Kingston's aviation empire: From industry firsts to Airfix heroes [Mon Oct 27 2014]

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Business News Oz trade minister RUBBISHES TPP fears You can spread misinformation about secrets, apparently US court SHUTS DOWN 'scammers posing as Microsoft, Facebook support staff' Netizens allegedly duped into paying for bogus tech advice Just don't blame Bono! Apple iTunes music sales PLUMMET Cupertino revenue hit by cheapo downloads, says report HP seeks to sell chunk of China networking biz: Report Tech giant WLTM an Asian buyer, apparently Google roolz! Nest buys Revolv, KILLS new sales of home hub Take my temperature, I'm feeling a little bit dizzy UK.gov pushes for SWIFT ACTION against nuisance calls, threatens £500k fines DCMS seeks lowering of legal threshold to fight rogue firms Wanna see how Russia et al hope to shape the internet? ITU opens up (a little more) to public Unfortunately you now have to make sense of the documents Google boss Larry Page gives Sundar Pichai keys to the kingdom Android, Chrome boss moves another step closer to Choc Factory's top job Silicon Valley scrooges paid staff $1.21 an hour in a 122-hour week Dept of Labor fines Electronics For Imaging the max – $3.5k 32,000 Hungarians plan to take to the streets for 'internet tax' protest New law proposes taxing every gigabyte in the land CBS goes OTT, releases EVERY EPISODE of Star Trek EVER MADE $5.99 a month will buy you current primetime shows too Lucky you. Twitter offers you its 'Digits' (for mobe app sign-ins) No ma – no passwords Meet Mr Gamification: He's got a NUDGE or two for you Battle of Ideas Geddit?!? 'Careful management of headcount' for Juniper after tepid quarter Translation: the razor's swinging, at customers and in Juniper's back office Remember the Aereo streaming TV service? Wasn't it COOL? Well, it's pretty much dead now Streaming TV service barred from showing live TV streams Data Centre News Azure Australia launches, complete with full-fibre diet No details on bit barns, but here: listen to this cloud ambient trance instrumental SHOW ME THE MONEY! Ballmer on Amazon: 'They're not a real biz, they make NO cash' Vid 'Proud of the BEELLIONS of $$$ I made at Microsoft' 'ANYTHING BUT STABLE' Netflix suffers BIG Europe-wide outage Friday night LIVE? Nope. The only thing streaming are tears down my face Activist investors force Riverbed into climbdown over cash 'n' costs Comment Bad news for the stronghold firms Bitcasa bins $10-a-month Infinite storage offer Comment Firm cites 'low demand' plus 'abusers' Dropbox-but-with-an-actual-box firm touts new biz appliances Cloudy-style biz P2P - but without the cloud We chat to CloudFlare about its 'EVERYBODY GETS SSL' venture Interview Has gutsy move generated biz? Pssst. Want to buy a timeshare in the clouds? Comment The Google dilemma — controller or spreader of knowledge? Rackspace launches big red rack eater RackConnect 3.0 release gives Rackspace a much better hybrid cloud story Hardware News LG taps TSMC to bake its first-ever mobile chip Joins Apple, Samsung in ARM chipmaking party with Nuclun Revealed: The amazing magical innovation in the iPad Mini 3 – a lick of paint Teardown And a fingerprint sensor Microsoft discovers long-lost phone division down back of sofa Confirms it'll be chucking 'Lumia' brand into the round file WIN a 1TB monster Samsung EVO 840 SSD Competition Three solid state scorchers up for grabs Samsung gets virtual with tiny S5 upgrade and goggle grab VR headset rumoured to come down chimney with Santa Networks News T-Mobile US chief SUCKS UP to Apple, gently ridicules rivals over SIM lockdown play This relationship status – it's complicated, m'kay? No bonking for you, fanbois! The drugstores DON'T WORK for Apple Pay system Google Wallet reportedly also dismissed in NFC lockdown Time to test your sarcasm detectors: It's the UN's global comms shakeup extravaganza! Five days of socializing and… well, judge for yourself FCC: You'll have to wait EVEN LONGER for faster wireless broadband US spectrum auction won't happen until 2016 now Wanna hop carriers with your iPad's Apple SIM? AVOID AT&T Unless you want your network-swapping tech disabled for good, that is Screw the guvmint, vows CEO of ubiquitous Korean jabber app KakaoTalk Ordinary Koreans: 'Meh, that's nice. What's for tea?' Security policy and EU data protection regulation The new EU data protection regime: time for the board to wake up and invest. Download here > Security News Pesky POS poison won't Backoff Card-rifling malware still on the rise Knocking Knox: Samsung DENIES vuln claims, says mysterious blogger is a JOKER But YES, system does store encryption key on the device Cheapo telcos fined for their cheapo security: Financial records on 305,000 people spilled Firms stored sensitive data in clear text for all to see iMessage SPAM floods US mobile networks iSpam knockoff goods scam Cisco patches three-year-old remote code-execution hole Patch or kill Telnet Google absorbs Oxford Uni boffins in artificial intelligence boost quest 'I'm sorry Larry, I'm afraid I can't do that…' Yahoo! Timestamps! Now! Block! Facebook! Email! Snoops! A year later, selfies saved from Purple Palace zombie email accounts Software News OpenSUSE tidies up disto model ahead of 13.4 Tumbleweed will be the face of rolling releases FTDI yanks chip-bricking driver from Windows Update, vows to fight on Next driver to battle fake chips with 'non-invasive' methods Ubuntu's shiny 10th birthday Unicorn: An upgrade fantasy Review Exciting possibilities. Just not yet Happy 2nd birthday, Windows 8 and Surface: Anatomy of a disaster Analysis Heart of Windows 8 lives on in Windows 10 Techies: Meet the Microsoft A Team at Future Decoded Promo Brian Cox, Sir Nigel Shadbolt at Tech Day, ExCeL, 12 Nov Science News Voyager 1 now EIGHTEEN LIGHT HOURS from home Almost 20 BEEELION kilometres from Sol Elon Musk's space truck barrels towards Earth – returns with critical science samples Vid Dragon cargo 'craft released from ISS Sun's latest FIERY BURP causes hour-long RADIO BLACKOUT in SPAAACE Pic Boffins observe MAJOR solar flare in MASSIVE sunspot Breaking records: Google exec in terrifying SKY PLUNGE DRAMA Baumgartner bummed by high-up's higher-up one-up? Moment of truth for LOHAN's servos: Our US allies are poised for final test flight Will Vulture 2 freeze at altitude? Edge Research Lab to find out Kip Thorne explains how he created the black hole for Interstellar Vid Movie special effects project spawns academic papers on gravitational lensing Kingston's aviation empire: From industry firsts to Airfix heroes Geek's Guide to Britain Sir Thomas Sopwith's suburban Surrey hub What's that STINK? Rosetta probe shoves nose under comet's tail Rotten eggs, horse dung and almonds – yuck MAVEN snaps eight-bit SPACE INVADER PewPewPew! Siding Spring shot in glorious retro chunks Boffins want to put Quanta in containers, after docking Hyperscale hepcats, back off - this one's about testing entanglement afloat Bootnotes News Not a loyal follower of @BritishMonarchy? You missed The QUEEN*'s first Tweet Her Maj opens 'Information Age' at the Science Museum Adorkable overshare of words like photobomb in this year's dictionaries And hipsters are finally defined as self-loathing. 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