardly, venomous trolls' threatened with TWO-YEAR sentences for menacing posts UK government: 'Taking a stand against a baying cyber-mob' Damage control (noun): When Microsoft's CEO kickstarts diversity plan after women pay gaffe Beep, beep the foot is reversing from the mouth, beep beep MasterCard adds fingerprint scanner to credit cards for spending sans the PIN Robbers could target your wallet and your digits SCREW YOU, EU: BBC rolls out Right To Remember as Google deletes links Not even Google can withstand the power of Auntie Flash daddy SanDisk: Revenues up, but Wall St unimpressed Shares dip anyway as Fusion-io slurp bites GP records soon wide open again: Just walk into a ‘safe haven’ Your privacy, reduced to ASH #Help. There's a STRANGER in my Twitter timeline What can I do about? Write a tweet of course French 'terror law' declares WAR on the INTERNET itself, say digi-rights folks Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité: Two out of three ain't bad EU Competition chief: So what if I didn't tame Google? You're all 'irrational' anyway Analysis Almunia's farewell spitball HBO shocks US pay TV world: We're down with OTT. Netflix says, 'Gee' This affects every broadcaster, every cable guy 'Dancing Jesus' file-sharer found guilty 'Trix' unmasked as Leicestershire man WikiLeaks reveals new draft of Trans-Pacific Partnership +Comment Secret treaty getting nastier on copyright and related matters Symantec's already virtually split, says letter to suppliers Single back office expected to persist until end of 2015 Data Centre News vSphere meets iCylinder in new VMWare update Virtzilla to supports Mac Pro with patches and something called 'vSphere .NEXT' Yahoo! finally! releases! Flickr! app! for! iPad! BUT! shuns! Windows! fans! Purple Palace got selective hearing, much? Whisper chief: 'We're not infallible but strive to do right by our anonymous users' ILLEGAL ACTIVITY? 'Limited info is shared with Feds' Let the SAN shine: Supermicro inks EVO: RAIL deal with Nexenta Gets Supermicro on board Hey small biz: You know what you need? A tape library – Overland Puts the XL into NEOxl with a good few terabytes of storage Apple's new iPADS have begun the WAR that will OVERTURN the NETWORK WORLD Analysis It'll get properly serious once Google comes in Make life easy for yourself when you move to the cloud Know what you really, really want SDI wars: WTF is software defined infrastructure? Sysadmin blog This time we play for ALL the marbles Juno what's just been released? OpenStack 10, that's what 1,419 contributors at 133 companies deliver 342 new features and fix 3,219 bugs Hardware News Apple SILENCES Bose, YANKS headphones from stores The, er, Beats go on after noise-cancelling spat Slabba-dabba-GOLD! Apple kicks off presales of fingerprint-loving iPads iTouch myself, so Cupertino IDs me Don't shoot – I'm un-ARM-ed! Samsung whips out Intel Chromebook 2 Celeron added to line-up .... but it's not the top of the line Man, that iPhone 6 Plus won't fit in my pocket. Oh, here's a mobe store that'll resize my jeans Lighten wallets, expand pants. Huzzah! iPhone 6 shunned by fanbois in Apple's GREAT FAIL of CHINA Just 100 Beijing fanbois queue to pick up new mobe Watersports-friendly e-reader: Kobo's Aura H2O is literary when wet Review The world's first waterproof e-reader It's not always about you: Why the Apple Watch is all about China Analysis Confused by that weird 'digital touch' thing? Don't worry, you're not Chinese Networks News Austrian telco trials G.fast as 'interim solution' Commercial services planned for 2016, long-term plan calls for fibre FCC looks to boost next-gen wireless networks with 24GHz study Watchdog examines plans to add new spectrum room It's even GRIMMER up North after MEGA SKY BROADBAND OUTAGE By 'eck! Eccles cake production thrown into jeopardy Mobile carriers keep the promised land on an ever-receding horizon Nobody - not you, devlopers or carriers - can afford the next generation of mobile services Same old iPad? NO. The new 'soft SIMs' are BIG NEWS AppleSIM 'ware to allow quick switch of carriers Internet Security Threat Report 2014 An overview and analysis of the year in global threat activity: identify, analyze, and provide commentary on emerging trends in the dynamic threat landscape. Download here > Security News FIRST standards to clean up messy CERTs Sharing is caring, but not for Blighty Facebook slurps 'paste sites' for STOLEN passwords, sprinkles on hash and salt Zuck's ad empire DOESN'T see details in plain text. Phew! Apple releases MEGA security patch round for OS X, Server and iTunes Brings POODLE to heel US government fines Intel's Wind River over crypto exports New emphasis on encryption as a weapon? UK's a very popular target for EMEA cyberspies – report Germany and Saudi Arabia fill out FireEye cyberpwn podium Facebook doubles ad-hacking bounty Small security snafus snuffed, try the tiny and technical Software News Flesh-flapping, image-zapping app Snapchat NOW ad-wrapped Time for users to HIT self-destruct button permanently? Google offers sweet new SDK to let Android devs join 'Lollipop' guild Includes Android 5.0 system images for Nexus kit Torvalds CONFESSES: 'I'm pretty good at alienating devs' Admits to 'a metric ****load' of mistakes during work with Linux collaborators Science News Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Maven survive comet fly-by Odyssey orbiter yet to report as comet's trailing trash poses new threat No sail: NASA spikes Sunjammer 'Solar sail' demonstrator project binned Ancient armoured SCOTTISH fish invented SEXUAL INTERCOURSE, say bone boffins Doing the do-se-do 385 MEELLION YEARS AGO Speeding, snowy SPACE ALIEN set for CLOSE SHAVE with Mars Pic NASA to observe Comet Siding Spring whizz past Red Planet TODAY NASA eyeballs SOLAR HEAT BOMBS, MINI-TORNADOES and NANOFLARES on Sun Vid Astro boffins probe fiery star's hidden depths America's super-secret X-37B plane returns to Earth after nearly TWO YEARS aloft 674 days in space for US Air Force's mystery orbital vehicle Experts brand LOHAN's squeaky-clean box Phytosanitary treatment renders Vulture 2 crate fit for export That's no – actually it is: DEATH STAR MOON 'could be full of life-friendly water' Wobbles as it sloshes along, theorise astro boffins Bootnotes News Internet finally ready to replace answering machine cassette tape It's a simple message and I'm leaving out the whistles and bells Internet Security Threat Report 2014 An overview and analysis of the year in global threat activity: identify, analyze, and provide commentary on emerging trends in the dynamic threat landscape. 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