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Daily Headlines 5 November 2014

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Business News Spooks, snoops and bureaucrats drive rise in Facebook data requests Government demands rose 24 in H1 2014 Hans Neij of Pirate Bay arrested in Thailand TiAMO in custody after leaving Laos Brit telco goes shopping again, tosses Telindus UK into trolley Marconi rump intent on jazzing up its IP networking skills Scalable storage outfit Imation SLIDES BACK after recovery Analysis Deepening loss, lower revenues Still no start date for UK.gov’s £6 BEEELLION Tech Products contract It's a 'total ballsup' - framework supplier iBail: American Psycho actor Christian Bale rejects Steve Jobs role iWould rather play a rubber-clad superhero How Hollywood film-makers wove proper physics into Interstellar Vid Nolan: 'Extremely spectacular algorithms' Raj Samani: The Director’s Cut Regcast after dark A security expert's tale Secrets in Seattle: Apple opening base on Microsoft's doorstep Tim Cook muscling in on 'enemy territory' I am POLICE SERGEANT L. TORVALDS! Stop or I'll SHOOT Aussie TV show puts Linux founder in new light Pop starlet Taylor Swift DUMPS Spotify: It’s not me, it’s you You're just a streamer, says cowgirl, but I need something more Google's 'Right to be forgotten' roadshow is just a 'distraction' – EU digital rights group 'It is not in Google’s interest to have more regulation' UK.gov mulls what to do about digital currencies Can you tax regulate virtual money? Spanish 'Google tax' could end up like Germany's everyone-BUT-Google tax New digi Commissioner keen to mulct Choc Factory EU-wide How's the great dot-thing gold rush going? Well, coffee.club just sold for $100,000 A quick look at the economics – who's hot and who's not Brighten your November morning: 900 in-browser arcade classics added to the Internet Archive Productivity nosedive predicted New GCHQ spymaster: US tech giants are 'command and control networks for TERROR' And he claims public WANTS more surveillance Space Oddity redux: Hadfield's cover back for two years Copyright is hard. Space copyright is harder Channel News The channel is changing – but if you're prepared, there's no need to fear Better analytics needed in the survival stakes. No, REALLY Data Centre News HP links arms with Wind River in NFV tie-up Virtualisation for the telcos UN takeover of internet postponed indefinitely Analysis Two weeks of negotiations may have turned the ITU super-tanker Microsoft, Dropbox execs go public with their Office hookup Getting into bed ... with iOS and Android VMware announces vCloud Air for Australia Dominant antipodean telco Telstra gets the hybrid-hosting gig Fusion-io co-founder turns techie for Primary Data: Biz gets new boss David Flynn takes hands off wheel to get technical Hyperconverged upstart Stratoscale raises $32m Now has a war chest of $42m to take on storage giants Amazon is the leering monolith in the cloudy room – OpenStack boss Azure and Google don't even qualify as scary, apparently Cloud-tailored Swift, RING jobs... Give it a REST, Scality. Oh good It looks like you have Tech invaders: Upstarts attack storage kingpins from all sides Analysis Six fracturing forces looking for array weaknesses Microsoft: How to run Internet Explorer 11 on ANDROID, iOS, OS X Test your site on Redmond's browser without using Windows Ericsson, AT&T demo virty mobile signalling Carrier SDN / NFV on the way Watch out, cloud-happy business units, chargeback is back And this time the CIO knows how much you're spending without adult supervision Hardware News Oculus Rift tech-specs 'MANY MONTHS away' from hitting the shelves Virtual reality virtually a reality, insists upstart's CEO Time to bag a tablet bargain this Chrimbo – Brit stocks are high It's going to be a slash-tastic, tab-tastic Xmas The Great Smartphone Massacre: Android bloodbath gathers pace Analysis Samsung, Sony and HTC's pain is your gain Got a spare $600k? Then an ancient Apple-1 could be yours Why so much? It was built in Steve Jobs' garage DROIDS - everywhere! Is Apple really even in the game any more? DroidCon 14 I ain't drinking the Kool Aid, but I can't avoid swimming in it Networks News Having a Web Summit? Get some decent Wi-Fi! Web Summit Embarrassing outage as 22,000 people arrive at tech conference Hold onto your hats and follow the BYOD generation Resistance is futile Security News Hackers plunder Hilton 'HHonors' rewards points, go on shopping spree Buy a $2k telly at Harvey Norman for $18.50 Yosemite infested by nasty 'Rootpipe' vuln Steady on fanbois: Shell privilege escalation bug won't get fix until next January Pay-by-bonk 'glitch' means cards can go kaching-for-crims UK researchers reveal attack capable of lifting 999,999.99 currency units from your cards Software News Microsoft's Bing hopes to bag market share with ... search apps Web Summit OK, we can't compete with Google on pure search Improving JavaScript: Google throws AtScript into the mix Better JavaScript ... even works with Microsoft's TypeScript Mozilla promises browser just for DEVELOPERS3 Something called #FX10 is coming next week Google Calendar jumps into Inbox/Gmail era Rewrites app for mobile-first era Science News Oz quantum researcher to head new journal Nature trying open access in Oz Bootnotes News So You Think You Can Conduct Original Research? 2014's Dance your PhD prize goes to Georgia U biologist on flying trapeze

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