Too 4K-ing expensive? Five full HD laptops for work and play [Tue Nov 25 2014]

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Business News Abbott scholarship leaker escapes conviction Freya Newman handed two-year good behaviour bond after revealing secret scholarship Apple surges in on the BYOD wave Is your business ready? US taxmen won't say WHY they're probing Microsoft. So Redmond is suing the IRS Auditors very interested in what happened in 2004 to 2009 Mega GP tech services framework badge awarded Insight and Phoenix IT grab Lot 2 spot of £1.2bn procurement rig Google dodges 'costly' legal precedent, settles Daniel Hegglin case Search giant saves blushes in online abuse case iPhone sales set to PLUMMET: Bleak times ahead for Apple Dismal start to 2015 on the cards Bubble-licious: Good times here again for UK tech startups – research VCs pumping in that money like it's 2001 Let's vote on breaking up Google, say MEPs with NO power to do any such thing Choc teapot in Choc Factory melt threat Businessman takes Google to High Court to block online abuse from search results Wants search giant to wipe traces of anonymous postings Gov.UK annual IT spend edges down... to £4.3 BEEELLION But billions still going on backoffice Channel News Huawei Enterprise UK helmsman Poskett sails off to Dell Industry vet poached for enterprise solutions biz Logicalis splits with UK sales director Brooker after five months 'So long and thanks for all the cheese' Data Centre News Huawei's and ZTE's SDN embrace: soft power in vendor-land Could SDN alignments be a subtle 'trust us, we're open' move? Belgian upstart to 'bridge gap' between object, block storage. Or that’s the plan at least Interview Blockject? Watch out, VMware 'n' pals HDS, HP leapfrog NetApp in the land of the MAGIC QUADRANT Gartner points to critical capabilities for decision Hands on: Implementing Azure Active Directory Live learning Shaking that AAS: It's time for vendors to stop selling storage Storagebod They should follow Amazon's lead Cloud unicorns are extinct so DiData cloud mess was YOUR fault Applications need to be built to handle TITSUP incidents Hardware News Too 4K-ing expensive? Five full HD laptops for work and play Product round-up High-def desirables for a decent price Networks News Telcos spaff $34bn on gobbling Uncle Sam's radio frequencies for beefier cell coverage FCC auction raises TRIPLE the reserve price Mighty Blighty broadbanders beg: Let us lay cable in BT's, er, ducts Updated Complain to Ofcom that telco has 'effective monopoly' BT in talks to RE-SLURP O2 after spitting it out a decade ago In talks with Spanish owner Telefonica IBM and Ericsson plot to deploy 5G. Never mind that it doesn't exist Antennas. Tiny antennas. EVERYWHERE Brit mobile firms in FOURPLAY TUSSLE – how very French of them Orange, SFR, Bouygues et Free have been there, done that Security News Google's elves work on Santa to rein(deer) in grinchware Unofficial app sorts niceware from naughtyware Sony Pictures in IT lock-down after alleged hacker hosing Data caches uploaded as hackers deface internal staff boxes Regin: The super-spyware the security industry has been silent about NSA fingered as likely source of complex malware family You stupid BRICK! PCs running Avast AV can't handle Windows fixes Fix issued, fingers pointed, forums in flames Sony quietly POODLE-proofs Playstations Innocuous 'system software stability' update brings no patch, no surf, regime 'Regin': The 'New Stuxnet' spook-grade SOFTWARE WEAPON described 'A degree of technical competence rarely seen' Crypto protocols held back by legacy, says ENISA EU takes the microscope to security Software News How secure is Docker? If you're not running version 1.3.2, NOT VERY UPGRADE NOW to fix vuln found in all previous versions Google's Chrome to pull plug on plugins next September Firing squad scheduled for ancient Netscape tech Woman who stung Tinder with sex-pest sueball stings again – with rival Bumble app 'Other apps are full of creepy guys' ... Oh, honey no you didn't New Snapchat Snapcash service inspires amateur PORN STARS Profitless firm puts hopes in tip jar We have a winner! Fresh Linux Mint 17.1 – hands down the best Review Beats Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Elementary HTML5 vs native: Harry Coder and the mudblood mobile app princes Developers just want their ideas to generate money Science News Reuse the Force, Luke: SpaceX's Elon Musk reveals X-WING designs Pics and video And a floating carrier for recyclable rockets We come bearing caviar: ISS 'nauts arrive at station in SPAAACE Floating science lab gets holiday goodies Bond villains lament as Wicked Lasers withdraw death ray Want to arm that shark? Better get in there quick NASA revisits Europa with modern image-processing software Do attempt landings here, says space agency, it looks VERY interesting ESA's spaceplane cleared for lift-off in February 2015 IXV test flight will use 'unprecedented' flight path

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